Eleonora Psenner
Italy
Eleonora Psenner is an applied researcher focusing on creative and cultural industries, regional development, and collaborative work spaces. She loves to experiment with trans-disciplinary art techniques to empower and engage with participants. Currently she is researching the role of creative hubs as drivers of change in peripheral economic ecosystems as a PhD student with the KIT Karlsruhe Institute of Technology and carrying out a comparative and qualitative case study analysis between Germany and Austria. Eleonora studied communication and holds a MA in International Event Management (University of Brighton) and in Innovation and Organisation of Culture and Arts (University of Bologna). She has a background in tourism and event management and in performing arts, and has been passioned about documentary film production since her teenage years. Currently she lives in Leipzig and works with the Saxony Association for Creative- and Cultural Industries within the CORAL-ITN project.
Project: Revitalizing the Non-urban: the transformative power of space and community