The Villa Gillet
Founded in 1987, the Villa Gillet welcomes in Lyon fiction and non-fiction writers, artists and scholars from over the world to ponder issues relevant to our ever shiflting world. The Villa Gillet makes the work of exciting contemporary thinkers accessible to the largest audience possible, by organizing events during the year, and during its festivals : the International Forum on the Novel — happening every year in May since 2007— co-organized with "Le Monde", Walls and Bridges, a ten-day series of events that happened from 2011 to 2013 and Mode d'emploi : un festival des idées — a festival of public debates — initiated in 2012.
Michel Lussault
GEOGRAPHER
France
BIOGRAPHY
Michel Lussault is a geographer and a geography professor at the École Normale Supérieure de Lyon. The author of numerous books and scientific contributions, he has published De la lutte des classes à la lutte des places [From the Class Struggle to the Place Struggle] (Grasset, 2009). In his work, he develops an original approach to the spatial action of social operators by focusing mainly on the identification of elementary spatial skills.
