Lucia Babina is based in Rotterdam has a first class degree MSc in Modern Arts at the University of Bologna and a Masters Diploma in "International Cultural Management" at the University of Genova. She is a cultural producer and is focused in how culture and arts can affect urban areas and in developing process aimed at producing unexpected visions of the cityscape. Co-founder and president of the foundation iStrike.ultd, and co-founder of Cohabitation Strategies. Cohabitation Strategies is a non-profit organization for socio-spatial development. With Cohabitation Strategies she is recently working on the research project Urban Union in the neighborhood of Tarwewijk (Rotterdam) and on the biennial of urban art Evento 2011: art pour une re-evolution urbaine. She is author of the experimental factory and relational project MAN (Market Academy Naschmarkt) in Vienna (2010). She founded the group Wilde Westen, which, together with Marjetica Potrč, has been developing, since January 2008, The Cook, The Farmer, his Wife and their Neighbor: a community kitchen and a community garden in New West Amsterdam. The project won the 3rd prize Squatcity Urbaninform-competition 2009 – IABR (www.urbaninform.net). As iStrike she is project leader of SUD 2007, a long-term program of cultural activities aimed at transforming the city of Douala (Cameroon) into a case study and she also edited the publication Douala in Translation, a view of the city and its creative transforming potentials, episode publishers, Rotterdam, 2007. She curated Moving in Free Zone #1 (2007), a cross-disciplinary workshop in order to trigger a debate on the quarter Charlois (Rotterdam, The Netherlands) and create public awareness amongst its inhabitants; and she just produced (2009) the film ZUID as part of Moving in Free Zones #2, in which inhabitants of Charlois (Rotterdam) have been involved as main characters. She also co-curated Talking About! (2009) an international exchange program which involved 6 artists and cultural producers from Douala (Cameroon) and art professionals in The Netherlands. She she is curator of the event Singingchairs – Voices and Stories from the city(2008) in the NAi (Nederlands Architectuurinstituut, Rotterdam) as part of Happening (happening.nai.nl). She is co-curator, together with Abdellah Karroum, of the Seamus Farrell’s project 3R’s Maroc 21 (Partition III) (2008), held in the Market place Afrikaandermarkt in Rotterdam. In 2007 she took part into the International Workshop Caucus, organized by the Van Abbemuseum (Eindhoven), and in 2006 into the Mobile Academy (www.mobileacademy-warsaw.com) in Warsaw. Since 2005, as member of EFRP (European Festival Research Project), she has been carrying out a research focused on three emerging and successful Italian festivals and the local impact.