ANDRE JEAN-MARC LOECHEL

After a first study at the Strasbourg University under the supervision of the Dean Georges Livet and after an introduction from Maurice Druon, Andre Jean Marc Loechel is a student at the Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes. He then actively participates at André Chastel's seminar at the Collége de France. Teacher at the Grenoble II University (1991-1993), he defends his thesis on the myth of Venice in 1992, notably under the direction of Gian-Domenico Romanelli, Director of the museums of Venice. He sketches a picture of a city at the dawn of the Renaissance, at a point of time where the new technologies of the 20th century saw the circulation of images and written work speed up, on a territory where the putting into images reflects the context of rapid globalisation that existed five centuries ago, as well as a profound articulation between the process of technological innovation and the necessary management of cultural identity (work published by the Italian Encyclopaedia).

He is organizer of the first seminar dedicated to the art sites on the Web and on the virtual reconstructions of cultural inheritance at the Institute for Humanities, Sciences and Arts of Venice in 1993. Dedicating himself to a European Numerisation Program of the Cultural Heritage, he is a joint responsible of the European project MOSAIC of network of virtual museums (1996-1998 / program TEN-TELECOM). Joint director of the "Access to European cultural inheritance and education" line of action of the European Commission - MEDICI initiative - (1998 - 2001), he is also scientific referent of the European project WEEST.

Scientific director of ARENOTECH (Art - Education - New Technologies, he presides the Network of Digital Cities and the Foundation Territories of Tomorrow. André Jean Marc Loechel is a specialist of Living Labs and of the clustering of territories, author of numerous publications, articles and action in international conferences, he has co-authored with Christophe Legrenzi the "City of the Future" (forthcoming).

Member of the Jury "World e.gouv Forum", it is also a member of scientific councils or boards of directors:

  • Congrès Mondial du Développement Durable des Quartiers d’Affaires (La Défense)

  • Conseil administration de la SOciété Luxembourgeoise d’Evaluation et de Prospective (SOLEP)

  • Comité directeur du club européen de la Gouvernance des Systèmes d'Information

  • Conseil d'administration d"Europe Créative"

  • Congreso Internacional en Innovación Tecnológica Informática de la Universidad Abierta Interamericana (Buenos Aires).