Boris Grésillon is professor of geography at Aix–Marseille Université and researcher at the CNRS research unit TELEMME (Temps, Espaces, Langages, Europe Méridionale – Méditerranée)/MMSH (Maison Méditerranéenne des Sciences de l’Homme). He recently published Géographie de l’art. Ville et création artistique (Economica/Anthropos, Paris, 2014). He is currently a senior fellow at the Department of Cultural and Social Geography at Berlin’s Humboldt University and at the Centre Marc Bloch in Berlin.