About
Cultural strategist · curator · producer
Lucia Dubačová works across art, technology, science and urbanism. She co-founded Sensorium Festival working with artists, creative technologists and scientists on interdisciplinary labs, talks and workshops. She co-created the successful candidacy and later on directed Trenčín 2026 European Capital of Culture. A deeply transforming region - wide participatory process with communities of citizens, international artists and cultural professionals. Recently Lucia co-shaped the programme of TU-BA, Bratislava's centre for architecture and urban planning which is an important meeting place for those, who want to be closer to what it means to create a city. She works with Placemaking Europe, putting on the Placemaking Week Europe festival in a different European city each year. Lucia is a returning member of the extitutional Feytopia community and passionate do-ocracy participant.
dubacova.lucia@gmail.com →CV
Events Lead, Placemaking Europe
2025 – now
Program Director, TU-BA center for architecture and urban planning, Bratislava
2024 – 2026
Director, Trenčín 2026 ECoC and Creative Institute Trenčín
2020 – 2023
Co-founder, Artistic Director, Sensorium, Bratislava
2016 – 2021
Expert on Design & Innovation, R&D Department, Slovak Design Center, Bratislava
2019 – 2020
Production & curation of accompanying events, Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival, Prague
2018 – 2019
Project Manager, Fest Anča – International Animation Film Festival, Bratislava
2019
Co-founder, Executive Director, Unfold Collective Ltd, London
2016 – 2018
Programme Coordinator, Continental Drifts Ltd, London
2014 – 2017
Selected curatorial projects
2023 – 2026
- IF LAB, International
2020 – 2021
- The Glass Room, Misinformation Edition: Tactical Tech, Bratislava
- Human by Design, Slovak Design Center, MAK Vienna
- Youth And A.I. – (Un)learning With Robots, Bratislava
- Sensorium Festival Exhibitions, Bratislava
- Kykeon: Mária Júdová & Constantine Nisidis, International
- Stockpiling Food for Thought: Juraj Hoppan, Lucia Dubačová, Célia Bugniot, Publication
- V4 Videodrones, Slovakia, Hungary, Czechia, Austria
2019
- Sensorium Festival Exhibitions, Bratislava
- The Inflovable Machine: Mónica Rikić, Bratislava
- Augmented Authorship: Matthew Plummer-Fernandez, Bratislava
Education
- →M.A. in Creative and Cultural Entrepreneurship, Goldsmiths University, London, 2011 – 2012
- →Cultural Management and International Networks, Vacum (Visegrad Academy of Cultural Management), 2017 – 2018
- →Future Foresight, Hyper Island, 2025