Lucy Elvis

Lucy Elvis is the director of Public Philosophy at the University of Galway, Ireland, where her teaching is focused on Philosophy for Children and Philosophy of Art and Culture. Her research focuses on the aesthetic dimensions of philosophising together, the interpretation of art (especially architecture) and developing attentive approaches to facilitation.
She is a member of AIRE research collective, who focus on the use of the Community of Philosophical Inquiry as a model for projects focused on art, attention and the Anthroposcene, and a model of producing research collaboratively to resist the dynamics of competition and hierarchy that are present in the post-modern university.
Beyond the academy, she is one of the founders of Curo – thinking for communities a not-for profit that believes philosophy needs all voices and that all persons should be offered opportunities to explore their experience philosophically. Together with Dr Annie O’Dononvan, she has bought philosophy to libraries, art galleries, music festivals and public spaces to empower communities to build ideas and imagine new worlds together.