Lise Coirier has set up Pro Materia as her Creative Design Consultancy Agency in 1999. She is founder and editor‐in‐chief of TL Magazine since 2009 and has launched EU cultural-driven projects such as Human Cities in 2007 and Glass is Tomorrow in 2011. Her background as author and curator of art and design projects, books and exhibitions has driven her for more than fifteen years into the promotion and development of the creative industries in Belgium and at an international level.