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Josianne Poirier holds a master's degree in urban studies (INRS) and a doctorate in art history (UdeM). She is interested in the relationship between art, culture and urban space, through themes such as city lights, public art and municipal cultural policies. Her doctoral thesis, entitled Montréal fantasmagorique : illuminations monumentales et narits de ville au début du XXIe siècle, takes a critical look at the denial of conflict and the commodification of technology as expressed in three projects: the lighting plan for the Quartier des spectacles, the Cité Mémoire architectural video projection tour, and the lighting of the Jacques-Cartier Bridge, Connexions vivantes. For this research, she won the 2018 Jean-Pierre-Collin Prize, awarded by the Villes Régions Monde network for the best thesis in the field of urban studies.

Josianne is also a lecturer at the Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) and the Université de Montréal where she teaches the history of modern architecture and regularly contributes to various publications, such as the journals Espace and Tristesse. Since 2014, she has acted as an expert and then as a specialist in visual arts for the Politique d'intégration des arts à l'architecture et à l'environnement of the Quebec government.