Team

As a writer, she has published several books since 2005. For the past six years, she has been involved in transmedia projects, including NORD SUD, published in 2019, and ARBRES-MONDES, produced in 2022, which was a finalist for the BolognaRagazzi CrossMedia Awards at the Bologna Children’s Book Fair. She was the winner of the Villa Formose writing residency in Taiwan in 2023 for the augmented reality sound fresco project Villes flottantes (Floating Cities) and the winner of the Villa Albertine residency in the US in 2025. President of the Socotra dragon blood tree association, she wrote a travelogue about Socotra as part of a residency at the Jan Michalski Foundation in June 2023, and in December 2023, in collaboration with Benoît Palusinski, she published a book of photographs and poetry with Melrakki Publishing.

She is currently participating in the “Guardians of the Ocean” project with Elsa Mroziewicz. She has also co-produced several podcast projects: Destin(s) de la Grande Région, produced by the Culture Working Group of the Greater Region Summit, and the podcast for the exhibition La Panthère des Neiges by photographer Vincent Munier.

She is also president of La Plume de Paon, an association that promotes the development of French-language audiobooks, and founder of NUMERED Conseil, a training and consulting agency dedicated to cultural professionals facing digital transformation. In this capacity, she regularly works with the Institut Français in France and internationally.

https://www.cecilepalusinski.com/

Elsa co-directed the transmedia project ARBRES-MONDES, which was shortlisted at the Bologna International Book Fair. Her giant augmented pop-up book Baobab is one of the finalists for the MEGGENDORFER FOR ARTIST BOOKS 2023 award (USA) and was exhibited at the Goodplanet Foundation in Paris.

As an illustrator, she has created numerous illustrated books and animated artist’s books that have been exhibited in museums, salons, and media libraries, including in New York at Columbia University (Rare Book and Manuscript Library), in Prague at the B1 Centre for Contemporary Design, and in Italy at Milan Design Week. Elsa has published several children’s books with Minedition that have received enthusiastic reviews in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and News & Observers.

She is currently developing augmented reality sound works that question the relationship between humans and nature with author Cécile Palusinski: “La forêt Universelle” (The Universal Forest) on endangered animals (supported by the Michalski Foundation), “Le sacre des oiseaux” (The Coronation of Birds) on migratory birds (winner of the Villa Swagatam in India, organized by the French Institute of India and MAD Salon+Lab), and “Villes flottantes” (Floating Cities) on ocean protection and “Les gardiens de l’océan” (Guardians of the Ocean) (MR experience).

In 2025, Elsa wins the Villa Albertine award in the US for her Floating Cities project.

https://www.elsamro.com