In 2001 Anna Detheridge founded the non profit cultural association Connecting Cultures action research agency in the field of visual arts, cultural policy and education with a mission for interdisciplinary and intercultural projects. From 2004 to 2006 Connecting Cultures has been commissioned by the Tuscan Region to promote a project for territorial regeneration through cultural development in the Valdarno area, an experience narrated in the book A changing Vision: the Valdarno Project, edited by Connecting Cultures 2006.In 2005 Connecting Cultures launched an online project entitled Artplaces.org which is an inclusive international open publishing site for independent art spaces all over the world. The Association is currently engaged in the following projects:Dencity, a three year project 2013-2016 of cultural innovation and social inclusion based in Milan - Piccolo Caos, melodrama by Marinella Senatore and the residents of Sant’Elia satellite town of Cagliari - A three year project Milan and Beyond: Creativity and new urban ecologies: workshops and projects for young interdisciplinary artists working in peripheral areas- A yearly Award Art, Heritage and Human Rights for artists under 35 years of age working in the public sphere in support of intercultural dialogue- the longterm project Art and Survival 2006-2008 in Bosnia Herzegovna with partners Triennale of Milan and Refugee Program of Harvard Medical School- a Visual Arts library with an interdisciplinary specialisation in Art, Architecture, Photography, Landscape, urbanism with the goal of collecting and restoring video work and documentation of art projects in Italy.

With Connecting Cultures she has organised many international conferences including: Art and Dialogue 4 november 2013 (see forthcoming programme on website)- Lost in Translation international symposium on the specificity of Cultures and the role of Art with theorist Sarat Maharaj, and artists Adrian Paci, Krzysztof Wodiczko, Maria Teresa Alves, Luca Vitone, Lorenzo Romito 26th February 2010 - Art and Human Rights, International conference in partnership with the Triennale di Milano and Connecting Cultures, 20 novembre 2007.Other conferences:- Centers for contemporary art from global to local, Bologna Cultural Capital of Europe, Bologna Museum of Modern Art, 2000Conferences participation:- International Symposium at the Venice Biennale curated by Robert Storr in December 2006 with a paper entitled: Cultural Infrastructure as a form of Art.

A selected bibliography since 1996 includes:"Scultori della Speranza" Einaudi (PBE) 300pp. 2012, "Arte e rigenerazione urbana in quattro città italiane", in “L'arte pubblica nello spazio urbano. Committenti, artisti, fruitori,” a cura di Carlo Birrozzi e Marina Pugliese, Bruno Mondadori Editore, Milano 2007; "Artisti e sfera pubblica", in "Creazione contemporanea. Arte società e territorio tra pubblico e privato", a cura di Martina De Luca et al., Sossella Editore, Roma 2004; "Come un faro nella notte", in "Renzo Piano. Building workshop. Nuova sede per il Sole 24 Ore Milano", Il Sole 24-Ore, Milano 2004; "L'Europa e gli “altri”, in "Diversities".Charta, Milano 2004; "INNATURA", X Biennale della Fotografia, exhibition catalogue, Fondazione Italiana per la Fotografia, Torino 2003;"L'avenir des musées. Actes du colloque organisé au musée du Louvre par le Service culturel le 23,24 at 25 mars, 2000", Musée du Louvre, Paris 2001;"Le Immagini al Potere", catalogo della mostra, Mazzotta, Milano 1996.Periodicals:Prometeo, Domus, Il Giornale dell’Arte, Il Globo, 24, AD, Abitare, Specchio (inserto de La Stampa), Ottagono, Il Giornale di Civita. Vogue, Casa Vogue.

She worked for many years (from 1987 to 2003) as chief editor of the Arts pages of the “Domenicale”, the cultural supplement of the Italian financial daily Il Sole 24 Ore