The future in the other direction
How to give a tangible representation of the future? How can we encourage debate on our orientations for the coming decades? One answer lies in fictional design, which proposes to produce objects or services that make a more or less near future concrete, to give rise to debate, to make visible the paradoxes, the impasses and the dead ends around our representations of the future.
Learning and collective research
All the potential of research to learn and develop the desire to do so.
A matrix of societal changes is leading our children to "Nature deficiency".
Rediscover common sense, balance and self-confidence. It's easy to blame video games, TV, the Internet, the car, when a matrix of societal forces is being erected, all working in the same direction: to frame and make profitable the slightest moment and space of life and attention.
What's new in collective intelligence? The salons of the 18th century!
The art of conversation is an indispensable skill in certain social groups from the 17th century onwards. Knowing how to speak, listen, pace, entertain, compliment, but also surprise, learn, give and receive information. What if the art of conversation was an additional asset for collective intelligence actions, or more trivially, for animating our virtual living rooms?
Interchangeable sound, text and image: perceptions and meaning called into question
The proposed exploration aims to understand how media become hyper-fluid between texts, sounds and images, and to grasp the consequences for relationships to knowledge.