EXPLORATIONS
Our explorations bring possible futures and alternative presents to life through speculative fictions, artefacts, and experiences.
They draw inspiration from current trends, emerging weak signals, revealing curiosities, and reflections on alternative past scenarios.
Plural by nature, they emerge either from client projects or self-funded carte blanche initiatives allowing us to delve into unnoticed topics or devise with new approaches.
Each exploration is rooted in shifting horizons, reflecting our expertise, curiosity, and at times our obsessions with themes we consider foundational and critical for today and tomorrow.
Connected
Horizons ↓
A deep dive into the applications and implications, but also the promises and controversies of digital or intelligent technologies.
What (future) connections between ordinary digital practices, privacy protection, and social inequalities?
Are we ready to embrace personalised data-driven nutrition, powered by algorithmic analysis and synthetic biology?
An elaborate scam relying on artificial intelligence and deepfakes to automate impersonation and extortion.
When data counterfeiters outsmart the managerial surveillance of people analytics.
Public
Horizons ↓
Because the common good is inseparable from the long term, let’s build (design) fictions that support public action and democracy.
Fostering a future-oriented and citizen-led evaluation of the connected urban environment.
Rethinking the training plan of the Centre-Val de Loire Region through Design Fiction.
Narrating the possible crises and challenges of Paris in 2050 to inspire a citizen-driven foresight approach built on resilient futures.
What could be the prospects for communication and public interest information in the face of the next decade’s challenges?
Co-designing resilient futures for nightlife and Parisian festivities after the shock of Covid-19.
A Design Fiction experience to prepare your local news media for future shocks.
Speculative fiction to revisit French political life, from presidential elections to lawmaking.
Sustainable
Horizons ↓
Cultivating the narratives and imaginaries of a world resilient to environmental and climate crises, to move beyond collapse rhetoric and technosolutionism.
A futures box for raising awareness among Parisians about the consequences of biodiversity decline and imagining the resilience of the French capital.
How can imaginaries, with all their ambiguities, help us move towards the imperative of energy sobriety?
A stroll through the futures of the Arctic region, between playful fiction and anticipatory poetry
Promoting local, useful, solidarity-driven and sustainable production for the resilience of our territories.
When recycling is no longer enough: mobilising futures and Imaginaries for systemic change in waste management.
Speculative fictions, a harvest of inspirations to cultivate the ecological future of the wine industry.
Demystified
Horizons ↓
A critical perspective that lifts the smoke screen of Innovation myths and reveals its unspoken and unspeakable impacts.
A design fiction experience to explore the construction and mobilisation of imaginaries.
What if politics met AI to resurrect national icons from their ashes and shake up the presidential election?
Untold
Fictions ↓
Some of our work remain unfinished, forming an anthology of Untold Fictions: drafts originating from client projects that did not come to fruition. Whether they are unselected scenarios or simply incomplete fictions, these fragments are presented here in their raw form.
We warmly thank our clients and partners for allowing these speculative visions to be shared. May they inspire new explorations or spark fresh debates.
To address the climate and societal emergencies, unlimited and constant digital access is no more.
A future where every region of the world has its own net, except Europe.
The doctrine of empathy as both remedy and poison in the face of privacy protection challenges.
New sporting practices are emerging in Pays de Retz, taking advantage of extreme weather events.
In a world swaying between alternative facts and conspiracy theories, the Greater Lyon metropolis is betting on preaching falsehoods to restore the truth.
Les fédérations sportives s’affrontent au sein de compétitions administratives pour remporter les rares subventions encore octroyées par les collectivités territoriales.
A vision of digital technology driven by self-management and the transformation of data into common goods.
New narratives to rethink our relationship with living beings and halt the biodiversity loss.
