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.
  • CNIL

    2020

    What (future) connections between ordinary digital practices, privacy protection, and social inequalities?

  • Carte Blanche

    2019

    What if our data were entitled to a funeral as well?

  • Stereolux

    2017

    Between utopia and dystopia, what futures await artificial intelligence?

  • Carte Blanche

    2015

    Are we ready to embrace personalised data-driven nutrition, powered by algorithmic analysis and synthetic biology?

  • Centre Culinaire Contemporain

    2018

    Clarifying the new uses and potential risks of 3D food printing.

  • Stereolux

    2016

    Discovering a (too) smart city where the walls are made of bricks and data.

  • Carte Blanche

    2015

    What if the smart city placed animals at the heart of its considerations?

  • Future of Money Awards

    2019

    An elaborate scam relying on artificial intelligence and deepfakes to automate impersonation and extortion.

  • La Fing

    2018

    Uncovering the ambiguous futures of voice assistants and conversational technologies.

  • CNIL

    2020

    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.
  • UK Parliament + AHRC

    2015

    Exploring and debating the complex issues of ageing in place and end-of-life care.

  • SAMOA

    2018

    Fostering a future-oriented and citizen-led evaluation of the connected urban environment.

  • Etalab

    2021

    On futures, ethics and opportunities for public algorithms.

  • Département de Loire-Atlantique

    2018

    What changes will rural and peri-urban sports practices see by 2050?

  • Région Centre-Val de Loire

    2022

    Rethinking the training plan of the Centre-Val de Loire Region through Design Fiction.

  • Ville de Paris + CAUE 75

    2022

    Narrating the possible crises and challenges of Paris in 2050 to inspire a citizen-driven foresight approach built on resilient futures.

  • Département de Loire-Atlantique

    2023

    What could be the prospects for communication and public interest information in the face of the next decade’s challenges?

  • Ville de Paris

    2022

    Co-designing resilient futures for nightlife and Parisian festivities after the shock of Covid-19.

  • Ouest Médialab

    2021

    A Design Fiction experience to prepare your local news media for future shocks.

  • Digital Bauhaus

    2016

    A tale of a distributed algorithmic governance.

  • Carte Blanche

    2017

    Speculative fiction to revisit French political life, from presidential elections to lawmaking.

  • Carte Blanche

    2018

    Advocating for genuinely equal and supportive futures in sports.

Sustainable
Horizons ↓

Cultivating the narratives and imaginaries of a world resilient to environmental and climate crises, to move beyond collapse rhetoric and technosolutionism.
  • Ville de Paris

    2022

    A futures box for raising awareness among Parisians about the consequences of biodiversity decline and imagining the resilience of the French capital.

  • AREC Ile-de-France

    2022

    How can imaginaries, with all their ambiguities, help us move towards the imperative of energy sobriety?

  • AHO + KHIO

    2022

    A stroll through the futures of the Arctic region, between playful fiction and anticipatory poetry

  • APES Hauts-de-France

    2022

    Promoting local, useful, solidarity-driven and sustainable production for the resilience of our territories.

  • Mauges Communauté

    2023

    When recycling is no longer enough: mobilising futures and Imaginaries for systemic change in waste management.

  • VinoFutur

    2022

    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.
  • Carte Blanche

    2017

    When wearable technologies disobey to better reveal their ambiguities.

  • Carte Blanche

    2014

    What are the hidden and dark sides of smart cities?

  • emlyon Business School

    2018

    A toolkit for experimenting with the co-construction of disruptive scenarios.

  • Stereolux

    2019

    A design fiction experience to explore the construction and mobilisation of imaginaries.

  • Lab Postal

    2018

    What if bacteria could digest obsolete buildings to produce energy?

  • Carte Blanche

    2022

    What if politics met AI to resurrect national icons from their ashes and shake up the presidential election?

  • Design Fiction Club

    2019

    When Design Fiction envisions its own futures!

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.