Our job
The Institute for desirable Futures, a school of reinvention
An open hybrid school, the Institute provides people with insights for interpreting the present, and creative tools to help them contribute to building this new world.
- A new educational style enabling understanding, exploration and acquisition of appropriate tools
- A community of re-inventors providing inspiration, debate and diverse perspectives on industry sectors
- Spaces and events for sharing, connecting and taking action
This innovative educational system comprises:
- Training in the exploration of the future and an understanding of the present
- Workshops to experiment with collective intelligence and prepare for the Future
- Conferences to inspire and open up new horizons
- Tools to better understand the present and to take actionet se mettre en mouvement
Our Individuality 
The individuality of the Institute is based on new forward-looking attitudes and enthusiam :
- Aggressive optimism in building the future
- A new learning experience, to identify and project yourself
- Listening to weak signals, to take inspiration from new models
- Hybridization of people and subjects at the heart of learning processes
- An aestheticization of complexity, to better understand it
- Poetry in action, to write a great account of our Future World together
- A culture of experimentation, because at worst…it works !
Our school wants to:
- Welcoming
- Open
- Audacious
- Poetic
- Optimistic
- Offbeat
- Hybridized
Our associates
The Institute is surrounded by many « associate » partners with whom the Institute carries out its various daily tasks.
Mathieu Baudin is one of the speaker at the Up Conférences.He has animated those with Joel de Rosnay, Cédric Villani and lately Hubert Reeves.
up-conferences.fr/
Responsible and committed communication agency, Pixelis accompanies the Institute in patronage of skills on creative campaigns of positive propaganda.
pixelis.fr
The Institute works in a media and events partnership with the Gaîté Lyrique (At Worst, It Works program, Future 2016 evening F..K les Mayas, etc.).
gaite-lyrique.net
The Institute and the FIA have set up the Innovative Youth Cycle, which brings together French and Greek social start-ups.
ifa.gr/fr/
One of our first partners ! It enabled Post-R as well as an audio book Me, Malala highlighting Malala Yousafzai, Nobel Peace Prize winner in 2014. La Poste sends regularly its best talents to us in the LabSession.
laposte.fr/particulier
The Institute is an academic partner of CNAM (National Conservatory of Arts & Crafts): Philippe Durance, President of the Institute for Desirable Futures, holds the Chair of Prospective and Sustainable Development of CNAM.
cnam.fr
Agency of Data Design, it allowed us to create the platform of the Congress of the Future as well as the pedagogical application multimedia Post-R.
wedodata.fr/
The Institute was a member of the 1st programming committee of TedX Paris in 2011, and continues to work with the TedX community: TedX Paris Vaugirard Road, Tedx Sorbonne & Tedx Réunion.
tedxvaugirardroad.com/
The Institute organizes a "learning expedition" on the territorial resilience at Darwin Eco-System in Bordeaux, twice a year, within the framework of the LabSession.
darwin.camp
Our team
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