Artistic and prospective exploration program over a year including an interactive installation, experiential workshops, masterclasses and conferences, dedicated to students, teachers, the school’s management and its corporate and institutional partners.

Dedicated to the Louvre Lens innovation ecosystem, this ‘future lab’ day included three masterclasses on future and foresight, transitional shifts and critical future challenges, and artistic and cultural innovation, followed by an initiation workshop on trend analysis.

RBW zooms in on the TAC Future Lab work related to knowledge, whether it be the cognitive value of artistic formats, the development of heuristic tools to address the epistemological challenges associated with the transitions and the design of future worlds, or the pedagogical dimension of the lab.

This conference shows how the TAC Future Canvas was designed, how it rearticulates other tools and conceptual models coming from Foresight, Design or Transition Studies, and contributes to the advancement of futures studies to better address the current paradigm shift.

The prestigious Institute For The Future in Palo Alto invites RBW in this selective webinar series to present her artistic and future research ecosystem - organized in laboratories, including TAC Future Lab - and to show the bridges she builds between these two spheres and forms of research.

In this article, the TAC Future Canvas is used to audit the innovations and vision of the world expressed in the film Ready Player One, chosen because it staged several real, fictional, future and/or virtual worlds, and helps to explore metaverses, as well as future worlds.

RBW is invited to share the educational benefits of the experiments carried out in her various artistic, urban and future research labs (including TAC Future Lab), while reaffirming the laboratory model as a framework for coupling experimentation and knowledge.

Panel with artistic research actors who explored the many levers of creativity, build bridges between artistic experimentation and innovation, foster trans-disciplinarity, or invest in prospective research.

This vast ‘future lab’ (10 months) on the future of museums has made it possible to sustainably instill prospective thinking within all the museum teams (80 employees) to better address and be part of the movement of major transitions.

RBW retraces the development of her laboratories, starting from their roots in the legacy of conceptual and experimental art, to the genesis of TAC Future Lab more specifically committed to the frontier of artistic and prospective research.

The TAC Future Canvas here exhibited became a vast planisphere mapping the movements of the world toward alien cosmologies. The speculative conversation around Ready Player One allowed for the sharing of insights on the film’s worlds decoded using the canvas.

Exploring the future also means questioning the temporal architectures and frameworks on which human life is orchestrated. This conference shows how these structuring schemes are evolving today from a post-human and post-colonial perspective.

Science Fiction raises today strong interest for its ability to stage future worlds, whether utopian or dystopian. The TAC Future Canvas was presented here as a futurescaping tool to explore real and possible worlds and as an interface bridge science fiction and foresight.

This intervention zoomed in on the artistic aspects of TAC Future Lab and presents in detail the TAC Future Canvas and its five spheres of transformation and projection of the world - taken up and deployed in the installation exhibited at HiFlow at the same time.

RBW shared a wide range of artistic, urban and prospective research experiences (including TAC Future Lab), showing how they can be learning accelerators and levers for next-generation and inclusive educational innovation.

RBW introduced here the different philosophical references that irrigate the work of TAC Future Lab, whether in its artistic, epistemological or post-humanist dimensions, all situated at the margins of conventional theories anchored in Western modernity.

Designed as an algorithmic ‘open polygon’ and as a speculative design experiment, the exhibited installation allowed the experiencing and visualizing, in a vast immersive futurescape, of current changes, to speculate and to imagine what future worlds could be.

If Art and Time have a long joint history, it was shown here how artistic ecosystems can be envisioned as ‘signals of the future’ and lenses to open and explore the future. By shaping trends or prototypes, they also contribute to the making of the future, and become a laboratory of the future.

This long essay lays the basis of TAC Future Lab methodological and transdisciplinary research, mixing learnings from post-humanist philosophy, with Foresight and Anthropology. An early version of the TAC Canvas was used to experiment a first semi-structured analysis of global changes.

Drawing on a large scope of international examples, the presentation builds on how artistic productions have been anthropological and temporal markers since the dawn of time, but can also be envisioned as windows on contemporary change and on the future.

This article offers a grand tour through the movements of the world and the critical future challenges they raise in the prospective horizon of alien cosmologies. The diagram serves as a multi-scalar topology and canvas to order and give meaning to these themes and topics.

In this essay, RBW builds a bridge between the existential fear that gave its modernity to Heiddeger's thought in his time, and the new contemporary fears generated by AI, the Anthropocene and more broadly the Future, that require imagining new rationale and new alien cosmologies...

This intervention was an opportunity to prefigure, share and discuss a first draft of the TAC Future Canvas, designed to articulate and order the future implications of AI, and to highlight the very broad spectrum of its impacts on so many areas.

This 'future lab' is created within the CNRS Communications Department to help its entire team (20 employees), to curate and design a vast program of future-oriented local, national and international events, to celebrate the institution's 80th anniversary

In this keynote, RBW shares her artistic and prospective reflections on the challenges raised by AI and the need to explore new alien cosmologies in and for the future. In this hypothesis, feminism serves as a lens to question the ambivalent relational modalities humans develop with AI.

In this workshop cycle on the future of/with AI, students discover the critical future challenges raised by AI, and then embark in a Design Fiction journey to imagine and stage critical future situations giving life to an AI used in different domains and showing the complexity of the interactions.

Development for a research team, as part of their participation in the FORCCAST program, of a set of speculative short fictions staging the future of the General Artificial Intelligence paradigm, using a ‘polygonal’ narrative protocol allowing to adopt different scales and perspectives.

It is in the international and influential FUTUR(S) book that Raphaële Bidault-Waddington initially coined the notion of ‘alien cosmologies’, to envision the horizon of the future in the era of AI, space technology and post-colonial pluriversalism, and led her to create TAC Future Lab.