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[vc_row unlock_row_content=”yes” row_height_percent=”0″ override_padding=”yes” h_padding=”0″ top_padding=”0″ bottom_padding=”0″ overlay_alpha=”50″ gutter_size=”3″ column_width_percent=”100″ border_color=”color-jevc” border_style=”solid” shift_y=”0″ z_index=”0″ uncode_shortcode_id=”870207″ css=”.vc_custom_1713451871739{border-bottom-width: 1px !important;padding-top: 30px !important;padding-right: 50px !important;padding-bottom: 30px !important;padding-left: 50px !important;}” border_color_type=”uncode-palette”][vc_column width=”1\/1″][vc_custom_heading heading_semantic=”h1″ text_font=”font-177179″ uncode_shortcode_id=”463881″]About TAC Future Lab[\/vc_custom_heading][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row unlock_row_content=”yes” row_height_percent=”0″ override_padding=”yes” h_padding=”0″ top_padding=”0″ bottom_padding=”0″ overlay_alpha=”50″ equal_height=”yes” gutter_size=”0″ column_width_percent=”100″ border_color=”color-jevc” border_style=”solid” shift_y=”0″ z_index=”0″ mobile_visibility=”yes” uncode_shortcode_id=”392151″ css=”.vc_custom_1720790100671{border-bottom-width: 1px !important;padding-left: 50px !important;}” border_color_type=”uncode-palette”][vc_column column_width_percent=”100″ position_vertical=”middle” gutter_size=”3″ overlay_alpha=”50″ border_color=”color-jevc” border_style=”solid” shift_x=”0″ shift_y=”0″ shift_y_down=”0″ z_index=”0″ medium_width=”0″ mobile_width=”0″ width=”1\/2″ uncode_shortcode_id=”662615″ css=”.vc_custom_1720532423801{border-right-width: 1px !important;padding-top: 50px !important;padding-right: 50px !important;padding-bottom: 50px !important;}” border_color_type=”uncode-palette”][vc_custom_heading text_size=”h4″ separator=”yes” uncode_shortcode_id=”186846″]An open laboratory for future exploration[\/vc_custom_heading][vc_column_text uncode_shortcode_id=”762169″]The unprecedented scale of global change and transitions, with their load of fear, anxiety and uncertainty, complexifies the future and calls for innovative foresight approaches – to re-open the future horizon and recreate aspirational visions of the world and of the future.
Our conviction is that behind every future insight or narrative, even when they are down-scaled on a narrower domain or geography, there should be a proper concern for, and investigation of, the bigger picture<\/em> equations and worldviews<\/strong>.
And rather than celebrating complexity, confusion, or opacity, we consider that, when using the right pluralistic approach, open-mindedness and pedagogy, a certain clarity is possible and contributes to restoring clarity, empowerment<\/em>, and trust, i.e. the keys to agency<\/em>.
Created by artist-researcher and futurist Rapha\u00eble Bidault-Waddington (RBW), and developed by LIID Future Lab with an ecosystem of occasional partners, TAC Future Lab is an open laboratory to explore the contemporary world\u2019s transformations and the future in all its dimensions and potentialities.<\/p>\n

In the spirit of slow research<\/em>, TAC Future Lab progresses in small steps, following its three main research axes (with many side- and sub-paths), and depending on available means, engagements, and opportunities for collaborative experimentation.<\/strong><\/p>\n

This website documents each of our explorations and experiences resulting in publications, conferences, exhibitions, workshops, and other collaborative experiments, since its creation in 2017 and to be consulted via the Research Journal.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Whether for a 2 hours masterclass, an initial ‘future dive’ workshop, an event or a months-long experiment, please discover our collaborative research modules are to be found here<\/a><\/strong>.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column column_width_percent=”100″ position_vertical=”middle” align_horizontal=”align_center” gutter_size=”3″ override_padding=”yes” column_padding=”0″ back_image=”932″ overlay_alpha=”50″ shift_x=”0″ shift_y=”0″ shift_y_down=”0″ z_index=”0″ medium_width=”0″ mobile_width=”0″ width=”1\/2″ uncode_shortcode_id=”689716″][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row unlock_row_content=”yes” row_height_percent=”0″ override_padding=”yes” h_padding=”2″ top_padding=”2″ bottom_padding=”2″ overlay_alpha=”50″ equal_height=”yes” gutter_size=”0″ column_width_percent=”100″ border_color=”color-jevc” border_style=”solid” shift_y=”0″ z_index=”0″ desktop_visibility=”yes” medium_visibility=”yes” uncode_shortcode_id=”131093″ css=”.vc_custom_1720790283149{border-bottom-width: 1px !important;}” border_color_type=”uncode-palette”][vc_column column_width_percent=”100″ position_vertical=”middle” gutter_size=”3″ override_padding=”yes” column_padding=”1″ overlay_alpha=”50″ border_color=”color-jevc” border_style=”solid” shift_x=”0″ shift_y=”0″ shift_y_down=”0″ z_index=”0″ medium_width=”0″ mobile_width=”0″ width=”1\/1″ uncode_shortcode_id=”670159″ border_color_type=”uncode-palette”][vc_custom_heading text_size=”h3″ separator=”yes” uncode_shortcode_id=”176551″]An open laboratory for future exploration[\/vc_custom_heading][vc_single_image media=”932″ media_width_percent=”100″ uncode_shortcode_id=”758731″][vc_column_text uncode_shortcode_id=”745292″]The unprecedented scale of global change and transitions, with their load of fear, anxiety and uncertainty, complexifies the future and calls for innovative foresight approaches – to re-open the future horizon and recreate aspirational visions of the world and of the future.
Our conviction is that behind every future insight or narrative, even when they are down-scaled on a narrower domain or geography, there should be a proper concern for, and investigation of, the bigger picture<\/em> equations and worldviews.<\/strong>
And rather than celebrating complexity, confusion, or opacity, we consider that, when using the right pluralistic approach, open-mindedness and pedagogy, a certain clarity is possible and contributes to restoring clarity, empowerment<\/em>, and trust, i.e. the keys to agency<\/em>. Created by artist-researcher and futurist Rapha\u00eble Bidault-Waddington (RBW), and developed by LIID Future Lab with an ecosystem of occasional partners, TAC Future Lab is an open laboratory to explore the contemporary world\u2019s transformations and the future in all its dimensions and potentialities.<\/p>\n

In the spirit of slow research<\/em>, TAC Future Lab progresses in small steps, following its three main research axes (with many side- and sub-paths), and depending on available means, engagements, and opportunities for collaborative experimentation.<\/strong><\/p>\n

This website documents each of our explorations and experiences resulting in publications, conferences, exhibitions, workshops, and other collaborative experiments, since its creation in 2017 and to be consulted via the Research Journal<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Whether for a 2 hours masterclass, an initial ‘future dive’ workshop, an event or a months-long experiment, please discover our collaborative research modules are to be found here<\/a><\/strong>.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row unlock_row_content=”yes” row_height_percent=”0″ override_padding=”yes” h_padding=”0″ top_padding=”0″ bottom_padding=”0″ back_color=”color-210407″ overlay_alpha=”50″ gutter_size=”3″ column_width_percent=”100″ border_color=”color-jevc” border_style=”solid” shift_y=”0″ z_index=”0″ uncode_shortcode_id=”180575″ css=”.vc_custom_1713452741501{border-bottom-width: 1px !important;padding-right: 50px !important;padding-left: 50px !important;}” back_color_type=”uncode-palette” border_color_type=”uncode-palette”][vc_column width=”1\/1″][vc_accordion typography=”advanced” sign=”plus” gutter_simple=”0″ titles_size=”h5″ titles_transform=”uppercase” uncode_shortcode_id=”197835″ active_tab=”0″][vc_accordion_tab gutter_size=”2″ column_padding=”2″ title=”Reminder of the three research axes” tab_id=”1713451895-1-3″][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner column_width_percent=”100″ gutter_size=”2″ overlay_alpha=”50″ shift_x=”0″ shift_y=”0″ shift_y_down=”0″ z_index=”0″ medium_width=”0″ mobile_width=”0″ width=”1\/3″ uncode_shortcode_id=”714609″][vc_custom_heading text_size=”h5″ uncode_shortcode_id=”135142″]Paradigm Shift & Future Worlds:[\/vc_custom_heading][vc_column_text uncode_shortcode_id=”113404″]Insights on the current paradigm shift and \u2018change of world\u2019, the impacts of large-scaled digital, environmental and demographic transitions, the underlying anthropological and epistemological reset, and the diversity of future worlds and futures \u2013 of subtopics such as the future of AGI, of Museums, of Oceans, of Knowledge, etc.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner column_width_percent=”100″ gutter_size=”2″ overlay_alpha=”50″ shift_x=”0″ shift_y=”0″ shift_y_down=”0″ z_index=”0″ medium_width=”0″ mobile_width=”0″ width=”1\/3″ uncode_shortcode_id=”210688″][vc_custom_heading text_size=”h5″ uncode_shortcode_id=”161997″]Methodological & polygonal innovation:[\/vc_custom_heading][vc_column_text uncode_shortcode_id=”143106″]Design of next generation foresight methodologies and tools, inspired by a diversity of domains (Foresight, Design, Art, World-Building, Anthropology, Post-humanist philosophy, Pedagogy, etc.), and combining a \u2018polygonal\u2019 spectrum of perspectives \u2013 scales of change, temporal distance, stakeholder view-points, approaches, disciplines, vocabularies, etc.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner column_width_percent=”100″ gutter_size=”2″ overlay_alpha=”50″ shift_x=”0″ shift_y=”0″ shift_y_down=”0″ z_index=”0″ medium_width=”0″ mobile_width=”0″ width=”1\/3″ uncode_shortcode_id=”531071″][vc_custom_heading text_size=”h5″ uncode_shortcode_id=”169098″]Art & Foresight:[\/vc_custom_heading][vc_column_text uncode_shortcode_id=”128439″]<\/p>\n

Transversal reflection on the contribution of Art and artistic research to the future and to the field of Foresight, whether in our critical analysis and future insights (Axe 1), in the design of collaborative research experiments (Axis 2), methods and tools (e.g. art-based research around the TAC Future Canvas), or in a more theoretical perspective.<\/p>\n

[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][\/vc_accordion_tab][\/vc_accordion][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row unlock_row_content=”yes” row_height_percent=”0″ override_padding=”yes” h_padding=”0″ top_padding=”0″ bottom_padding=”0″ overlay_alpha=”50″ equal_height=”yes” gutter_size=”0″ column_width_percent=”100″ border_color=”color-jevc” border_style=”solid” shift_y=”0″ z_index=”0″ mobile_visibility=”yes” uncode_shortcode_id=”193032″ css=”.vc_custom_1720790328108{border-right-width: 1px !important;border-bottom-width: 1px !important;padding-right: 50px !important;}” border_color_type=”uncode-palette”][vc_column column_width_percent=”100″ position_vertical=”middle” gutter_size=”2″ back_image=”213″ overlay_alpha=”50″ border_color=”color-jevc” border_style=”solid” shift_x=”0″ shift_y=”0″ shift_y_down=”0″ z_index=”0″ medium_width=”0″ mobile_width=”0″ width=”1\/3″ uncode_shortcode_id=”980363″ css=”.vc_custom_1720790503806{border-right-width: 1px !important;padding-top: 20px !important;padding-right: 50px !important;padding-bottom: 20px !important;}” border_color_type=”uncode-palette”][\/vc_column][vc_column column_width_percent=”100″ position_vertical=”middle” gutter_size=”3″ overlay_alpha=”50″ shift_x=”0″ shift_y=”0″ shift_y_down=”0″ z_index=”0″ medium_width=”0″ mobile_width=”0″ width=”2\/3″ uncode_shortcode_id=”768497″ css=”.vc_custom_1720534152753{padding-top: 50px !important;padding-bottom: 50px !important;padding-left: 50px !important;}”][vc_custom_heading text_size=”h4″ separator=”yes” uncode_shortcode_id=”832952″]Designing Future Worlds: Toward Alien Cosmologies[\/vc_custom_heading][vc_column_text uncode_shortcode_id=”179095″]TAC stands for Toward Alien Cosmologies, an expression conceptualized in 2017 as part of a future trend research carried out by LIID Future Lab for Peclers Paris, on the new frontiers of science and technology, with a focus on the exponential rise of Artificial Intelligence.
This study showed the need to zoom out and change of cognitive canvas, to radically open the spectrum of future hypotheses and to explore new visions of the world \u2013 what anthropologists call cosmologies \u2013including new ontologies such as AI, and potentially resetting the human condition. This reset toward pluriversal future cosmologies was also evidenced by a trend analysis of cultural diversity and globalization.<\/p>\n

A cosmology is a way of ordering (world-building), representing and giving meaning to a\/the world – space\/time model(s) with material and immaterial ecosystems -, which also means (re)thinking the place of man and life in this uni\/pluriverse, and an articulation of past, present and future.<\/strong><\/p>\n

In these future worlds and cosmologies, which the Anthropocene also urges us to imagine, the alien factor stands for the many \u2018strange things\u2019 we should live and make a world with: new ontologies such as AI black boxes, extraterrestrial life hypothesis, human and non-human species which still hold so many mysteries, and more generally the \u2018irrational\u2019, the uncertain, and the unknown.<\/p>\n

This gigantic and truly extraordinary future horizon “towards alien cosmologies”, is an opportunity to explore pluriversal and post-humanist future worlds, a fascinating cognitive challenge, and an open-field for the art of futurescaping.<\/strong>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row unlock_row_content=”yes” row_height_percent=”0″ override_padding=”yes” h_padding=”2″ top_padding=”2″ bottom_padding=”2″ overlay_alpha=”50″ equal_height=”yes” gutter_size=”0″ column_width_percent=”100″ border_color=”color-jevc” border_style=”solid” shift_y=”0″ z_index=”0″ desktop_visibility=”yes” medium_visibility=”yes” uncode_shortcode_id=”254957″ css=”.vc_custom_1720790627710{border-bottom-width: 1px !important;}” border_color_type=”uncode-palette”][vc_column column_width_percent=”100″ position_vertical=”middle” gutter_size=”2″ overlay_alpha=”50″ border_color=”color-jevc” border_style=”solid” shift_x=”0″ shift_y=”0″ shift_y_down=”0″ z_index=”0″ medium_width=”0″ mobile_width=”0″ width=”1\/1″ uncode_shortcode_id=”637988″ border_color_type=”uncode-palette”][vc_custom_heading text_size=”h3″ separator=”yes” uncode_shortcode_id=”162033″]Designing Future Worlds: Toward Alien Cosmologies[\/vc_custom_heading][vc_single_image media=”216″ media_width_percent=”100″ uncode_shortcode_id=”289199″][vc_column_text uncode_shortcode_id=”239409″]TAC stands for Toward Alien Cosmologies, an expression conceptualized in 2017 as part of a future trend research carried out by LIID Future Lab for Peclers Paris, on the new frontiers of science and technology, with a focus on the exponential rise of Artificial Intelligence.
This study showed the need to zoom out and change of cognitive canvas, to radically open the spectrum of future hypotheses and to explore new visions of the world \u2013 what anthropologists call cosmologies \u2013including new ontologies such as AI, and potentially resetting the human condition. This reset toward pluriversal future cosmologies was also evidenced by a trend analysis of cultural diversity and globalization.<\/p>\n

A cosmology is a way of ordering (world-building), representing and giving meaning to a\/the world – space\/time model(s) with material and immaterial ecosystems -, which also means (re)thinking the place of man and life in this uni\/pluriverse, and an articulation of past, present and future.<\/strong><\/p>\n

In these future worlds and cosmologies, which the Anthropocene also urges us to imagine, the alien factor stands for the many \u2018strange things\u2019 we should live and make a world with: new ontologies such as AI black boxes, extraterrestrial life hypothesis, human and non-human species which still hold so many mysteries, and more generally the \u2018irrational\u2019, the uncertain, and the unknown.<\/p>\n

This gigantic and truly extraordinary future horizon “towards alien cosmologies”, is an opportunity to explore pluriversal and post-humanist future worlds, a fascinating cognitive challenge, and an open-field for the art of futurescaping.<\/strong>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row unlock_row_content=”yes” row_height_percent=”0″ override_padding=”yes” h_padding=”0″ top_padding=”0″ bottom_padding=”0″ overlay_alpha=”50″ equal_height=”yes” gutter_size=”0″ column_width_percent=”100″ border_color=”color-jevc” border_style=”solid” shift_y=”0″ z_index=”0″ mobile_visibility=”yes” uncode_shortcode_id=”422623″ css=”.vc_custom_1720790600821{border-right-width: 1px !important;border-bottom-width: 1px !important;padding-left: 50px !important;}” border_color_type=”uncode-palette”][vc_column column_width_percent=”100″ position_vertical=”middle” gutter_size=”3″ overlay_alpha=”50″ border_color=”color-jevc” border_style=”solid” shift_x=”0″ shift_y=”0″ shift_y_down=”0″ z_index=”0″ medium_width=”0″ mobile_width=”0″ width=”2\/3″ uncode_shortcode_id=”713278″ css=”.vc_custom_1713453354322{border-right-width: 1px !important;padding-top: 50px !important;padding-right: 50px !important;padding-bottom: 50px !important;}” border_color_type=”uncode-palette”][vc_custom_heading text_size=”h4″ separator=”yes” uncode_shortcode_id=”303316″]Development and partner ecosystem[\/vc_custom_heading][vc_column_text uncode_shortcode_id=”153672″]TAC Future Lab continues from past artistic, conceptual and future research conducted by Rapha\u00eble Bidault-Waddington in her Art labs and at LIID Future Lab (see liid.fr and below) \u2013 for more than twenty years. TAC Future Lab is funded by LIID Future Lab (for which it serves as R&D), with an ecosystem of partnering structures (academia, research center, cultural institution, third space, media, event, international organization, etc.) for specific research episodes (conferences, publications, exhibitions, workshops, experiments).<\/p>\n

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Some collabs:<\/strong> Duperr\u00e9 Design School<\/a>, Paris ; Forccast Laboratory, Telecom ParisTech<\/a>, Paris ; CNRS<\/a>, Paris ; ISC, Paris<\/a> ; Anticipated Worlds Festival, Cit\u00e9 des Sciences et de l\u2019Industrie<\/a>, Paris ; HiFlow<\/a>, Geneva ; Museum of Art and History<\/a>, Geneva ; Muzeum Susch<\/a>, Switzerland ; Louvre Lens Valley<\/a>, Lens ; Science Fiction Research Association<\/a> ; World Futures Studies Federation<\/a> ; Association of Professional Futurists<\/a> ; etc.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][vc_column column_width_percent=”100″ position_vertical=”middle” gutter_size=”3″ back_image=”66″ overlay_alpha=”50″ shift_x=”0″ shift_y=”0″ shift_y_down=”0″ z_index=”0″ medium_width=”0″ mobile_width=”0″ width=”1\/3″ uncode_shortcode_id=”707699″ css=”.vc_custom_1720534261902{padding-left: 50px !important;}”][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row unlock_row_content=”yes” row_height_percent=”0″ override_padding=”yes” h_padding=”2″ top_padding=”2″ bottom_padding=”2″ overlay_alpha=”50″ equal_height=”yes” gutter_size=”0″ column_width_percent=”100″ border_color=”color-jevc” border_style=”solid” shift_y=”0″ z_index=”0″ desktop_visibility=”yes” medium_visibility=”yes” uncode_shortcode_id=”108821″ css=”.vc_custom_1720790645221{border-bottom-width: 1px !important;}” border_color_type=”uncode-palette”][vc_column column_width_percent=”100″ position_vertical=”middle” gutter_size=”3″ overlay_alpha=”50″ border_color=”color-jevc” border_style=”solid” shift_x=”0″ shift_y=”0″ shift_y_down=”0″ z_index=”0″ medium_width=”0″ mobile_width=”0″ width=”1\/1″ uncode_shortcode_id=”355595″ border_color_type=”uncode-palette”][vc_custom_heading text_size=”h3″ separator=”yes” uncode_shortcode_id=”717162″]Development and partner ecosystem[\/vc_custom_heading][vc_column_text uncode_shortcode_id=”685405″]TAC Future Lab continues from past artistic, conceptual and future research conducted by Rapha\u00eble Bidault-Waddington in her Art labs and at LIID Future Lab (see liid.fr and below) \u2013 for more than twenty years. TAC Future Lab is funded by LIID Future Lab (for which it serves as R&D), with an ecosystem of partnering structures (academia, research center, cultural institution, third space, media, event, international organization, etc.) for specific research episodes (conferences, publications, exhibitions, workshops, experiments).
Few collabs:<\/strong> Duperr\u00e9 Design School,<\/a> Paris ; Forccast Laboratory, Telecom ParisTech<\/a>, Paris ; CNRS<\/a>, Paris ; ISC<\/a>, Paris ; Anticipated Worlds Festival, Cit\u00e9 des Sciences et de l\u2019Industrie<\/a>, Paris ; HiFlow,<\/a> Geneva ; Museum of Art and History<\/a>, Geneva ; Muzeum Susch<\/a>, Switzerland ; Louvre Lens Valley<\/a>, Lens ; Science Fiction Research Associatio<\/a>n ; World Futures Studies Federation<\/a> ; Association of Professional Futurists<\/a> ; etc.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row unlock_row_content=”yes” row_height_percent=”0″ override_padding=”yes” h_padding=”0″ top_padding=”0″ bottom_padding=”0″ back_color=”color-128160″ overlay_alpha=”50″ gutter_size=”3″ column_width_percent=”100″ border_color=”color-jevc” border_style=”solid” shift_y=”0″ z_index=”0″ uncode_shortcode_id=”163835″ css=”.vc_custom_1713453659732{border-bottom-width: 1px !important;padding-right: 50px !important;padding-left: 50px !important;}” border_color_type=”uncode-palette” back_color_type=”uncode-palette”][vc_column width=”1\/1″][vc_accordion typography=”advanced” sign=”plus” gutter_simple=”0″ titles_size=”h5″ titles_transform=”uppercase” uncode_shortcode_id=”363558″ active_tab=”0″][vc_accordion_tab gutter_size=”2″ column_padding=”2″ title=”LIID Future Lab Background” tab_id=”1713453572-1-66″][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/2″][vc_column_text uncode_shortcode_id=”985973″]LIID Future Lab has conducted very diverse creative and future research projects for and with different structures, some of which are particularly relevant to those of TAC Future Lab.<\/strong><\/p>\n

LIID Future Lab has conducted very diverse creative and future research projects for and with different structures, some of which are particularly relevant to those of TAC Future Lab.
Every year from 2011 to 2023, LIID has produced future trend analyses (international perspective) for Peclers Paris on a wide range of topics such as: identities, diversity and cultural globalization; technologies and the digital era; social, collaborative and urban innovation; ubiquity, mobility and relationship to time and space; relationship to the body, well-being and health; quest for meaning and spirituality.
From 2010 to 2012, LIID worked with Aalto University (Helsinki) on three future-oriented international innovation programs, including one in collaboration with the Institute For The Future in Palo Aalto – as part of the production of its iconic Ten Years Forecast report.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/2″][vc_column_text uncode_shortcode_id=”927495″]From 2011 to 2017, <\/strong>LIID\u2019s multi-awarded R&D lab Paris Galaxies on the future of Greater Paris metropolis, was an opportunity to design and experiment a series of artistic and (near and far) future research methods, with a pool of academic partners<\/strong> (Paris 1 Pantheon Sorbonne University, Parsons School Paris, Paris College of Art, Paris La Villette National School of Architecture, CNAM, Neoma BS, Campus Fonderie de l’Image).
All these experiences were designed in response to their context but with the support of a core conceptual diagram modeling the metropolitan transformation that served as a very fluid research and pedagogy tool, and allowed to connect and value each experience \u2013 as done in TAC Future Lab.
Paris Galaxies Lab terminated in 2017 with the book \u2018Paris Ars Universalis, fictional scenario of a Future Greater Paris\u2019, which somehow already prefigured a future world exploration, through the case of the Greater Paris, a Global City and one of the Western universalism\u2019s cradles (to be reinvented).[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][\/vc_accordion_tab][\/vc_accordion][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row unlock_row_content=”yes” row_height_percent=”0″ override_padding=”yes” h_padding=”0″ top_padding=”0″ bottom_padding=”0″ back_color=”color-vyce” overlay_alpha=”50″ gutter_size=”3″ column_width_percent=”100″ border_color=”color-jevc” border_style=”solid” shift_y=”0″ z_index=”0″ uncode_shortcode_id=”123126″ back_color_type=”uncode-palette” css=”.vc_custom_1713453838954{border-bottom-width: 1px !important;padding-right: 50px !important;padding-left: 50px !important;}” border_color_type=”uncode-palette”][vc_column width=”1\/1″][vc_accordion typography=”advanced” sign=”plus” gutter_simple=”0″ titles_size=”h5″ titles_transform=”uppercase” uncode_shortcode_id=”112298″ active_tab=”0″][vc_accordion_tab gutter_size=”2″ column_padding=”2″ title=”Previous artistic research and prefiguration” tab_id=”1713453688-1-3″][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/2″][vc_column_text uncode_shortcode_id=”208840″]TAC Future Lab also mobilizes the artistic experience and formats of Rapha\u00eble Bidault-Waddington\u2019s other Art labs, such as her practice of conceptual art diagrams and performative installations (Idea Lab), or of photomontages (Image Lab). The Polygon project (Idea Lab) designed for a contemporary art exhibition at Apex Art in NY in 2010, gave birth to the polygonal research principle<\/strong> (multi-faceted \/ multidisciplinary) and to a first artistic installation serving as a \u2018research station\u2019 \u2013 experience that fed the design of TAC installation.
Ce principe polygonal d\u2019articulation et de spatialisation physique, mentale ou diagrammatique des points de vue, est poursuivi en 2014-16 dans le projet S\u00e9miospace\/Semioscape \u2013 diagrammes, expositions \u00e0 Zurich et Gen\u00e8ve, conf\u00e9rences, et livre paru aux \u00e9ditions Clinamen \u2013 en y introduisant cette fois-ci une dimension multi-scalaire (\u00e9chelle multiple), reprise dans le TAC Future Lab.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”1\/2″][vc_column_text uncode_shortcode_id=”110161″]This time curating images from the web or generating them with AI, TAC Future Lab also takes up from experiments from RBW\u2019s Image Lab.
The immersive photographic installation Bulle Poetico-Sp\u00e9culative (2001) was a source of inspiration for the TAC installation.
The practice of photomontage is used to created moodboards associated future insights, or in workshops (image-based research).
The text-image experiments and speculative fictions such as the Republic of Images (Tales Magazine, 2010) or Machination (D-Fiction.fr, 2016-2018) prefigure the design fiction (Duperr\u00e9, 2018) and future fiction (Forecast Laboratory 2018) experiments in TAC Future Lab.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][\/vc_accordion_tab][\/vc_accordion][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row unlock_row_content=”yes” row_height_percent=”0″ override_padding=”yes” h_padding=”0″ top_padding=”0″ bottom_padding=”0″ overlay_alpha=”50″ equal_height=”yes” gutter_size=”0″ column_width_percent=”100″ border_color=”color-jevc” border_style=”solid” shift_y=”0″ z_index=”0″ mobile_visibility=”yes” uncode_shortcode_id=”875435″ css=”.vc_custom_1720790680202{border-right-width: 1px !important;border-bottom-width: 1px !important;padding-right: 50px !important;}” border_color_type=”uncode-palette”][vc_column column_width_percent=”100″ position_vertical=”bottom” gutter_size=”2″ override_padding=”yes” column_padding=”0″ overlay_alpha=”50″ border_color=”color-jevc” border_style=”solid” shift_x=”0″ shift_y=”0″ shift_y_down=”0″ z_index=”0″ medium_width=”0″ mobile_width=”0″ width=”1\/3″ uncode_shortcode_id=”855893″ css=”.vc_custom_1720604503378{border-right-width: 1px !important;}” border_color_type=”uncode-palette”][vc_single_image media=”645″ media_width_percent=”100″ alignment=”center” uncode_shortcode_id=”118627″][\/vc_column][vc_column column_width_percent=”100″ position_vertical=”middle” gutter_size=”3″ overlay_alpha=”50″ shift_x=”0″ shift_y=”0″ shift_y_down=”0″ z_index=”0″ medium_width=”0″ mobile_width=”0″ width=”2\/3″ uncode_shortcode_id=”176530″ css=”.vc_custom_1720534112776{padding-top: 50px !important;padding-bottom: 50px !important;padding-left: 50px !important;}”][vc_custom_heading text_size=”h4″ separator=”yes” uncode_shortcode_id=”212483″]Bio of Rapha\u00eble Bidault-Waddington[\/vc_custom_heading][vc_column_text uncode_shortcode_id=”144290″]An artist-researcher and a futurist, Rapha\u00eble Bidault-Waddington has been creating since 2000, artistic and\/or future research laboratories forming a live research ecosystem. TAC Future Lab is her latest initiative.
A passionate and 360\u00b0 researcher with degrees in image theory and immaterial economics, she founded this ecosystem based on the idea that art could be seen as a form of research, both questioning and contributing to the transformations of the world.<\/p>\n

A laboratory should here be understood as a conceptual framework to organize and give meaning to research (whether artistic, academic, future-oriented, urban, etc.) around critical topics, and mixing in many ways experimentation and knowledge. <\/strong><\/p>\n

In the last twenty years, her independent laboratories have given her the radical freedom to make experiments (collaborative or not), to innovate and to produce trans-disciplinary knowledge at the crossroads of arts, theory and academia, economics, urban design, politics, digital humanities, philosophy and foresight\u2026 This translates into occasional exhibitions and numerous collaborations, publications and conferences in France and abroad.[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row unlock_row_content=”yes” row_height_percent=”0″ override_padding=”yes” h_padding=”2″ top_padding=”2″ bottom_padding=”0″ overlay_alpha=”50″ equal_height=”yes” gutter_size=”0″ column_width_percent=”100″ border_color=”color-jevc” border_style=”solid” shift_y=”0″ z_index=”0″ desktop_visibility=”yes” medium_visibility=”yes” uncode_shortcode_id=”195775″ css=”.vc_custom_1720790748390{border-bottom-width: 1px !important;}” border_color_type=”uncode-palette”][vc_column column_width_percent=”100″ position_vertical=”bottom” gutter_size=”2″ override_padding=”yes” column_padding=”0″ overlay_alpha=”50″ border_color=”color-jevc” border_style=”solid” shift_x=”0″ shift_y=”0″ shift_y_down=”0″ z_index=”0″ medium_width=”0″ mobile_width=”0″ width=”1\/1″ uncode_shortcode_id=”365513″ border_color_type=”uncode-palette”][vc_custom_heading text_size=”h3″ separator=”yes” uncode_shortcode_id=”183551″]Bio of Rapha\u00eble Bidault-Waddington[\/vc_custom_heading][vc_column_text uncode_shortcode_id=”701461″]An artist-researcher and a futurist, Rapha\u00eble Bidault-Waddington has been creating since 2000, artistic and\/or future research laboratories forming a live research ecosystem. TAC Future Lab is her latest initiative.
A passionate and 360\u00b0 researcher with degrees in image theory and immaterial economics, she founded this ecosystem based on the idea that art could be seen as a form of research, both questioning and contributing to the transformations of the world.<\/p>\n

A laboratory should here be understood as a conceptual framework to organize and give meaning to research (whether artistic, academic, future-oriented, urban, etc.) around critical topics, and mixing in many ways experimentation and knowledge. <\/strong><\/p>\n

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