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Cultural mediation

Method texts, stories of actions and teaching on cultural mediation, including its therapeutic dimensions. An ethics of the relationship, where the frame, each person’s place and trust are worked on concretely.

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The stories 6 publications

“Women and Architecture”: in Villetaneuse, residents film the women who made their town

“Women and Architecture”: in Villetaneuse, residents film the women who made their town

Open Creative workshops 8 March 2026

Cut-paper animation film workshops, held in February and March 2026 in Villetaneuse with the town’s cultural action department and the Annie Ernaux media library, around nine women who built or marked the town.

Webinar “Audiovisual and the museum: from exhibition to mediation, including creation, ethnography and the web”.

Webinar “Audiovisual and the museum: from exhibition to mediation, including creation, ethnography and the web”.

Giving talks and conferences 16 January 2025

JE-DIS de la FEMS 2025 #1

Experimenting together to become autonomous: seven years with the cultural affairs department of Les Lilas

Experimenting together to become autonomous: seven years with the cultural affairs department of Les Lilas

Supporting cultural policies 2 October 2024

Ville des Lilas (Seine-Saint-Denis, France). An overall account of a long-term support of the city’s cultural affairs department, from 2017 to 2024, within the framework of a cooperation agreement between the city and the department of Seine-Saint-Denis.

Digital technology, a tool for mediation and cultural democracy

- 1 - Introduction by Noël Corbin, General Delegate of the General Delegation for Transmission, Territories and Cultural Democracy at the French Ministry of Culture

Giving talks and conferences 9 October 2023

Webinar on Monday, October 9, 2023 from 10am to 1pm.

Observatory of Cultural Policies: “The challenge of mediation is not in the tool, but in the use”.

Observatory of Cultural Policies: “The challenge of mediation is not in the tool, but in the use”.

Giving talks and conferences 1 June 2019

Video interview of Benoît Labourdette by the Observatory of cultural policies (3’52s, 2019).

Growing up with culture : “The contribution of digital technology in cultural mediation”

“The contribution of digital technology in cultural mediation”. Conference by Benoît Labourdette (french speaking).

Cultural policy 13 June 2018

Conference by Benoît Labourdette about cultural mediation with digital tools, on the example of the (…)

Our resources 35 publications

School is already a society

School is already a society

Cultural mediation methods 19 July 2026

What this observation changes in the work of cultural practitioners in schools: they do not come merely to bring art into the classroom, they come to shift, for a while, the place each person occupies.

Must You Have Something to Say to Facilitate a Discussion?

Must You Have Something to Say to Facilitate a Discussion?

Cultural mediation methods 18 July 2026

Between the dream of a facilitator who would fade away and the fear of imposing a point of view, the place of the adult voice in discussions with young people is one of the knots of cultural mediation.

You are in a position of domination. Now what?

You are in a position of domination. Now what?

Cultural mediation methods 12 July 2026

Artists and cultural mediators who work in schools occupy, as a matter of fact, a socially dominant position in relation to the students. Denying it does not remove it, and what can be done with it is rarely worked on.

Shame, the invisible emotion of the adolescent spectator

Shame, the invisible emotion of the adolescent spectator

Cultural mediation methods 5 July 2026

What blocks teenagers’ speech in post-show discussions, when the subject touches on discrimination.

Validation is not transformation

Validation is not transformation

Cultural mediation methods 4 July 2026

For the actors, mediators and teachers who lead discussions with young audiences after performances.

Training a company in participatory mediation

Training a company in participatory mediation

Theatre and its contradictions 19 June 2026

Staging the reality of the encounter, not only the performance.

The bond that sets us free

The bond that sets us free

Cultural mediation methods 9 May 2026

Toward an ethics of the bond in mediation and support work.

Letting Go of One’s Criteria

Letting Go of One's Criteria

Cultural mediation methods 30 April 2026

What the practitioner must agree to lose for mediation to work.

Receiving, or the difficulty of doing nothing

Receiving, or the difficulty of doing nothing

Cultural mediation methods 29 April 2026

The mediator’s invisible time and the energy of welcoming.

Work and Mastery (2)

Work and Mastery (2)

Cultural mediation methods 27 April 2026

Distinguishing work from mastery in mediation-based creation.

The process, not the result

The process, not the result

Cultural mediation methods 26 April 2026

What needs to be told for mediation to be understood.

The framework that authorizes

The framework that authorizes

Cultural mediation methods 25 April 2026

For a reflection on space, time, and institution in therapeutic mediation.

What the gaze of others does to our images

What the gaze of others does to our images

Cultural mediation methods 24 April 2026

Reflections on symbolization, identity, and the unconscious in photography-based mediation.

The Image as Evidence

The Image as Evidence

Cultural mediation methods 23 April 2026

What Machines Do to Us.

Building, Not Valorizing

Building, Not Valorizing

Cultural mediation methods 17 April 2026

What the collective gaze does that valorization cannot.

Place as an Operative Concept for an Emancipatory Cultural Mediation

Place as an Operative Concept for an Emancipatory Cultural Mediation

Cultural mediation methods 13 April 2026

Taking one’s place is not about occupying a position, it’s about being able to move.

The Selfie, the Filter, and the Two Bodies

The Selfie, the Filter, and the Two Bodies

Cultural mediation methods 5 April 2026

The image of self as therapeutic working material.

The object that disposes

The object that disposes

Cultural mediation methods 4 April 2026

What machines change in mediation.

Trust as a Technical Act

Trust as a Technical Act

Cultural mediation methods 3 April 2026

How Inner Work and the Choice of Objects Build the Conditions for Emancipation.

Not judging people’s digital practices

Not judging people's digital practices

Cultural mediation methods 2 April 2026

Non-judgment and non-hierarchization as conditions for mediation.

The Eye in the Hand

The Eye in the Hand

Cultural mediation methods 25 March 2026

Why the same tool produces a radically different experience depending on the frame you give it.

The contemporary functions of images: beyond memory

The contemporary functions of images: beyond memory

Cultural mediation methods 24 March 2026

Towards an anthropology of image-as-speech and its consequences for mediation.

Artificial Intelligence, a Tool for Emancipation in Mediation

Artificial Intelligence, a Tool for Emancipation in Mediation

Cultural mediation methods 23 March 2026

How conversational AI is opening up new possibilities for cultural and therapeutic mediation.

The Fertile Margin

The Fertile Margin

Cultural mediation methods 22 March 2026

Reframe cultural and therapeutic practices within the current reality, where digital culture has become the dominant culture.

Audiovisual Workshop in Therapeutic Mediation

Audiovisual Workshop in Therapeutic Mediation

Cultural mediation methods 21 March 2026

Elements of a Course in the University Diploma in Arts and Therapeutic Mediations (Paris 7 – Université Paris Cité

Vision is a reconstruction

Vision is a reconstruction

Cultural mediation methods 20 March 2026

What the eye does not see, and why it changes everything about our relationship to images.

Creation as the energy source of cultural mediation

Creation as the energy source of cultural mediation

Cultural mediation methods 2 March 2026

Moving beyond hierarchies to unleash the power of making together.

Creating with people

Creating with people

Cultural mediation methods 1 February 2026

Methods of cultural mediation for shared creation.

The Meaning of Mediation Methods in Arts and Cultural Education

The Meaning of Mediation Methods in Arts and Cultural Education

Support for cultural policies 20 January 2026

When practice reveals what theory ignores.

Cultural Mediation as a Device for Symbolic Emancipation

Cultural Mediation as a Device for Symbolic Emancipation

Support for cultural policies 19 January 2026

Methodological Principles for a Horizontal Approach to Collective Creation.

Engagement in Time

Engagement in Time

Cultural mediation methods 27 December 2025

What matters in cultural mediation is not the duration of actions, but the quality of shared time.

Definition of Cultural Mediation

Definition of Cultural Mediation

Cultural mediation methods 25 December 2025

An ethics of relationship in service of singular experience.

Towards renewed cultural mediation for young people

Towards renewed cultural mediation for young people

Culture, youth and digital 23 May 2025

Cultural rights and the digital age.

The work of art in the age of digital mediation

The work of art in the age of digital mediation

Philosophy of artistic creation 2 January 2025

Conceptual update of Walter Benjamin’s “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction” (1935).

The Freinet method applied to digital mediation

The Freinet method applied to digital mediation

Pedagogy 7 February 2023

Pedagogy and politics of autonomy.

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