# Benoît Labourdette production > Cultural agency founded and led by Benoît Labourdette: participatory and digital art projects, films, training courses, cultural engineering. Bilingual website. This file describes the English version; every URL below already carries `?lang=en`. French version of this file: https://www.benoitlabourdette.com/llms.txt ## Contact Getting in touch The simplest way is to write to us, describing your starting situation: the organisation or group concerned, the question at hand, the timeframe. The first step is always a conversation, by phone, by video call or in person. Contact: benoit@benoitlabourdette.com; in urgent cases, Benoît Labourdette's mobile: +33 (0)6 80 03 19 83. Benoît Labourdette production is a French simplified joint-stock company (SASU) with a capital of €46,800. Company registration (SIRET): 818 146 128 00017 R.C.S. PARIS. NAF code 5911C. Registered office: 113 bd. de l'Hôpital, 75013 Paris, France. President: Benoît Labourdette. Contact: benoit@benoitlabourdette.com / +33 (0)6 80 03 19 83. Website: www.benoitlabourdette.com ## Main sections - [Working together](https://www.benoitlabourdette.com/travailler-ensemble/?lang=en) : Through artistic practice, digital technology and collective intelligence, the agency Benoît Labourdette production designs conferences and lectures, consultancy and support, participatory art projects, exhibitions, training courses, events, films and professional tools, in cooperation with local authorities, cultural venues, artistic… - [Digital Tools for Cultural Democracy](https://www.benoitlabourdette.com/travailler-ensemble/des-outils-numeriques-pour-la-democratie-culturelle-273/?lang=en) : We bring together here the agency's research and development projects on digital tools for cultural democracy. - [Ideas for Meaningful Conferences](https://www.benoitlabourdette.com/travailler-ensemble/pistes-pour-des-conferences-utiles/?lang=en) : Possible talks, organised by the question you are asking yourself, as a starting point for building the one your audience actually needs. - [Supporting cultural policies](https://www.benoitlabourdette.com/travailler-ensemble/accompagner-les-politiques-culturelles?lang=en) : Consultancy and support for local authorities, institutions and companies in their institutional projects, their cultural policies and their transformations, in the light of cultural rights. - [Bringing cultural rights to life](https://www.benoitlabourdette.com/travailler-ensemble/faire-vivre-les-droits-culturels?lang=en) : Awareness sessions, training, seminars and support for organisations and local authorities, to move from the principles of cultural rights to their concrete implementation, in projects as well as in professional postures. - [Facilitating collective intelligence and cooperation dynamics](https://www.benoitlabourdette.com/travailler-ensemble/animer-l-intelligence-collective-et-les-dynamiques-de-cooperation?lang=en) : Design and facilitation of seminars, committees, professional gatherings, consultations and long-term cooperation dynamics, so that a collective produces what none of its members would have produced alone. - [Integrating artificial intelligence](https://www.benoitlabourdette.com/travailler-ensemble/integrer-l-intelligence-artificielle?lang=en) : Supporting cultural, educational and social-sector teams and institutions in the clear-sighted and inventive appropriation of artificial intelligence: professional uses, governance, creation, critical thinking. - [Creating participatory art projects and events](https://www.benoitlabourdette.com/travailler-ensemble/creer-des-projets-artistiques-participatifs-et-des-evenements?lang=en) : Design and production of participatory art projects and cultural events, for museums, cinemas, cities, festivals and venues of all kinds, including at large scale. - [Creating arts and cultural education projects](https://www.benoitlabourdette.com/travailler-ensemble/creer-des-projets-d-education-artistique-et-culturelle?lang=en) : Design and production of arts and cultural education projects for schools and youth organisations, with local authorities, cultural institutions and educational teams. - [Developing film and media education](https://www.benoitlabourdette.com/travailler-ensemble/developper-l-education-aux-images?lang=en) : Workshops, programmes, training, collaborative reviews and territorial policies for film and media education, for regional and national coordinating bodies, cultural venues, local authorities, and educational, social and youth networks. - [Working with care and child protection services](https://www.benoitlabourdette.com/travailler-ensemble/intervenir-dans-le-champ-du-soin-et-de-la-protection-de-l-enfance?lang=en) : Talks, training, support and public meetings on adolescents' screen practices, mediation through images and psychosocial skills. - [Training professionals](https://www.benoitlabourdette.com/travailler-ensemble/former-les-professionnels?lang=en) : Custom-designed professional training: film and media education, innovative pedagogies, cooperation methods, digital cultures, cultural rights, artificial intelligence. - [Giving talks and lectures](https://www.benoitlabourdette.com/travailler-ensemble/animer-des-conferences?lang=en) : Talks and public interventions where the audience contributes: artificial intelligence and creation, cultural policies, youth and digital technology, film and media education, cultural rights. - [Creating web platforms, custom tools and films](https://www.benoitlabourdette.com/travailler-ensemble/realiser-des-plateformes-web-des-outils-metier-et-des-films?lang=en) : Consultancy, design and production of collaborative web platforms, custom professional tools, digital heritage strategies, commissioned films and documentaries. - [Building professional tools with the teams](https://www.benoitlabourdette.com/travailler-ensemble/construire-les-outils-metier-avec-les-equipes?lang=en) : Supporting teams in designing, building and taking ownership of their working tools: shared contact databases, project tracking, event management, in free and open-source software, all the way to autonomy. - [Digital Tools for Cultural Democracy](https://www.benoitlabourdette.com/travailler-ensemble/des-outils-numeriques-pour-la-democratie-culturelle?lang=en) : Designing and developing, with cultural organisations and local authorities, sovereign digital tools that put cultural rights into practice. - [A research practice](https://www.benoitlabourdette.com/travailler-ensemble/une-pratique-de-recherche?lang=en) : Reflection is part of the work — and it is built with you. - [How we work](https://www.benoitlabourdette.com/travailler-ensemble/comment-nous-travaillons?lang=en) : A light and agile company, a companion network, and collaborations of all sizes. - [The domains](https://www.benoitlabourdette.com/domaines/?lang=en) : The domains are the thematic entry points of this website. The sections classify publications by their nature (accounts of projects, resources, research, artistic work); the domains cut across them and bring them together by subject. - [Our resources](https://www.benoitlabourdette.com/les-ressources/?lang=en) : Here we share methodological and intellectual resources: philosophical proposals, pedagogical and creative methods, digital technical tools, political, sociological and practical reflections on cultural action in the contemporary world, etc., which I hope will be useful and inspiring. - [Books in open access](https://www.benoitlabourdette.com/les-ressources/livres-en-acces-libre/?lang=en) : The books written by Benoît Labourdette are gathered here, and can be downloaded in full, free of charge, in PDF format. - [Defending culture differently: methods for tomorrow](https://www.benoitlabourdette.com/les-ressources/defendre-la-culture-autrement-methodes-pour-demain/?lang=en) : My multidisciplinary practices—spanning creation, cultural action, training, and support in a wide range of cultural, social, and educational contexts across France—provide me with a privileged, subjective, and in-depth observatory of the… - [Artificial intelligence, creativity and critical thinking](https://www.benoitlabourdette.com/les-ressources/intelligence-artificielle-creation-et-esprit-critique/?lang=en) : Artificial intelligence has emancipated itself from research laboratories and works of science fiction thanks to the public launch in November 2022 of the conversational robot ChatGPT, which was very quickly appropriated by an immense… - [Cultural professions and Artificial Intelligence](https://www.benoitlabourdette.com/les-ressources/metiers-de-la-culture-et-intelligence-artificielle/?lang=en) : The cultural professions, like all professions, are and will be impacted by Artificial Intelligences, as much in work methods as in artistic and cultural creations and actions. - [Culture, youth and digital](https://www.benoitlabourdette.com/les-ressources/culture-jeunesse-et-numerique/?lang=en) : Cultural offerings are sometimes brutally questioned by the "young" audience. A challenge that manifests itself notably through indifference towards the prescriptions of cultural institutions, or even through disinterest in cultural venues. - [Cultural rights](https://www.benoitlabourdette.com/les-ressources/les-droits-culturels/?lang=en) : The "cultural rights", which derive from the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, are a concept developed and defended by researchers, sociologists, philosophers, political leaders and actors of the cultural world. - [Philosophical proposals](https://www.benoitlabourdette.com/les-ressources/propositions-philosophiques/?lang=en) : To "be" in the world is to think oneself and the world. So, each of us, without even formulating it explicitly, has a philosophical vision of the world: religious or atheist, technophile or technophobe, hedonist or abstainer, with all the… - [Screens, adolescence and psychic life](https://www.benoitlabourdette.com/les-ressources/ecrans-adolescence-et-vie-psychique/?lang=en) : The phone that gets confiscated or negotiated in an institution, worries about "screen addiction", the place of images in adolescents' construction of self, the development of psychosocial skills through artistic practice, digital… - [Support for cultural policies](https://www.benoitlabourdette.com/les-ressources/accompagnement-des-politiques-culturelles/?lang=en) : Drawing on Benoît Labourdette's 30 years of experience in the field of cultural innovation and his research and methodological work, the Benoît Labourdette production agency supports cultural policies in their need for innovation, better… - [Image Education / Research on the Image](https://www.benoitlabourdette.com/les-ressources/education-aux-images-recherche-sur-l-image/?lang=en) : Images have become a language everyone uses daily, ever since digital tools placed them in everyone's hands. - [Pedagogy](https://www.benoitlabourdette.com/les-ressources/pedagogie/?lang=en) : Here you will find educational tools, practical and conceptual. These tools are based on the experiences and thinking that I have been developing in a large number of contexts since the 1990s. - [Media and Information Education (MIE)](https://www.benoitlabourdette.com/les-ressources/education-aux-medias-et-a-l-information/?lang=en) : Media and Information Education (MIE) is a dynamic that enjoys consensus regarding its necessity in the contemporary world, in the same way as the critical education to language proposed by the structuralists of the 1960s, with Roland… - [Cultural policies and digital revolution](https://www.benoitlabourdette.com/les-ressources/politiques-culturelles-et-revolution-numerique/?lang=en) : Cultural policy" is a tradition of the French state since the Middle Ages. It was initiated by Louis XIV in the 17th century as a tool of influence and power. - [Collective intelligence facilitation methods](https://www.benoitlabourdette.com/les-ressources/methodes-d-animation-de-l-intelligence-collective/?lang=en) : In the context of businesses, as well as in associative, social, artistic, cultural mediation, cultural action, initial or professional training, and social action settings, mobilizing the collective intelligence of participants is a very… - [Cultural mediation methods](https://www.benoitlabourdette.com/les-ressources/methodes-de-mediation-culturelle/?lang=en) : Cultural mediation, as I conceive and practice it, is not primarily a set of techniques, but an ethics of relationship. - [Theatre and its contradictions](https://www.benoitlabourdette.com/les-ressources/le-theatre-et-ses-contradictions/?lang=en) : Theatre is one of the oldest forms of pooling human experience, and it is perhaps precisely because it comes from so far back that it deserves to be examined in depth and without complacency. - [Creating, thinking and writing screenplays today](https://www.benoitlabourdette.com/les-ressources/creer-penser-ecrire-des-scenarii-aujourd-hui/?lang=en) : Tools and Techniques for Screenwriting and Film Project Development. In our world where artificial intelligences create films directly from the desires of their authors expressed in very few words, in this world where 3.5-hour films in… - [Digital Heritage and Sovereignty](https://www.benoitlabourdette.com/les-ressources/le-patrimoine-et-la-souverainete-numeriques/?lang=en) : In the 21st century, the vast majority of human production is made with digital tools and circulates in digital form: writing, photography, sound, video, multimedia. - [Putting feminism into practice in cultural action](https://www.benoitlabourdette.com/les-ressources/mettre-le-feminisme-en-pratique-dans-l-action-culturelle/?lang=en) : The practice of feminism seems to me to be an essential stake in the cultural actions, because the awareness of the systems of domination allows to go towards more equality, therefore to contribute to the democracy. - [Audiovisual cultural animation tools](https://www.benoitlabourdette.com/les-ressources/outils-d-animation-culturelle-audiovisuelle/?lang=en) : You will find here methodologies that can be used directly to run cultural, creative, digital and audiovisual workshops. - [Notes on moving image](https://www.benoitlabourdette.com/les-ressources/notes-sur-l-image-animee/?lang=en) : Book to consult or download for free. A selection, a collection of notes by Benoît Labourdette on the creation of moving images and on creation in general, gleaned over a period of 30 years, between 1992 and 2022. - [Collective books](https://www.benoitlabourdette.com/les-ressources/livres/?lang=en) : The collective books Benoît Labourdette contributed to. Where possible, they can be downloaded here in PDF format. - [Cultures of Resilience](https://www.benoitlabourdette.com/les-ressources/cultures-de-la-resilience/?lang=en) : The capacity of a person, a group or a territory to come through crises depends on that of all the others: this is what the psychiatrist Serge Tisseron calls co-resilience. - [Methods and tools for audiovisual and digital production](https://www.benoitlabourdette.com/les-ressources/methodes-et-outils-pour-la-production-audiovisuelle-et-numerique/?lang=en) : Between strategies and technologies, tools for thinking and doing, very concretely, the audiovisual of today and tomorrow. - [Creative techniques](https://www.benoitlabourdette.com/les-ressources/techniques-creatives/?lang=en) : Creation is a practice, and this practice can be fostered through techniques that are independent of any specific object. - [Articles](https://www.benoitlabourdette.com/les-ressources/articles/?lang=en) : Articles and studies that I have written for magazines and newspapers, downloadable in PDF. - [Press reviews](https://www.benoitlabourdette.com/les-ressources/revue-de-presse/?lang=en) : Some excerpts from what is being said about my work, as well as interviews, broadcasts and articles in their entirety. - [Basis of digital cinema and digital video](https://www.benoitlabourdette.com/les-ressources/les-bases-du-cinema-et-de-la-video-numeriques/?lang=en) : To take full ownership of digital as a tool for audiovisual production, as a language for self-expression, it is necessary, in my point of view, to considered it in the concrete of its materiality, to no longer represent it as an… - [Web technologies](https://www.benoitlabourdette.com/les-ressources/technologies-du-web/?lang=en) : This section brings together accessible resources for understanding the strategic, technical, and editorial dimensions of the web. - [Post-Covid-19 cultural projects](https://www.benoitlabourdette.com/les-ressources/projets-culturels-post-covid-19/?lang=en) : What is culture for? Are we going to return to cultural places as much as before and for what reasons? - [The stories](https://www.benoitlabourdette.com/les-recits/?lang=en) : We share here the stories of the actions carried out by the agency: training courses, workshops, events, participatory art projects, films, web platforms, digital tools. - [Supporting cultural policies](https://www.benoitlabourdette.com/les-recits/accompagner-les-politiques-culturelles/?lang=en) : Stories of our advisory work: team seminars, professional study days, concerted assessments, consulting missions for local authorities, networks and cultural institutions. - [Bringing cultural rights to life](https://www.benoitlabourdette.com/les-recits/faire-vivre-les-droits-culturels/?lang=en) : Stories of our work on cultural rights: awareness sessions, training courses, seminars and support for organisations and local authorities, several of them carried out within the Paideia approach of Réseau culture 21, with shared creation… - [Developing film and media education](https://www.benoitlabourdette.com/les-recits/developper-l-education-aux-images/?lang=en) : Stories of our film and media education work: workshops and shared creations with audiences, training for mediators and teachers, professional study days, collaborative reviews and support for territorial policies. - [Creating participatory art projects and events](https://www.benoitlabourdette.com/les-recits/creer-des-projets-artistiques-participatifs-et-des-evenements/?lang=en) : Stories of our shared creation projects: workshops with residents, young people and teams; participatory digital projects; cultural festivals and events designed and carried out. - [Creating arts and cultural education projects](https://www.benoitlabourdette.com/les-recits/creer-des-projets-d-education-artistique-et-culturelle/?lang=en) : Stories of our arts and cultural education projects: creations carried out with schools and youth organisations, in co-construction with local authorities, cultural institutions and educational teams. - [Training professionals](https://www.benoitlabourdette.com/les-recits/former-les-professionnels/?lang=en) : Stories of our training courses: film and media education, new media, cultural policies, professional workshops, for teams working in culture, education, social work and care. - [Working with care and child protection services](https://www.benoitlabourdette.com/les-recits/intervenir-dans-le-champ-du-soin-et-de-la-protection-de-l-enfance/?lang=en) : Stories of our work in the fields of care, social work and child protection: team training, professional seminars, support for organisations, public meetings with families, workshops with young people. - [Facilitating collective intelligence and cooperation dynamics](https://www.benoitlabourdette.com/les-recits/animer-l-intelligence-collective-et-les-dynamiques-de-cooperation/?lang=en) : Stories of our collective intelligence processes: giant brainstormings, councils and committees, concerted assessments, collective writing. - [Integrating artificial intelligence](https://www.benoitlabourdette.com/les-recits/integrer-l-intelligence-artificielle/?lang=en) : Stories of our work on artificial intelligence in cultural organisations: training courses, hands-on workshops, tool design. - [Building web platforms, professional tools and films](https://www.benoitlabourdette.com/les-recits/realiser-des-plateformes-web-des-outils-metier-et-des-films/?lang=en) : Stories of what we have built: websites and cooperation platforms, commissioned films, digital tools, productions for cinema and video publishing. - [Giving talks and conferences](https://www.benoitlabourdette.com/les-recits/animer-des-conferences/?lang=en) : Video and audio recordings, documents, abstracts, of conferences that I run in different contexts. - [Right now](https://www.benoitlabourdette.com/en-ce-moment/?lang=en) : What is in preparation, what is under way, what has just taken place: in this section we share news of the agency's projects. - [The works of Benoît Labourdette](https://www.benoitlabourdette.com/creations-artistiques/?lang=en) : Cinema, photography, poetic writing, music, painting, installation... Benoît Labourdette is a multidisciplinary filmmaker and artist. - [Cinema](https://www.benoitlabourdette.com/creations-artistiques/cinema/?lang=en) : Benoît Labourdette's films can be viewed here in streaming (often with English subtitles). - [Photography](https://www.benoitlabourdette.com/creations-artistiques/photographie/?lang=en) : Because of the mechanical nature of its technical function, photography is for me a matter of time rather than a visual matter : in its silver salts, or its pixels today, it is time which is captured, preserved, reinvented at every glance. - [Graphic arts & Calligraphy](https://www.benoitlabourdette.com/creations-artistiques/arts-graphiques-calligraphie/?lang=en) : Tracing the letters of words, choreographing pictorial creations, setting graphic productions in volume... for me, visual matter is also a matter of pure exploration. - [Artistic installation](https://www.benoitlabourdette.com/creations-artistiques/exposition-installation/?lang=en) : Artistic installation, the existence in space and time of artistic forms is crucial because it is the way in which the work is modified by its relation to the spectator. - [Music](https://www.benoitlabourdette.com/creations-artistiques/musique/?lang=en) : Musical creation, always discreet, concrete and electronic music, irrigates my work. I compose the soundtracks and music for most of my films, and I also compose or improvise stand-alone musical pieces, each associated with a short poem,… - [Writing](https://www.benoitlabourdette.com/creations-artistiques/ecriture-litteraire/?lang=en) : Writing, whether with images, sounds, words or the written word, is the guiding thread for thinking about the material we manipulate, by doing. - [Performing arts](https://www.benoitlabourdette.com/creations-artistiques/spectacle-vivant/?lang=en) : Performing arts is my training and my initial culture. Young actor in the 90's with among other La Compagnie du Chaland and Trottoir Express (France), I was teached to the work of the mask and the art of the jester with William Nedel. - [Themes](https://www.benoitlabourdette.com/tags/?lang=en) : All the content of this website - articles, films, images, music, conferences, research, accounts of cultural actions or training courses, etc. - is "tagged", i.e. linked to themes. - [All publications](https://www.benoitlabourdette.com/toutes-les-publications/?lang=en) : Here you'll find all the publications on this website, sorted by date, starting with the most recent. - [Benoît Labourdette](https://www.benoitlabourdette.com/benoit-labourdette/?lang=en) : I have always had a multidisciplinary way of working between artistic creation, diffusion and cultural engineering, management, pedagogy, technology. ## Latest publications - 2026-08-31 — [Bringing cultural rights to life](https://www.benoitlabourdette.com/travailler-ensemble/faire-vivre-les-droits-culturels?lang=en) - 2026-08-31 — [Instituting oneself in one's rights](https://www.benoitlabourdette.com/les-ressources/les-droits-culturels/s-instituer-de-ses-droits?lang=en) - 2026-08-30 — [Data Centers: We Fill Them Ourselves](https://www.benoitlabourdette.com/les-ressources/le-patrimoine-et-la-souverainete-numeriques/les-data-centers-nous-les-remplissons-nous-memes?lang=en) - 2026-08-29 — [The screen discourse](https://www.benoitlabourdette.com/les-ressources/propositions-philosophiques/philosophie-de-l-ere-numerique-et-de-l-intelligence-artificielle/le-discours-ecran?lang=en) - 2026-08-28 — [Cultural democratization, cultural democracy: situated definitions](https://www.benoitlabourdette.com/les-ressources/les-droits-culturels/democratisation-democratie-culturelle-des-definitions-situees?lang=en) - 2026-08-27 — [The presumption of competence](https://www.benoitlabourdette.com/les-ressources/les-droits-culturels/la-presomption-de-competence?lang=en) - 2026-08-26 — [Young people have not lost their heads](https://www.benoitlabourdette.com/les-ressources/culture-jeunesse-et-numerique/la-jeunesse-n-a-pas-perdu-la-tete?lang=en) - 2026-08-25 — [The care of the milieu](https://www.benoitlabourdette.com/les-ressources/propositions-philosophiques/philosophie-du-soin-et-du-collectif/le-soin-du-milieu?lang=en) - 2026-08-24 — [Non-rival emancipation](https://www.benoitlabourdette.com/les-ressources/propositions-philosophiques/politique-de-la-verite-et-du-pouvoir/l-emancipation-non-rivale?lang=en) - 2026-08-23 — [Building professional tools with the teams](https://www.benoitlabourdette.com/travailler-ensemble/construire-les-outils-metier-avec-les-equipes?lang=en) ## Resources - [XML sitemap](https://www.benoitlabourdette.com/sitemap.xml) - [RSS feed](https://www.benoitlabourdette.com/spip.php?page=backend) - [French homepage](https://www.benoitlabourdette.com/) - [This file in French](https://www.benoitlabourdette.com/llms.txt)