Your institutional project is coming to an end, or no longer matches the reality of your activity. Your local authority is rethinking its cultural policy, its relationship with young people, its territorial dynamics. Or your team is going through a transformation (a merger, a change of leadership, falling funding, a digital shift) that needs to be thought through collectively rather than endured. It is for these situations that the agency designs custom-built support.
This work produces structuring documents: an institutional project, a collaboratively built state of play, a white paper, a shared framework. Their strength comes from the way they are developed. The diagnosis is built with your teams, not in their place; the orientations are formalised and defensible before your governing bodies and your funders, because the people who will have to carry them actually wrote them. What remains often exceeds the documents themselves: cooperation methods that your organisation keeps after we leave.
To achieve this, collective intelligence is practised at every level (governance, teams, audiences), and participatory artistic creation serves as an instrument for getting people talking where conventional meetings fail. Benoît Labourdette designs and leads the process, with the eye of a cultural practitioner rather than that of a consulting firm.
A few recent assignments give the measure of this work.
Collaborative review of film and media education in Nouvelle-Aquitaine (ALCA, 2025-2026). Full methodological support for a region-wide consultation for the Agence Livre, Cinéma et Audiovisuel: design of the collective intelligence process, development of the collaborative digital platform, co-facilitation of consultations bringing together some twenty professionals over four months, co-writing and co-editing of an eight-chapter publication, design and co-facilitation of the regional presentation day at the MÉCA in Bordeaux. Read the story
National project for the future of audiovisual media in libraries (French Ministry of Culture, Images en Bibliothèques, CNC, 2024-2026). Membership of the steering committee of this national action-research programme, in which Benoît Labourdette carried the political dimension of the work: leading the “Cultural policy” hearings with elected officials’ associations and national stakeholders, presenting their synthesis at the national conference at the BnF, and facilitating the collective writing workshop that produced the advocacy statement addressed to elected officials. Read the story
Also: the White Paper on cultural decentralisation; the « Éducation aux images 2.1 » action-research programme in Île-de-France; consultancy and training with the Observatoire des Politiques Culturelles; the national conference « Cultures et politiques de la jeunesse ».
