Facilitating collective intelligence and cooperation dynamics

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.

Facilitating collective intelligence and cooperation dynamics

You regularly bring professionals together and you want those sessions to produce something other than minutes. You need to build a common position on a subject that divides people or exceeds each of them: a shift in the profession, a controversy, a shared project. You want to consult a network, a profession, audiences, and you want that consultation to lead to real proposals. Or you want to establish, over time, a cooperation dynamic between actors who barely know each other.

In all these cases, the criterion we set ourselves is the same: what has been produced must go on being useful once the process is over. The work leads to a formalised output (publishable recommendations, a charter of practices, a fully built project, an edited synthesis), and participants leave with methods they can use again.

It is the expected deliverable that shapes the process, not the other way round. We alternate proven facilitation methods (rotating workshops, open space, arpentage or shared close reading, structured controversies, collective writing) with digital tools developed by the agency, today multiplied by artificial intelligence, which put the group to work in real time and between sessions: contribution platforms, shared mind maps, immediate transcription and editing of what is said and written. These methods are documented publicly in Methods for facilitating collective intelligence, where you can consult them before contacting us.

Three recent examples show the variety of scales and forms.

The living museography of Le Silo (Le Mérévillois, Essonne, 2026). Methodological support for the project of the association Le Silo, housed in a 1907 grain silo: rather than freezing the history of the place in a conventional museum, building with residents, artists and the territory’s institutions the form that will share its experience. A cycle of public contribution sessions, backed by a digital platform developed by the agency, where everyone writes during and between sessions. Read the story

An advocacy statement written by twelve people in one afternoon (BnF, 2026). At the national presentation day of the national project for the future of audiovisual media in libraries, facilitation of a collective writing workshop: in two hours, a dozen professionals produced the complete first draft of an advocacy statement addressed to elected officials, put online and shared with them that same evening. Read the story

The ALCA Nouvelle-Aquitaine consultation (2025-2026). Twenty film and media education professionals mobilised over four months, through the interplay of facilitated sessions and a contributory writing platform, leading to a jointly written eight-chapter publication. Read the story

Also: the AI monitoring committee of the Forum des images (2024-2025) and its closing webinar; the « cultural rights » writing and creation seminar, run as an open space; supporting young people and professionals in taking the floor; the giant digital brainstorm.