We are designing a system for maintaining cooperation across a professional network: a weekly one-hour videoconference meeting, which everyone attends freely, with no attendance requirement, backed by a contribution platform that keeps a record of the exchanges and makes it usable between meetings. The aim: for the members of a network to know each other better, cooperate more and gain robustness together.
The need
The members of a professional network meet at annual gatherings and flagship events; between these moments, mutual knowledge does not build up, and cooperation remains wishful thinking. Yet to pool resources, people first need to know each other: this is what the collaborative assessment in Nouvelle-Aquitaine taught us, where mutual knowledge produced cooperation, and the Azimut platform, built so that amateur artists become visible to one another. The robustness of cultural players, the kind built through ties rather than performance, runs through our work: Pour une robustesse coopérative des projets culturels (in French); Robustness, antifragility, resilience; Build antifragility for cultural projects.
Where we stand
In design. Updated: August 2026. The system is sketched out: the one-hour format, the weekly rhythm, drop-in attendance, the supporting platform. There is no testing ground yet. We are looking for a first volunteer network for an experiment lasting a few months.
Taking part
If you run a network (culture, education or social-work professionals, or local authorities in the same area) and mutual knowledge is an issue there, your network can be the first testing ground for this system. Write to us.