The Video

The Context

▶️ In March 2023, the Master Management of Technology and Innovation (MTI) in Paris invited me as a speaker for their yearly conference…

The Master MTI is a degree of the University Dauphine / PSL of Paris, the Ecole des Mines de Paris and the INSTN…

The Theme of that year was : « Nostalgia ».

Four Experts in different fields were invited, each being located at four different places across the « Map of Nostalgia »…

Each of us had to respond to the inquiries of a young seeker, named Céka, who was travelling across that Map, searching for answers.

As a Design expert specialized in Foresight, I answered her questions…

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The Event

The event revolved around four major questions linked to the concept of Nostalgia, concerning a specific field of expertise. Four specialized experts intervened during the event, each in their field of expertise.

The scenography of the event symbolized a form of  “Initiatory Journey” or “Rite of Passage”  of the seeker – “Céka” – who met, in turn, each of these experts and dialogued with them in a “metaphorical place” on the “Map of Nostalgia”. Each place symbolizing both her questioning and the field of expertise concerned.

At the end of each interview, Eduardo – the Ringmaster – gave a fragment of parchment to Céka, allowing her to continue her quest ; ultimately allowing her to resolve all of her questions concerning Nostalgia.

The Experts and the Locations on the Map

In order of appearance and by symbolic location on the map:

The Cabinet: Paola Scemama-Ittah (Neuropsychologist) answered on the psychological and neuropsychiatric origins and influences of Nostalgia over the mind.

The Factory: Alexandra Vignolles (Marketing Specialist) answered on the influences of Nostalgia over branding and marketing innovations.

The Studio: Emma Bonneaud (Musician) answered on the influences of Nostalgia on Art and Music.

The Lair: It is in this fourth part that I intervened via video -posing as an “Artificial Intelligence Entity”- as a Design Expert, specialized in foresight and warning, over three main questions:

1–What is your vision of Nostalgia correlated to your field of expertise?

2– Why use the Past to build the Future as they seem contradictory?

3– How can we build a desirable Future through Foresight and Warning? What are the desirable issues for our civilization?

The entire Event with the Four Speakers can be accessed here : “MTI experience | Nostalgia: the quest for innovation” or watch directly the video below:

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   Thank you very much for your comment coming from an IT expert, Nouha!

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   Very interesting article and excellent choice for th Sphinx!!

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   Splendid as always! And also this showcase the very broad scope of your design skills!

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The Context

⭕ This is the design I created for The Red Team Analysis Society article [🇫🇷 🇬🇧] titled :

“How to Create New Civilizations? Part 1 : Challenges and Pressures”

Civilizations are born, live and die. And they do it according multiple criteria, causes and stages whose principles have been registered, analyzed, theorized and understood. According to these criteria, any civilization, at a given moment in its history – and regardless of its stage of development – can be in a phase of stagnation, genesis, renewal or extinction. This was demonstrated by the historian Arnold Toynbee in his very comprehensive analysis “A Study of History”.

But what does Toynbee teach us if we apply his analytical filter to our modern societies and their current challenges? How do the impact of global warming, migration or the conquest of space affect the changes in our societies? Are our current civilizations disappearing? To mutate or to be reborn? Or are they doomed to fail and vanish?

The Design

Under the pressure of time and the challenges of existence, the statue of Pharaoh cracks, fragments and falls into pieces. Symbol of the end of one of the greatest civilizations in history, now it is nothing more than vestiges… and its fractured face struggles against oblivion and the voracity of time which erases everything and turns everything back to dust.

However, each of the fragments of the civilization thus destroyed begins to drift, jolting, hiccupping, in order to find a new place, a new pattern, within the rushing flow of History created by the ever-shifting Time…

These debris begin to aggregate with each other to form something different, something new…

And, in the debris and dust of the old world, the stars begin to shine.

These stars swarm and propagate over the future, merging to create a new core, a new beating heart, like a furnace… A crucible of probabilities and potentialities where each of the efforts, dreams and hopes of the ancient civilization transcend and create a new gate, a new galaxy, a new universe.

A new civilization.

Will it be even bigger? Even more beautiful? Carrying within it the foundations of its immemorial past and the hopes of a future full of promise?…

…or will it only bring destruction and vanity, carrying within itself the seeds of its own destruction, where the past no longer has its place and the future is only a nightmare?…

What will we leave behind when we are gone? What civilization will be born from our legacy and what will we leave to the future?…

Only the future will tell.

Summary of the Topic

🔻 Application of Toynbee‘s theories to the situation of our current world.

🔻 Presentation of the concepts of Golden Mean, Challenges and Genesis and how these relate to all civilizations.

🔻 Description of Five types of challenges and pressures critical for our actual world.

🔻 Presentation of the issues, dangers and growth potentials for each of these five types of challenges.

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   Thank you very much for your comment coming from an IT expert, Nouha!

2. 

   Very interesting article and excellent choice for th Sphinx!!

3. 

   Splendid as always! And also this showcase the very broad scope of your design skills!

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