About
I’m a practitioner and researcher. I design and explore alternative economic, justice, and political systems to legacy institutions in the context of the digital revolutions - systems able to meet the existential challenges of our time.
At Foresight, I build towards better, technology-enabled futures, and connect and grow a decentralized scientific community advancing those goals.
Through Embassy Network and Feÿtopia, I support the growth of an intervowen network of place-based communities experimenting with new forms of governance and solidarity.
Ecosystem steward
Foresight Institute
A nonprofit accelerating a large group of scientists & technologists where legacy institutions usually fail to do so, and building the path to concrete long-term desirable futures (“existential hope”).
Since 2017 I’ve been supporting in multiple capacities. These days I focus on the curation of specific programs and the growth and interconnectedness of the ecosystem.
Feÿtopia
An extitutional commune of thinkers and builders hosted at Chateau du Feÿ. I co-build the temporary commune, with a focus on governance, coordination, emotional care & conflict transformation, and extitutionality.
Embassy Network
Communities experimenting with governance and solidarity.
Kastl.cloud
A guild of impact-driven experts using creativity & technology to reshape the world.
TLDR:
A lot of my work revolves around investigating existential paradigms in technology and society, encouraging interdisciplinary dialogues, and fostering spaces where people can meet and scheme to create better futures. I’m an avid salonnière; organize conferences, design workshops, and give the occasional talk on these topics.
More details below:
Selected Interviewees / Guests
- Nadya Tolokonnikova – Blockchain for Activism
- Toby Ord – Existential Risks & Existential Hope
- Joscha Bach – Artificial General Intelligence (AGI)
- Daniel Schmachtenberger – Collective Intelligence
- Primavera de Fillipi – From Institutions to Extitutions
- Peter Eckersley – Algorithmic Tools in the Justice System
- Will Marshall – Monitoring and Preserving Spaceship Earth
- Jessy Kate Schingler – Lunar Governance
- Anders Sandberg – Positive Future Scenarios
- Ytasha Womack – Afrofuturism
- Zarinah Agnew – Experimental Societies
Co-curator
- Vision Weekend 2023
- Vision Weekend 2022
- Vision Weekend 2021
- Vision Weekend 2019
- Vision Weekend 2018
- DeSci Workshop 2024 satellite to EthCC (Bruxelles)
- DeSci Workshop 2023 in partnership with Funding the Commons, satellite to EthCC (Paris)
DeSci Workshop 2022 in partnership with the CNRS, satellite to EthCC (Paris)
- Existential Hope Salons Series 2023, Berlin, Zuzalu, London, Paris, Istanbul
- Existential Hope Salons Series 2021, online
- Existential Hope Salons Series 2020, online
Existential Hope Salons Series 2019, San Francisco
Selected Talks & Panels
- New Sovereignties in a Networked World: the Emergence of Coordi-Nations, Funding The Commons Berlin, 2023
- Tech Trees: vision, current capabilities, the future, DeSci Berlin, 2023
- Intentional Communities as Proto-Coordi-Nations, Zuzalu, Montenegro, 2023
- Freedom of Speech, Anonymity and Autonomy: dark zones/ free zones, DevCon VI, Bogota, 2022
- Prefigurative Art to make Sci-Fi Real, OxBAT, Oxford, 2022
- Decentralized Science, DeSci Ethics, ETHBarcelona, Barcelona, 2022
- Ethics of Decentralized Science, Paris, 2022
- Decentralized Science, Open Science, and the Future, Oxford Blockchain Conference, Oxford, 2022
- Alternative Justices for Alternative Futures, SASE, New York, 2019
- Existential Risks on Earth 2045, Augmented Intelligence Summit, San Francisco, 2018
- Commune-based Approaches to Rethinking Justice, Imagining Post Capitalism Festival, Oakland, 2018
- Communes: Engines of the Future, Emergent Communities conference, San Francisco, 2018
Projects & Collaborations
- Swarm Foundation: Freedom of Speech Corner | EthCC V (2022), EthBerlin (2022), Devcon VI Bogotá (2022)
- Prison abolition | Harm prevention and alternative justice systems for communes and collectives.
- LAB GALLERY | The first purpose-driven NFT gallery funding high-impact, neglected science.
- Love_crypto_poetry_therapy | Chaos Computer Club rC3 – Remote Chaos Experience (2019), Feÿ Arts (2022), Devcon VI Bogotá (2022)
- Feÿ Arts (2019, 2022, 2024)
- BED TALKS
Media
- Foresight Institute : vers un futur désirable – Les Echos
- Podcast “Humain, Demain”: Prévoir les technologies du futur – The Flares