The Bauhaus des Transitions is pleased to invite you to a new seminar:
The Bauhaus des Transitions is pleased to invite you to a new seminar:
“Thinking Differently to Navigate Transitions”
Save the date !
Wednesday, April 22, 2026
From 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.
At Mines Paris-PSL
60 Boulevard Saint-Michel
75006 Paris
Registration is available upon request from one of the organizers.
We are pleased to invite you to a new “utopia studio” at the Bauhaus of Transitions, which kicks off a series of seminars dedicated to design models for transitions.
Contemporary transitions—environmental, territorial, industrial, and digital—call for new models of action to enable the creation of desirable transformations. Traditional tools—whether regulatory, economic, or based on radical changes to ecosystems—struggle to support transformative collective action.
Yet inspiring initiatives are emerging today to develop these capacities for action. They draw on innovative approaches, featuring unexpected forms of creativity and support for committed actors, which, at the same time, reveal the unknowns inherent in transitions. Here we discover a new form of design that relies on levers of preservative creation, capable of reshaping existing systems through ripple effects.
The aim of this seminar is therefore to explore these new models for designing action in times of transition, to share and examine them, and to draw lessons from them in order to encourage their adoption by other stakeholders. This seminar is designed to serve as a space for reflection and collaborative work on this topic.
First seminar
“Designing to amplify the ‘humming bird effect’: a new approach to rural transition”
The first seminar will focus on innovative approaches to regional transformation aimed at addressing healthcare deserts and food deserts, drawing on the experience of Pascal Rigo, an entrepreneur and project manager at the GIP “Les Entreprises s’engagent,” in collaboration with Bouge Ton Coq, an organization dedicated to revitalizing local communities. territoires.
Seminar Program (tentative):
1) Testimonials and shared experiences from Pascal Rigo and Bouge Ton Coq.
2) Analysis and scientific perspectives on these mechanisms of action.
3) Discussions and collective reflection on the implications for action in transitions transitions
The Bauhaus of Transitions is a research and teaching chair at Mines Paris – PSL that aims to develop new capacities for collective action to address the uncertainties of transitions.
Registration is available upon request from one of the organizers.
Organization and contacts:
Marion Deshoulières (marion.deshoulieres@minesparis.psl.eu)
Chipten Valibhay (chipten.valibhay@minesparis.psl.eu
Practical Information
Date: April 22, 2026, from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.
Location: Mines Paris – PSL, 60 Boulevard Saint-Michel, 75006 Paris