The Benoît Labourdette production agency builds cultural and digital experiences and develops creative engineering. It draws on the expertise of its founder Benoît Labourdette, filmmaker, educator, researcher and consultant in cultural innovation and digital strategies.

This website brings together:

The catalogue of cultural engineering skills and stories of innovative cultural actions.
Resources produced by Benoît Labourdette in the cultural, artistic, educational, digital and philosophical fields.
A selection of films and artistic creations by Benoît Labourdette.
A sharing of the research and innovation approaches we take.

The four poles of this website

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Cultural engineering

The Benoît Labourdette production agency builds cultural and digital experiences and develops creative engineering. It draws on the expertise of its founder Benoît Labourdette, filmmaker, educator, researcher and consultant in cultural innovation (…)

Our resources

Here we share methodological and intellectual resources: philosophical proposals, pedagogical and creative methods, digital technical tools, political, sociological and practical reflections on cultural action in the contemporary world, etc., (…)

Artistic creation

Cinema, photography, poetic writing, musical creation, painting, installation... Benoît Labourdette is a filmmaker and multidisciplinary artist. He creates and transmits in a wide variety of contexts. Many of his films are available free of (…)

Research & innovation

Benoît Labourdette production agency integrates an applied research center in a variety of related fields: artistic creation, cultural and therapeutic mediation, cultural policy, digital tools, cooperative methods and educational innovation.A (…)

Headlines

What is Philosophy Today?

Crafting concepts from presence and lived life.

Every person carries a philosophy without knowing it, inherited from their culture. I try here to say what it is, for me, to do philosophy today, forging concepts from presence and lived life. No (…)

15 May 2026

15 min

Delegated Thinking

Why intellectuals suspend their critical thinking on certain topics.

An intellectual person close to me asserts to me one day, as an established fact, what she has read on the cover of Le Monde: that the newly elected far-right mayors are already “uninhibited.” She (…)

11 May 2026

9 min

The contemporary functions of images: beyond memory

Towards an anthropology of image-as-speech and its consequences for mediation.

We think we know what an image is. We think it is a trace, a memory, a proof. But images have changed function without our fully realising it. For a considerable share of their uses, they have (…)

24 March 2026

8 min

The bond that sets us free

Toward an ethics of the bond in mediation and support work.

To emancipate those whom we accompany, and to emancipate ourselves in the same gesture: this, in my view, lies at the heart of any practice of mediation, care or pedagogy. Emancipation passes (…)

9 May 2026

16 min

Latest publications

The Evolution of the Love Contract

An ethnological approach to a rapidly changing object.

From the 1804 Civil Code to dating apps, what we call loving in France has been constructed as a historically situated contractual regime. Analysing it through its social functions allows each (…)

21 May 2026

7 min

Unconditional love between adults

On a therapeutic dogma and what it obscures.

It is regularly claimed, in therapy training, that unconditional love only exists toward children. This claim seems to me mistaken and harmful, because it conflates love with the romantic (…)

20 May 2026

7 min

Vocal presence

A typology of voices at a distance and the kinds of presence they shape.

Making a phone call, leaving a voice message, joining a video call, listening to a podcast, watching a live stream, talking with a voice AI: six ways of being present through the voice at a (…)

19 May 2026

8 min

Giving without expecting return

On asymmetric giving, from human bonds to digital commons.

Anthropology has taught us to be wary of the gift, which it always describes as caught up in an obligation of return. There is, however, another form of giving, one that unfolds over time without (…)

18 May 2026

6 min

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