September · back to school
Youth
Open stage, job-dating for work that means something, a 48-hour sprint, and a brigade of young creators running all the filming.
The Folio · the Agora’s notebook
The impact arm of Studio être
L’Agora
Where a useful idea finds its allies and its means.
Yoga means union. What the practice unites within a person, the Agora unites among those who each hold part of the solution — around one question, for a limited time, until it becomes a project.
Individual awareness Collective intelligence Collective impact
Three dimensions
From the person to the table, from the table to the field.
Three dimensions, each complete in itself and made to carry on into the next: take one, or all three.
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The practice
Individual awareness
The classical practices, for individuals and for teams: attention, stress, discernment, the conscious use of technology and AI — on your premises or in our hall.
- Team programmes
- Companies and schools
- Intensives
- AI and attention
You leave with more stability, clarity and discernment.
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The table
Collective intelligence
Talks, round tables, interviews and seminars where a real question meets those who hold part of the answer: researchers, people in the field, funders, institutions, young people, citizens — and AI, an explicit and debated participant.
- Talks
- Adversarial round tables
- Filmed interviews
- Seminars
- Citizen consultations
You leave with a clearer question, complementary allies, a public voice.
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The workshop
Collective impact
Workshops, hackathons and prototyping days where the same table moves to action: a tool, a prototype, an initiative — accelerated by AI and by our technology and science partners — for health, education, work, the living world or public life.
- Workshops
- Hackathons
- Prototyping days
- 48-hour sprints
- Challenges
You leave with a prototype, committed means, verified results at 30, 90 and 180 days.
What one person cultivates within, a group can think through together; and what a group understands, it can build.
The table
Innovation starts with who is in the room.
These nine almost never cross paths: the researcher goes to conferences, the funder to business breakfasts, the elected official to public meetings, the young stay online. The Agora brings them to one question — and first has them breathe together.
one questionand thirty minutes of practice before discussing it
- The project holdera real case
- The scientistthe evidence
- The fieldthose already doing it
- The meansfunders, patrons
- The institutionofficials, agencies
- The next generationyoung people, students
- The voicejournalists, artists, creators
- The citizena contributor, not a spectator
- The machineAI, a debated participant
A competitor or a critic has a place at the table too: an assembly of allies alone is not an agora.
The Cycle
One question, one month, six movements.
Always the same form, always a new question — like a practice.
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Compose
beforehand
Frame the question, gather the table.
What comes out: Framing note
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Perceive
opening evening
Thirty minutes of practice, then what is already known about the question.
What comes out: Filmed episode
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Confront
deliberation evening
A deliberately adversarial round table.
What comes out: Disagreements on record
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Build
closed workshop
Twelve to twenty people, one or two real projects, AI as a tool.
What comes out: Dossier, budget, prototype
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Commit
the Saturday
Public presentation and an exchange of means: money, skills, networks, venues.
What comes out: Signed commitments
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Follow
30 · 90 · 180 days
Check-ins and a public update.
What comes out: Proof of impact
The third room
Recorded, therefore multiplied.
The third room is the audience online. Every evening is recorded, translated and published — on YouTube, LinkedIn, Instagram and as a podcast. What is said at the table does not stop with those who were there.
- The Agora Notesynthesis, disagreements, recommendations
- The long episodevideo and podcast, in three languages
- The short seriesexcerpts for social media
- The teaching modulefor schools and companies
- The project dossierto unlock its funding
- The dataanonymised, for research
Restrained communication, on principle: fewer posts and more value, no addictive mechanics, and full transparency about the use of AI.
Take part
The table is being set now. Take your seat.
If you hold part of the solution — a question, a field, knowledge, means, a place, a network — write to us. Three lines are enough to begin.
Each arrives with a reason of their own. The table brings together those who kept missing one another.
Companies, local authorities, schools, hospitals, associations, foundations, researchers, citizens. We do not wait to be found: we go to the organisations whose work, expertise or initiatives already call for a table.
You bring a question
Any organisation or person carrying a real need.
Address: bonjour@studioetre.fr · subject: “Agora — a question”
- Complete a transformation
- Your organisation is already changing part of what it does — production, purchasing, energy, teams, its use of AI. We gather around that effort the actors who complete it.
- Put your work to the test
- You want to account for what you do, and test it. At the table the critics have a seat, and the exchange is filmed and published. We exclude no one — provided they accept being contradicted.
- Bring others with you
- You want an awareness to spread. Your approach becomes public material, and a method other organisations can take up on their own ground.
- Bring a question
- Local authority, school, hospital, association, neighbourhood: your real need becomes the subject of a Cycle, and you leave it with the means to act.
You hold part of the solution
The scientist, the field, the means, the institution, the next generation, the voice, the citizen: the seats at the table.
Address: bonjour@studioetre.fr · subject: “Agora — joining the table”
- Build faster
- Technology company, AI player or laboratory: your tools in front of a real problem, with the people who live it, in a workshop where a prototype takes a day.
- Fund what emerges
- Foundation, patron, public funder, impact investor: you are at the table from the question onwards, not only at the end — and you see what becomes of every commitment.
You want to try a format
Address: bonjour@studioetre.fr · subject: “Agora — a format”
A format you have wanted to try and never had the room for: a workshop, an evening, a research protocol, something that does not have a name yet. The page is blank. Tell us what you would like to try; we will bring the conditions together — the room, the table, the recording, the follow-through.
Who drives the exchanges, and how are they funded?
Studio être — 50 rue de la Clef, place Monge, 75005 Paris. We collaborate in French, English and Spanish.
The missions
Six missions, one chain of consequences.
The missions we open first are chosen to feed one another: what happens to ecosystems reappears in our bodies and minds, and then in how our societies organise themselves.
Attention and mental health
Screens, sleep and attention in young people — and in the adults around them.
AI and the future of learning
For the teachers, pupils, families and institutions already living the change.
The living world
Biodiversity, food, soil: a question of health and attention as much as of ecology.
Ageing and care
Isolation, care, and the health of those who help.
Work and dignity
As automation redistributes tasks, value and meaning.
Democratic life
Participation and public trust, including the responsible use of AI in civic life.
The Weeks
The Cycle digs into one question. The Week opens the doors to everyone.
Four major Weeks a year, anchored to national calendar moments, to bring in those who would never come: a sixteen-year-old, a seventy-eight-year-old, a family from the neighbourhood.
October · Semaine bleue
Elders
Chair yoga, memory and attention, fall prevention, and an oral archive of the neighbourhood filmed by the young.
March · Brain Awareness Week
The Brain
Neurotechnology demonstrations, open measurements of heart and brain, and the ethical controversies debated in public.
May · Fête de la Nature
Nature
Practice outdoors, sensory walks, repair and sufficiency, urban farming, cooking what grew nearby.
In March, a walnut rather than a seasonal fruit: it is shaped like a brain.
The place
Our hall, in the 5th arrondissement.
Central Paris, among the scientific, academic and public institutions the Agora is built to convene — and open enough that the neighbourhood comes too.
- Address
- 50 rue de la Clef — Place Monge, 75005 Paris See the map
- Contact
- bonjour@studioetre.fr
+33 6 52 30 71 00 · WhatsApp - For the practice
- The same hall hosts the practice. The place, in the Folio
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Questions
Before you take a seat.
At the table
Who can bring a question?
Any organisation or person carrying a real need: a company, a local authority, a school, a hospital, an association, a residents’ group. A few lines are enough to begin — what you are trying to solve, and what you have already tried.
Can a company criticised for its practices take part?
Yes, if it accepts being contradicted. Many organisations whose practices are debated are also transforming part of what they do; the table is the place to show it, to test it in front of those who doubt it, and to find the actors who can take it further with them. What is not negotiable: the critics have a seat, and nothing is presented as settled without proof.
What does “AI at the table” mean?
That it is an explicit and debated participant — never decoration, never the referee. It tests hypotheses, connects disciplines, shows what is missing, and helps produce quickly: syntheses, translations, mock-ups. Decisions stay human and attributed, and the use of AI is always declared.
Who drives the exchanges, and how are they funded?
It depends on who takes the initiative. Often we compose a table around a question and invite the actors who can answer it; at other times an organisation comes with its own initiative and we build the format with it. The terms are therefore set case by case, with each party. Let’s talk.
Beyond the room
Is everything filmed?
The public evenings, yes: they are recorded and published in three languages. Working sessions are documented, and what is published from them is published with the agreement of those who worked in them.
I’m not in Paris. Can I take part?
Yes, in two ways. Everything said in the room is published online, in French, English and Spanish. And the method is made to travel: a town hall, a company, a school or an association can host a Cycle on its own ground, with our support for the first edition.
Another question? Write to us: bonjour@studioetre.fr