transition

In history, Transition is a period, which spans several decades, during which the dominant paradigm collapses gradually and a new paradigm begins to emerge.

Such transitions have marked the history of mankind in every major systemic change. Examples include the transition from nomadism to settlement and the transition from the agrarian phase to the industrial one.

Each period contains a maximum of risks but also opportunities. The presence of such opportunities underscores the importance of knowing how to detect and analyze them accurately.

Conceptual tools facilitate this process through evolutionary anthropology, macrohistory (history of changes), the study of paradigms, etc..

Thus we can produce worldviews (Big Picture, worldview) showing the changes taking place and their possible impacts.

[Global Economy : crisis and opportunities]

SCOT Ouest
Cannes, France — February 22, 2010- ,

[ABCD…K, the new alphabet of development]

SCOT Ouest
Grasse, France — December 11, 2009- ,

Future Worlds Ahead

StraX
StraX Workshop
Helsinki, Finland — November 04, 2009- ,

[Transition and Managerial Foresight]

Club OICOS
Paris, France — October 21, 2009- ,

[Rethinking Organizational Foresight]

Club Prospective RH / RH&M
Paris, France — February 26, 2009

[A World in Transition]

French Institute in Vienna: [series of conferences dedicated to foresight and sustainable development]
Vienna, Austria — November 28, 2008

Transition: an evolutionary worldview

Conferences cycle : Foresight aus verschiedenen Blickwinckel, BOKU University
Vienna, Austria — November 27, 2008

Civilizational Transition: a new world ahead

WFSF XXI° World Conference: Transitions: Encouraging Emerging Worlds
Trollhättan, Sweden — June 30-July 03, 2008

Macrohistory, a tool to face complexity

WSF Conference
Minneapolis, Netherlands — July 30, 2007

[Post-industrial Futures]

Interview for the programme "Valor Afegit" [Added Value] on the Catalan channel 33, transmitted in Catalan on 27 September 2006
Barcelona, Spain — September 27, 2006

[Post-industrial futures]

COPCA, Observatory on International Markets / Future Information Intelligence Network, Seminar Future trends and new realities
Barcelona, Spain — September 19, 2006

[Worlds to come: panorama of trends and ruptures]

[Developpment Council of Angers Metropolitan Area]
Angers, France — September 05, 2006

[Running out of imagination: when foresight rescues imagination]

AFPLANE [French Association of Corporate Strategists]
Paris, France — July 04, 2006

[Introduction to the main societal trends for tomorrow]

[IMS - Entreprendre pour la Cité]
Paris, France — 2006

[Introduction to the main lines of evolution]

French Development Council, Angers Metropolitan Area
Angers, France — 2006

[Tomorrow's world will be as we will shape it]

Conferences Charleroi 2020
Charleroi, Belgium — September 09, 2004

Dynamics of Evolution

AFI, Australian Foresight Institute
Melbourne, Australia — July 26-31, 2004

[Globalization and Relativity]

International Conference [“Territory – actor and globalization”]
Chambéry, France — October 29-30, 2003

[Meta-tags of the Future]

Glaxo SmithKline seminar
Brussels, Belgium — May 15, 2002

[Paradigms Shift]

[General Council of la Manche, conference Successfull Manche]
Caen, France — 1999