Le BIR, bureau d’investigation du réel for insiders, is a is a laboratory for critical and design thinking based in Arles.
Its objective is to explore:
• new ways of living together ,
• creating innovative uses of the world ,
• disseminating new polifiction narratives* that encourage the ongoing transition towards a more respectful and just world ,
• collectively developing a culture adapted to the necessary systemic changes.
It presents itself as a nomadic laboratorystrong> that collectively observes, analyzes, and questions our environment, offering safe spaces for the co-construction of new imaginaries specifically designed for this purpose.
Our work focuses on establishing a strong sense of community, mobilizing collective intelligence, and developing critical thinkingstrong> in order to unleash the potential of each individual to imagine innovative, radically inclusive, and respectful approaches that embrace differences and complementaritiesstrong>.
By combating our own cognitive biases, nurturing a non-dogmatic perspective based on research, doubt, and acceptance of possible errors, we can unleash the power we all possess to actively shape reality during its very construction process.
To achieve this, the BIR adopts the method developed over time by Annakarin Quinto, based on the following principles :
This methodological approach, which we could describe as synaptic, draws inspiration from the medical principle of revulsion* and the critical thinking developed by Bataille in "The Accursed Share." It involves replacing dialectical and dualistic thinking with a mode of systematic triangulation in our reflective process.br>
* révulsion \ʁe.vyl.sjɔ̃\ Therapeutic process that provokes an influx of blood into a region more or less distant from the site of a pathological condition, with the aim of decongesting the affected organ. Through this process, an organ is brought closer to its healing by acting on a seemingly unrelated point that is considered non-pertinent at first glance.