Explore

Narrative

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Faced with current and future storms, what if we set out today to explore new horizons? To build the new keys to our adaptation?

Because exploring means reconnecting with the spirit of discovery that once broadened the human horizon. Exploration that is not conquest but wonder, openness to the unknown and the new. It embodies confidence in the possibility of reinventing the world we share.

The great explorers of yesteryear drew new maps and pushed back the boundaries of the known world. But their actions were not only geographical: they broadened the horizons of humanity, offering new narratives and new ways of thinking and living.

Today, exploration takes on a new meaning. It no longer consists of conquering distant territories, but of reinventing our own territories of life. To explore is to search for new resources in our immediate surroundings, to rediscover forgotten knowledge, to experiment with new ways of coexisting with others and with living things. It is no longer part of a logic of domination, but one of attention and wonder. Exploration is no longer an enterprise of possession, but becomes an act of openness.

In an unstable world, exploring also means accepting trial and error, detours. It means conceiving of adaptation as a succession of experiences: some succeed, others fail, but all teach us something. To explore is to walk in shifting territory without demanding certainty beforehand. It is to accept that knowledge is built along the way.

Thus adaptation finds its dynamic: not fixed, but in motion, inventive, creative. It nourishes the hope of a new humanism in the making.

  • Contribution

    From the book "Les 101 Mots de l'Adaptation, à l'usage de tous", under the direction of Atelier Franck Boutté

  • Title

    Explore

  • Author

    Tomás Castillo, project manager à l'Atelier Franck Boutté

  • Editor

    Archibooks

  • Publication date

    2025

  • Pages

    176 pages

  • Illustration

    Sébastien Hascoët