The old rules are collapsing. The new ones are not here yet. In this gap between No More and Not Yet, most teams, organizations and communities are structured to deliver for what is already known. The conditions for evolving to what comes next are rarely there.
We create those conditions, together.
At Próximo Lab we create intimate communities where people can think, learn, and reshape their practice towards what comes next. We share learnings and develop tools openly.
We design and convene intimate, carefully composed groups of professionals from different domains around a shared commitment to learning by making and sharing. We call these communities clubs, studios, or tertulias depending on the format. All are meant to evolve from a collection of accomplished strangers into a trusted group of minds and voices.
Freshly created communities:
We produce written and recorded work that documents what we are learning from the communities of practice.
Recent publications:
We build what does not exist. Lightweight tools designed around how our communities actually work, not around generic needs of the market.
Recent tools:
We are Lisa Gansky and Fabien Girardin, technologists active since the early days of the web. Some might call us "misfits" because we are driven by our curiosity and the intent to shape our future rather than conform to styles imposed by others. We bring our know-how, our network of trusted collaborators, aching questions, and the commitment to shaping the future.
Lisa Gansky
Lisa builds and advises projects that ask better questions — about trust, access, ownership, identity, migration and the systems that shape our lives. Her bestselling book The Mesh, along with its TED Talk, anticipated the rise of platform models and helped bring ideas like access over ownership into the mainstream. Her work on Radical Trust and building regenerative learning communities has spawned a personal desire to create peers in learning well into the future. She has spent her career turning early signals and experiments into lasting work.
Fabien Girardin
Fabien is a multidisciplinary technologist active at the interface between people and intelligent systems. With a Ph.D. in Computer Science and extensive experience in academia and industry, Fabien has been collaborating with organizations to discover "what might come next" just beyond the core of their activities. Clients seek his expertise in emerging technologies with a people-first mindset. Fabien is best known as a pioneer in futures design with the development of design fiction. He co-authored The Manual of Design Fiction, a guide to that practice, its origins, its utility and its impact.
We work with sponsors — individuals, teams or organizations — willing to bring ill-formed questions, unfinished thinking, and genuine curiosity into a community of practice environment.
Sponsorship is not advertising. It is participation in a learning process, with the publications, tools, and community as the return.
If this sounds like the right kind of collaboration, we would like to talk.
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