A new look at the world
Since 2017, the IFD has been organizing a photo competition on a key social issue, among students at design, art and photography schools. Always seeking to reflect on the design of the future, the IFD wants to capture the gaze of younger generations, explore possible futures, with the participation of a jury of personalities who decipher weak signals.
10 visionary editions since 2017
10 visionary editions since 2017
2017
The future of work
"I work where I want, how I want, when I want... They're going to suffer in the HR departments."
Alain d'Iribarne
Research Director, CNRS
Jury for the "Future of Work" edition
2018
The future of beauty
"It's a nomadic body, of a nomadic identity, of an identity that is always in flux, that is always in the zeitgeist rather than rooted in the world."
David Le Breton
Anthropologist
Jury for the "Future of Beauty" edition
2019
Tomorrow's common ground
"The language of text and the language of image blend together and produce a new language."
Fan Zhe
Chairman of the Jury for the "Common ground for tomorrow" edition
2020
The City of Tomorrow
"These young people are making an atlas of contemporary reality. [...] There's an acuity to the environment that's incredibly lucid and sensitive at the same time."
Chafik Gasmi
Architect-Designer
Jury for the "City of Tomorrow" edition
2020
Tomorrow's Africa
"Behind the lens, we sense children and young people, full of hope, dreams and lucidity in the face of their own reality. This collection is exceptional in that it depicts life. Real life."
Gérard Ayache
UP' Magazine Publishing Director
Jury member for "Les Afriques de demain" edition
2021
Tomorrow's essentials
"Getting back to basics to better shape the future,
return to the essence of a life..."
Melchior
2022
Bifurcations for tomorrow
"What's the world you'd like us to branch out into?
You're going to define it for us, you're going to tell us about it. Go for it!"
Philippe Cahen
Futurist
2022
Tomorrow's Mediterranean
"What is the Mediterranean? A thousand things at once: not one landscape, but countless landscapes; not one sea, but a succession of seas; not one civilization, but civilizations piled one on top of the other."
Fernand Braudel
Historian
2023
Tomorrow's beauties
"Beauties that we feel, experience and cherish. Beauties in the plural, perceived in the form of a gesture, the usefulness of a detail, the relevance of a response."
Anne-Marie Sargueil
EXPLORE exhibition curator
2024
Lifestyles of tomorrow
"Like it or not, we're talking about nothing less than designing a habitable world for 10 billion people."
Jocelyn de Noblet
Design historian
EXPLORE
A tool
educational
which answers
to 3 objectives
Catching the younger generation's eye on a key social issue
The competition is open to future designers and students from all creative backgrounds, at school or university, in design, applied arts, architecture or communications.
Encourage imagination, creativity and the exploration of possibilities
Classified as contemporary art, photography has established itself as a creative medium that reveals an imaginary reality when it captures an extraordinary situation.
Deciphering weak signals
The competition benefits from a unique "cross-fertilization" of the expertise of an eclectic, demanding and complementary jury (designers, sociologists, psychologists, philosophers, historians, journalists, futurists, photographers, architects...).
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