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🌿 Two Days of Deep Work, Reflection & Collective Momentum in Lyon

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This week, our Creative Time Lab team gathered in Lyon for an intensive and heartwarming two-day working session — our first in-person meeting since beginning this new chapter just six weeks ago.

We took a moment to reflect on everything we’ve already built together in such a short time:
✨ setting up the association’s foundations
✨ establishing good practices for how we work together and the tools we use, as we are a distributed and asynchronous team during this period
✨ imagining and planning the next steps for our flagship project

And then — the deep dive.

We immersed ourselves in the rich data collected during the Terres du Son Festival this summer — truly bringing together research, creativity, intuition, and cross-disciplinary perspectives.

The conversations were warm, honest, and energizing — the kind that remind us why we’re doing this work.

We’re excited to soon share the first insights emerging from this analysis. Stay tuned — more is coming, and we can’t wait to bring you into the process!

🌀 At Creative Time Lab, we believe that imagination, research, and collaboration can shape more hopeful futures.

These two days made that belief feel very real — and very alive.

Why Creative Time Lab?

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The name grew out of a long journey.

Back in 2015 I founded Creative Time Studio — a space where psychology of time met creativity. It was a small experiment born from an idea: that how we use and experience time deeply shapes our lives, our joy, and our ability to change.

The Studio was about saying “yes” to making and creating time — to using creativity as a resource, to shaping moments for discovery, play, and meaning. It was also about my own search: how to bring together years of research on time perspective and my passion for cross-disciplinary approaches with my love for the arts, storytelling, imagination and other creative endeavours.

Over time, this search expanded. I realized that what we needed next was not only a ‘studio’ — a place to create — but also a ‘lab’ — a place to explore, test, and collaborate.

And so, Creative Time Lab was born.

Here, we bring art and science together to create safe spaces where people can reconnect with imagination, curiosity, and a sense of the future. Our flagship project, The Space of Futurization, grew from our research discoveries that there are multiple futures and hope to create conditions for meaningful actions to emerge, to transform future-related anxiety into collective imagination and agency.

In a way, Creative Time Lab continues what the Studio started: a dream space for experimenting with time, creativity, and human connection. It’s a space for joy, reflection, collective imagination and shared meaning.

— Dr. Anna Sircova
Founder, Creative Time Lab

Creative Time Lab: Shaping Tomorrow’s Resilience

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We are a France-based non-profit association dedicated to exploring how our relationship with time — and especially the future — shapes mental health, creativity, and social transformation.

At Creative Time Lab, we are searching for ways to help people look into the future without the freezing anxiety. By merging science and art, we create spaces for dialogue, emotional resilience, and collective imagination — because the future begins in how we think, feel, and act right now.

Our flagship project, The Space of Futurization, is an immersive installation that transforms psychological research into shared, sensory experiences. It invites participants to explore their hopes and fears about the future, fostering reflection, connection, and agency.

Follow us to discover how psychology, art, and design can come together to shape a more resilient and imaginative relationship with the future.