Held across Paris and Moulins, France, from January to October 2025, the residency combined in-person immersions with online gatherings that allowed the process to continue long after each session ended. It grew out of the Being Together project, developed the year before by Ricardo Dutra and Arawana Hayashi with a school in San Francisco.
At the heart of the residency was the question of how we might craft pedagogies that foster togetherness, explored against broader societal challenges: increasing fragmentation, the weakening of social bonds, a perceived loss of collective agency, declining trust in democracy. Participants reflected on how practices of togetherness might be cultivated with young people, across schools, universities, and other educational contexts.