i received my ph.d. in media studies from télécom paris in 2016 and if you want to know more about that point, you can click on that blue underlined text. i'm primarily sociologist and consultant in digital inclusion/transition/literacy. i'm also associate-researcher to the chaire innovation publique, and with the designer zoé aegerter, we co-host a research program focused on issues of (inclusive) public service design. i also lead the labo société numérique for the french national agency for territorial cohesion.

i am the co-founder of vives voies, a non-profit organization working to invent and disseminate projects that experiment across the humanities and social sciences, culture, solidarity and design. an organization that incubates and oversees action research projects, experimental research projects, artistic, cultural and social projects. we curate methodological frameworks for these projects at the crossroads of anthropology, design and digital humanities. Our processual approach aims to accompany actors through the various stages of working through content that is unfolding, often sensitive, yet always linked to people, their histories, vulnerabilities and capacities.

i have worked for over nine years now on several research contracts as a consultant, research engineer, sociologist, appraiser, etc. the latest project which i have been working on concerns the digital divide in france but i also work with artists on an "in-home art service" a project where artists, alongside care and support professionals, conceive interventions that repair, take care of and contribute to alternative models of cultural and artistic action.

since 2018, i have been supporting all the numérique en commun(s) - nec events for the program "société numérique" with yaël benayoun with whom we created the NEC journal.

In recent years, I have also worked alongside the architects of the collectif etc, the designers marine royer, bonnefrite as well as with the french red cross on a mobile third place project dedicated to intergenerational dialogue (this project is titled "paquita").

i am also working, with the observatory of cultural policies, on a series of workshops focused on training and collective reflection around the digital transformation of the institut français.

i have also worked for la caisse des dépôts et consignations, la région occitanie / pyrénées-méditerranée, l'office, la mednum (french national coop of digital inclusion stakeholders), l'agence nationale de la cohésion des territoires, le centre de ressources illettrisme et apprentissage de la langue française du gard, the research chair for public innovation (insp, ensci les ateliers, sciencespo, école polytechnique), le lab-O (laboratoire d'innovations des services de l'état en occitanie), la caisse nationale de solidarité pour l'autonomie, le cnfpt, etc.

i have a linkedin profile which you can see by clicking on this other blue underlined text. i also have a webpage on hal and cairn.info.

i teach at université de nîmes (master design innovation société) and i have taught at télécom paris, the institut catholique de paris, sciencespo, université lumière lyon 2, beirut french institute, sciencespo aix, american university of paris and école de condé (web technologies, cultural studies, sociological methods, analyse de controverses, etc.). i am a jury member for the french national institute for advanced studies in industrial design, ensci - les ateliers.

in 2024, i began an artistic residency with the gdra (christophe rulhes & julien cassier) and the moroccan singer widad mjama. titled la cham, this project goes beyond mere artistic creation; it is a genuine process of research, creation, workshops, and experimentation aimed at exploring the connections between people and their landscapes.

usually, i read. sometimes, i write. often, i drink ☕. i might be found in a café drinking ☕ and reading, or at home drinking ☕ and writing. or just drinking ☕.

you are under no obligation to say anything profound, but please take a moment to say hello just so that i'll know you were here:

my email is: francois.huguet [then put the "at" symbol] pm.me.