Team & Board
Madeleine Schwinge
Founder I Director
Curation and Education
Madeleine Schwinge (b. 1968, Waiblingen, Germany) is a context artist, researcher, curator, educator and mentor, with a strong passion about art and systemic change.
Driven by future design and the social impact of art, she has been developing a contextual artistic oeuvre in interplay with curatorial and consulting projects in her eponymous studio since 2009.
In 2020, she founded the re:future lab Institute for Art and Future Design with the mission to foster social change through the prism of art. She developed the EMBARKING FUTURE® meta method, guideline for both the re:future lab's curation and education program.
With more than twenty years of systemic consulting, serial entrepreneurial and education experience, she is a sought-after expert for innovative corporates and institutions. She helps individuals and teams navigate sustainable futures through artistic intervention, clearer vision, progressive culture, systemic thinking, and an empowering methodology. She is esteemed coach, mentor and keynote speaker with a rare blend of expertise. For a decade, she worked as a strategy consultant to transformation researcher and political scientist Dr. Petra Bock to develop an award-winning method and academy. Since 2021 she is a teaching coach there.
She holds a diploma in economics (DHBW Baden-Wuerttemberg Cooperative State University), studied art history (Free University Berlin), has obtained certificates in curation and fine arts (Berlin University of the Arts) and is a certified systemic counselor.
Madeleine Schwinge is a engaged with the WFSF World Future Studies Federation (a UNESCO Partner), the Gesellschaft für künstlerische Forschung Deutschland (Society for Artistic Research Germany), and is a member of the Ogilvy Futuring Science and Ethics Advisory Board.
Her artistic work has been shown in Germany, Austria and France and was nominated for the Social Art Award 2019.
Cécile Nebbot
Co-Director
Communication I Partner & Relationship
Cécile Nebbot (b. 1967, Marseille, France) is an Economist and a Communication Strategist, with Master's degrees in Economics and Brand Content that have forged her roots and keen interest in the social sciences, humanities, politics and semiotics.
During her studies, she acquired a deep expertise in econometrics, playing with the complexity of quantitative data, speculative models, multi-criteria analysis of endogenous and exogenous factors, and a systemic approach, to decipher and interpret—in a hermeneutic way—a wide range of socio-economic phenomena, with the ultimate scope of predicting structural or cyclical trends, and the outbreak of future crises.
Before joining the Berlin art scene, she spent two decades working for leading consulting firms based in London, New York and Paris. In 2020, she joined the emergent hybrid gem of the re:future Lab, where she is now responsible for communication, brand awareness, brand content and the liaison with stakeholders—advisory board members, program participants, visitors, guests, faculty, alumni—and supports management with sponsorship and fellowship programs, network development, and special events.
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