The IFCC
The legal-organisational substrate within which the Zero Spaces Laboratory will be hosted. Registered across three jurisdictions, oriented toward the seven-generations institutional horizon, designed to outlast its founders.
A nonprofit foundation across three jurisdictions, oriented toward cultivated collaborative practice.
The International Foundation for Collaborative Creativity is a multi-jurisdiction nonprofit foundation. Its institutional purpose is to host the Zero Spaces Laboratory and to sustain the philosophical-creative work the four-volume Zero Spaces: Phase II articulates. The IFCC is not a research institute, a fellowship programme, or an arts organisation in the conventional senses. It is the legal-organisational substrate the Laboratory requires in order to operate on its philosophical-architectural commitments.
The three-jurisdiction structure is itself an architectural commitment. The Laboratory's institutional life is distributed across the United Kingdom, France, and the United States. The structure preserves operational continuity across the political-economic transformations the long horizon will inevitably bring: if conditions in any single jurisdiction become hostile to the work, the Foundation's life in the others sustains it until conditions change.
Three jurisdictions, in full.
Dr. Gabrielle Collet
Dr. Gabrielle Collet is the Founder and Curatorial Director of the IFCC. She is the author of Z(e)ro Spaces: Poïesis and the Art of Collaborative Creativity (Atropos Press, 2014) and of the four-volume Zero Spaces: Phase II (2026), the philosophical foundation on which the Laboratory's institutional architecture rests.
Her role is articulated in Book Four Chapter Five as the role of an institutional founder rather than a permanent director. The founder's task at the Foundation's inception is to establish the institutional architecture and the curatorial principles. The founder's task within the first decade of the Laboratory's operation is to transition into a board-trustee position, from which day-to-day curatorial-administrative leadership is taken up by successors trained in the IFCC's philosophical-institutional commitments. The Laboratory is not the founder's personal project. It is an institutional form designed to sustain itself across the seven-generations horizon, and the founder's role is the founding of an institution rather than the personal direction of a creative-philosophical workshop.
The seven-generations horizon, articulated as four standing institutional commitments.
The IFCC's commitments are not annual targets, programmatic outputs, or strategic objectives in the conventional sense. They are the standing institutional commitments the Foundation holds across the long horizon, and against which successive generations of curatorial-administrative leadership will be expected to measure their work.
Conversations toward the founding work.
The IFCC welcomes conversations with cultural-philanthropic foundations, institutional partners, pillar partners across the three civilisational fields, and individuals interested in the Laboratory's philosophical-creative orientation. The founding work happens through these conversations.
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