Open — Mind, Patriarche’s Media Platform for Augmented Architecture

We believe that architecture is built through dialogue, exchange, and the meeting of knowledge. This conviction is at the heart of our DNA: an open platform for augmented architecture, where disciplines intersect, perspectives challenge one another, and knowledge is shared.
Developing, designing, building, and bringing spaces to life requires interdisciplinarity to meet the challenges of a complex and ever-changing world. This same philosophy is what gave birth to Open — Mind, our new media platform.
A digital space designed as a place of convergence, where projects, reflections, collaborations, and insights come together.
An open platform, in the broadest sense of the word: open to collective intelligence, to diverse points of view, and to shaping a desirable future.

Open and Mind: acting and thinking

Open — Mind is built around two main categories: Open, where we act, and Mind, where we think.
Open is the living showcase of the agency. It tells the story of our projects, events, news, and public statements. It opens the doors to our daily life, revealing the dynamics that drive our ecosystem.
Mind, on the other hand, is a shared space for reflection. This category gives voice to experts, explores projects, highlights synergies, and uncovers research avenues. It’s where disciplines intersect, practices are questioned, and collective narratives are nurtured. It is structured into four sections:

Tone of Voice highlights people who inspire us — companies, users, researchers, and local stakeholders. We give a voice to those who are shifting paradigms to fuel desirable imaginaries.
In Situ explores our projects, their territories, contexts, and intentions. It reveals all interconnected aspects and disciplines: real estate, architecture, engineering, landscape, urban planning, economics, signage, construction, operations, animation, and more.
Synergies showcases the collaborations that enrich us and help us meet today’s challenges. This section brings together diverse expertise and reflects the collective intelligence behind our projects.
Horizon raises questions, hypotheses, and experiments. It explores emerging ideas on the verge of becoming reality. Its goal: to understand today in order to imagine tomorrow.

Through these two realms, Open — Mind embodies our desire to share knowledge, break down silos, and foster deeper thinking around architecture, real estate, construction, and collective living.

Architecture designed to be built and lived in

We design architecture to be built and inhabited. Our design stems from use and environment, aiming for projects with a positive impact on people, cities, and life. Across all scales and types, our projects are rooted in their territories and mindful of their surroundings.
Knowing that the buildings we design will outlive us, we must embody a long-term vision — anticipating future uses without compromising tomorrow. Users and the planet are at the heart of a capable architecture, with a sober and ethical aesthetic.
Open — Mind is the extension of this approach: a tool to enrich design through reflection, to connect ideas with uses, and to foster dialogue between thought and matter. Because we believe architecture can only be enhanced — through expertise, experience, and external perspectives — we created this platform as a space for sharing, transmission, and collective creation.

To design architecture with our feet on the ground and our heads in the sky.

Damien Patriarche