Nat Cardozo, visual artist and illustrator, works with illustration and participatory practice rooted in her album Origine, exploring indigenous cultural expression and modes of storytelling.
This session examines how indigenous communities organise responses to environmental degradation—from the Amazon to Borneo and the United States—investigating resistance strategies, alternative relations to the natural world, and creative practices that transmit knowledge and sustain survival.
In French.
This workshop explores the traditional process of assembling a herbarium specimen, inspired by Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s collections. Participants learn scientific techniques for pressing and mounting dried plants on old paper, practice botanical labelling and nomenclature, and select specimens to create a personal herbarium sheet. The session examines preservation methods, identification principles and the historical context of Rousseau’s approach, combining practical skills with scientific insight to produce a lasting botanical object.
In French.
Ten years after Geneva’s Department of Public Education expanded commitments to inclusive schooling, this session examines how inclusion is experienced in everyday school life for pupils with disabilities. It explores where policies succeed or fall short and investigates collaborative practices between schools, families, support services and institutions. The discussion addresses practical cooperation, barriers to participation, and concrete strategies to translate policy into classroom practice and ensure inclusion becomes a lived, sustainable reality.
In French.
Noetic, an association specialising in video game education and awareness, works on digital literacy and youth wellbeing related to gaming.
This interactive afternoon explores collaborative play, presents key digital issues such as cyberbullying, online anonymity and microtransactions, and examines how gaming shapes young people’s socialisation and learning. Participants engage in discovery-based sessions and guided discussions that investigate ethical, social and educational implications of play.
In French.
A screening of the documentary The Librarians, which exposes the large-scale removal of books and the culture war unfolding in the United States, followed by a hard-hitting debate on America’s authoritarian drift. From the erosion of civil liberties to the undermining of democratic institutions and the global export of these practices, experts and activists examine how recent U.S. policies are reshaping power at home and beyond.
Discussions are interpreted in English and French; the film is in English and German, with French and English subtitles.
Evelyne Brügger, a certified art therapist, leads the workshops with support from Joëlle Mauris, a professional cellist whose music accompanies one session per cycle.
The sessions explore creative practices to support women living with endometriosis, PMS or menstrual pain, addressing emotional expression, body awareness and coping strategies. Participants investigate materials and processes to rediscover inner resources, share experiences, and develop ways to express and regulate sensations through art and sound.
3 workshop cycles:
• Saturdays 17, 24 and 31 January, 10:00–11:30
• Sundays 1, 8 and 15 February, 10:00–11:30
• Saturdays 7, 14 and 21 March, 13:30–15:00
In French.
A screening of Meloni Rising, which traces Giorgia Meloni’s rapid ascent and the normalisation of far-right politics in Italy, followed by a sharp debate asking how Europe can resist re-fascisation. Historians and activists unpack the forces hollowing out democracy—from attacks on civil rights to the erosion of the rule of law—through feminist, anti-racist and decolonial lenses.
Discussions are interpreted in English and French; the film is in French, Italian and English, with French and English subtitles.
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