Artist Matthieu Grillet leads the project, combining artistic practice with hands-on botanical observation to document urban plant life in Surville.
Participants collect leaves, flowers and herbs to assemble a collective herbarium that records the neighborhood’s flora and reflects nature’s presence amid urban change. The session explores plant identification, preservation techniques, and how collective archives contribute to ecological awareness and community memory.
In French.
This interactive memory challenge invites participants to test their memory while exploring practical ways to preserve biodiversity based on Geneva’s municipal strategy. Players match “before-and-after” images that illustrate individual and institutional actions, and each correct pair reveals concise information explaining the measure. The activity examines themes such as habitat restoration, species-friendly practices, urban greening and policy responses, helping participants understand the impact and rationale behind everyday and organisational conservation choices.
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.
Florence Widmer Garcia, founder of Superpapier, leads a hands-on postcard workshop focused on playful paper-making and personal writing. Participants explore creative techniques for designing and composing postcards, practicing concise expressive writing and visual choices to convey affection and memory. The session examines material processes, layout and the craft of sending a considered message. Ideal for those who want guided creative practice and practical skills for meaningful, handmade correspondence.
In French.
Paul André Demierre, musicologist and author of Renata Tebaldi: une artiste d’exception, presents his research on the soprano’s career and reception.
This lecture examines Tebaldi’s vocal style, repertoire choices, and the historical context of her perceived rivalry with Maria Callas, exploring critical debates, recordings, and public image to reveal how artistic differences shaped their legacies. It discusses interpretative contrasts, audience reception, and implications for opera scholarship and historiography.
In French.
Over four Thursdays, instructors Thierry Avelange, Philippe Métral, Vincent Tinguley, and Nicolas Vallée from the Game Art & 3D Animation and VFX & 3D Animation departments at the SAE Institute in Geneva present various stages of 3D production. Participants receive a brief but fascinating overview of the 3D courses offered by SAE Institute Geneva.
Romaric Godin, economic journalist at Mediapart and author, examines how capitalist domination leads to systemic collapse. In his book he argues that capitalism’s drive for infinite accumulation accelerates three concurrent crises: economic, ecological and anthropological. He also links this dynamic to the rise of authoritarianisms and names the phenomenon capitalisme d’état d’urgence (state-emergency capitalism). This session explores these arguments and considers their implications for politics and society, and will be moderated by economist Cédric Durand.
In French.
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