The Écomusée of the Association pour le Patrimoine Industriel (API) is a local ecomuseum in Geneva dedicated to industrial heritage. It preserves and interprets industrial crafts through exhibitions, workshops (printmaking, bookbinding, typography) and educational programs. The venue supports artistic residencies, publications and community activities exploring machines, production and local culture.
This participatory workshop invites older adults to share personal memories of their neighbourhood and collaboratively create a sensitive map that records places, atmospheres and anecdotes. Participants may bring photographs, objects or documents, or simply listen and exchange. Through storytelling, collective drawing, collage and text-making, the workshop explores how everyday memories shape local identity and spatial knowledge and reveals connections between personal narratives and urban change.
In French.
Bye Bye Binary, a typographic collective, develops inclusive non-binary writing systems and researches typographic practices. Their residency explores designing wooden type, experimental typefaces and printing techniques to question norms of written language.
This festival examines how language shapes perception, permeates political discourse and informs collective imaginaries. Through talks, creative workshops and poetic performances it investigates power and resistance in words, demonstrates ways language can be reinvented or subverted, and reveals implications for identity and social change.
In French.
Build and explore a metal city inspired by Miquel Navarro’s game-like installation. Guided by a cultural mediator, children and adults imagine streets, towers and public spaces, assembling a shared city from more than a thousand metal pieces. A parallel exhibition shows maps, drawings and texts created by pupils with migration backgrounds after exploratory city walks. The project invites hands-on creativity, collaborative problem solving and sensory play with textures and forms.
In French.
Saturday 25 April, 13:30 – 18:00
Wednesday 29 April, 13:30 – 18:00
Saturday 2 May, 13:30 – 18:00
David Ripoll, art historian specializing in 19th-century architecture and urbanism, and Pauline Nerfin, historian of architecture focused on chalets, bring complementary expertise on Geneva’s built heritage.
The session examines the evolution of Geneva chalets, contrasting two luxury villa-style chalets with the rise of prefabricated kit chalets produced by makers such as Spring and Winckler. It explores technological, social and aesthetic impacts that shaped local landscapes and heritage.
In French.
The exhibition Le Chalet examines the imaginary of the Swiss chalet and the craft practices that shape these vernacular houses. Centering on wood, the display combines a reconstructed chalet, craft demonstrations, photography, folkloric objects and new works by contemporary artists. It highlights traditional and proto‑industrial woodworking techniques from the Geneva region, investigating material skill, domestic rituals and the social histories embedded in timber construction.
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