Located in Eaux-Vives, the Espace Léman is a center dedicated to exploring and protecting the unique biodiversity of Lake Geneva. Open to all, it offers interactive displays, microscopes, and tools to discover the lake’s flora and fauna while raising awareness about sustainable water management. Throughout the year, it hosts workshops, exhibitions, and events for visitors of all ages, making it a hub for learning and discovery.
Hydromondes, a multidisciplinary collective, presents a two‑year field investigation into Lake Geneva through visual and narrative works. Combining art, science and activism, the group brings together architecture, theatre, hydrology, popular education, landscape design, biology, music, ethnography and engineering to produce mixed-media, research-driven installations and documentary narratives. Drawing on dialogues with local residents and ecological knowledge, the works examine water infrastructures, cultural imaginaries and governance, proposing experiments that reveal and question our relationships with the lake.
Anna Desraux (actress–musician), Jeanne Mermet (engineer–musician) and Gabriel Cotte (limnologist and science communicator) combine performance, technical practice and aquatic science to guide participants.
Drawing on scientific data, the workshop investigates the lake’s breathing rhythms through guided breathing exercises, verb-based prompts and collaborative songwriting. Participants translate limnological patterns into poetic verbs and melodies, then develop lyrics and simple musical settings that reveal the lake’s vitality and temporal dynamics.
Circé Luginbühl, the workshop leader, guides community singers through ensemble practice, vocal technique and interpretation rooted in the musical traditions of Lake Geneva.
Sessions explore vocal warm-ups, movement-based vocalises, circle songs and harmony-building exercises. Participants learn songs linked to Lake Geneva by ear, progress from unison to additional voices, and address breathing, support, posture and interpretation to develop healthy, expressive ensemble singing and a shared repertoire.
Hydromondes leads a guided tour and participatory “moving debate” that activates the exhibition Lake Geneva: A Living Being. Combining close-looking with embodied facilitation, the session uses dialogue and physical positioning to surface contested perspectives on the lake. Participants navigate seven thematic faces of Lake Geneva, responding to provocative statements and exchanging arguments. The format foregrounds collective inquiry, critical listening and changing viewpoints, revealing how environmental, cultural and political narratives shape perceptions of the lake.
In French.
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