Ways of thinking about the environment in relation to housing and the urban lifestyle are constantly evolving. On what scales have politicians and the general public thought about nature in the city? How has the perception of the environment changed between an ancient world transformed by the development of industry and today's society faced with declining biodiversity, increasing heatwaves and the growing recurrence of climatic disasters?

Moderator: Antonio Da Cunha (University of Lausanne)

Free, no registration required
Subject to availability

Program in partnership with the Haute école de musique, whose students offer a musical welcome at 6 p.m.

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Ongoing construction sites, estate extensions: the spatial hold of the urban seems insatiable. Voltaire's countryside, Les Délices, bears witness to this: this unspoilt islet is now encircled and absorbed into urban space.
Today, in the face of environmental and demographic upheaval, the management of flows, the demands of habitat and the space left to nature are fuelling both political and civic debate. However, cities - like Geneva, Switzerland's most densely populated municipality - are also matrices of sociability and interaction with a long history.
The Rencontres des Délices series will explore several facets of this urban history. It will be an opportunity to better understand the vicissitudes of a way of thinking about the common good, to better situate the ways of resolving conflicts as well as the social, economic and political dynamics that underpin urbanity.