The exhibition CITIES ALIVE explores a cultural and urban revolution that takes place around the living, on the scale of our planet. Immersed in nine cities - Lille, Toulouse, Turin, Barcelona, Detroit, Bogota, Shanghai, Groningen and Marrakech - the exhibition seeks to understand how the inhabitants, architects, urban planners and landscape designers of different continents, latitudes, climates and cultural contexts, contribute to the construction of a more lively city.
In the form of immersive pavilions, each of the cities in the exhibition recounts its relationship to nature and to life through stories, videos, maps, sketches and models, herbaria, etc. Whether they are the reinvention of a historic urban fabric, the anticipation of risks, the transformation of an infrastructure, the regeneration of structuring natural spaces or the result of a planning policy or local initiatives: these stories told from city to city explore the relationships between humans, trees, mountains, birds. They present the shift of living cities!
Saturday 17 September How to take biodiversity into account in the city? Focus on the cities of Lille and Barcelona.
2.30pm - 3pm: Guided tour of the children’s exhibition by Nicolas Gilsoul Public: from 7 years
3pm - 4.30pm: Pedagogical workshop “Bêtes de Villes de Lille” Do you really know your neighbours? Some have feathers, two thousand teeth and too many legs. For an hour and a half, we will go to discover the other inhabitants of Lille and take part in a curious meeting of co-ownership. Drawings, thrilling stories and unusual encounters with pencil in hand at the heart of the Galerie du Vivant et ses Bêtes de Lille." Hosted by Nicolas Gilsoul, naturalist architect, landscape architect Audience: 7 to 12 years
17h - 18h: Round table around biodiversity in the city Guests: Nicolas Gilsoul, author of the «Bêtes de villes»; Yohan Tison, ecologist of the City of Lille: Sylvain Blond, landscape designer at Slap Paysage Tout public
6.30 pm: Inauguration of the participatory biodiversity mapping of the City of Lille