Theme: Rethinking power !

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Rethinking power is our entry point to understanding our world differently. From climate change to opposing dominant power, from individualistic relationships to citizen movements, from globalised markets, logistics to local ideas and demonstrations, rethinking power is an extremely powerful metaphor, a universal image.

Our edition Rethinking Power is set to do what it promises: ask inconvenient questions, break with dominant positions, help us think and act together, in new ways of experiencing companionship, collaboration, production and innovation.

What about rethinking power?

[FR]

Repenser le pouvoir – Le pouvoir de repenser

Rethinking power est notre point de départ vers une compréhension différente de notre monde. Du changement climatique à l’opposition au pouvoir dominant, des relations individualistes aux mouvements citoyens, de marchés et logistiques globalisés à des idées et initiatives locales, repenser le pouvoir est une métaphore extrêmement puissante, une image universelle.

Notre édition Rethinking Power promet de: poser les questions qui nous dérangent, rompre avec les positions dominantes, nous aider à penser et agir ensemble, initier de nouvelles expériences de compagnonnage, collaboration, production et innovation.

Et si nous repensions le pouvoir, si nous investissions le pouvoir de repenser?

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Rue de la Tambourine 17, Carouge, Suisse
Carouge, Genève (fr), 1227
Switzerland

ANASTASIIA-LEI YANG

Student

CATALINA DEVANDAS AGUILAR

Catalina Devandas is the first UN Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities. She was born in Costa Rica with spina bifida. A lawyer by training, Catalina is a dedicated human rights advocate. She has worked for the Disability Rights Fund (DRF), the United Nations, and the World Bank, and, in 2006, she took part in the drafting of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD). In her work as Special Rapporteur, Catalina collects testimonies and evidence of human rights violations from persons with disabilities around the world, and makes recommendations to governments, to promote and protect their rights in laws and institutional practices. More on her work and her vision: Blog : http://embracingdiversity.net/

CHLOE & BAPTISTE BIERI

Singer + composer

Chloe and Baptiste Bieri are versatile artists. In turn, actors, songwriters and performers, they have also created the Bleu Amarante group, which adds their swing sound on humanist songs. Baptiste lives in an artistic and ecological cooperative, always curious to try innovations useful for society, such as artisanal lacto-fermentation that allows to keep vegetables in a gentle way, without water or electricity. He co-created the Salad Assoc, which gives people tools for a happy transition. Chloé is a singer, performer, author and composer from Lausanne, who has just finish her Master's studies in the field of musical theater and composition at the High School of Arts in Bern. She works and dedicates herself as much to the song of author, to pop music, to swing, as to the creation of musical piece in the field of experimental music and contemporary music. They are brother and sister, engaged together for a better world.

DAVID BILLARD

Professor

DELPHINE BACHMANN

ELISABETH BELPAIRE

MARIO DEL CURTO

MARIO DEL CURTO

Mario is a photograph based in Sergey, in French-speaking Switzerland. Born in 1955, he began photography as an autodidact in the 1970s and 1980s and covered the social movements of the time. As an independent photograph since 1980, he works in theater and dance, developing an original style in stage photography. In 1983, he became passionate about Art brut and devoted many exhibitions, books and films on the subject. In recent years, he has been exploring the relation of man to plant life. His focus is on allotment gardens, botanical gardens, urban areas, scientific research laboratories and agronomic stations. During several trips to Russia, he made the first photographic report on the Vavilov Institute and its 12 experimental stations, which is the subject of the book The seeds of the world, winner of the Redouté prize in 2018. Mario has exhibited worldwide and his works are displayed in several international galleries and museums, including the Musée de l’Élysée and the Brut Art Collection in Lausanne, where he is a member of the Advisory Board. He is also a consultant and associate curator of several exhibitions and festivals.

MICHEL GIRARDIN

YANNICK LAIGNEL

YEMI BABINGTON-ASHAYE