Climate change at la Villette

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Climate change at la Villette

• 1. Several major exhibitions from Managing the
  Earthprogramme 2003-2005 and since
• Making exhibitions easy to travel
• A commitment to sustainable development in our
  operating mode
• By François Vescia
• Friday May 30th 2008

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in Paris
in the Park of La Villette
La Cité des sciences et de lindustrie
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2003 Climax exhibition

• Trust crisis
• about
• media,
• governments
• and scientists
• information
• Need of information,
• understanding and
• involvement

• 4 spaces
• 780 000 visitors

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From global
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to local scale
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Getting visitor point of views

• Panel of 10 scientists interviewed on 12 issues
• Exhibitions visitors feedback regarding their
  feelings about environmental issues

• Exhibition design modified to offer more adequate
  answers

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2006 A change of era exhibition

• Need of individual
• actions,
• and practical
• answers

• Focusing on daily life
• The state of the earth
• Everyday lifes lessons
• Scenarios of life
• The Manifest
• The factory
• 240 000 visitors

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Era of change The state of the earth
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Era of change Everyday lifes lessons
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Era of change Scenarios of life
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2005-2008 Water for all exhibition

• Coproduction of 5 French science centers
• 350 000 visitors

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Water for all six sequences

• Panel of 10 scientists interviewed on 12 issues
• Exhibitions visitors feedback regarding their
  feelings about environmental issues

Accessing
Sharing
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Water issues

• Blue planet
• Data for 16 countries
• Water resources per inhabitant per year
• - of the population with fresh water

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Travelling Exhibitions
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Suitcase exhibition

• Tracking water exhibition
• For children from 5 to 12 new, very compact and
  easy to operate
• Travelling exhibition made up of fun and
  educational hands-on experiments
• Image modulothèque Real

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Science News Exhibitions Kit

• Flexible exhibition, educational workshop, or a
  science news centre in a 50 to 80 m2
• Each DVD-Rom enables to mount an exhibition
  comprising the following
• 15 to 20 "ready to print" exhibition posters
• 3 to 5 films
• 8 audio interviews with specialists
• a multimedia Quiz
• complementary documents for public.

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New operating mode at la Cité

• A special mission and an agenda since february
  2007
• A comprehensive strategy for going sustainable
  in each field of activities
• Energy saving, waste management, solar panels

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Thank you on Danube !
f.vescia_at_cite-sciences.frLa Villette -
Internationnal Activities