As part of the #Idéesdébats series organised in partnership with Le Lieu unique, Frédérique Aït Touati will be talking about her essay Théâtres du Monde.
For some decades now, philosophers and anthropologists have been asserting that ‘nature is no longer a setting’. But how was it conceived as such - the immobile framework for human action? The Earth remains elusive without the tools, images and narratives that we are constantly creating. We can now try to interpret them, not as the cause of our ‘anthroposcenic’ excesses, but as small, enclosed worlds in which to attempt to inhabit the chaos of the world. In her latest essay, Théâtres du monde, Frédérique Aït Touati examines the fabric of our modern conception of nature as a stable, fixed stage on which the human comedy is played out.
Moderated by Xavier Fouquet
6pm
Lieu Unique, Quai Ferdinand-Favre
free admission, no reservation required
Frédérique Aït-Touati is a stage director and science historian. A researcher at the CNRS, she is interested in the links between science, the arts and politics. Her publications include Contes de la Lune (2011), Terra Forma (2019), Trilogie Terrestre (2022) and Théâtres du monde (2024). Her shows and books explore the relationship between the arts and knowledge in the fields of living theory, ecology and systems science, and the development of sensitive knowledge through the arts. In 2015, together with Bruno Latour and Philippe Quesne, she created Le Théâtre des négociations - Make it work, a performance by 200 students proposing a negotiation on the climate including non-humans. Winner of the Mondes Nouveaux competition in 2022, she created Earthscape at the Conciergerie, based on the text Philosophie de la Maison by Emanuele Coccia.
Xavier Fouquet is an architect, urban planner and lecturer at the École Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture de Nantes - Nantes Université. With his architectural practice F.au, he works mainly on public facilities, social housing, urban projects and public spaces. Xavier Fouquet's work focuses on the environment and sustainable development in relation to the economy, practices and uses in project development. His work is also part of a Masters course studying the effects and impacts of the Anthropocene on the project.
