After « la mode, la mode, la mode », Paris is becoming the capital of design. With the 1st edition of the Paris Design Week, everybody lives at a frantic pace between graphic design, furniture creation, interior design or even gastronomy. Because there, we talk about design in a broad sense and we celebrate it everywhere in the city. To find our way, we follow the route divided by district and suggested by the event organizers. Close to the Hotel Gavarni, the route “Champs-Elysées/Trocadéro” will send you to Baccarat, the Royal Eclaireur, Ladurée, C 42 of Citroën or even Kenzo Maison. What is the aim of the event? Mainly, bringing design within the general public’s reach by clarifying it and showing that it is not just for initiates! For the occasion, hundreds of events will be organized: exhibitions, debates, parties, launching of new collections, visits of workshops, installations… You will obviously find something that suit your taste !

Paris Design Week from September 12th to September 18th in Paris.

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Paris isn’t really a place we associate with nature and greenery. As with all the great cities of the world, pollution and buildings rather come to mind. The topical issue of nature in the city is tacked through the exhibition “La Ville Fertile” at the Palais de Chaillot. Social, cultural, historical, botanical and ecological aspects… the vegetable and urban world is being studied from every angle.

The first part of the exhibition, “l’Objet du Désir” was entrusted to the architect Nicolas Gilsoul, who chose to show the creative and technological diversity related to the presence of nature in the city. You will be taken along a journey to New York, Paris, Beirut and Munich to discover how nature appears in cities around the world.

The second part, “la Fabrique de la Ville Fertile” was entrusted to the landscape gardener Michel Péna and proposes an stroll around seven themes with reference to the four elements, which are essential when talking about nature. Culture and ecology, two good reasons to visit the Palais de Chaillot soon!

Exhibition “La Ville Fertile”, until July 24th 2011.
Open on Mondays, Wednesdays, Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays from 11 am to 7 pm and on Thursdays from 11 am to 9 pm.

Full price: €8 / Reduced price: €5.

Palais de Chaillot
Galerie basse des expositions temporaires
1, place du Trocadéro et du 11 novembre
75016 Paris
France
T. : +33.(0)1.58.51.52.00

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After the third 1.618 edition announced from April 7th to the 10th was eventually postponed to 2012, the organization is still arranging a creative upcycling exhibition with the Gallery S Bensimon. This strange name refers in fact to 24 unique works of art made by 24 students from Parsons School, art and design school in New York, from unsold 1.618 catalogs. For the record, 1.618 is a general public annual event gathering a commercial fair, a contemporary art exhibition and a place dedicated to innovation. Unsold copies remain from the catalogs made throughout the editions. Students therefore created original and poetic works from these papers at the end of their life. They also had the chance to work with unsold copies of the International Herald Tribune. In the end, a jury composed among others of the founder of 1.618 Barbara Coignet and Serge S Bensimon will elect 7 works among the 24. They will then be displayed at the Gallery S Bensimon and on the committed web tv “La Chaîne du coeur” from April 21st to the 30th 2011.

The Gallery S Bensimon is open from Tuesday yo Saturday from 11 am to 1 pm and from 2.30 to 7 pm.

Gallery S Bensimon
111, rue de Turenne
75003 Paris
France
T. : +33.(0)1.42.74.50.77

1.618
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Coal, oil and natural gas are all exhaustible and eco-destructive sources of fossil fuel energy. Because young generations should be made aware of the use of renewable energies to guarantee a better and more eco-friendly future, the Palais de la Découverte organized a detailed exhibition revolving around the different renewable energies: hydraulic, solar, wind, geothermal and biomass. “Energy island, à la découverte des énergies renouvelables” dedicates a room to each source of energy while using an educational approach to attract the youngest. Various objects linked to those energies are spread throughout the exhibition, an audiovisual touch-screen kiosk gives information while several photographs and videos transport the public to different places, real lands for innovation regarding renewable energies. After gaining a bit of knowledge in the field, young people can learn how to play the “serious game” and try to fulfill the population’s needs and use renewable energies all the while managing the flood of tourists and the climate change. An interactive exhibition for young eco-citizens.

“Energy Island, à la découverte des énergies renouvelables” at the Palais de la Découverte until May 15th 2011.
The Palais de la Découverte is open from Tuesday to Saturday from 9.30 am to 6 pm and on Sundays from 10 am to 7 pm.
Price: 7€ (4,50€ reduced price).

Le Palais de la Découverte
Avenue Franklin Roosevelt
75008 Paris
France
T.: +33.(0)1.56.43.20.20

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In conditions where most humans could only try to survive with the help of sophisticated technologies and incredible effort, a few living beings, animal and plants, managed to develop the art of survival beyond all understanding throughout evolution. They are referred to today as high survival specialists. The exhibition “Les survivants de l’extrême” displayed at the Palais de la Découverte offers an initiatory and unusual journey in extreme coldness, intense heat, almost complete dryness, permanent darkness or rarefied air, environments where those “high survival specialists” perpetuate their species. Your turn to experience those extreme conditions!

Until August 28th 2011 at the Palais de la Découverte.
Open from Tuesday to Sunday from 9.30 am to 6 pm. Sundays and holidays from 10 am to 7 pm.

Full price: 7 euros. Reduced price: 4 euros.
Planetarium extra: 3,50 euros.

Le Palais de la Découverte
Avenue Franklin Roosevelt
75008 Paris
France
T. : +33.(0)1.56.43.20.20
www.palais-decouverte.fr/

http://www.universcience.fr

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