Looking for something to do during the Fête de la science in Seine-Saint-Denis? How about diving into the scientific activities in Aubervilliers? This event, free and open to all, will be the ideal opportunity to explore research and discoveries in a convivial setting, with family or friends.
Every year, the Fête de la science is held all over France, giving the general public the chance to meet researchers, take part in workshops, attend lectures and discover unusual experiments. Universities, laboratories, media libraries, museums and heritage sites open their doors to offer a real immersion in scientific and technical culture. This event is all about curiosity and wonder, inviting everyone to experiment, question and understand. The activities, always fun and interactive, are designed to stimulate the desire to learn and awaken new passions.
In Aubervilliers, this event takes on a very special dimension thanks to the town's history. Long known for its market garden crops, the commune was transformed in the XIXᵉ century with the industrialization that developed along the Saint-Denis canal. The Fort d'Aubervilliers, built in 1843 to defend Paris, bears witness to this strategic and industrial era. The local architectural heritage, such as theTown Hall inaugurated in the XIXᵉ century or the Notre-Dame-des-Vertus church, listed as a historic monument, tells the story of the many facets of a city in constant evolution.
Today, Aubervilliers is part of a wider scientific and cultural network, notably through the Savante Banlieue event, organized in partnership with Plaine Commune, the universities of Paris 8 and Paris 13 and the CNRS. These collaborations offer local residents the opportunity to discover science in a different way, in a friendly and accessible atmosphere. Aubervilliers' industrial heritage, living heritage and openness to innovation make it an ideal location for hosting and celebrating the Fête de la science.
At Campus Condorcet
As part of its biennial congress, to be held from October 1 to 3, 2025, the Institut des Amériques is organizing a photographic exhibition highlighting French research fields in Brazil. The exhibition is also part of the Saison France-Brésil 2025.
With the aim of highlighting scientific cooperation between France and Brazil, this photographic exhibition offers a glimpse of the research fields carried out by French researchers, doctoral candidates and students in Brazil. Through some fifteen photographs, it shows the diversity of the contexts of investigation, while offering a sensitive reading of the places, people and situations encountered in the course of this fieldwork. The images presented thus convey committed research experiences, embedded in varied social, cultural, political and scientific realities. Organized by the Institut des Amériques, this exhibition is part of the Saison France-Brésil 2025, which marks the bicentenary of diplomatic relations between the two countries. It shares the objectives of this major event: to strengthen ties between French and Brazilian society through innovative, multi-disciplinary initiatives geared towards intercultural dialogue.
The exhibition will be held in the hall of the Centre des Colloques (Campus Condorcet, Aubervilliers), from Saturday September 27 to Wednesday October 8, 2025.
The exhibition is open to the general public.
With Poto Poto, the spectator is plunged into a "poetic" oratorio carried by a mangrove, a small fish and mud. On stage, the voices intermingle to express the strength and vitality of West Africa's mangroves, fragile and essential living spaces at the heart of contemporary ecological challenges.
Poto Poto, the latest BINÔME creation by Les sens des mots, is the result of a meeting between author Magali Mougel and Marie-Christine Cormier-Salem, a geographer at the IRD (Institut de recherche pour le développement). This researcher studies local strategies in the face of globalization in the coastal zones of the South, and more specifically in mangroves.
In this way, the show explores how art and research can work together to offer a new perspective on the world. The author's words, brought to the stage, resonate with the scientist's knowledge to construct a narrative that is both sensitive and documented.
Presented for the first time at Avignon 2025, the play has been awarded the "La mer en commun" label as part of the Year of the Sea. Through this work, the mangrove is not just a natural backdrop, but a real living character, becoming the symbol of a fragile balance, to be preserved collectively in the face of current environmental upheavals.
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Dates and Opening Time
From October 3, 2025 to October 8, 2025
Location
Campus Condorcet - Aubervilliers
8 Cours des Humanités
93300 Aubervilliers
