Gardening the City

A Participatory Exhibition

This immersive experience invites visitors to rethink the city of tomorrow as a sustainable, green ecosystem. At the heart of this approach, a large interactive model illustrates how nature can transform the urban landscape. Community gardens, green facades, rooftop farms, urban farms, and brownfield redevelopment—these are just some of the initiatives reinventing our living spaces to make them more livable and sustainable.

A Workshop Exhibition in Three Parts

Discover: The Citizens’ Projects Wall
A selection of inspiring projects shows how citizens worldwide are reinventing their living environments. Illustrated with photographs, these initiatives are organized around six themes: urban agriculture, redeveloped brownfields, community gardens, green roofs, vertical nature, and “guerrilla gardening.”

Touch: The Materials Library
Comprising about twenty samples of natural materials (stones, soils from various French regions), along with a revamped herbarium, the materials library allows visitors to discover through touch the materials used in architecture and urban planning.

Build: The Landscape Table
At the heart of the exhibition, a giant table invites visitors to imagine and build an ideal city transformed by nature. Using raw wooden modules and various materials, they create a model exploring the balance between built environments and green spaces in a renewed urban landscape.

This traveling workshop exhibition was created in 2011 and updated in 2019. It has been presented in around thirty cities across France.

A playful and poetic adventure to dream, touch, and build the cities of tomorrow!
Recommended for ages 6 and up

With the support of our patrons