Conférence : Rétrofutur ou comment les inventions du passé inspirent le futur avec l'Atelier 21

Did you know that the first car to exceed 100km/h in 1899 was… electric? Innovation doesn't always start tomorrow!

Exhibition opening on Wednesday, September 23, at 6 PM. It's time to dive into Rétrofutur! An exhibition to see on the ground floor of the Jean-Pierre Melville media library from September 22 to October 11.

This exhibition, in collaboration with Atelier 21, (re)highlights forgotten knowledge and brings it into dialogue with contemporary creations from design, engineering, and art.

The goal: to develop new avenues for research and innovation from an energy, social, and ecological transition perspective.

Through the Paleo-energetic program, Atelier 21 unearths simple, robust, and often forgotten devices — heat recovery, solar cooking, passive systems, low-impact infrastructures — all concrete ways to move away from petrochemical-dependent logics.

Exhibition supported by the Caisse locale du Crédit Agricole Ile-de-France. Inaugural conference related to the Rétrofutur exhibition on Wednesday, September 30, at 6 PM. How to make science accessible? And why?

A meeting with two designers who work closely with scientific material and share it in various forms with a wide audience. Lou-Andreas Etienne is a French designer who works within the science popularisation team La Physique Autrement (Université Paris-Saclay and CNRS).

She designs exhibitions, interactive devices, and playful projects to explain quantum physics concepts to the general public. Simon Bouchaudy is an educational designer.

Most of his projects question our relationship with energy production and propose new imaginaries around renewable energies.

Within the Atelier 21 association, he develops educational tools and training materials to help understand certain issues related to the history of energy and empower citizens.