Guided tour with Emile Villez
Guided tour with Emilie Villez
Saturday, May 30 at 2:30 pm
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European Days of Craft 2026
Crédit photo : Emie Maire
European Days of Craft
Friday10 and Saturday 11 April
14h30 / 15h30 / 16h30
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On the occasion of the European Days of Crafts, the Foundation opens its doors for an immersion into the world of artisans.
Step into the fascinating world of the glass workshop, where you can attend captivating demonstrations of glassmaking techniques. Explore the workshop and meet our glass artisans, Gaëtan Oheix and Valentin Rizzo, who will reveal the magic of molten glass and the ancestral craftsmanship behind each creation.
Continue your visit with the talk: A Fountain for the MADD Bordeaux
Meet Étienne Tornier, Acting Director of the Musée des Arts décoratifs et du Design de Bordeaux, and designer Jean‑Baptiste Fastrez, as they discuss the special commission of a custom-made glass paving water bench-fountain, created by the Foundation’s glass artisans.
An opportunity to go behind the scenes of the MADD’s renovation, which will reopen on April 22.
Saturday, April 11 at 5 pm.
Screening : In the Stillness of Sounds
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Meeting and Conferences
Throughout the year, the Foundation offer events that echo its exhibitions.
Screening of the movieIn the Stillness of Sounds
Tuesday, December 9th – 8.30pm
Cinema Galaxy, Chateaubernard
Introduction by Anne-Claire Duprat, Director of the Fondation et Marc Namblard (via video), the main protagonist of the film.
The screening will be folllowed by a phone conversation ith sound artist Félix Blume.
This immersive film leaves ample room for the viewer’s intelligence and interpretation. The treatment of image and sound, as well as their sensitive and precise editing, demonstrate a true cinematographic expression.
In partnership with Eurociné Cognac
At nightfall, Marc hides his microphones in an undergrowth before stepping away to blend into the natural environment. Throughout the night, his recorder captures soundscapes—breaths, songs, howls, crackles—which he later reworks in the studio to compose sonic landscapes. Like his father, who used to record him with a tape recorder when he was a child, Marc captures the voices of his daughters and passes on his passion for sound to his eldest, Lucie. Curious about her father’s nocturnal activities, she follows him into the forest. Around them, stags are bellowing. Marc also shares his sound library with artists. With composer Christian Zanési, the idea of an electroacoustic music piece begins to take shape.
Round table : Towards an Aquatic diplomacy
Le futur sera castor ou méga-bassine © Suzanne Husky, Courtesy Galerie Alain Gutharc
Meeting and Conferences
Throughout the year, the Foundation offers events that resonate with the exhibitions.
Roundtable : Rivers and Waterways : Towards an Aquatic Diplomacy?
Monday, December 8th, 2025 at 6.30 pm
As water-related tensions intensify under the effects of climate change, questions about the health and governance of waterways are becoming crucial. Can we imagine a true “aquatic diplomacy” that challenges our existing models?
This round table, moderated by Stéphane Jouan, Director of L’Avant-Scène, aims to explore this idea with six committed and complementary voices:
Sophie Gosselin, philosopher and co-founder of the journal Terrestres
Surfrider Foundation, a major player in the protection of oceans and watersheds, advocating for responsible water governance
Thomas Ruys, specialist in the first river geo-engineer—the beaver—and President of the French Society for the Study and Protection of Mammals (SFEPM)
Xavier Larbey, resident of Cognac and active member of the Collective for the Rights of the Charente River
Antoine Boudin & Olivier Millagou, designers who completed residencies at the Foundation and created hourglasses made of recycled glass filled with microplastics collected from beaches, symbolizing the urgency to act against overproduction and plastic pollution
Ordinaire Extra !
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Ordinaire Extra!
The Foundation offers a fun and creative program for families to extend their visit to the two exhibitions during each school holiday, along with introductory workshops throughout the year.
To be announced soon
Gestures as a living archive
© Pauline Assathiany
Gestures : a living archive at the intersection of memory, know-how, and ecology
Roundtable moderated by curators Laura Drouet and Olivier Lacrouts ( d-o-t-s ), bringing together designers dach&zephir and Emma Bruschi, as well as philosopher, sociologist and cabinetmaker Aurélien Fouillet.
A craft and the gestures that accompany it reveal a deep relationship with the world. These gestures, sensitive to social and environmental changes, are nonetheless fragile. Sharing a gesture means allowing it to continue to exist—along with the lives it sustains. It also means creating connections—especially across generations and species—while passing on a way of doing, thinking, and feeling. Presented as part of the exhibition Memo. Remembering the Futures, this roundtable invites us to consider gestures as living archives and acts of resistance in the face of the disappearance of certain ecosystems.
Saturday, October 25, 2025 at 4.00 pm
Free admission, reservation recommended
Ecotechnologies
Ecotechnologies
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Conference with Ludovic Duhem, Philosopher and Artist
In the face of the ecological emergency, debates swing between two contradictory positions: should we halt all technological progress to preserve nature, or, on the contrary, rely on innovations capable of solving environmental crises?
In this conference, Ludovic Duhem offers a critical reflection on these opposing views. He will examine the illusions of both environmentalism and technicism, and explore the promises — as well as the limitations — of ecotechnologies, particularly low-tech solutions, which have become essential in recent years.
Ludovic Duhem holds a PhD in philosophy, history of science and technology, as well as a Master’s degree in Fine Arts.
Friday, October 3 at 6:30 PM
Free admission with reservation.
Birds : our sensory heritage
© Zoe Arnaud
Birds : our sensory heritage
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Round table moderated by Arnaud Dubois
Echoing the themes of the exhibition Memo. Remembering the Futures, which invites us to enhance our sensitive attention to the diverse forms of life, this round table moderated by Arnaud Dubois, anthropologist and CNRS research fellow, will discuss the importance of bird songs in our soundscapes and the notion of the phonocene. It will bring together designer and classical singer Zoé Arnaud, ornithologist, biologist, and professor at the National Museum of Natural History Frédéric Jiguet, and ornithologist and director of the French Office for Biodiversity in Centre-Val-de-Loire, Jean-Noël Rieffel.
Friday, September 26 at 6:30 PM
Free, by reservation.
Olfactory Design: Back to the Future?"
Alexis Foiny – Retrouver la trace d’une fleur disparue, ADAGP Paris © Pauline Assathiany
TALK
Olfactory Design: Back to the Future?
In conjunction with the exhibition Memo. Remembering the Futures and on the occasion of Paris Design Week, the Fondation Martell and Nez magazine are organizing the talk “Olfactory Design: Back to the Future?”
The sense of smell, a quintessential sense of memory and a vector of ecological sensitivity, has a special role to play in the Anthropocene era. This round table brings together designer Alexis Foiny alongside Sandra Barré (art critic, exhibition curator, and researcher), Clara Muller (art history researcher and independent exhibition curator), and Margaux Le Paih Guérin (perfumer) to discuss how scents and perfumes are powerful mediums, capable of inviting us to forge a new relationship with the living world, stimulating our reflection… and encouraging us to act for the future.
Friday, September 5 at 5 PM
Auditorium Patrick Ricard – 5 Cours Paul Ricard, 75008 Paris
Free admission
European Heritage Days 2025
European Heritage Days
September 20 and 21, 2025
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Wood Workshop for Young Audience
Saturday, September 20, 10:00 AM – 12:30 PM
Each child, accompanied by cabinetmaker Mathias Heinisch, will create a bird feeder from maple wood and learn to use traditional tools (spokeshave, plane, scraper).
Information: €45/child. By reservation. Workshop for young audiences aged 8 and up. Children must be accompanied by an adult.
Reservations by email: [email protected]
Guided Tour
Saturday, September 20, 11 AM – 12:30 PM
The “Grand Tour,” a guided tour of the two exhibitions Memo. Rembering the Futures and Hors Saison.
Glass Workshop – Glassblowing Demonstrations
Afternoon 2:30 PM – 3:30 PM – 4:30 PM
At the Foundation workshops, meet glass artisans Valentin Rizzo and Gaëtan Oheix for glassblowing demonstrations (30 min).
Maximum 20 people per demonstration.
Workshop “The Imprint, Its Gesture and Material”
Saturday, September 20, 2 PM
Artist Mathias Mareschal and paleobotanist Léa de Brito will start a discussion about the landscape as a meeting place between forces and materials, its memory, and its preservation through the imprint.
Free, by reservation.
3D Workshop
Saturday, September 20, 2 PM
Creative workshop led by students from DNMADE Charles Coulomb (Angoulême) around the Poker Design method and demonstrations and experiments in 3D printing. Based on the works of Alexis Foiny, plant elements will be printed to create a 3D archaeology of the present for the future.
Free, by reservation.
Paleo-Imprints Workshop
Saturday, September 20, 3 PM
Collective molding workshop at the Foundation’s ceramic workshop with artist Mathias Mareschal and paleobotanist Léa de Brito. In collaboration with PaléoCharente.
Open to everyone aged 7 and up.
Free, by reservation.
Guided Tours
Saturday, September 20
4 PM – 5 PM: Memo. Souvenirs du futur
6 PM – 6:30 PM: Hors Saison
Free, by reservation.
The “Learning to See” Visit
Sunday, September 21 at 2:30 PM
Come and discover the mobile trunk created by the Museum of Decorative Arts and Design of Bordeaux, which, through a selection of about thirty anonymous or iconic objects, offers an introduction to design. A pedagogical kit that invokes imagination, experience, and observation skills to discover and implement new processes, new ways of acting, and creating connections.
In partnership with madd-bordeaux.
Free, by reservation.
The Sensory Tour
Sunday, September 21 at 4 PM
A tour “beyond sight” to explore the exhibition by engaging your senses with the mediation kit specially designed by students from the DNMADE program at Lycée Charles Coulomb in Angoulême. Let the hunt for artworks begin!
Free, by reservation