The urgency of slowness... This seemingly contradictory imperative reflects the cognitive dissonance we experience between our lives governed by technological acceleration and the frenzy of our existence on one hand, and the need to take time to connect with each other on the other. It expresses the urgency to slow down and pause in the face of environmental upheavals. For its fourth year, the Living Workshop chooses to slow down, to experience moments of suspension and attention, observation and decentering, in tune with life that slowly mutates and reproduces. Students from EESAB (Rennes and Quimper sites), the University Research School "Creative Approaches to Public Space" (Rennes 2 University, ENSAB Rennes), and the Institut Agro Rennes-Angers (Rennes campus) encounter a forest and its artist-forester, Léa Muller, to experience the time of trees, hibernation, harvests, and regeneration.
Two study days punctuate and enrich this experience. While enabling the sharing of experiences and projects carried out in the forest by students, they provide an opportunity to open up to other horizons, other artistic, philosophical, and scientific approaches that weave temporalities resistant to the acceleration imperative, in connection with the living world. About ten speakers are invited to share their work, engaging in dialogue with the fruits harvested and transformed by l’Atelier Vivant.