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On the occasion of the Ecotopiales 2025 festival, the BCU Lausanne wanted to hear from some of the festival’s guests. Here are their answers, and with them a few ideas for each and every one of us in our relationship with Living Things. What is it that nourishes your connection to the living world and […]

On the occasion of the Ecotopiales 2025 festival, the BCU Lausanne wanted to hear from some of the festival’s guests. Here’s what they had to say, and what they have to say about our relationship with life. What is it that nourishes your connection to the living world and allows you to imagine a better […]

This year, the music collections of the Bibliothèque cantonale et universitaire – Lausanne join forces with the Lausanne Bach Festival to celebrate Baroque Splendor! Between the pages of books and the staves of scores, we find all the brilliance of this teeming era: virtuosity, spectacularity, inventiveness. Our shelves echo the festival concerts: biographies, recordings, DVDs […]

“Living things form complex, ambivalent relationships, sometimes involving opposition, sometimes antagonism, sometimes mutualism. This allows us to imagine differently the rich range of relationships we can have with the rest of living things.” (Baptiste Morizot, interview in Reporterrepublished May 11, 2023) In a world that is becoming less and less habitable, and whose modes of […]

According to specialist Michel Pastoureau, pink is not one of the colors listed by science in its own right. The history of pink, a second-rate color, is uncertain, elusive, fragile and ephemeral. In the West, pink first made its appearance in court dress in Renaissance Italy in the mid-13th century, then after the Great Black […]

To celebrate the centenary of Jean-Claude Hesselbarth (1925-2015), theassociation that “promotes […] the promotion and conservation of his drawings and paintings” invites you to discover the exhibition Jean-Claude Hesselbarth, l’ubac et l’adret. Living works at Espace Arlaud from September 5 to November 9, 2025. In 2016, the artist’s widow, Mrs. Liliane Annen-Hesselbarth, donated to the […]