About the book Planétarium. An Atlas for a World to Come
Wednesday 15 Oct 2025 from 7pm to 8:30pm
Free on booking
Talk in french
An exceptional evening hosted by Mathieu Potte-Bonneville (Director of the Culture and Creation Department at the Centre Pompidou) and Charlène Dinhut (writer and programme manager at the Centre Pompidou) for the launch of the book Planétarium. An Atlas for a World to Come (Éditions Pompidou), which explores the changes taking place on our planet through the humanities and the arts.
What do a beach in northern Scotland, the Aso volcano in Japan, or the façade of a Florentine church reveal about our changing planet? From Macao to Fukushima, what stories does the Earth tell us?
From 2020 to 2025, the Planetarium cycle organized at the Centre Pompidou invited leading figures from the humanities and the art world to share their perspectives each month on the transformations that global warming, technological change, and global tensions are bringing to the territories we inhabit.
These gatherings gave rise to a book in which the authors examine the transformation of living and working spaces, drawing on anthropology, philosophy, history, performance, visual arts, and cinema. Enriched by Eric Valette's abundant illustrations, this journey is both an atlas of remarkable places where our future is taking shape and an inventory of the tools that research and creation are forging to map the world to come. Alternating between chapters and portfolios, Planétarium brings critical thinking and sensory forms into dialogue to offer a fresh perspective on the global issues of our time.
This launch event brings together researcher Eric Valette, science historian and director Frédérique Ait-Touati, artist Natsuko Uchino, who explores the links between art and ecology as well as visual artist Clara Jo, who works on collective narratives and memory, to discuss the book.