The Eco-Solutions Festival is back from September 24 to October 2, 2022, throughout the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region. The event aims to raise public awareness about environmental issues and encourage collective reflection on how to care for our planet.
During the festival, the public is invited to meet the people who bring the Musée des Maisons Comtoises and its 16-hectare park to life in an eco-friendly way.
From park managers to gardeners and docents, they’ll take turns sharing the museum’s latest initiatives in this area and passing on their knowledge.
Eco-creative workshops will allow visitors of all ages to try out simple and fun solutions that help protect the environment. Through guided tours of the houses and gardens, visitors will discover materials, techniques, and practices that promote sustainable living. Also take advantage of your visit to explore the museum’s brand-new building: an eco-friendly goat shelter.
The exhibition “À table!” and the gestural lecture “Le progrès se met à table,” on October 28 at the café-restaurant Le Pixel in Besançon, will examine the environmental impact of our food choices.
What's on the agenda
– September 24 and 25 and October 1 and 2, from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.: eco-creative workshops , fun activities for children, guided tours focusing on biodiversity, botanical walks to discover edible wild plants, and anti-waste cooking workshops
– Weekdays, Monday, October 24, through Friday, October 28: sessions on the ecological management plan for the museum’s 16-hectare site and ecological gardening techniques
"Progress Takes a Seat at the Table" gestural lecture, Wednesday, September 28, at Le Pixel café-restaurant
At 6 p.m.: Workshop “Solutions in Action,” led by Olivier GORICHON: The planet is burning—and we just stand by and watch? We can be like hummingbirds! What information do we have? What actions are we taking for the planet? Even the smallest action is a way to help the planet! Statements, statistics, sharing solutions, warnings…
At 8:00 p.m.: A performance-style lecture titled “Progress Has Taken a Seat at the Table,” by Olivier GORICHON: “ Progress has taken charge of the earth… in both senses of the word: the soil and the planet with its inhabitants. Agribusiness aims to fill our plates, and its strategies impact our environment. Olivier unravels the story: the food choices shaped by his personal journey and global history. His individual choices as a consumer are framed by politics. Olivier recounts… Between family history, the history of humanity, and the current context… He weaves a connection between his AMAP, Indigenous peoples, the Marshall Plan… and the man on the moon!”
And also…
Come discover the museum’s brand-new building! Since June, the museum’s goats have been enjoying a new shelter built especially for them by students from the National School of Architecture in Lyon and the Lycée du Bois de Mouchard. For nine months, the students worked together to imagine and design wooden shelters for the museum’s animals. The first of the four selected shelters was entirely built and assembled by the students. This project is both aesthetically original and environmentally friendly. Like a giant building set, the shelter is made up of only two types of parts, allowing for quick and easy construction. The students also designed the shelter to collect rainwater from the roof, which flows directly into the animals’ watering trough.