Le Jardin sonoreLe Jardin sonore is a permanent public artwork located in Douala (Cameroon). It was created by Lucas Grandin in 2010 and is made of a wooden structure built on three floors that serves as a panoramic viewpoint on the Wouri River, as a botanical garden and as a dewdrop percussion organ. Le Jardin sonore est d'une hauteur de 10 mètres, longueur de 6,83 mètres, une largeur maximale de 4,52 mètres. Sa superficie totale est de 35 mètre carrés d’espace repartis sur trois niveaux (Rez de chaussée 20 m2, 1er étage 10m2 et 2ième étage 5m2) Il fut inauguré pendant le .
TELECOM Lille 1TELECOM Lille (formerly ENIC) was a French public Grande école (engineering school). TELECOM Lille was located on the science campus of the University of Lille in Villeneuve d'Ascq near Lille. TELECOM Lille was part of Institut Mines-Télécom (IMT). In 2017, TELECOM Lille merges with the École des Mines Douai and becomes École des Mines-Télécom de Lille-Douai (IMT Lille Douai). Founded in 1990, ENIC (École Nouvelle d'Ingénieurs en Communication, Novel School In Communication) was created to answer the growing need for engineers having both technical and management skills.
Thierry LagetThierry Laget (born 2 October 1959, Clermont-Ferrand) is a French novelist, essayist, literary critic and translator. A regular contributor to the Théodore Balmoral, Laget participated to the edition of À la recherche du temps perdu in the bibliothèque de la Pléiade, under the direction of Jean-Yves Tadié. He has provided editions of texts by Jacques Rivière including Quelques progrès dans l'étude du cœur humain, by Marcel Proust, including Le Côté de Guermantes and Les plaisirs et les jours, then Gustave Flaubert including Madame Bovary.
Michel François (artist)Michel François (born 1956 in Saint-Trond) is a Belgian conceptual artist. Born in a family of artists, Michel François studied theatre then graduated from the École de Recherche Graphique in Brussels. Since the start of his career as an artist in the early 1980s, he exhibited his work throughout Europe, the United States, Mexico, Brazil, and Japan. Michel François took part in two key events in contemporary art, Documenta 9 in Kassel in 1992 and the 48th Venice Biennale, in 1999, where he represented Belgium alongside Ann Veronica Janssens with the installation Horror vacui.
Daniel TurpDaniel Turp (born April 30, 1955) is a professor of constitutional and international law at the Université de Montréal in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. He served as a Bloc Québécois Member of Parliament (1997–2000) and as a Parti Québécois member of the Quebec National Assembly (2003–2008). Born in Montreal, Quebec, Turp was raised as a Roman Catholic but later converted to Presbyterianism. He is a member of the Church of St. Andrew and St. Paul in Montreal.
Centre de services scolaire Marguerite-BourgeoysThe Centre de services scolaire Marguerite-Bourgeoys is an autonomous school service centre on Montreal Island, Quebec, Canada, appointed by the Ministry of Education. Its headquarters is in the Saint-Laurent borough of Montreal. Its education centre is in LaSalle, also in Montreal. The centre is named after Marguerite Bourgeoys (1620–1700), a French nun who helped start education infrastructure in the new colony.
Commission scolaire Marguerite-BourgeoysThe Marguerite-Bourgeoys School Board (Commission scolaire Marguerite-Bourgeoys) was a French language public School Board on Montreal Island, Quebec, Canada. Its headquarters was in the Saint-Laurent borough of Montreal. Its education centre was in LaSalle, also in Montreal. It was named after Marguerite Bourgeoys (1620–1700), a French nun who helped start education infrastructure in the new colony. In 2005-2006 the teachers went on strike to increase funds for the schools and smaller class sizes (average of 30 students per class) because it was becoming difficult to teach the students.
Jean-Pierre ChupinJean-Pierre Chupin (born September 3, 1960 in Nantes, France) is a French and Canadian architect, researcher, and architectural theorist who specializes in reasoning by analogy, qualitative practices, architectural competitions and awards of excellence. He is a professor at the School of Architecture, Faculty of Environmental Design, Université de Montréal. He holds the Canada Research Chair in Architecture, Competitions and Mediations of Excellence (CRC-ACME). He coordinates the Laboratory for the Study of Potential Architecture (L.
Landes de GascogneThe Landes de Gascogne (in Gascon, classic spelling las Lanas de Gasconha, Fébusienne spelling leus Lanes de Gascougne), or Gascony Moors, is a natural region of France of nearly . It extends over three departments: Gironde, Landes and Lot-et-Garonne, and includes 386 communes. The region is a flat, sandy plain in the west of the Aquitaine Basin beside the Atlantic Ocean. The interior is cut off from the sea by a barrier of dunes. It is dominated by pine forests that cover 66% of the territory, with islets of agriculture over 18% of the territory.
Louis-Pierre BougieLouis-Pierre Bougie (16 August 1946 - 10 January 2021) was a Canadian painter and printmaker specialized in engraving and etching. He developed his knowledge of intaglio techniques at Atelier Lacourière-Frélaut in Paris, where he worked for fifteen years, and through travel and study in France, Portugal, Poland, Ireland, Finland, and New York. His work is regularly shown in Canadian, American, and European galleries, and is represented in major public and private collections, notably in Québec and New York.
