Normapolis

This space, created by students from the HES-SO, is an invitation to the public to enter an ephemeral town, built out of over forty shipping containers, which together will be hosting the various projects conceived by the University of Applied Sciences and Arts. Almost 300 students, teachers and assistants have been taking part in this adventure for over six months. In all, 19 original projects will be on show involving fifteen or so departments, all of which have been actively involved in the creation of this collective work. (Architecture, Landscape Architecture)

A-Normapolis

An astonishing welcome imagined by the pros of tourism. (Tourism)

Barasiro

A chance to taste some famous (non-alcoholic) cocktails with new exciting flavours. (Hospitality management)

Drop City Revival

A utopia for “autonomous community living” inspired by hippy communities from the late sixties. (Interior design)

E-Normes

Who is in, who is out? This project takes festivalgoers on a journey to discover their true geek identity. (Media engineering)

Frangins – Frangines et Mielimélo

Two groups: one outreach team for meeting up with young people in and around the Festival; a second dedicated to setting up and hosting the youth activities space on site. (Social work)

I-See

Visual elements highlighted at night according to three notions: distance, knowledge enrichment and interactions, all symbolic of E-learning, a tool for transverse collaboration. (Cyberlearn HES-SO)

Jingles, Vdjing et Affiche

The students have come up with some animated video clips for the giant screens, which will be used to announce each concert and will also be projected inside Normapolis. By the way, a student from this department also created the 2012 Festival poster. (Visual communication)

Je suis venu-e te dire (I just came to tell you)

An exhibition of portraits of students from here and elsewhere on the theme of “leaving your land ”. (Social and youth & community work)

LeBloc

Put on your surgeon’s gown and perform a tricky operation as the stopwatch ticks away. (Physiotherapy, Nursing care and Medical radiology techniques)

Sagacity

Discover a model containing a succession of aerial photographs taken by a robot image-maker, which produces a vision of the Festival before, during and after. (Geomatic engineering)

Sang frontière, Rire à en vivre - Prevention of alcohol abuse at the Festival

The public are invited to ask themselves questions in relation to health care and communication codes in each country. There will also be an area for laughing and making people laugh, sharing funny stories. Several teams will be scouring the car parking areas on the lookout for car drivers willing to sign a pledge not to drink alcohol throughout the evening. (Nursing care)

uNIVers

The public are invited on an olfactory voyage of discovery involving some “normal” and “extraordinary” wines. (Oenology)

Variapolis

What space do we accord to differences in a standard, built environment? Rendezvous in a container that changes its appearance and proposes some rather unexpected spaces. (Architecture)

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