La Cité des Sens, the festival that explores the senses at the Cité des Sciences

Perhaps you wear glasses, are myopic, hypermetropic or astigmatic... Aftersmell, hearing and sight, it's touch that the Cité des Sciences invites us to study at the 6thedition of its Cité des Sens festival, on Saturday November 16 and Sunday November 17 , 2024. An opportunity to discover touch from every angle and every angle, with a range of events on the program.

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On November 16 and 17, 2024, you'll discover touch in a way you've never seen before: by learning how our skin works, why we're so sensitive to this sense, and how the sensation of touch impacts our daily lives! There's plenty for you to experiment with, including hands-on workshops, kinetic sand and slime making, modelling clay and self-hardening clay modelling... And don't forget the barefoot trail or the investigation in the dark, where touch will be the useful sense.

For all the activities and entertainment around touch, come to the Cité des Sciences this Saturday, November 16 and Sunday, November 17, 2024!

On the program:

Popularizing science

• CNRS demo stands
• Touch everything!
• Thinking with your hands

Workshops and manipulations

• Make your own kinetic sand
• Make your own slime
• Make your own modeling clay
• Self-hardening clay workshop
• Children's cooking workshop
• Hands in the grout (between experimentation and cooking)

Experiment

• Barefoot trail
• Investigation in the dark

Unexpected sensory applications

• OTO - the switch-off armchair
• Sensory design
• Touch pad