"Yet, as with the most familiar words, its obviousness conceals something unthought: a story of translations, of shifts in meaning, of different ways of naming and inhabiting the world. The Greeks said phusis. This term did not designate a nature external to man, nor a decor of the world, nor a fragile heritage to be preserved. Phusis means that which is born, that which grows, that which arises: the very movement by which things appear and are transformed. Nature is not a stationary state, it is a process. Barbara Cassin also says that sometimes it is enough to look at the sea to grasp its intuition. Its beauty is not that of a fixed image, but that of a movement: the wave which forms, breaks up, returns, begins again. It is from this experience, from our words and in the face of the evils of the world, that the seminar begins. Musée(s) des natures The inaugural conference, entitled Cultivating clean water, will take the form of a conversation between three experiences of the world: that of the philosopher Barbara Cassin, attentive to words, translations and concepts, that of her son Samuel Legendre, agronomist, engaged in the concrete practices of earth and water, and of her niece Chloé Pretesacque, author of the book Faults and Leaks: Precapitalist Sourcellery and Dowsing. modern. The formula “cultivating clean water” will change our way of thinking. It suggests that water is not only a resource to be captured, distributed or filtered. It depends on soils, cultures, landscapes, agricultural actions and collective choices, on our ways. Water is cultivated as much as it is protected: it is the result of a relationship between the earth, human practices and the cycles of life. Nature, where animals, imagination, knowledge and human practices meet, nature never appears as an abstraction. It is seen in gestures, stories, forms, techniques and sensitivities. The Musée(s) des natures cycle of meetings thus proposes to explore what an ecology of conversation, exchanges and attention could be: a way of paying attention to the forms of life, to landscapes, to animals, but also to the words and images through which we use them. we think. Because perhaps the question of ecology begins there: in the way we look at everything around us – and first of all in the words, gestures and forms we choose to say it.”  Pierre Giner The Nature Museum(s) meeting cycle is at the intersection of two research programs: The Inseparables (DSAA Fashion: Prospective and Arts of Living, École Duperré, under the direction of Pierre Giner) and The Living Museum (Master History & Criticism of Design, University Paris 8, under the direction of Emanuele Quinz). Conceived as a set of conversations with variable geometry, it proposes to explore the relationships between nature and museum, and, more broadly, between art, design and life. With the support of EUR ArTeC, under the Future Investments program bearing the reference ANR-17-EURE-0008.