The exhibition will be inaugurated this Wednesday, October 2nd at 2:30 PM in the Cassini Room at Parc Phoenix by Bernard Baudin, Municipal Councilor, Deputy for the “Three Hills” Territory sub-delegated to Green Spaces and Works, and Jean-Pierre Roche, Director of the City of Telecommunications. In the presence of Michel Henocq, Director of Parc Phoenix in the City of Nice.
The City of Telecommunications and Parc Phoenix in the City of Nice present the exhibition “Homo Mobilus: The Place of Mobile Networks in Our Lives,” which will take place from Wednesday, October 2, 2013, to Sunday, November 3, 2013, in the heart of the Cassini Room.
This educational exhibition enlightens visitors about the interactions of mobile networks in our daily lives, informs about its infrastructures and its scientific dimension, before questioning the place of mobility and communication through time…
A Network, Multiple Uses
The exhibition is an opportunity to revisit the evolution of mobile networks: from Edge to 4G, including NFC (Near Field Communication) technology, which are all new keys for comfort, proximity, and economic development.
Behind the Scenes of the Mobile Network
The first part of the exhibition immerses visitors in the core of the mobile network and its various uses through a playful presentation designed around everyday objects and touch screens.
Visitors then discover the behind-the-scenes of the mobile network presented in an educational manner, thanks to a scenography designed to facilitate understanding of the installation and operation of the network. Orange collaborators also explain to visitors, through a series of interviews, its major scientific and technological principles.
Homo Mobilus: A New Age or State of Being?
This journey concludes with the human sciences: historians, philosophers, sociologists provide a unique insight into our relationship with telecommunications and the concept of mobility. An invitation to better understand ourselves through time, techniques, and to question the definition of “Homo Mobilus.”
A New Approach to Geolocation Through the “Movement Footprints” Device
This device, designed by researchers and designers from Orange, renews the approach to the geolocation of our movements and creates a new imaginary of the city through three-dimensional maps. The varying relief of each one highlights the time spent in a given territory as well as the movements of those who participated in the test conducted in Paris between December 15, 2011, and January 15, 2012. In addition to their playful and poetic dimensions, these footprints encourage inhabitants to experience their city differently.
About the City of Telecommunications
Since 1992, the City of Telecommunications, a corporate foundation of the France Télécom Orange group, located in Pleumeur-Bodou in the Côtes d’Armor, aims to promote scientific and technical culture related to the telecommunications sector to the public. To this end, the City of Telecommunications relies on its exhibition center related to the history and current affairs of telecommunications and various elements of the company’s historical heritage, including the Radome, classified as a historical monument and labeled “Heritage of the 20th Century.”
The exhibition, Homo Mobilus: The Place of Networks in Our Lives, curated by the City of Telecommunications with the support of the National Association of Scientific, Technical, and Industrial Culture Centers (CCSTI), is part of a mediation project about the role of telecommunications in our lives. This exhibition will tour across France until 2014.
PARC PHOENIX IN THE CITY OF NICE
455 Promenade des Anglais – Cassini Room
Exhibition: “Homo Mobilus: The Place of Mobile Networks in Our Lives”
Hours: 9:30 AM to 6:00 PM
Tel: 04.92.29.77.00
More information: www.parc-phoenix.org and www.homo-mobilus.fr
