‘Paris-Saclay’ refers to a community of conurbations, a public development zone and a world-class university ecosystem. The name reflects the administrative, institutional and political structuring of very different areas. These upheavals themselves took place in the second half of the 20th century and in the last ten years, in other words in a recent and even ultra-contemporary history. From the five university campuses in Versailles and Guyancourt to Evry, Sceaux and the Saclay plateau, the name ‘Paris-Saclay’ also embraces the green triangle, the Bièvre and Yvette valleys, Orsay, Bures-sur-Yvette and Gif-sur-Yvette, the plain of Versailles and the area around the Haute Vallée de Chevreuse regional nature park... It encompasses urban, peri-urban, natural and agricultural areas with long and varied histories.
This collection invites the stakeholders who make up these territories to describe their recent and past upheavals. The aim is to document an environment based on the many different ways in which people are attached to their territories. Taking as our starting point individual and local experiences and traces, we will work together to build a collective vision and narrative that will make everyone's voice heard and engage us all in dialogue. Documenting contemporary and past changes so that together we can perhaps open up other possibilities. To leave a trace of the changes themselves, but also of our relationship to them. To make our own this objective of the museums: to restore familiar and intimate points of view to better face the challenges of the present. You can upload audio, video, photographic and textual documents. We invite you to add any location information, annotate your emotions and any other information.
You have done and are doing ‘Paris-Saclay’. We invite you to weave a collective and plural memory here. The floor is yours.
This project was created by the MSH Paris Saclay and is part of the participatory programme ‘Territories and their universities’, where you can contact us if you wish.
