FAIRE AVEC – ZIVA (Zone d’inspiration vivante et active)

The hills of Marseille, real balconies over the city, present at the four cardinal points, are a fragile common good with a rich biodiversity.
With Collines en ville, the Rives & Cultures association invites inhabitants and visitors to (re)discover these hills through walks or festivals celebrating wild edible plants. These events are organised in collaboration with the visual artists Olivier Nattes and Roland Bellier, whose creations on the edge of the hills will also provide an opportunity to reflect on the various more or less distant territories with which Marseille is linked.
The challenge is to create a work of art that is a kind of signal, pointing out the invisible links that are present, and those that remain to be built, on the edge of spaces that are so close and so different as the urban and the semi-wild; that is to say, the Cité des Nereïdes and the natural park of the Calanques.
By using the elements and natural forces present, such as the wind and the sun or the fauna and flora, this plastic device will attempt to provide an enriched vision of our perception of the landscape and the links to be built between two territories.

On the occasion of the inauguration of the work Signal de l’Est (at 17.00 near the basketball court of the cité des Néréïdes), a walk to discover the hills of about an hour and a half is organised. Meeting at 15.30 at the Jardins partagés of the Cité Michelis (place de la Liberté, access via Avenue de Tarascon – 13011 Marseille).