Philo en famille – Les vêtements ont-ils un pouvoir ?

After independently exploring the PENN & FASHION and Everyday Clothing exhibitions, parents and children are invited to come together to take time to express their ideas, exchange views, and listen, in a friendly atmosphere.

Can clothing transform us? Protect us, reveal us, bring us into a group… or on the contrary prevent us from being ourselves? Can clothes be a means of exercising power? What do uniforms, dress codes, or imposed garments tell us? And how can dressing become a way of asserting one's freedom, identity, or delivering a message?

Drawing on the works presented in the exhibitions, parents and children will reflect together on what our clothes tell about us, our relationship with others, and the society in which we live.

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Marine Lemaire is a graduate of the École Supérieure d’Arts et Médias de Caen and trained as a facilitator in the design and leadership of philosophy workshops for children and adolescents at the University of Nantes. A radio host, she is also the author of podcasts, notably La Morsure de Socrate where children philosophize. She believes in philosophy as an educational foundation for intercultural dialogue and social transformation. Children have a great capacity to question, and giving them the opportunity to do so is essential to enable them to build a sense of self, coexist, cooperate, and become aware of a diverse world.