Celebrating its 60th anniversary in 2025, the Cité Internationale des Arts truly is a Tout-Monde (All-World) island. Artists work and live there for the purpose of research and artistic production over periods lasting from two months to a year, and come into contact with more than 300 artists from all disciplines, generations and nationalities. In terms of their experiences, how do they navigate a path between the simultaneous presence of Notre-Dame and migrants, the gentrification of the city, and the daily challenges of the living world? Is this how they feel about Paris, is this how they perceive it? Apart from those special occasions when this diversity is celebrated, albeit in a selective manner, how does this city welcome the world on a daily basis, today, with all its different ways of life? Since 2002, these are the challenges that Scénos Urbaines have set themselves, via a series of multidisciplinary residencies based focusing on urban environments and those who live in them, to date carried out in Douala, Alexandria, Kinshasa, Johannesburg, Dakar, Saint-Denis de la Réunion, Port-au-Prince, Conakry, Strasbourg and Mayotte.
 
The project will be developed in two stages: between August and October 2025, around fifteen artists in residence will work together on the question of what this city is today, a place that has often thought of itself as open and inclusive. Following this, from the 8th October, an exhibition will present the results of these two months of exchanges, research and artistic production.