Cultural activities
The school has a culture and heritage department, attached to the school management, whose primary mission is to provide for the personal enrichment of students, and to complement their professional training by offering a global understanding of the world to train responsible, citizen engineers. Its actions meet 3 objectives.
- through a social and cultural policy, providing access, in partnership with the University of Rouen, to the Carte-Culture scheme and its "Behind the Scenes" program for all students at INSA de Rouen and the University of Rouen. Discounts at partner theatres are also offered to INSA staff members.
- creating cultural events within INSA or on campus to encourage encounters and exchanges between everyone. For example, the Galerie du Temps de /Poz/, housed at the school, welcomes both professional and amateur photographers, and, in addition to the Image-Etudes Section, educates all members of the school about still images and encourages collective reflection on themes.
- by supporting the realization of artistic and cultural projects, personal or collective, by students as part of their curriculum or otherwise, or by members of staff as part of their teaching or otherwise (hosting shows, conferences, various artistic interventions, etc.).
SCOUAT (Semaines Culturelles d'Ouverture Artistiques Transdisciplinaires) have been taking place since 2014.
Around several weeks of programming, the events are all proposed by the school's various cultural project promoters (students in association or not, humanities department via the arts sections, culture and heritage service, libraries, BDE...), the Insaian public attends readings, demonstrations, participates in workshops or attends shows. All of which serves to emphasize not only amateur practice, but also existing partnerships with professionals.
RéSITech HN: SAFEGUARDING AND DEVELOPING SCIENTIFIC HERITAGE
ART and SCIENCE
Since 2003, we've been developing projects that foster relations between artists and scientists, and wherever possible, bringing them to the public. Artists are the best interpreters and disseminators of science, appropriating it, diverting it, questioning it, broadening it by confronting it with the rest of the world. Giving artists access to the sciences also means enabling scientists (students, teachers or technicians) to shift the way they look at their own discipline.
To this end, Art and Science artist residencies, the hosting or co-production of shows on the theme, or the organization of conferences take place at the school. For example, INSA has hosted and/or co-produced "La danse du Chaos ou l'art du mouvement" by Cie téatri del vento (2005), "Elles ... vagabondent à l'INSA" by Cie Pas ta Trace (2011) and "Concaténation" by La Grande Fabrique (2010). Since 2013, visual artists Virginie Hervieu, Yann Lestrat, Gyan Panchal and Anya Tikhomirova have been welcomed. These residencies systematically include students, thanks to the support of a teaching department.
In 2015, Frédéric Deslias joined Cie Le Clair Obscur to work in digital art on the theme of the relationship between man and machine.
The 2016 residency was on the theme of Music and Mathematics.
Aerospace Propulsion Valley
Rising off the ground, flying like a bird, going faster and faster, and, since the 1940s, embarking on the conquest of space and, at the same time, enabling as many people as possible to cross the world ... These major milestones, these challenges, have led and still lead, in the field of propulsion, to adaptations of processes or products. Following in the footsteps of their predecessors, they lead to technological leaps that in turn generate new dynamics.
These are the stories that can be read through the "Aerospace Propulsion Valley", a permanent exhibition inaugurated in 2014 at INSA . It takes the form of a 30-meter-long chronology, ending with the display of a Vulcain 2 engine. The evocation of key events, technological, scientific and industrial leaps, makes the issues visible, and recontextualizes them in a cross-disciplinary way.
Open to the general public for special events (school open days, Fête de la Science, etc.), the Valley also enables students to get involved and communicate their taste for science, particularly to younger visitors, by popularizing their knowledge or enriching the Valley with content or objects.
This exhibition was designed in collaboration with the 3AF association, with the support of NAE (Normandie Aéroespace) Rouen Métropole, CNRS, Rectorat de Rouen, in partnership with Science-Action Haute-Normandie. The SAFRAN Heritage Centre, SNECMA Vernon, the Musée de l'air et de l'Espace and Ariane Espace have also contributed to the project.
Supporting projects to promote scientific and technical culture
The Culture and Heritage Department supports departments and laboratories, as well as individual students and staff, in their efforts to promote scientific and technical culture. Exhibitions, workshops, conferences, teaching aids... expertise and networking with CSTI professionals is offered, in particular by ensuring that projects fit in with existing programs and schemes, implemented by CCSTI Science Action Haute-Normandie.