On September 17, 18, and 19, 2025, during Geneva Art Week, Ecolint – École Internationale de Genève and its Center des Arts dedicated a special three-day event to the Third Paradise and Preventive Peace, uniting symbolism, art, and participation in a collective journey that involved the entire school community at the La Grande Boissière Campus.

Under the guidance of artist and professor Momar Seck, Director of the Center des Arts Isabelle Muller, her assistant Alys Domenig, and with the presence of Francesco Saverio Teruzzi, international coordinator of the Third Paradise Ambassadors, students and staff created three distinct activities, one for each day, intertwining art, education, and a commitment to sustainability.

September 17 – The Third Paradise Symbol Comes to Life

The first day featured four upper secondary school classes, who gathered in the courtyard between the cafeteria and the Arts Center to physically form the Third Paradise symbol, wearing T-shirts of three different colors. Each one featured the winning images from last year's internal competition and the Third Paradise Agenda 2030 logo, created specifically for an Ecolint event in 2018. A simple yet powerful gesture, expressing the continuity of a journey: many of the students involved had already encountered Michelangelo Pistoletto's poetry in previous years, a sign of the Third Paradise's deep roots in the school's curriculum and values. The event was followed by a vernissage at the Arts Center, which was also open to the public.

September 18 – Eifles | selfie: humanity's collective signature

The second day was dedicated to the performance Eifles | SelfiE, a participatory action that saw over a thousand people—students, teachers, and school staff—sign a large mirrored panel bearing a blue Third Paradise sticker. The work, developed in dialogue with Pistoletto's thought, invites each participant to reflect on their role in the world: the word "Eiffel" is the term "selfie" read in a mirror, a symbol of inverted consciousness, in which the individual image becomes part of a collective whole. At the conclusion, the removal of the sticker from the mirror—a typical gesture of the performance—revealed the shape of the symbol, which emerged as the only mirrored part, reflecting the faces of those who participated. A moment of shared wonder, in which art manifests itself as a collective work and a mirror of the community.

September 19 – The Preventive Peace Path

The third day brought together 800 students from the Primary and Secondary sections in the open-air Greek amphitheater on campus for a large-scale choral celebration of Preventive Peace. Campus Director Jonathan Halden led and presented the concepts, leading the students in a performance of several songs dedicated to peace, culminating with Bob Marley's Redemption Song, a universal anthem to freedom and reconciliation. At the end, the students lined up along the campus walkways to form the Preventive Peace Path, a symbolic path of unity and awareness, traced with their bodies, their holding hands, and their gaze toward a future without conflict.

Exhibitions and Installations

Enriching the three-day event was a multi-site exhibition hosted at the Centre des Arts, featuring:

• the canvases of Kids' Guernica, an international project led by Takuya Kaneda and Savina Tarsitano, which this year celebrates 30 years of activity;
  
• the drawings from the Anouk Foundation competition, drawn from the 18 countries where the foundation operates;
  
• A section dedicated to the Third Paradise's activities in past years, accompanied by videos and documentation, testifying to an ongoing commitment to combining art, education, and global citizenship;
• the exhibition and subsequent workshop by Michel Saloff-Coste: Design me a Planet.

This initiative confirms Ecolint as an international laboratory for educational innovation, capable of intertwining art, sustainability, and the culture of peace, in the spirit of the Third Paradise and shared responsibility for the future.