TimeWorld Limit
December 3, 4 and 5, 2025 in Besançon - France
Global scientific meetings
Playing the inter-sectoral card means giving innovation every chance. TimeWorld brings together manufacturers, researchers academics and general public around a major theme, to brainstorm ideas and launch new collaborations.
Measured limit
The limit in living things
The perceived limit
The limit in Art
Literature, music, visual arts, cinema, photography, games
Challenging questions in all disciplines
TimeWorldEvent presents all TimeWorld editions
Conferences, round tables, synthesis, performances
TimeWorld shares knowledge,
expertise and insights
TimeWorld Limit in a nutshell
- 71 conferences
- 4 round tables
- 1 conviviality zone
- 1 Performance
- Signing sessions
- 2 Concerts
There's a limit to everything, and you always have to go beyond it.
There is no limit, no frontier, no safeguard that can be imposed on time.
Logic fills the world: the world's limits are also its own limits.
Program
A Dream for Artemis – Music, Science, and the Cosmos
Official film screening + 1 live concert!
December 3, 2025, at 6:30 p.m. at the Kursaal in Besançon
Immerse yourself in a unique journey combining music, science, and science fiction.
The Ellipsos Quartet and pianist Emmanuel Strosser present A Dream for Artemis, a poetic and cosmic fantasy by Fabien Waksman, inspired by the new lunar exploration.
The film A Dream for Artemis—shot in the United States and France—will be screened for the very first time in Besançon. A symbolic location: it was here that the work was recorded with the Victor Hugo Orchestra, conducted by Jean-François Verdier, before being released on vinyl by the Mirare label.
Why return to the Moon? What links music and the cosmos? What sounds resonate in space? These are just some of the questions that will guide this dialogue between art and knowledge. Echoing the music, poetic and scientific texts will be read by astrophysicist Jean-Philippe Uzan, extending this sensitive and intellectual exploration of the universe.
The second part of the concert will feature the great symphonic works of the repertoire: from Strauss to Hans Zimmer and John Williams, the iconic music of cinema and science fiction will blend with orchestral grandeur.
A program at the crossroads of universes, where musical emotion illuminates scientific and human adventure.
Screening in the presence of the film crew.
A transdisciplinary and multicultural approach at the Kursaal
Partner bookstore - Signing sessions
For more than 50 years now, Les Sandales d’Empédocle has been committed to playing this essential and decisive role as a cultural player, a meeting place, and a crossroads of ideas.
The Call of the Universe – Young Audiences
December 3, 2025, at 1:30 p.m. at the Grand Kursaal
Narrated by astrophysicist Jean-Philippe Uzan and set to music by composer Fabien Waksman, The Call of the Universe recounts the stellar epic of Hor and Nour, two mischievous photons born with the Big Bang. During their journey through the cosmos, they will make many friends and discover matter, stars, galaxies, black holes, space-time, then the solar system and finally…
Everything happens in li-myths
Hervé Fischer, from interrogative aesthetics to philosophical painting. Thinking and imagining, reasoning and representing are inseparable. Our language itself, our very syntax, is always metaphorical. Thus, painting helps us to question and to push the debate forward. The notion of boundaries conjures up military, biological, and psychological imagery, as well as inaccessible horizons. This exhibition on the theme of limits invites you to explore your own horizons and venture beyond the visible.
Exhibition curator: Marie-Laure Desjardins
Limits & Materials
by Joséphine Jobard
Humans constantly seek to exceed their limits and break down the boundaries of what is possible in all areas of life. The same is true for artists: wood, plaster, clay—each material has its own rules and obeys its own laws. Sculptors seek to understand and work with the limits of the material to create an image, a universe. In this exhibition, Joséphine focuses on the human figure and explores this infinite quest to surpass oneself and one’s environment.
Concerto Clocks & Piano
December 5, 2025, at 5 p.m. at the Grand Kursaal
by Maël el Mazoughi
At a time when the ticking of clocks fills his evening workshop, when silences are fragmented by the wandering of a sound, Philippe Lebru dreamed, wrote, and drew the story of our large clocks, those that speak to us with two sounds, like the walking of our two feet.
The performance was born from the encounter between two characters, like two universes playing with time, clocks in harmony with music. Maël became a medium for the sound of time, like the
Industry
France Innovation by ASRC is a professional association that brings together private research and technological development providers, companies offering innovative products, processes, or services, and consultants and innovation support providers.
Industry
When Philippe Lebru revived Besançon, the sleepy watchmaking capital in the heart of the Jura mountains, in 1993, it was to play with and subvert the codes of traditional watchmaking in order to conceive and create a new way of designing and experiencing time. Clocks, watches, automatons… UTINAM’s mechanical and kinetic works of art offer a time that transcends its simple measurement: an autonomous, independent time, free to repeat itself infinitely.
Press partner
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Press partner
At Pour la Science, we believe that the scientific approach is essential to better understanding the world. That is why we are committed to disseminating in-depth scientific knowledge, in collaboration with researchers, in order to satisfy an audience eager to enrich its culture. Since 1977, Pour la Science magazine has been a leading source of international scientific information.
Grand Besançon Métropole and the City of Besançon are the main partners of this edition.
