Pitch The Centre d'Iconographie de la Bibliothèque de Genève (CIG) , the MEG collections, the Geneva State Archives and the Swiss Press hold original documents on the Parc de plaisance at the National Exhibition held in Geneva in 1896. Visitors were offered a host of exotic attractions, including one of the must-sees of the time, the Village Noir. Here, 200 people from West Africa were exhibited, not far from the "Egyptian troupe", the "Chinese" and the "Javanese dancers".

Challenge

• Creating solid wiki content on the subject using genevan sources
• Decolonial thinking in writing and image editing
• Providing maximum resources for further researches

Dessin original. Emile Yung et le "Village noir" à Genève. © Kalonji pour Le Temps

Sources

• CIG

https://opendata.swiss/dataset/images-from-the-exposition-nationale-in-geneva-in-1896

• MEG

https://opendata.swiss/dataset/metadata-meg-collections

• ARCHIVES D'ETAT

DOCUMENTATION

• MEG BIBLIOTHEQUE : A selection of reference publications is available for the challenge
• https://blog.bge-geneve.ch/le-village-noir-de-lexposition-nationale-de-1896/ https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoo_humain https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Expositionsnationalessuisses https://wp.unil.ch/id-ch-spectacles/lexposition-nationale-suisse-de-1896/

PRESS ARCHIVES (examples)

https://www.e-newspaperarchives.ch/?a=d&d=TDG19030625-04.2.12&srpos=13&e=-------fr-20-TDG-1--img-txIN-village+n%c3%a8gre-------0-----

• https://letempsarchives.ch/page/JDG189606_10/4/article/5380948/%C3%89mile%20Yung%20conf%C3%A9rence
• https://www.e-newspaperarchives.ch/?a=d&d=NZZ18960826-01.2.9&srpos=3&e=-------fr-20--1--img-txIN-Szene+aus+dem+Negerdorf-------0-----

Examples of problematic contents https://notrehistoire.ch/galleries/l-exposition-nationale-de-1896 https://humanzoos.net/

Contact: Floriane Morin (Slack)