Following its different paths, the investigation has been addressing various issues in the past years, such as the major floods that impacted the city of Porto Alegre in the 1040s, the current controversies regarding the development of the oil industries in the Norwegian Arctic, the more recent tragedy of a landslide in a community of Niteroí (in the state of Rio de Janeiro), as well as the water politics in the highly contaminated region of Buffalo/Niagara Falls. In these contexts, it shed light on a multiplicity of responses to the emergence of new environmental risks, as they manifest in the various testimonies collected.

What are the signs of the changes ahead? What kind of equipment (intellectual, emotional and political) are required to face what is coming? Taking place on several continents, A tale as a tool consists of an itinerary assembly of investigation narratives, taking the form of an installation conceived to host various public activations. Conferences, debates, interpretation and (re-)scripting workshops, performances and reading sessions are organized in the middst of this evolutive archive, like so many attempts to build shared knowledge and resist these times of growing threats on the biosphere.

Litterature professor Yves Citton, philosopher Emilie Hache, theoretician Tomislav Medak, choregraphers Christiane Lopes da Cunha and Anani Sanouvi, theoretician Gene Ray, historian of science John Tresch and curator Stéphane Verlet-Bottéro, among others, have been invited in this context to experiment the interpretative potential of Poe's tale, often collaborating actively with the public to further extend the investigation.

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> the investigation in Niteroí
> the programme at CPG
> the investigation in Buffalo