Landscape Living Project group
The Landscape Living Project research group considers the landscape as the principal matrix for the development of towns and the countryside. It seeks to develop relationships between the living and our society and examines the landscape project as a process, a design and a tool in the transformation of territories.
Committed to the same areas of study, those working in the group are from different backgrounds and deal with research problems with an iterative and interdisciplinary project approach that always keeps the living, the site and the territory at the focus of their concerns.
Objectives & missions
- Highlight the appropriateness of the landscaping project in urban and countryside planning, as well as in territorial developments;
- Design a portrait of the territory through drawing and mapping. Interpret and invent means of representation and participation;
- Set up processes to strengthen the relationships between plants and quality of life for all;
- Observe and propose innovative methods to raise awareness of the landscape through the terrain, the context, the environments and lived experience;
- Nurture applied teaching methods, based on comparison and sharing of botanical know-how as a gateway between landscape and research projects;
- Undertake the ecological transition through vegetation and natural engineering. Understand forms of agriculture at all scales, highlight the dynamism of the living in our cities and rely on new typologies as the indispensable social link to the human;
- Observe and oversee the future of plant structures, notable trees and the heritage of major sites and historical centres of universal value;
- Develop partnerships between academic, administrative and institutional environments around questions concerning the living, the territory and society.
Main research topics
- Territory and landscaping project
- Design and urban greening
- Plants and environments
- Participation, consultation and landscape mediation
- Methodology and landscape observatory
- Quality of life, public health, ecological transition
- Nature, spirit, transformation of places
- Park and health
- Heritage and landscape
