This first seminar of the Inventing Greater Paris
cross-disciplinary group proposes to reconsider the regional development of Greater Paris by focusing on the landscape. The question of landscape first requires us to look at the professions involved, in particular understanding how landscape architects contribute to regional-scale plans. From an epistemological point of view, it is then necessary to consider the notions of landscape, scale, public space, and nature as historical and social constructs that we wish to examine in relation to the disciplinary fields to which they belong. Finally, the landscape perspective allows us to revisit the instruments of development, particularly the question of the plan as a mode of representation and a process of realization.
With contributions from: Bertrand Follea, Laurent Hodebert, Sonia Kéravel, Julien Laborde, Sandra Parvu
Scientific coordination: Frédéric Pousin and Nathalie Roseau