Agenda
Agenda
"PLAYGREEN" ROUND TABLE
PLANTS EXPANSION, NEW AESTHETIC FORMS AND URBAN STAKES
26 September | 14h00 > 18h00
RER B or tramway - Station: Cité U
Free entrance
In a context of intensive urbanization, we are looking for oasis helping us to breath. Vegetation in the city can play a key role as a catalyser of our urban stress. In a country like the France, where the landscape tradition is widely linked with Le Nôtre, vegetal is generally reduced to the garden’s closed frame. This gives very few possibilities to the vegetal spreading.
How think differently the landscape, in terms of aesthetics but also of citizen claim? Can political institutions, artists, landscape designers, urban furniture designers, architects, town planners provide innovative propositions?
Cécile Brazilier invites Miguel Georgieff, Nicolas Bonnenfant and Pablo Georgieff (members of Coloco collective), Richard Reynolds (representant of Guerilla Gardening's movement) and Eric Lengereau from the French Ministry of culture. They cross their visions on this question.
Collectif Coloco
The Coloco team was formed in 1999 by two architects and a landscape designer. Exploring the urban diversity through architecture, landscape, movies or installations projects, Coloco members are paying a very special attention to teaching and transmission to the audience.
Professionals of development, they are also discoverers of infinite combinations between city and nature, promoting biodiversity in urban space.
Nicolas Bonnenfant +.........
Miguel Georgieff +.........
Pablo Georgieff +.........
Guerrilla Gardening
Guerrilla Gardening is a non-violent ecological movement. Armed with trowels, seeds and compost, the activists from this community are acting for a political gardening. They tackle neglected areas of the urban environment and grow wasted plots of land in town. The blog www.guerrillagardening.org created by Richard Reynolds from London represents the extent of the movement, joining together testimonies from Canadians, Americans, British, Germans, Russians…
