Gilles Clément in dialogue with Michel Blazy and Patricia Ribault

As part of the Michel Blazy workshop and Patricia Ribault's diploma seminar on "Ruse, bricolage et savoir-faire: formes de l'ingéniosité", we will be welcoming the gardener, landscape gardener, botanist, entomologist, biologist, writer and teacher Gilles Clément for a special lecture.

Gilles Clément will go back over the founding concepts of his practice, such as the "Garden in Movement", the "Planetary Garden" and the "Third Landscape", and we'll be asking him questions about the ingenuity of the living world and the forms it can take, both in nature and in his experimental approach. How can we 'work with' the thousand and one animal and plant strategies to create animated gardens and landscapes in which the gardener's gesture combines with that of nature? How does he look at the gardens he has designed in the four corners of the planet, not to be mastered or controlled, but to emerge, appear and evolve according to the logic of the species that make them up? How can we define the art of the gardener?
 

Free admission subject to availability
 

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