What does Landscape mean? What do you see, where do you stand?

In this workshop, I invite participants to experiment with a method of working with and in places that I developed by intervening over the years in different territories. It is a set of conceptual and hands-on tools that have accompanied me in forests, plantations, glades, volcano slopes, historical villages, or suburbs.

Domaine de Boisbuchet is the ideal environment to experience Nature in its creative dynamics of interaction, growth, decay and transformation. Concepts belonging to the “natural” realm become metaphors in which our deepest being is reflected. The creative act stems from the need to find a way to participate in this process and accompany the outer temporality in order to rediscover a time within our self. We are part of Nature.

Explore, wander, fortify your senses. Identify. / Settle down. Choose your place, take care of it. Focus. / Express your design intentions, make choices. Document. / Give shape to your storytelling. Alter your space temporarily, transform yourself too. / Look for functionality in the elements around you, listen to what materials want to tell you. Train lateral thinking by combining techniques with affection and imagination. / Recover a primal simplicity, reduce, learn how to work with emptiness. / Feel free to fail and start again.

Following this multi-step process, made of a series of exercises carried out in a dimension of play and exchange, participants are encouraged to establish an intimate and active dialogue with a place within the Domaine. First we will act and create individually, then we will interact together by developing an installation/performance that will connect all the single events.

Language makes us a community. After 5 days of experimentation, we will have questioned the concepts of natural and artificial, and developed our alphabet of words, images, materials, postures and practices, closely connected with the site we have been inhabiting.

Designers, artists, architects, and all other explorers, thinkers and storytellers from different backgrounds and disciplines are welcomed to come “in-land.”