School's Out! #48 with Catherine Mosbach
School's Out! #48 with landscape architect Catherine Mosbach. A lecture about the layered and temporal approach to landscape architecture by the Paris-based design firm mosbach paysagiste, followed by a short film, drinks and tunes. Friday 28 February 2025, 19:00 - 22:00
School’s Out! #48 - Catherine Mosbach
Represented by Catherine Mosbach, mosbach paysagistes has extensive experience with large-scale projects in urban landscapes with high heritage and environmental value. The skills of the studio are developed at different scales and landscape briefs in order to articulate natural resources with urban & cultural ones. The public facilities projects develop an integrated scenography between the landscape settlements & a didactic approach accessible to the public. Among the most representative are the Botanical Garden of Bordeaux, the Archaeological Park of Solutré or Louvre Lens Museum Park and more recently Phase Shifts Park in Taichung. These sites clearly expose the environmental, cultural, economic & urban dynamics linked to the constant mutations of contemporary life.
The question of the writing, over-writing or non-writing of a product, a production in the sense of the physical interpretation of a sensory, economic, and social event, is central. It is vital in order for landscape designers to be able to work freely. But the focus of our energies still needs to be defined. Must we adapt to a brand-oriented economy, subvert the issue of ecolabelling, or produce landscapes for the sake of real images, visual coalitions that strengthen the social imagination so that it does not forget where it comes from and does not fear its destiny? In deciphering the genealogies of collective experience, an individual cultivates the art of memory, engages with critical viewpoints, introduces differences through comparison, cultivates analogies by creating intervals, rescues images from general indifference, reconfigures the historical present by disarming the devices that make images irresponsible, so that they can join the taut flow that runs through our saturated memories.
Programme
18:00 Doors open, drinks bites and tunes
19:00 - 20:15 Presentation by Catherine Mosbach + Q&A
20:15 - 20:30 Short film, selected by Jord Den Hollander
20:30 - 22:00 Drinks and tun