Session #3: "The Parisian Landscape and its Multiple Dimensions" / HRC

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Date 25.10.2024
Hour 17:0018:50
Speaker Paola Vigano; Luca Pattaroni; Paolo Perona; Pieter Uyttenhove; Marion Rivolier; Catherine Mosbach; Alexandre Chemetoff
Location
Pavillon de l’Arsenal, Paris
Online
Category Conferences - Seminars
Event Language French, English
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October 25, 5:00 PM to 6:50 PM,
Pavillon de l’Arsenal, Paris
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https://epfl.zoom.us/j/69729315061


The round table "The Parisian Landscape and its Multiple Dimensions" explores the multitude of the urban landscape as a medium of expression and interpretation. Indeed, the landscape is not merely a visual representation; it is a force that weaves together relationships, experiences, and emotions. It opens up new perspectives in the way we think about and design the city, while offering us a space for personal expression.

The Atlas of Landscapes aims to be a lively restitution of the exchanges, readings, and multiple interpretations of the urban landscape. By addressing the city through its landscapes, it invites us to discover its characteristics, transformations, and challenges. This approach allows the Atlas to open up rare opportunities for expression, as the landscape is something each of us can perceive, experience, and share.

As part of this round table on the Atlas of Parisian Landscapes, the interpretation of the Parisian landscape is structured around four fundamental dimensions:
  1. The social, cultural, and socio-environmental dimension: This dimension highlights the perception and expression of human and non-human activities and organizations. The landscape is lived, heard, and felt... It is deeply cultural.
  2. The typomorphological, programmatic, and economic dimension: It reveals the material and systemic landscape of the city. In Paris, it includes the trees, the sky, the Seine, but also facades, passages, and ground floors, which together form a rich and recognizable urban fabric. The Parisian landscape is thus a densely structured and built palimpsest.
  3. The ecosystemic and infrastructural dimension: This refers to the shape of the territory, the topography, natural elements like water, soil, and trees, and their complex interactions with the urban structures of a city with 2 million inhabitants.
  4. The aesthetic dimension: This dimension examines the evolution of the codes that structure our relationship with nature, and the transformations in city-nature relationships in relation to contemporary climate and social changes.
This colloquium is an opportunity to delve into these dimensions of the landscape, exploring how they enable us to rethink and reinvent the city of tomorrow.


Program:

5:00 PM - 5:05 PM: Presentation – The Paris Landscape Atlas by Ben Gitai (Moderator)

5:05 PM - 5:55 PM: Session #3 Theme:

• Pieter Uyttenhove – The Urban Landscape (10 min)
• Luca Pattaroni – From Landscape Experience to Landscape Policy (10 min)
• Paolo Perona – Surfaces and Runoff (10 min)
•  Catherine Mosbach - The Sensitive Landscape of Paris (10 min)
• Alexandre Chemetoff - The Heritage History of the City of Paris (10 min)

5:55 PM - 6:35 PM: Discussion between the speakers and Paola Vigano
6:35 PM - 6:50 PM: Conclusion

Practical information

  • General public
  • Free

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Architecture Urbanism Habitat Research Center

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