5 years of exploring city / nature relationships in the metropolitan areas of Aix-Marseille Provence and Toulon Provence Méditerranée By transposing the practice of long-distance hiking in our metropolitan areas, the actions emerging from the Nature for city Life project inform the various actors of the city (inhabitants, urban planners, elected officials, students, etc.) on […]
“I work in and with the landscape. Real landscapes in which I wander and bivouac. Landscapes fantasized through the stories of Science-Fiction and Fantasy. During these walks, I glean the forms, sensations and materials that make up my sculptural and performative practice. The know-how of ceramics or vegetable dyes allow me to raise awareness of […]
After training in life sciences, nature animation, and image technique, he is now a naturalist photographer and videographer who also evolves in the field of scientific popularization. Its activities oscillate between the observation and reproduction of natural phenomena in a framework of research and artistic creation, and the dissemination of this knowledge to the general […]
Ethnologist of coastal peoples Laurence Nicolas is an anthropologist and works on questions of appropriation and representation of coastal space, environmental conflicts, precarious housing, the study of natural practices, professional or leisure, and the transformation of spaces rural and industrial.Some of his research also focuses on social representations relating to hydraulic resources and on perceptions […]
The flâneuses are 2 passionate ecological biologists, who transmit and talk about their favorite world, the sea for one and bats for the other, and this in their city of heart, Marseille.
Through performance, installation or more or less marked out intervention in an urban environment, she attacks reality, re-qualifies it, and endeavors to tip it over to the side of fiction. The artist knows the theatrical devices, the artifices of the cinema, the dramaturgy, the music, the light, the decor, she seizes them to induce situations in which the spectator is brought to reconsider the territory on which he finds himself.
His approach requires time, a time to fully live the artistic experience and free from everything superfluous, it lies in the accomplishment of a practice: immersive stays, daily walks, the simplification of his work tools and the quest for greater freedom to act. In his latest work Bruissement, he attempts to deconstruct the dichotomy between nature and culture, by offering a multiple, sensory and living approach, which reweaves relationships between humans and the rest of life.
Metropolitan hikes for those involved in public planning
