Laurent Petit is an author, performer, engineer by training who has become a para-scientific researcher and urban psychoanalyst…

After a brief career as an engineer, Laurent Petit entered the marvelous world of show business, first as a juggler and then a supermarket clown. The meeting with Eric Heilmann and his work on the links between Mickey Mouse and Michelangelo allowed him to lay the foundations of a new genre, the para-scientific spectacle, a genre where the true and the false mix so well that the public ends up losing its Latin.

It was following the meeting with the collective of architects Exyzt that the first poetic science worthy of the name was born, which is therefore urban psychoanalysis. He founded the ANPU (national agency for urban psychoanalysis) which produces surveys and artistic forms on the psychic state of the territories.For several years now, he has been walking on the GR2013, confronting his poetic science with the complex landscapes of the peri-urban territory.

An architect by training, Hélène Dattler is at the same time a scenographer, director, coordinator, dancer, performer, visual artist. She deliberately places herself at the service of an architecture that is built without lasting materials. She is involved in diverse artistic projects – notably with the Empreinte association – to multiply experiences and encounters, aimed at all audiences.

Within the ANPU, in particular, she invents forms of poetic and plastic exhibitions, created funny films, all in connection with real territorial issues (the mosquito, rising waters, etc.). It also plays an important role of mediation in the field, meeting the public, both for the collection of materials and for transmission.

She regularly offers workshops combining architecture, landscape, dance and the connection to objects. The body becomes a place of experimentation. Performance … Experience … Improvisation … Inviting participants to be part of an ephemeral creative process of which they are the main subject. The object, the construction then becomes vectors, continuums of bodies. Creating ephemeral huts, inhabiting materials and objects … are all projects with children and adults of all ages and all backgrounds that offer this richness of exploration. Hélène is a smuggler who leaves ephemeral and sensitive traces.

Youth Land from Le Citron Jaune

His taste for the hybridization of disciplines, as well as a questioning of “our place in space”, were born at the beginning of his training at the School of Fine Arts, and then found their meaning at the School. of the Landscape of Versailles, where she discovered the thickness of the sites. After several years of practice in architectural agencies, she set up on her own by creating the Trajectoires collective (2014 Prize of the Albums of Young Architects and Landscapers, awarded by the Ministry of Culture.)

Since 2015, she has continued her activity on her own, no longer limiting herself to the professional framework offered by public contracts. Land use planning and public spaces, but also garden creation, collaborative work and writing are now complementary aspects of a single approach. She thus tries to give her practice an overall form on the basis of the following working hypotheses:

To work with the landscape considered as a subject crossing environmental, social and cultural questions, to think collectively of the conditions of common life.

Work in the landscape seen as an essential invention of Western culture, a living laboratory where the tension between Subject and Society is exerted, in the material and symbolic manipulation of a topo-historical given.

Work from the affective dimension of the landscape and on its imaginary power, to question the making of a reality that achieves consensus.