Environmental History III

For this third edition, LUMA Arles is bringing together researchers, artists and landscape architects to work on a historical approach to ecology.

Starting from the premise that industrial societies have profoundly damaged landscapes and ecosystems, Far From the Garden will explore an important question: What can emerge in our damaged landscapes when the increasing impermeability of soil, global-scale urbanism and densification, and vast deforestation are existentially at odds with the idea of a garden as a designed landscape of mediation between nature and culture?

Introduction by Grégory Quenet

In the Vicinity of Environmental History: Reflections on Historiographical Change
with Patrick Boucheron

Book launch of "SPF 666: Gótico Provençal"
with Diana Campbell, Pierre-Alexandre Mateos, Charles Teyssou and Simon Castets

To Be the Wind for the Tree: Generative Poetry Lab
with Natalia Fedorova

Natures of Empire: Colonial Botanical Gardens
with Hélène Blais

The Parc des Ateliers as an Experimental Garden
with Hélène Blais, Bas Smets, Véronique Mure and Martin Guinard

History Takes Place beneath our Feet: Philosophy of Subterranean Worlds
with Mohamed Amer Meziane

The (Queer) Flourishing of Ten Thousand Things
with Zairong Xiang

Far from Afar
with Hashim Sarkis

Mireille’s Itinerary
with Véronique Mure and Estelle Rouquette

The Garden by the Sea
with Tarek El-Ariss

Inhabiting the Spine of the Desert: Nomadic Imaginaries of the Sahara
with Maïa Tellit Hawad

Wasteland
with Feda Wardak, Raphaëlle Guidée and Martin Guinard

Seeds of the World: Cereal Seeds; From Food Civilizations to GMOs
Alessandro Stanziani

Out of the garden
Maya Lin

Homage to Gustav Metzger
Hélène Guenin, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Leanne Dmyterko, Benoît Piéron and Vassilis Oikonomopoulos