Starting from Lausanne-Jardins 2024 project, the design studio proposes a paradigm shift in the notions of urban park and public space. Questioning health, well-being, ecosystems and public space for human and non-human, it explores new narratives for the project of socio-ecological Transition in the City-Territory.
Questioning the evolution of the body in the space, governing the challenges posed by the evolution of a "natural" and public landscape, used by a growing population, will be examined and will become the object of spatial and conceptual investigations at different scales, the city, the landscapes, and the living space. Some specific situations within Lausanne agglomeration will question the idea and form of the contemporary metropolis.
New forms of coexistence - between different species, populations, activities - will then be made possible, building new spaces for lives, based on strategies to open new relationships, connections intensifying, and adapting the inhabited landscape to climate change, as well as the notion of health and body/bodies’ well-being that derives from its use.