Ecologies of Defiance: Plants Leading the Way to Clearer Waters

Julie Bron

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Inès Carron

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Elias Artturi Rantakallio

‘You have to act as if it were possible to radically transform the world. And you have to do it all the time.’ Berre l’Etang, now the site most affected by industrial pollution around the lagoon, has become our laboratory of defiance. By investigating and formulating potential activism movements and alternative futures where plants take back their rights and humanity reacts in accordance with its environment, these imaginaries aim to stimulate collective reflections and nourish new social myths, anchors for believing in others future and starting to build them.

Team
Unit:
RIOT
Teachers:
Charlotte Malterre-Barthes
Assistants:
Elif Erez Henderson, Antoine Iweins D'Eeckhoutte, Kathlyn R Kao
Infos
Year:
2025, 2026
Period:
Y3 (BA), Y1 (MA), Y2 (MA), Fall
Category:
Semester Project
Topic:  
Architecture, Construction, Environment, Experimentation, Landscape, Representation, Society, Sustainability, Technology, Territory, Urban study
Copyright:
CC BY Licence
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