Where Sirens Grow Roots: Networks of Gossip and Plants Against Industrial Futures

Zofia Beyger

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Claire Marie Sylvie Passer

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Alison Wagner

Etang de Berre, a porous territory of past poisoning, present industrial operations and future projects, remains locked in its industrial destiny. In response, by deploying an intertwined strategy with plants and gossip as resistance tool, the landscape is transformed into an informant that reveals pollution networks and risks. Through emerging coalitions, the population mobilizes the territory as a vector of knowledge: establishing new forms of stewardship, communication and care, restoring community agency and connection to the land.

Team
Unit:
RIOT
Teachers:
Charlotte Malterre-Barthes
Assistants:
Elif Erez Henderson, Antoine Pierre Marie Iweins D'Eeckhoutte, Kathlyn R Kao
Infos
Year:
2025
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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