La Conference permanente du Developpement territorial (CPDT) s’est vue confier l’etablissement du... more La Conference permanente du Developpement territorial (CPDT) s’est vue confier l’etablissement du Diagnostic territorial de la Wallonie. Les auteurs y ont contribue a la partie portant sur la thematique sectorielle «Patrimoine bâti»; ils y exploraient les effets concrets des recentes evolutions de la thematique sur le terrain et les liens etablis entre patrimoine et amenagement du territoire a l’echelle regionale. Cet article presente les principaux constats poses concernant les outils existants et les themes dominants le debat actuel, afin de proposer un questionnement sur les outils et methodes existants d’une part, et les options politiques de l’autre.
Ground, as a body incised by natural and human actions (European Landscape Convention), carries “... more Ground, as a body incised by natural and human actions (European Landscape Convention), carries “stories”, going beyond quantitative values. As in a text, it holds the keys to understand what it covers or hides. In its thickness, it shelters “implicit projects”. Understanding its complexity requires a physical and perceptual commitment, challenging the body in space: dimensions gradually forgotten by Environmental Sciences. As a “threshold” between visible and invisible, Underground-Built-Heritage represents the reverse of the emerged world: hollow space, both generator and mirror of open space (cities, landscapes). The focus is on physical and mental relationships between these two worlds. Past and present relationships emerge, allowing hypotheses to reconstitute collective memories, practices, knowledge, and values, which serve territorial development. The “Three Countries Park” is a place for cross-border experimentation to test how UBH can rebuild common links for fragmented env...
For the author, the landscape and the park are open books, evidence of historical traces, intenti... more For the author, the landscape and the park are open books, evidence of historical traces, intentions and languages showing the evolution of the notion of citizenship. It shows that the latter currently suffers from the inability to project into the future. The path to citizenship therefore requires the return to a citizen project expressing intentions and cultural willingness.Peer reviewe
The landscape, in crisis because of the abstraction process of Human and Nature relationship, req... more The landscape, in crisis because of the abstraction process of Human and Nature relationship, requires tools able to face the distance and the loss of character and materiality of our life environments. Countries are reduced to open spaces and parks to green spaces. The opposition between full-void shapes landscapes becomming objects without meaning. The sustainable development, a new green revolution, might become a new slogan of consumer's society. The horizontal glance allows to find new methods of reading and writing to decode the environment materiality, awakening the body to tactile perception. The project as an open work permits the evolution of intentions and integrates Nature, time and mutation as elements of landscape co-generation. Observation, sites practice and awareness become the active material of the landscape project.Peer reviewe
Green Spaces in the Urban and Peri-urban Area of Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of the Congo... more Green Spaces in the Urban and Peri-urban Area of Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. This study evaluates the characteristics of green spaces subject to peri-urbanization in Kinshasa. It analyzes their typology, spatial pattern, vegetation, management, state of maintenance and potential ecosystem services. The analysis is based on a random sample of 87 green spaces situated in urban and peri-urban areas of the city and is mainly based on Fisher exact tests and analysis of variance. Results show that the studied green spaces have similar characteristics along the urbanization gradient with a relatively high plant species diversity in peri-urban areas. Peri-urban areas stand out for gardens while green spaces with collective courts characterize most urban areas. As for the expected ecosystem services, they show little variation along the urban-rural gradient. Nevertheless, the dominant ecosystem services are less related to the improvement of the environmental quality of...
Ri-Vista. Research for landscape architecture, 2022
Conventional description, interpretation and design processes for public space enter into crisis ... more Conventional description, interpretation and design processes for public space enter into crisis in the geography of the 20th-century sprawling city denoted by enclosures. In this complex geography, often coinciding with that of drosscape, heterotopias of deviation raise thorny issues in the contemporary urban landscape. Role and shape of these now obsolete heritages must be rethought starting with the enclosure walls, a representative element of the heterotopical identity of these places.This paper explores burial landscapes, lastscapes, as a chance for urban fragments surrounding them. These places should be interpreted as hypertopias and no longer as heterotopias, rather than “other spaces” they should be considered as public spaces. With this purpose, three design strategies are proposed, using northern European case studies: a project of rooms, a project of margins, a project of layers.
The recovered dimension of "interactions between natural and human factors" and the ref... more The recovered dimension of "interactions between natural and human factors" and the reference to "perception of people" are the European Landscape Convention elements which have most contributed to the establishment of a reversal process of landscape perspectives currently taking place in Belgium and particularly in Wallonia. The Convention suggests to thlnk about another way to position themselves in relation to the landscape in order to review the fundamentals of landscape methods. The issues of perception and interaction no longer refer to the expression of a single actor (the designer or the legislator), but they evoke the need for a paradigm shift: leave the project vision imposed on the territory and promote a pluralistic and open project? integrating the perceptions and wishes of people who use and know the locations. This emerging dynamic is still encountering resistance from the practices of functional and fragmentary planning, which promote the persiste...
La Conference permanente du Developpement territorial (CPDT) s’est vue confier l’etablissement du... more La Conference permanente du Developpement territorial (CPDT) s’est vue confier l’etablissement du Diagnostic territorial de la Wallonie. Les auteurs y ont contribue a la partie portant sur la thematique sectorielle «Patrimoine bâti»; ils y exploraient les effets concrets des recentes evolutions de la thematique sur le terrain et les liens etablis entre patrimoine et amenagement du territoire a l’echelle regionale. Cet article presente les principaux constats poses concernant les outils existants et les themes dominants le debat actuel, afin de proposer un questionnement sur les outils et methodes existants d’une part, et les options politiques de l’autre.
Ground, as a body incised by natural and human actions (European Landscape Convention), carries “... more Ground, as a body incised by natural and human actions (European Landscape Convention), carries “stories”, going beyond quantitative values. As in a text, it holds the keys to understand what it covers or hides. In its thickness, it shelters “implicit projects”. Understanding its complexity requires a physical and perceptual commitment, challenging the body in space: dimensions gradually forgotten by Environmental Sciences. As a “threshold” between visible and invisible, Underground-Built-Heritage represents the reverse of the emerged world: hollow space, both generator and mirror of open space (cities, landscapes). The focus is on physical and mental relationships between these two worlds. Past and present relationships emerge, allowing hypotheses to reconstitute collective memories, practices, knowledge, and values, which serve territorial development. The “Three Countries Park” is a place for cross-border experimentation to test how UBH can rebuild common links for fragmented env...
For the author, the landscape and the park are open books, evidence of historical traces, intenti... more For the author, the landscape and the park are open books, evidence of historical traces, intentions and languages showing the evolution of the notion of citizenship. It shows that the latter currently suffers from the inability to project into the future. The path to citizenship therefore requires the return to a citizen project expressing intentions and cultural willingness.Peer reviewe
The landscape, in crisis because of the abstraction process of Human and Nature relationship, req... more The landscape, in crisis because of the abstraction process of Human and Nature relationship, requires tools able to face the distance and the loss of character and materiality of our life environments. Countries are reduced to open spaces and parks to green spaces. The opposition between full-void shapes landscapes becomming objects without meaning. The sustainable development, a new green revolution, might become a new slogan of consumer's society. The horizontal glance allows to find new methods of reading and writing to decode the environment materiality, awakening the body to tactile perception. The project as an open work permits the evolution of intentions and integrates Nature, time and mutation as elements of landscape co-generation. Observation, sites practice and awareness become the active material of the landscape project.Peer reviewe
Green Spaces in the Urban and Peri-urban Area of Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of the Congo... more Green Spaces in the Urban and Peri-urban Area of Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. This study evaluates the characteristics of green spaces subject to peri-urbanization in Kinshasa. It analyzes their typology, spatial pattern, vegetation, management, state of maintenance and potential ecosystem services. The analysis is based on a random sample of 87 green spaces situated in urban and peri-urban areas of the city and is mainly based on Fisher exact tests and analysis of variance. Results show that the studied green spaces have similar characteristics along the urbanization gradient with a relatively high plant species diversity in peri-urban areas. Peri-urban areas stand out for gardens while green spaces with collective courts characterize most urban areas. As for the expected ecosystem services, they show little variation along the urban-rural gradient. Nevertheless, the dominant ecosystem services are less related to the improvement of the environmental quality of...
Ri-Vista. Research for landscape architecture, 2022
Conventional description, interpretation and design processes for public space enter into crisis ... more Conventional description, interpretation and design processes for public space enter into crisis in the geography of the 20th-century sprawling city denoted by enclosures. In this complex geography, often coinciding with that of drosscape, heterotopias of deviation raise thorny issues in the contemporary urban landscape. Role and shape of these now obsolete heritages must be rethought starting with the enclosure walls, a representative element of the heterotopical identity of these places.This paper explores burial landscapes, lastscapes, as a chance for urban fragments surrounding them. These places should be interpreted as hypertopias and no longer as heterotopias, rather than “other spaces” they should be considered as public spaces. With this purpose, three design strategies are proposed, using northern European case studies: a project of rooms, a project of margins, a project of layers.
The recovered dimension of "interactions between natural and human factors" and the ref... more The recovered dimension of "interactions between natural and human factors" and the reference to "perception of people" are the European Landscape Convention elements which have most contributed to the establishment of a reversal process of landscape perspectives currently taking place in Belgium and particularly in Wallonia. The Convention suggests to thlnk about another way to position themselves in relation to the landscape in order to review the fundamentals of landscape methods. The issues of perception and interaction no longer refer to the expression of a single actor (the designer or the legislator), but they evoke the need for a paradigm shift: leave the project vision imposed on the territory and promote a pluralistic and open project? integrating the perceptions and wishes of people who use and know the locations. This emerging dynamic is still encountering resistance from the practices of functional and fragmentary planning, which promote the persiste...
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