[News] Gaïagraphies. Renewing our earthly representations with Alexandra Arènes

[Mercredi d’as]

Gaïagraphies. Renewing our terrestrial representations with Alexandra Arènes

For the next Mercredi d’AS, we’re delighted to welcome Alexandra Arènes, architect and researcher. She invites us to re-interrogate our ways of mapping the world by exploring the deep and often invisible dimensions of our territories.

Wednesday, January 15 | 18h
10, rue Lacuée – 75012

“How can we give depth to maps that are limited to the surface and that we most often use to represent and design territories, landscapes and architecture? How can we make invisible agentivities visible, either because they are inaccessible to our senses without the appropriate instruments, or because we choose not to show them on our maps?

These questions are important because they determine how we understand the world around us (including or excluding certain entities) and in which we live and build. One proposal is to draw on the new natural sciences that study the Earth’s critical zone and its biogeochemical cycles, in deep spatial and temporal dimensions.

This talk will explore some possible maps – speculative or potential – that capture the critical dimensions of landscapes observed in critical zone observatories. These maps emerge from the places where scientists study the damaged part of the earth and, in so doing, contribute to the establishment of more cosmopolitan relationships with the elements.”