Gilles Tiberghien • “Paysagisme”

October 26, 2018 Gilles Tiberghien presented the French concept of paysagisme, its main practitioners and relationship to environmental issues. Though the French word paysagisme is usually translated as “landscaping,” “landscape design,” or “landscape architecture,” the field covers much more than that. It incorporates a wide range of land-use issues, including urban planning, public spaces, land reclamation, and ecology, while it also has a pronounced aesthetic element in garden and park design, and overlaps with the important late 20th-century and contemporary art movement known as land art. Gilles Tiberghien, agrégé in philosophy, teaches at Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and has written two books on land-based visual arts: Land Art and Nature, Art, Paysage, and has written extensively on contemporary landscape artists and designers. This event was part of the lecture series Paysagisme: Art and Ecological Responsibility organized by Cole Swensen, Professor of Literary Arts. The series was sponsored by the French Embassy through the Brown University French Center of Excellence, by Brown Arts Initiative, and by the Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne. Read more about the Center of Excellence.