The landscape project uses numerous implicit conceptual categories, too often difficult to understand by the uninitiated and insufficiently questioned by landscape practitioners themselves. Thus, the latter mobilize a body ...
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The landscape project uses numerous implicit conceptual categories, too often difficult to understand by the uninitiated and insufficiently questioned by landscape practitioners themselves. Thus, the latter mobilize a body of knowledge and associated practices resulting from a professional culture, made of specific know-how, still willingly closed in on itself. However, the production of knowledge in this area refers to increasingly alarming eco-climatic news, questioning the way in which the skills necessary for understanding the world are built with the aim of leading action on the socio-ecological complexes which compose. This fabrication, like any theoretical-performative construction, involves numerous political and democratic issues.Building on these perspectives, this thesis sought to interrogate the question of knowledge and its construction in action in order to articulate democratic and environmental issues. It is part of the broader scientific field of questions concerning the democratization of action (public or private) in connection with the crisis of “modern” expertise. To do this, it poses the hypothesis that implementing a pragmatic dialectic between the concept of inhabit and the notion of landscape would make it possible to renew the different ways of inhabiting places, planning territories and managing environments, at a key moment in public action in these areas and in a particular context: that of a territorial margin.The research approach is based on an experiment through the establishment of a Landscape inhabitant cooperative (LIC) in Haute Gironde (Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France) mobilizing collectives of actor-inhabitants of this territory. Faced with the complexity of the socio-ecological issues that had to be faced, this thesis offers both an account of theexperiments carried out and a theoretical and critical exploration of the issues of landscape action. It seeks to shed light on the dimensions, both epistemological and pragmatic, which are essential today, when we want to deal in an integrated manner with questions linked to societies and their environment. It results in proposing a landscape project opening onto mesological perspectives. The results obtained are based on three landscape transversal workshops (LTW), developing in diversified process situations: an abandoned marsh managed by a union of owners, while being a pre-emption zone of the department and Natura 2000 site ; a citizen garden established on a private plot in the heart of a village run by a collective ofpeople who have presented unsuccessfully in municipal elections; farms in transition at the time of the establishment of a Territorial Food Project by a Community of Municipalities. Maintaining links more or less with public policies at different levels, these workshops make it possible to (re)define the praxeological issues of mobilizing landscape inhabitants’ knowledge and to propose on these bases a new landscape system making it possible to incorporate and to weave together attachments to collectively transform (mid)places of life.Ultimately, the thesis shows that eco-climatic crises appear more and more as consubstantial with a deeper crisis of a cosmopolitical order (dis)binding societies and environments, that is to say a crisis of our ways of inhabiting, a crisis of our making world. In this context of uncertainty, the landscape project opens up a possible recomposition of collective attachments. In this way, it constitutes a path for democratic and political innovation from an earthly perspective, because it requires us to think about how all the stakeholders, human and non-human, together constitute a collective, a cosmos, from which it is not possible to separate, to escape or overhang, if we want to act sustainably.
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