Landscape inventory(s)

Application summary

Interested in storytelling through interactive narratives, I have been working for several years to develop poetic and visual fictions centered on the imaginaries of the living. Ecological concerns and speculative futures are at the heart of my research. As an extension of my previous visual research, centered on the question of landscape and its decomposition into multiple mental perceptions, I would like to develop a digital animation based on experiments with the natural environment surrounding Mietoinen. In this new project, I would like to work on the notion of landscape in the context of contemporary ecology, taking as my starting point the lines below : "In landscape ecology, a landscape is defined as a heterogeneous area made up of a set of interacting ecosystems. It is therefore the level of organization of ecological systems, higher than the ecosystem. The spatial and functional structure of a landscape is made up of three types of entity : habitat patches, themselves made up of the inner environment and the ecotone or edge zone; corridors, which are linear landscape elements enabling species to move between habitat patches; and the matrix, which is the dominant type of space occupied by man, and whose role in the ecological functioning of the landscape depends on its degree of hospitality for the species concerned. Fragmentation occurs when there are portions of spaces considered as matrix." (Landscape ecology. Concepts. Methods and application », Françoise Burel and Jacques Baudry) The digital animation will consist of a superimposition of visual sequences corresponding to the three types of entity thus defined in this passage. I am interested in highlighting what, in the perception of a so-called natural world, is an integral part of the long process of anthropization. This new project will pay particular attention to our contemporary ways of surveying landscapes.