Diagraming the Feral Condition – ROOTED IN ECOSYSTEMS LECTURE

Guibert, E. 2026. Diagraming the Feral Condition – ROOTED IN ECOSYSTEMS LECTURE.

CreatorsGuibert, E.
CollaboratorsGuibert, E.
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ABSTRACT OF THE LECTURE

Eric Guibert is a gardener architect, researcher, and teacher, practicing at the boundaries between building and landscape architectures. He investigates regenerative architectures that host more equal relationships between other-than-humans and humans, and design methods that nurture the regeneration of
all forms of life.
Taking a modern animist position, he researches meaningful ways of giving a voice to other-than-human lives. The mixed-methods approach is rooted in an embodied practice unfolding in a 3 hectares property in his native rural France where the
landscape has been co-created with its ecosystems since 2005.
This experience is in dialogue with a mixture of academic and literary writings combined with artistic methods (photography, drawing, diagramming…), including speculative letters written as if the authors were other-than-human beings, such as soils and trees.
Through regenerative design methods and a diagram that conveys the range of relationships humans have with nature (both developed in the Architectural Animism design studio at the University of Westminster and the Feral Landscape design
studio at The Bartlett, London, UK), the lecture will share the concepts, aesthetics, principles, and tensions defined in Eric’s recent publications. Understanding of these tools has proven useful; it locates the ‘feral landscape’ approaches where a dialogue is established as ecosystems are neither fully controlled, nor wildernesses.

Keywordsferal landscape
landscape architecture
regenerative design
diagramming
Year23 Apr 2026
2026
Web address (URL)https://stadenarchitectuur.be/agenda/gardener-architect-uk-fr/

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