Publication of an essay in “A Tree, A Reader on Arboreal Kinship” edited by Marjolein van der Loo.
A Tree, is about vegetal agency, plant knowledge, and the interaction between plants and people, with a specific focus on trees. Like all plants, trees make the world; they literally create soil, shape landscapes, and affect the climate. They produce oxygen. They provide fuel, food, building materials, and shelter, and form ecologies where a myriad of species come together to enter into various symbiotic partnerships. Trees are wonderful to think with, and humans have been doing so—through meditation, in all kinds of storytelling, and as partners in problem-solving—probably for as long as they have walked the earth. Trees are also time tellers, rather than following industrial time, clock time, or any time defined by human activity, trees relate to their own experience of time.
Read MoreFirst prize for the high-rise “Zeppelin” in Zürich-Oerlikon.
First prize for the open spaces of the Rosental Mitte site in Basel with “Singing Spring”.
The team of Studio Céline Baumann and Weyell Zipse together with Martin Frei and Knopp+Kiel wins first prize for the open spaces of the Rosental Mitte site in Basel. The proposal “Singing Spring” guides the transformation process over the next decade of Rosental Mitte site in Basel. It consists of a concept scheme securing the qualities of the newly created open space and a set of activating measures involving vegetative and human pioneers.
Read MoreCéline Baumann is kicking off a visiting studio of landscape architecture with “studio rhizomes” at the ETH in Zürich.
Publication of the album Flowers of Evil by the Triennale in Milano in the frame of the Home Sweet Home exhibition.
“ Many of the ornamental plant species with which we share the domestic space, taking care of them daily without wondering too much about their origin, were imported to Europe from exotic climes, generating what Céline Baumann defines as a “cognitive dissonance between the decorative aspect of potted plants and a brutal colonial history”. The artist and landscape architect sheds light on the origins of those species and the journeys they have had to make to intertwine with our lives.
Read MoreInterview Plant Pleasures and Intimacies issued in the Libertine Botany edition of l’esprit créateur.
„Plant sexual life becomes the subject of intense discussions in early modern botany. How does France, with its legacy of materialist libertine thought, become a hub for botanically-informed critique of human sexual norms and practices? How is early modern botany enmeshed with desire?
Read MoreCéline Baumann is visiting professor at the EPF Lausanne as part of the orientation “Cities – Territories”.
The creation of dynamic and living open spaces based on the iterative ecology between communities and their environment is guiding the approach of this landscape architecture project. The studio investigates the metaphor of ramification; a tool allowing to compose and qualify a territory through the quality of its void as well as the density of its mass.
Read MoreWe are taking part in Manifesta 14.
In 2022, Manifesta 14, the European Nomadic Biennial, takes place in Prishtina, Kosovo. Under the title „ It matters what worlds world worlds: how to tell stories otherwise “, Creative Mediator Catherine Nichols takes up the challenge of exploring and generating new practices and ways of collective storytelling. We have the pleasure to present the Queer Nature project in the Grand Hotel, a key venue of the festival.
Read MoreFirst prize for the primary school in the new district of Walkeweg in Basel.
The team led by Lukas Manz, Barbara Thüler and Farquet Architectes wins first prize for the construction of the new Walkeweg school. The project offers playscape amenities for pupils as well as ecological corridors for an urban flora and fauna.
Read MoreFirst prize for the housing building 2.3 on the Volta site in Basel.
Publication of the essay Let not bygones go by in the book Roadside Picnics. Encounters with the uncanny.
With a combination of essays, memoirs, guided imagery, and speculative story-telling, this book reenacts Roadside Picnic, a sci-fi story addressing the problem of humanity’s contact with another intelligence through the environmental effects and wreckage left behind by the visitors.
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