Céline Baumann is kicking off a visiting studio of landscape architecture with “studio rhizomes” at the ETH in Zürich.
During the autumn semester 2023, we are investigating how rhizomatic structures may allow us to act upon broad territories in order to shape ecological and climatic corridors for humans and non-humans alike.
Read MoreThird prize for the Luberzen school in Dietikon.
Competition entry campo in Winterthur for the Art, Culture and History Trust SKKG (Stiftung für Kunst, Kultur und Geschichte).
Building site for Lyse-Lotte moving forward.
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 MoreSecond prize for the housing cooperative Horw in Luzern.
Céline 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 MorePublication 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.
Read MorePublication of an essay for the French independent journal mille cosmos.
The essay is part of the special report on “écologies déviantes” and comes along with drawings from Pauline Barzilaï and scientific illustrations from Ève Barlier.
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