This Thursday, October 24, 2013, at 6:30 PM in the Auditorium of MAMAC, Michel Péna, the landscape designer of the Promenade du Paillon, will host the conference “The Fertile Promenade.” A preview before the official opening of the location this Saturday!
This conference is organized as a prelude to the presentation of the exhibition “The Fertile City, Towards an Urban Nature,” produced and curated by the Cité de l’architecture & du patrimoine, with Michel Péna as the commissioner, which will be presented at the Forum starting October 28.
The opening of the Promenade du Paillon on October 26 will be an opportunity to assess the progress made from project to realization, to relive the process that allowed the transition from the idea of an urban garden to a public space open to all.
In his conference, Michel Péna will revisit the concept of the “fertile city,” fertile in the literal sense with its more abundant vegetation, its more present soil, the air and the sky it offers; fertile also in the imaginary it brings to the city through stories of plants and landscapes, fertile in the social bonds and encounters it invites.
This fertile city reclaims its thought to create new landscapes for cities and invites reflection on the role of landscape as a precursor to urbanism rather than as a “repairer” of urbanism’s mistakes.
