Les ateliers-promenades : des expériences sensibles (paysagères) habitantes aux micro-interventions urbaines

Abstract

This article presents a methodology for analysing the emotional relations between urban dwellers and their environment. In a context of increased insistence on a more “sensitive” city, and of an equally impoverished approach to urban projects, this article seeks to enrich the notion of an urban design more respectful of the meanings and experiences inhabitants attribute to places. This protocol was developed within the framework of the “Fabrique ACTive du paysage” intervention-research project. It is built around the organisation of “walking workshops”. The objective is to record sensations and experiences relating to the landscape in an attempt to gain a better understanding of underlying elements in the relationship to a place and what is meaningful in a landscape, so as to take these elements into consideration when intervening on or transforming the urban environment.

Keywords

• urban landscapes
• sensitive landscapes
• the meaning of landscape(s)
• “walking workshops”
• intervention-research