CALL FOR PAPERS
International symposium
Landscape Project Research Laboratory (Larep), Ecole nationale supérieure de paysage, Versailles-Marseille
Response deadline: Thursday 18 September 2025
Conference dates: Wednesday 11th and Thursday 12th, March 2026
Venues: Sceaux, Paris, Versailles (France)
Potager du Roi, Versailles, 2013.
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The transition from gardening to spatial design or planning, and vice versa, is a common issue in gardens and large parks, both historic and contemporary. This transition also concerns the agricultural world, which is reworking its connection to the land. It has become an urgent issue in a world seeking coherence between individual and collective actions, grappling with increasingly specialised knowledge and increasingly contradictory social demands.
The aim of this symposium is to bring together gardeners, historians, geographers, landscape architects, urban planners and other disciplines concerned with the art of gardening and landscape design, to examine and explore this transition between gardening and landscape. The 400th anniversary of the birth of Jean de La Quintinie (March 1st, 1626), designer and first gardener of the Potager du Roi, and the 50th anniversary of the creation of the Ecole nationale supérieure de paysage at the Potager du Roi (October 15th 1976) serve as catalysts. To build on the results of this symposium, a publication is planned, provisionally entitled From Gardening to Landscape and Vice Versa: The Legacy of La Quintinie.
The call for contributions is divided into four parts, but is not limited to them:
1. The gardens of LA QUINTINIE
2. Agriculture and gardening through treatises: before and after the Instruction pour les jardins fruitiers et potagers (1690)
3. From gardening to landscaping and vice versa: the transversality of living things
4. Teaching practices and gardening in higher education and outside the classroom
Proposals for contributions
Proposals are limited to 2,000 characters and must be accompanied by a short biographical and bibliographical presentation (1,500 characters).
They must be sent to the following address: a.jacobsohn@ecole-paysage.fr before September 18th, 2025 (midnight).
Organizing committee, Larep (ENSP)
Antoine Jacobsohn – secretary
Sophie Bonin,
Marion Brun
Françoise Cremel
Pauline Frileux
Roberta Pistoni
Scientific Committee
Alienor Bertrand (ENS – Lyon)
Stéphanie de Courtois (ENSAV)
Sonia Kéravel (ENSP)
Patrick Moquay (ENSP)
Florent Quellier (Univ. Angers)
Aurélien Ramos (Univ. Paris 1)
Chiara Santini (ENSP)
