| Summary: | The article presents an analysis of practices of landscape designers in Europe from two books Fieldwork (2006) and On Site (2009). It shows that the proxemics principles of spatial distance, highlighted by the American anthropologist E. T. Hall fifty years ago to address the urban space crisis, could be relayed by the idea of landscape geomediation. This concept, developed by the author, refers to professional practices that make landscape a tool for adapting physical space to social demands of quality of life. The analysis highlights that European landscape projects are more concerned with the individual and collective relationship to space, rather than with the interpersonal relationships, the social and cultural diversity of its uses and its vernacular European identity. Such projects create a figure of universal user of singular public spaces.
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