Correspondances interdisciplinaires : une recherche-création sur les sols urbains entre anthropologie, écologie et art
In this article, we present a research-creation project in which an anthropologist, an artist, an ecologist, and various stakeholders developed an olfactory study on urban soil. Urban soils are an example of the new environments that are proliferating in the Anthropocene, which are very different fr...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | fra |
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2022-12-01
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| Series: | Tracés |
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| Online Access: | https://journals.openedition.org/traces/14866 |
| Summary: | In this article, we present a research-creation project in which an anthropologist, an artist, an ecologist, and various stakeholders developed an olfactory study on urban soil. Urban soils are an example of the new environments that are proliferating in the Anthropocene, which are very different from the beings that populate modern representations of nature, and the result of a history whose social and natural aspects are entwined. Inspired by historical olfactory research on soils, our speculative methodology led us to petrichor, “the smell of soil after rain”, which is the result of the delicate intermingling of soil, human activities, the lives of microorganisms in the soil, and atmospheric processes. After outlining the research-creation process, we trace the different stages and changes in our approach, and the way in which the investigation was tailored to the different levels of formality of the contexts in which it was conducted. We show how, over the years, the interest in petrichor has enabled us to open up new forms of knowledge about and commitment to strange urban soils and the many stories that link them to their inhabitants. This leads us to consider how entities that modern approaches to soil or the city have tended to separate can once again be linked. |
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| ISSN: | 1763-0061 1963-1812 |