Jardins et politique – Paris (France)
Organised on the occasion of the release of a themed issue of the Revue germanique internationale (38/2023), Jardins et politiques, and the Garten und Politik article in Die Gartenkunst magazine (2/2023).
On either bank of the Rhine, gardens have historically been associated with political stakes and with exercising and implementing power. Desired, instrumentalised, protected, witnesses of military conflict or places where the will to overcome them is openly voiced, places of expressed democracy and citizenship, or where new social relationships are built, gardens have always been and continue to be tools towards education and acculturation. These recent publications highlight the diversity of associated stakes and challenges, nourishing reflection on the comparison of – or the relationship between – landscaping and gardening practice in Germany and France – comparison that will be extended here to include Poland, via an intervention by Fried Nielsen and his shared experience in the creation of a German-Polish garden in Warsaw.