International symposium

Organisers : Laboratoire de recherche en projet de paysage (Larep), Ecole nationale supérieure de paysage

The transition from gardening to designing and planning open spaces – and vice versa – is a question that equally concerns family gardens and historic or contemporary landscaped parks. It also implies the agricultural world – reaffirming its close link with the land.  Furthermore, it has become an urgent issue in the modern world’s quest for coherence between individual and collective action, in the face of increasingly specialised disciplines, and constantly contradictory social demands. It is the event’s ambition to reunite gardeners, historians, geographers, landscapers, urban planners and all disciplines involved in garden art and landscaping, in an aim to provoke an in-depth study of the transition from gardening to landscape. The 4th centenary of the birth of Jean de La Quintinie (1 March 1626), landscaper and the first gardener of the King’s Kitchen Garden, together with the 50th anniversary of the creation of the National Graduate Landscaping School at the King’s Kitchen Garden (15 October 1976) act as catalysts. To valorise the contribution of this collective effort, provisional proceedings, entitled, ‘From gardening to landscape and vice versa.  La Quintinie’s legacy’, will be drafted.