For the great art of time, spectacle and storytelling that is cinema, gardens serve as a partner that delivers a level of aesthetics and poetics rarely found elsewhere.
At the crossroads of literary, artistic, historical, regional and ecological studies, this conference aims to explore the Mediterranean garden as a space for creation, transmission and reflection.
Symposium organised as part of the GATES (Grenoble ATtractiveness and ExcellenceS) research project “FLOWER – Floral Legacies: Observing Women’s Eco-artistic Representations”.
How were the conservation measures for this area – which has received particular support from the DRAC Centre-Val de Loire – put in place, and how do they fit in with its development as a tourist destination?
Urban fortifications from the modern and contemporary periods, often reduced to their purely architectural dimension, harbour a botanical heritage that remains largely overlooked.
How should one manage a collection that includes both marble sculptures that have been in the gardens since the early 18th century and contemporary works?
