O habitante paisagista

Abstract

Inhabitant landscaper was a concept developed by Bernard Lassus, renowned landscaper, professor and researcher in the area of gardens and landscapes. Participated in the resumption of the research landscape in France that featured great political, social and economic repercussion in the 1990s, and today is a great reference in Europe. During that period he was a consultant to the French government in matters involving issues related to Parks, Gardens and Landscapes. In the latter area, innovated with his landscape view facing the motorways and helped raise awareness of the public power the importance of investing in landscapes, supporting research, stimulating new interventions and developing the work of professionals in the landscaping. As the starting point of the research of Bernard Lassus materialized with the creation of the concept of Inhabitant Landscaper. It is noted that it was crucial to his conceptual and professional trajectory, because this concept was the element showing the presence of the imaginary in this area.The concepts developed based on the inhabitant landscaper were crucial in the development of landscaping in France, embracing the idea of the presence of the imaginary in landscaping projects and extending to landscapes the importance of subjectivity. Forty years after the creation of the Inhabitant Landscape concept, the creation of the European Landscape Convention formalizes the importance of participation of people in the processes of interventions in the landscape, drawing attention to the importance of this dimension landscape in all sectors of intervention of space. This new vision of landscape in Europe is democratizing the lanscaper’s profession in order to improve the living environment of the population. Along a certain period of history, the population was not considered, and thus showed their needs through the imagination of its gardens, a fact seized by Bernard Lassus.