Droit du paysage; Du droit de déambuler?

In the West, the question of land law is a structuring factor in approaches to spatial planning, and conditions our relationship with landscapes and architecture. If we imagine a law that challenges this approach, from the perspective of the environmental humanities, how can we think about landscape law and make natural entities subjects rather than objects of law?

Moderated by Jean-Marc Besse, philosopher, geographer and CNRS research director, EHESS

Guests:

Sarah Vanuxem, jurist, Université de Côte d’Azur, title: “Du droit de déambuler” (“The right to stroll”)

Since the dawn of modernity, the right to roam and subsist freely on the land has been progressively prohibited. From an ecological and ethical point of view, however, it is vital to recover a world that is porous and traversable, both for humans and for other living beings. The very notion of law has been interpreted in modern times as enclosure. But it is just as legitimate to conceive of it as a shared, common space. We could propose to recast Western law on the basis of the right to wander.

Lawyer Sarah Vanuxem is a lecturer and researcher at the lʼUniversité de Nice Sophia-Antipolis. Her work focuses on the transformations that environmental law is bringing to our legal tradition.

Joëlle Zask, philosopher, director of research, IUF, Aix-Marseille University, title: “What about animal corridors in the city? “

Eugénie Denarnaud, title: “La Baguenaude comme outil de connaissance” (The Baguenaude as a knowledge tool)