Regarder, représenter, comprendre

In our professional practice as landscape architects, we produce images. and seek inspiration before starting projects. As the botanist collects the herbs and plants he finds, we collect the landscapes we have visited, travelled through and studied. These collections which combine materials taken directly from the field (photos, sketches, leaves) and recomposed images constitute as many "landscape herbaria". In this article we comment on this work we carry out on the raw and transformed data which gives form to our creative input in landscape projects. The proliferation of images, the availability of new computer tools, and the ease with which it is possible to edit images and produce photomontages results in a blurring of ideas. Before embarking on projects, we need to conduct patient research to find new inspiration and fresh insights. This work on images enables us to perceive and represent elements which are invisible and motivates us to go back into the field. It is also this work on the blurred nature of fabricated images that fuels the debate in the shared production of our landscape projects