Ontopoetics

Ontopoetics is a way of thinking where being (ontos) and poetics are entwined: existence is not only fact but also expression, unfolding as story, image, or rhythm. The term suggests that reality speaks poetically, not only scientifically. It resists the split between cold ontology and soft aesthetics. To speak of ontopoetics is to say that how things appear, resonate, or move us is part of their being, not an aftertaste. Critics may see it as vague or too lyrical, but it insists that poetics belongs at the heart of how we understand existence. Ontopoetics invites attention to the expressive life of materials, forms, and ecologies. A path, a tree line, a floodplain—each has ontological weight, but also poetic force in how it is lived, perceived, narrated. Designing with ontopoetics is designing with both fact and resonance at once.

/ Alexandre Champagne

Today, the possibility arises to define a new design approach to address issues of environmental and social justice in the urban context. Based on an integrated understanding of the interdependencies involving human and environmental relations, the applied-philosophy approach for landscape architectural practices induces a paradigm shift in spatial design. Rather than applying downstream solutions to […]

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This summer, throughout Switzerland, you can attend the curated observation of the ongoing phenomenon of glaciers melting. Art installations, performances and exhibitions, scattered about the Alpine landscape, are informed by this exclusive moment in climate history that will forever change our landscapes. The melting progresses with the proportion of the loss of albedo surface. Although […]

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