This issue explores the changing concept of landscape amidst contemporary environmental and epistemological shifts. Traditionally rooted in early modern aesthetic ideals that externalized nature through pictorial and garden forms, landscape today struggles to capture the realities of human-altered environments and ecological crises. Recent discourse critiques landscape as a limiting, objectifying framework and calls for its radical redefinition beyond human-centered aesthetics, advocating for an inclusive engagement with the more-than-human world. Interdisciplinary and intermedial perspectives now redefine landscape as a dynamic relational space, inhabited and experienced corporeally and sensorially, rather than merely observed. These approaches integrate cultural geography, phenomenology, geopoetics, and artistic practices to bridge divides between nature and culture, past and present, human and non-human agency. Medial explorations—spanning poetry, performance, visual art, and local ecological narratives—challenge dominant environmental representations and enable the articulation of suppressed voices and novel temporalities. The volume underscores landscape’s continued relevance as a site of ecological relationality and pluralistic narratives, highlighting its potential to foster more respectful, inclusive forms of environmental awareness and action amid the ongoing Anthropocene.
Summary
Introduction.
Hélène Ibata, Université de Strasbourg
Gwendolyne Cressman, Université de Strasbourg
Articles
Landscapes in the making: pasts and futures
Landscape is Now (Again): Cosmoramic Views from the Arctic Anthropocene
Mark A. Cheetham, University of Toronto
Cows, Cliffs and Caves: Exploring the Angloseen of James Ward’s Gordale Scar
Sophie Mesplède, Université Rennes 2
“Paysages de la durée”. La littérature et l’économie de la nature chez Charles Péguy
Clément Girardi, Sorbonne Université
Critical visualities: (re)mediating disaster
Wild and Radioactive Scenery: Nuclearized Landscapes of the Western United States
Lucie Genay, Université de Limoges
How to Envision a Future after Disaster: Cinematic Landscape and Post-Disaster Recovery in Haruka Komori and Natsumi Seo’s Double Layered Town/Making a Song to Replace Our Positions (2019)
Aya Motegi, Université Paris Cité
Mon paysage quotidien est devenu une icône médiatique du changement climatique
Hérvé Davodeau, Institut Agro Rennes-Angers
Landscapes of the mind: sensing and writing uncertainty
« Hurricane stories » : Réinventer les paysages caribéens à travers les écritures littéraires des ouragans
Pauline Amy de la Bretèque, Université Sorbonne Paris Nord
The Residual Landscape in the Petrofiction of the Harper Decade: A Reading of Don Gillmor’s Long Change
Claire Omhovère Université de Montpellier Paul-Valéry / EMMA
Spatialities and Artistries of Crisis: Towards Reinvention in Sara Baume’s A Line Made by Walking (2017)
Marion Bourdeau (Université Jean Moulin Lyon 3)
Experimenting with co-mediations: landscape as medium
En co-paysage : écriture scénique intermédiale en écoute avec les quais de Gaspésie
Jean-Paul Quéinnec, Université du Québec à Chicoutimi et Andrée-Anne Giguère, Université Laval
Prendre le parti du paysage… et le point de vue des mousses
Thierry Bardini, Université de Montréal
Artist Dossier
Paysages incertains / Uncertain Landscapes
Monica Manolescu, Université de Strasbourg / USIAS
Bunker peinture totale
Collectif Bétonite
Rendre sensible un paysage atmosphérique, à la croisée des formes et pratiques de recherche-création
Laure Brayer, ENSAG / AAU-Cresson, Marc Higgin, AAU-Cresson / ESAAA, Olivier Labussière, CNRS / PACTE, Yves Monnier (artiste plasticien)
Cyber Ghost Town ou le devenir ruine de la ville post-humaine
Julie Meyer
Naviguer en oiseau
Caroline Cieslik, École Européenne Supérieure d’Art de Bretagne