For the first edition of Ronces, we attempted to understand the concept of a landscape, focusing on its spatial features, the contours that limit and delimit the space, asking whether these boundaries are obstacles or necessary to defining it. Do we need limits to order? Do we need limits to belong? Do we need limits to govern?
Drawing from participants’ practice and skills, we conceived a series of interventions taking the form of reading groups, practical workshops, walks, cooking sessions and conversations that unpacked and offered a diversity of interests and sensibilities in understanding how a landscape emerges.
To pinpoint our research to a human scale, we confined ourselves within the space of the walled garden representing the limits of the family home while we extended our observations to the surrounding areas (woods, village, campsite, river, fields) which allowed us to think of new possible contours for the house’s garden.