« Une Terre au défi de l’habitabilité ». Entretien avec Nathalie Blanc

Abstract

Faced with an environmental crisis that threatens the survival of humanity, contemporary Western societies need to invent new ways of living on Earth. According to Nathalie Blanc, art and literature, and the research associated with them, have a role to play in this area: because they enable us to develop new imaginaries, they help to establish new relationships between nature and culture. Nathalie Blanc is a geographer, director of research at the CNRS, and director of the Centre des Politiques de la Terre (Université Paris Cité / Sciences Po), which she co-founded in 2019. Her work focuses on nature in the city, and more specifically on the cultural dimension of relations with nature at the heart of local policy projects. Committed to a research-creation approach, she examines the role of art and creativity in environmental mobilisations.