Lab Pay(S)Age: A Landscape Observatory for the Research Project

Mutations of Nature paradigm in Wallonia founds a geomorphological approach learning from landscape and urban types of configurations, in order to understand the "reasons of landscape" and the "inhabitants' will" having transformed environments over time. Important change replaced the original Meuse valley, first into a thriving rural countryside and finally through voracious industrialization. This palimpsest reflects the contemporary distress of society forced to find itself again. The LabVTP with VERDIR (Ulg research) focuses on crisis of post-industrial landscape. Readings and Action Research could make visible landscape's transformations, in order to: reveal relations, existing and forgotten, between Nature and Culture; intervene on key sites (acupuncture); redesign cultural and landscape texture; redesign cultural and landscape texture; use the project as a tool for interaction between specialized and common knowledge.