Le Khôl de la vision

Abstract

This article explores the place of gardens in a more general ecological cartography. Focusing on the long tradition of Iranian gardens whose origins go back to Gilgamesh, the article proposes that these gardens owe their longevity to a successful interaction between the environmental and the mental, between the physical and the psychic, the material and the immaterial, and weaves the network that connects agriculture, calligraphy, pœtics and traditional methods.

Keywords:

• Iranian gardens
• Persian gardens
• qanats
• Rumi
• Saadi

Notes

1 Voir Vita Sackville-West, “Persian gardens” in Islamic art of Persia, edited by A.J. Arberry, Goodword books 1953, p. 272.

2 Voir Attar, Le Langage des oiseaux, translated by Garcin de Tassy, Paris, Albin Michel, Col. Spiritualités, 1996, pp. 278–288.

3 Emmanuele Coccia, Métamorphoses, Paris, Bibliothèque Rivages, 2020, p. 74.

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Gaëtane Lamarche-Vadel

Gaëtane Lamarche-Vadel is an essayist and associate researcher at ACTE Aesthetica Paris 1-Panthéon Sorbonne. She taught æsthetic philosophy at ENSA Dijon until 2012 and is the author of various articles and essays on gardens, art, the city, and public space. Her latest works include Chronique du chantier de l’arsenal (les presses du réel/ensadijon 2013), Projets artistiques, à la croisée de l’urbanisme et du politique (La lettre volée 2015), Appropriation inventive et critique (Mimesis 2018), Le Double nom (Verticales /Gallimard, 2018). She is a member of the editorial board of the journal Multitudes.