Urbanisme

Hélène Lavoyer - Le Regard Libre N° 40

The environmental and food issues being debated around the world today will not go away on their own. More than ever, criticizing the means deployed by populations and governments, while highlighting their concrete and positive aspects, is just as necessary as questioning them. This is what we did, when we met Michael Jakob, Professor of Landscape Architecture at HEPIA (Geneva). In the charming Chez Quartier tea room on rue Voltaire, he answered our questions and took a different, sometimes even opposing look at our previous conceptions of the urban kitchen garden and its representation in Western society. An interview rich in questions.