{"id":587,"date":"2018-10-23T11:32:07","date_gmt":"2018-10-23T09:32:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.etiennedefrance.com\/?page_id=587"},"modified":"2026-01-29T17:22:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T15:22:13","slug":"the-green-vessel-part-1","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.etiennedefrance.com\/index.php\/the-green-vessel-part-1\/","title":{"rendered":"The Green Vessel (Part 1)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Conceived originally for the lake surrounding the International Center of Art and Landscape at Vassivi\u00e8re Island (France), The Green Vessel<\/strong> is a project for a site-specific sculpture, a floating and mobile ensemble that is able to stop at various locations of a water area, wetland or delta.<\/p>\n

Composed of an architectural structure, floating fields and edible wild plants, this ensemble can purify water and produce food. The modularity of its design allow this sculpture to become a blueprint that can be modified and multiplied.
\nExperimenting with self-sufficient forms of transport, housing and food production, this project mix vegetal species and sculptural structures in order to allow the growing and the development of a coevolutionary work.<\/p>\n

Developed through a transdisciplinary research with architects, botanists, engineers and local communities, this project is extended by a series of drawings, texts and sculptures, which explore the relationships between forms, modularity, movement through landscape and narration. This series of works elaborate the presence of a community living in floating architectures and constitute the starting point of a script and film, that were developed between 2015 and 2019.<\/p>\n

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