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ALICE is part of the seven teams selected by Fondation Braillard for its consultation “Visions prospectives pour le Grand Genève, Habiter la ville-paysage du 21e siècle”. We consider the réseau vivant as an evolving entanglement of relations, beings, social entanglements, cultural movements and historical, biological and geological trajectories, all pushing us forward to propose a form of extended metabolism as a tool to articulate and foster change. The different motions threading this network remain mostly invisible, ungraspable and unmeasurable, but nonetheless effective, a determining force transforming the life of the planet and ourselves along it. Can we channel the power of that extended metabolism and lever it to promote a more inclusive and fair evolution of our territory? To do this, we propose an open-ended, modular and adaptive approach capable of incorporating new actors, temporalities and layers, a method based on the creation of vectors and orientations that will work as levers to create new and coherent horizons for the territory. All this is based on an understanding of the term “landscape” that goes beyond the creation of sceneries or the defense of renaturalization. Landscape is a much broader notion that we need to render operational. It is an essential tool to define and work on the complex articulations between the living and the cultural, how they come together, intermingle and co-create each other. It is this expanded and operative notion of landscape, as the essential tool to deal with the extended metabolism of the réseau vivant, that we propose to render into an active support for the ecological transition and future transformations of the region of Grand Genève. The current report compiles a series of maps, texts, images, analysis and proposals throughout three chapters. The first one, “Le paysage comme support” (“Landscape as support”), establishes the key definitions and strategies explaining that notion and rendering the landscape into an active actor within the scope of territorial transformations. The second one, “Narrations” (“Narratives”), introduces the preliminary vectors of action proposed for the territory of Grand Genève through a series of new landscape infrastructure notions as “passage paysage” (multimodal infrastructures for active mobility), “parc paysage” (open-ended projects seeking to create new forms of landscape commons within the urban fabric) or “îlot-îlot” (densification scheme through economical and legal architectural tools). The third one, called “Principes” (“Principles”), covering a first series of operational principles —going from the ecological continuum to resilience or circular economy—, recognized as essential to address the socioecological emergencies of our present.

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