Focused on user experience and creative thinking, the belandscape team has been developing an innovative and original approach to public space and landscape design since the early 2000s called landscape design thinking.

This new approach is based on a synthesis of analytical and intuitive thinking. The creative process is inspired by feedback from users of completed layouts and the real added value revealed by them. The belandscape team interviews interest holders in a way that empathizes with them, and seeks to establish what users do, think, feel and share.

This approach can be summarized in three key stages :

• Identify a problem and understand its environment
• Find the concept or idea that will solve it
• Design the form that this concept will embody

This process is not linear, but apprehended as so many iterative cycles and intersecting spaces (return to empathy when prototyping...). This approach favors collective intelligence in a co-creation logic, alternating phases of intuition and analysis, and places major importance on field study and full understanding of experiences.

The dimension of temporality is also at the heart of this design process, and belandscape's many durable or temporary achievements bear witness to the circumstantial responses provided to the expectations of the ever-changing sustainable city.

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Laurent Essig

Landscape architect HES
Urbaniste FSU
+41 79 671 46 84
laurent.essig@belandscape.ch

David Loriot

Landscape architect HES
+41 79 928 75 47
david.loriot@belandscape.ch