Forest Summer School — Anna Luz Works

In the summer of 2023, I was invited by Tiers Lab, an architecture, urban planning and research studio to participate in a summer school in the small alpine village of Guillestre.

Together with a group of artists, researchers, architects and students, we collaborated with the “Haute École du Bois et de la Forêt”, a future school that will establish itself in the region to teach skills in wood and forestry, in order to develop a systemic vision of the forest environment in the face of the ecological, economic and social changes of our century.

Local communes organised this multidisciplinary summer school to explore the relationship between forests and habitat in the specific context of the Hautes Alpes, re-interrogating the nature of the relationships we wish to forge with the forest and wood, in order to put our visions of the future to the test.

During two weeks of explorations and workshops, we worked collectively on three scenarios : the forest as resource, as reserve and as garden. At the end of the summer school, these three scenarios enabled us to highlight and discuss the scales, limits and balances of the wood and forestry, opening up possible avenues of negotiation between production and preservation logics, anchored in an ecosystemic vision of the future uses of wood and forests.