"At the Edge of Worlds," the latest issue of *Cahiers de l'École de Blois*
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Volume Bookstore invites you to a meeting with Olivier Gaudin, an associate professor at the École de la nature et du paysage in Blois and editorial director of *Cahiers de l’École de Blois*, as well as with the authors of this 24th issue, which has just been published by Éditions de la Villette.
At the Edge of the Worlds
The Blois School Journal, No. 24
Edited by Olivier Gaudin
Series: Les Cahiers de l’École de Blois
Publication date: June 2026
Nature, territory, environment: the experience of landscape transcends these concepts by incorporating the desires and actions of human labor into lived spaces. Open to the imagination and the arts, its technical and projective dimension brings the idea of landscape closer to that of the world—a world that is more fragmented than ever.
This issue explores a variety of worlds through their disparate thresholds: coastal horizons, from the Atlantic to the Mediterranean; the indistinct outlines of cities, from Paris to Tangier. It also explores the concept of an “urban rustic,” the introductory course at a landscape architecture school, the drawn vibrations of a forest, Pasolini’s cinema, the role of emptiness in landscape art, and the hybrid spaces of video games. These are all zones of friction where experience is imbued with indeterminacy and possibilities for action. By playing with inherited boundaries, can the desire for landscape still shift or reestablish certain markers, once we have crossed the planetary limits upon which the sustainability of human worlds depends? One Earth, many possible worlds. It remains to sketch out sustainable and desirable forms for them, starting from the margins and tipping points of the landscape.
An overview of the geographical areas covered in this issue: Bouches-du-Rhône, Charente-Maritime, Hauts-de-Seine and Seine-Saint-Denis, Loiret, Rhône, Paris, Tangier (Morocco), as well as Southern Italy and East Africa (through Pasolini’s films).
