Location of activities and scope
France
France – Festival animation
Executive Summary
Sols en Scènes is a documentary theatre creation combined with participatory scientific and artistic workshops on soils.
Objective: to increase soil literacy, engage non-specialist audiences, and inspire scientific vocations.
Approach: staged narratives (artist–pedologist dialogue), collective actions, soil observation and description, and fresco painting with local earth. Participants collect soils from their own environment, which become both scientific objects and artistic materials, ensuring concrete and sensitive appropriation.
Expected results: contribution to the SOILSCAPE Festival France, dissemination in agricultural and architecture schools, outreach to general audiences and educational networks, and the long-term production of a replicability kit.
Benefits: shifts in perception, strengthened knowledge, and appropriation of soil preservation practices.
Soils are often perceived as abstract entities. Yet, in their diversity and properties, they are essential to life. Through documentary theatre, participatory soil workshops, and artistic fresco creation, Sols en Scènes aims to reconnect audiences with the living dimension of soils: to sense, listen, and understand them. It highlights their plurality (textures, colors, structures) and the gestures that preserve them.
Our approach is locally anchored: soils used in workshops are collected in situ by pupils and participants. First observed and described scientifically, they are then transformed into artistic material for collective frescoes. This simple act—handling and shaping the soil from one’s own territory—fosters both sensitive and lasting appropriation, countering the image of soil as something distant or abstract.
Cloarec Marie Laure
Artistic Director and General Coordinator, French theatre company “A vue de Nez”,
Contacts:
Phone: 33 645747159
Genevois-Gomendy Véronique
Independent soil surveyor and cartographer,
Contacts:
Phone: 33 683704922