Queer Nature with Céline Baumann
Queer Nature explores the little-known, often-overlooked and rare intimate behaviour of the botanical world. Investigating the relationships between ecological thought and queer theory to celebrate the multitude of shapes, gender, sexes and colours that exist around us. Landscape architect Céline Baumann describes the journey that led her to discover and examine diversity within the plant kingdom.
Céline Baumann is a French landscape architect based in Basel, Switzerland. Her eponymous studio operates in the fields of urbanism, landscape architecture and exhibition. She aims through an intersectional lens to create dynamic open spaces informed by the interactive ecology between people and nature. This design work is complemented by a commitment to research, allowing her to explore the collective value of nature and its impact on individuals.
Her project on Queer Nature was part of the Eco-Visionaries Symposium and the exhibition “What is radical today?” both at the Royal Academy of Arts in London, as well as the exhibition “Twelve Cautionary Urban Tales” in the Matadero, Madrid. It has been shown as a garden walk for the Oslo Architecture Triennale 2019, published in the architecture magazine Archithese, and presented at several institutions including the ETH in Zürich, the National Gallery of Arts in Vilnius and the Museum of Architecture and Design of Ljubljana.