Alban Mannisi est architecte-paysagiste, urbaniste et docteur en aménagement du territoire. Fondateur de SCAPETHICAL, plateforme de recherche par le projet dédiée à l’environnement bâti, il dirige également le Custodian Heuristic Institute of Applied Environmental Ethics, consacré au développement des éthiques environnementales appliquées au projet de paysage et de territoire.
À la croisée de l’écologie politique, de l’écologie sociale et des humanités environnementales, il développe une théorie et une pratique du projet de paysage fondées sur la médiation environnementale et les éthiques appliquées. Ses recherches interrogent les fondements culturels, philosophiques et écologiques de la conception contemporaine afin d’imaginer des approches biophiliques, régénératives et culturellement situées du paysage. À travers différentes formes de médiation, notamment inspirées des savoirs et pratiques autochtones, il explore les relations entre humains, plus-qu’humains et milieux, cherchant à rendre perceptibles les dimensions souvent invisibles qui façonnent les territoires et leurs devenirs.
Titulaire de Masters en Arts plastiques et en Architecture paysagère, Alban Mannisi vit, enseigne et pratique entre l’Europe, l’Asie et l’Australasie depuis plus de vingt ans. Cette trajectoire s’est notamment construite au sein du laboratoire du philosophe Toshio Kuwako au Tokyo Institute of Technology, où il a participé à des recherches sur la médiation environnementale, les démarches participatives et les nouvelles approches du paysage issues des humanités environnementales. Cette immersion durable en Asie lui a permis de développer une compréhension des cultures environnementales de la région et d’engager de nombreuses collaborations avec des universités, institutions publiques, agences de conception et acteurs du territoire en Corée du Sud, au Japon, à Singapour, en Thaïlande, en Australie et en Turquie.
En parallèle de son activité universitaire, il développe une pratique internationale du paysage, de l’urbanisme et du design environnemental, au sein de SCAPETHICAL comme auprès d’agences de renommée internationale telles qu’EDAW/AECOM et MASSTUDIES. Ses projets, publications, expositions et conférences invitées témoignent d’une pratique où recherche, conception et pédagogie se nourrissent mutuellement pour faire du paysage un espace de dialogue entre écologies, cultures et sociétés.
Conférencier régulièrement invité, il conçoit également des plateformes internationales de recherche réunissant chercheurs, praticiens, artistes, institutions et communautés autour des enjeux contemporains du paysage. Ce parcours s’est développé à travers des initiatives telles que Social Ecology in Asia (2014), Seoul Walks (2015), Aesthetics of Resistance (2016), Design Diplomacy (2019-2020), Maritorium Biocracy (2021-2024), consacré aux relations entre biocratie, milieux maritimes et gouvernances écologiques, puis Ottoman Parallax – Research Design Clusters (2025-2026), qui explore les écologies anatoliennes, les modes d’existence pluriels et les formes de coexistence environnementale à travers des studios, colloques, séminaires et collaborations internationales. Depuis 2023, il développe également le Custodian Heuristic Institute, dont les programmes Custodian Heuristics, Environmental Politeness, Worldliness et Dissidence prolongent ces recherches en explorant les hybridations des savoirs, les pratiques environnementales autochtones et les nouvelles formes de coopération entre chercheurs, praticiens, artistes et communautés.
À travers ses recherches, son enseignement et sa pratique du projet, Alban Mannisi considère le paysage non comme un objet à concevoir, mais comme une relation à cultiver, où le design devient un levier de régénération environnementale, de justice sociale et de coopération interculturelle.
Il est actuellement Professeur associé invité en Architecture du paysage et Urbanisme à l’Université Bilkent (Turquie), Adjunct Associate au Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (Australie), Professeur invité à l’Institut d’Architecture et d’Urbanisme de l’Université de São Paulo (Brésil), et Chercheur associé au laboratoire Architecture, Milieu, Paysage de l’École nationale supérieure d’architecture de Paris-La Villette (France).
Laboratoire AMP : http://amp-ensaplv.com/auteur/mannisi-alban?menu=2
ORCID : https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0219-8001
SCAPETHICAL : https://www.scapethical.org
Publications
2026
Pluriverse Civil Societies
par Mannisi, AlbanThis special issue emerges from the Ottoman Parallax gathering (11–13 June 2026, Ankara, Türkiye), which brought together artists, scholars, cultural practitioners, activists, designers, and community organizers to examine how artistic and communicative practices contribute to more just, plural, and sustainable futures amid ecological, political, and epistemic transformations.
At a time when (...)
2025
Ecosophical Alternative Realities
par Mannisi, AlbanSince Western postmodernism sparked awareness and shaped our governance and lifestyle at the turn of the millennium, Global North ecosophies have attempted to grasp the ecological and ontological crises, creating their own performative narratives in the process. Pervasive throughout all modes of thought about our relationship to the world, environmental consciousness is part of political (...)
2025
Maritorium Biocracy. Climate Atmospheric Design
par Mannisi, AlbanWhile the efforts to bring out disregarded knowledge to resolve our toxic exogenous anthropisation are slowly producing innovative environmental pedagogy, the inertia of thinkers, designers, engineers, and politicians towards these ecological dynamics keeps raising doubts about our contemporary priorities. Although many societies have reformulated the exogenous patterns imposed on them, the (...)
2023
Within Aquatic Life. Beyond the Anthropogenic Maritorium Prospect
par Mannisi, AlbanAlban Mannisi PhD. Department of Architecture, National University of Singapore
Carlos Tapia PhD. Higher Technical School of Architecture ; University of Seville, Spain
Johana Herrera Arango PhD. School of Environmental and Rural Studies, Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Bogotá
Witiya Pittungnapoo PhD. Faculty of Architecture, Art and Design, Naresuan University, Thailand
Shota Saito M. (...)
2022
Coranderrk Landscape Rejuvenation. Autochthonous Revitalisation of Environmental Applied Ethics
par Mannisi, Alban
2022
Supertight Models for Living and Making Culture in Dense Urban
par Mannisi, AlbanThe rapidly growing large cities of Asia are critical to understanding our future footprint. Asian cities provide insights into new ways of being densely urbanised. The by-product of this unprecedented metropolitan convergence will be the emergence of new urbanisms and new architectures, new models for living and making culture.
The Supertight refers to the small, intense, robust and (...)
2021
Cataloguing a future city : Melbourne Cool Lines !
par Mannisi, Alban(...)
Referring to the French architect Claude Parent’s warnings about sprawling cities and “making the city over the city,” the Cool Lines’ pitch embraces complex thoughts about the future of our global urban environments, both testifying to their vitality while at the same time viewing their achievements with renewed criticality.
Urban heat islands, climate change and other conditions of the (...)
2021
Coming to Terms with Gaia
par Mannisi, Alban“Environmental aesthetics at the time of our ontological crises accounts for a cohort of activists profoundly distinct from what ecological commitments could present in the past decades. The RMIT Gallery’s exhibition Bruised Art Action and Ecology in Asia seized the opportunity of this troubled moment to present complex thoughts of an awareness that is nonetheless transitive, effervescent, and (...)
2021
ReciprociUdad. Design Diplomacy in Seville
par Mannisi, AlbanReciprociUdad_Design Diplomacy in Seville contains a perspective developed between Carlos Tapia and I through our symposium held in Seville in 2020. The overall framework is an extension of the Design Diplomacy initiatives generated in collaboration with Charles Anderson. The seminar attempts to probe the complex maturing of the hybrid Sevilla’s cultural landscapes, with a desire to decipher (...)
2020
The Big Asian Book of Landscape Architecture
par Mannisi, Alban
2020
Citizen Participation Pedagogy
par Mannisi, Alban
2020
Speculative Growth of Conservation Narratives
par Mannisi, AlbanAs culture appears in governmental policy when its disappearance starts, heritage becomes a concern when its local meaning vanishes. Moreover, globalisation usually reveals the ignorance on the cultural legacy accelerated by its instrumentalised branding. Moreover, this vision of economic trade fails to resolve these issues of intangible heritage. Above all, since there is no future without (...)
2019
Environmental Imperialism Sabotage
par Mannisi, AlbanFrom the environmental aesthetics detectable in the Modern environmental management (Mannisi, 2018), It is now common to grasp ecosophical phenomena at the heart of research/action projects that constitute contemporary artistic practice. As rich and hybrid approaches, the ability to understand the intangibility of living spaces is at the heart of projects as diverse as those we will approach (...)
2019
Weed Have Never Been Post-Modern
par Mannisi, AlbanIn our redistributed worldwide geopolitical forces, it is crucial to look beyond premodern history to seize the reason of new logistics territories. Asia, Middle East, Pacific Rim or Australia present some of the most striking examples of the twenty-first century. Since the reasons that led to the edification of their urban poles can still surprise or appear obscure to us today, we will (...)
2019
SEOUL WALKS, Model Transfer of Socio-Urban Ecology
par Mannisi, AlbanThis study provides a brief account of the fieldwork of the Seoul Walks, an initiative organised by international experts and civil society to analyse the potentials and downsides of the Seoul Urban Regeneration Policy. By addressing the problems of five case studies, the article aims to show why it is important to create places that are in harmony with the needs and wants of their (...)
2017
Philosophie Politique Radicale Du Paysage Au XXIe Siècle Et Ressources Anarchistes. En partant de Pierre-Joseph Proudhon et de Murray Bookchin
par Mannisi, AlbanAu photographe Thibaut Cuisset qui avançait que « le paysage ne parle pas, [qu’] il reste obstinément muet » (2017), on peut préciser que ledit paysage traduisant la perception de ce qui nous environne, murmure, hurle, s’exprime comme le font l’ensemble des organismes vivants, humains et non humains, qui le constitue. Toutefois, il faut bien reconnaître que le vrombissement émis par les éléments qui (...)
2015
Social Ecology, A connected History
par Mannisi, AlbanThe movement of Globalization from the Grass-roots symbolizes the worldwide phenomenon of empowerment and emancipation of individuals within the management of the territory, in the same way that sustainable development has highlighted major eco-social concerns and helped to bring about the new research focus of Environmental Humanities to decipher its complex crises. Yet, although it (...)
2015
Model Transfer of Social Ecology in Asian Territory
par Mannisi, Alban; Millet, YvesModel Transfer of Social Ecology in Asian Territory is a series of lectures held at the Mugyewon in Buam-dong (Seoul, October 2014 - February 2015) in which ten experts attempted to establish the indigenous acknowledgment of environmental growing issues for the new expert generation of the built environment.
The Lecture Series aims to analyse the reasons and issues of the model (...)
2015
Minjung | Simin | Undong-ga : Insurrection Urbaine en Corée
par Mannisi, AlbanEvènement aux dimensions sociétales singulières, le naufrage du ferry Sewol (세월호) le 16 avril 2014 , au large des côtes coréennes fait écho aux bouleversements telluriques du triple désastre japonais de mars 2011, en ce qu’il exacerbe les doutes et les rancœurs de la société civile envers la coalition des politiques et des experts qui l’ʺadministreʺ. Dans les semaines qui ont suivi, ce drame prit une (...)
2014
What Social Marker are the Streets of Seoul. Echo Chamber of Social Ecology Planning.
par Mannisi, AlbanIf we inquire about a relativism wishing that appropriate measures correspond to every type of societies, then every street must have a located urban policy. Protocol barely bearable if we consider that each communication streets today is composed of residents in transition, strengthening and deconstructing communities at the whim of the economy.
Although new governmentalities enlighten us (...)
2014
The Examination of Ethical Issues concerning Local Environmental Governance
par Mannisi, AlbanRapport de Recherche. Visite de Projet d’Ecologie Sociale_ Ile Sado, Japon. Mars 2014
Coming from Seoul where I currently work as an assistant professor at the Urban Planning Department of Hanyang University in Korea, I had an honor to receive the invitation by the professors Toshio Kuwako (Tokyo Institute of Technology) and Mitsuyo Toyoda (Hyogo University).
It extends and reiterates (...)
2014
Dangisho. Exploration dialogique du Milieu
par Mannisi, AlbanL’Esprit des Villes 2014
La planète s’urbanise. Le rendez-vous annuel que veut être L’esprit des villes veillera à associer toutes les disciplines et indisciplines, tous les points de vue, tous les genres dans un objet résolument non académique, une « revue-ville » dans laquelle on se balladera et cueillera études et informations, découvertes et expériences, enthousiasmes et colères, combats et (...)
2013
Environmental Imperative. Designing Cities within the Anthropocene Era
par Mannisi, AlbanLecture at the Urban Planning Dept., Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea, 14th November 2013.
The Anthropocene Era calls into question our models, obliging civil societies, experts and politics to reconsider anew the contemporary planning and encourage us to redeploy the knowledge of the younger generation. The expansion of new sociologies of design and the demand for broader environmental (...)
2013
Social Link as Cultural Landscape Heritage. The Prerequisite of Social Capital Management to any Built Environment
par Mannisi, AlbanAbstract :
For decades, scientific research and planning expertise work mutually to confront environmental issues with the complex prospective in social sciences, ensuring the foundation of the current "Cultural Landscape" studies. In parallel, with the advent of sustainable development the excesses of Green and Social Washing appeared, perverting the Landscape Planning towards a dangerous (...)
2013
Environmental Panarchy. Process of Inclusive Landscape Planning
par Mannisi, AlbanChallenged by the modern territorialization, the linkage consolidating civil societies had known in the 20th century such alteration that today a question about their foundation arises. Particularly in the countries where the exploitation of landscape took precedence over its comprehension, addressing an environmental justice with ecological ethics stimulates the societies to think newly the (...)
2012
Strenue Plaza, Glittering space
par Mannisi, AlbanYouido Seoul, district of a sparkling grandeur. S-trenue Tower, design by MASSSTUDIES, fascinating and voracious pair of legs that the place shall dress. Or undress.Space made of wind and raised hand the time of a brief intoduction or a delicate goodbye. Vertical language of reflected sky in its delicious glass-covered ankles.Horizontal, slender and chiseling, light and graphic vegetation. (...)
2012
Participation et développement soutenable des territoires
par Mannisi, AlbanL’expérience de médiateur de Kuwako Toshio au Japon
Suite au désarroi des sociétés civiles dû à leur perte de confiance envers le politique et les experts en aménagement du territoire, les acteurs de la construction du paysage ont depuis mis en œuvre des procédures complexes afin d’établir des protocoles de projets au plus près des besoins des habitants des espaces investis. Dans un Japon contemporain où (...)
2012
Adjustement for a Just Landscape
par Mannisi, AlbanCommunication (Speaker) at the International Symposium GREEN COMMUNITY DESIGN, Seoul, Korea, 18-22 August 2012.
8th Conference of the Pacific Rim Community Design Network held in Seoul National University.
This study is part of a research on new planning approaches to our cities, territories and community management based upon an awareness of the global Political Ecology and the (...)
2012
Participation et développement soutenable des territoires
par Mannisi, AlbanL’engagement de Kuwako Toshio s’inscrit dans un parcours personnel qu’il est nécessaire de retracer pour expliquer les raisons qui l’ont conduit à s’intéresser aux questions environnementales et au phénomène participatif.
2012
La résurgence des sociétés civiles urbaines au Japon. Eléments pour une résilience territoriale
par Mannisi, AlbanRésumé
La participation des acteurs publics dans les processus d’aménagement témoigne de la volonté de chacun de s’impliquer dans la modélisation des villes et du territoire. Aussi elle rend tangible la crise de légitimité des démocraties représentatives. Cette volonté s’exprime hors des formes usuelles de l’Etat sous forme d’association que chaque société développe de manière très diverse selon son (...)
2012
Panarchie, Hétérarchie, Autonomie. Penser l’hétéronomie
par Mannisi, AlbanPenser l’appartenance consiste à aborder notre relation à la biosphère où règnent humains et non humains. Cette interrogation surgit le plus souvent dans le cadre d’une identification comme être participant d’une communauté et d’un lieu. Que peuvent bien alors recouvrir des expressions telles qu’ “être issu de”, avoir et être la “fibre de ce tissu urbain et paysagé” si ce n’est le fait d’être emmailloté (...)
2012
Participation & Mediation in Urban Development
par Mannisi, AlbanYear of Publication : 2013 The development of issues related to pedestrian life and sidewalks and special attention to pedestrians as the asset of a city and the formation of social activities on the basis of the new concept of pedestrian-centered cities, have been in spotlight in recent years. Unfortunately, our cities, Tehran in particular, do not offer safe environments for pedestrians. (...)
2010
Botrytis Cinerea
par Mannisi, AlbanBaie de Tokyo. Eté 2009. Après un léger survol, atterrissage pour s’engouffrer dans les Limousine Bus en partance pour de hauts lieux de conférenciers attendus. Certains sont venus explicitement pour l’agrément vacances du voyage mais pour bon nombre des participants, le front soucieux gage de sérieux. Un mélange des mondes s’est donné rendez-vous dans cet espace haut en couleur d’une capitale encore (...)
2010
Essaimer le Trouble, A propos du travail de Gerard Hauray
par Mannisi, AlbanEssaimer le Trouble, A propos du travail de Gerard Hauray, Alban Mannisi (dir.), ZzaC BooK Edition, Séoul / Paris, 100 pages, Juillet 2010. (en français et en anglais)
Gérard Hauray est artiste essayiste.
Il expose, participe et organise des conférences, séminaires sur l’art, la science et l’écoumène.
Il n’y a pas de moment favorable pour une conciliation des pratiques paysagères et des mystères (...)
2010
Break The Rule : Synaeresis, Relation Between Cinema & Architecture
par Mannisi, Albanin B1 Architecture, Bangkok, Thailand, mai 2010, pp. 56-61 (en anglais et en thailandais).
2010
MnTholic
par Mannisi, AlbanRéflexion théorique et plastique sur le mémorial aux morts de la guerre en Irak.
Projet sélectionné et récompensé par le Raqs Collective pour l’exposition et congres itinérants irakimemorial organisé par The Digital Media Studio, département de l’Art de l’Université du Nevada, Reno, USA.
du 16 fev au 12 mars 2010, Sheppard Fine Arts Gallery –Université du Nevada, Reno, USA
du 9 sept au 22 oct 2011, (...)
2009
No Idea Where It Comes From
par Mannisi, Albanin Topos, Landscape strategies, N°66, Munich, Allemagne, avril 2009, pp. 52-59.
Etude d’impact du Développement Durable à très grande échelle – Océan Pacifique- et sur 40 années de 2008 a 2048.
2008
Almaty-Kapchagay Masterplan
par Mannisi, AlbanArticle exposant les nouvelles méthodologies de la planification paysagère à l’échelle du Territoire d’un projet de ville nouvelle reliant la Capitale Almaty au lac Kapchagay (60km de long sur 10km de large).
2008
Caeruleum. Textes d’Yves Millet, photographies d’Alban Mannisi
par Mannisi, Alban; Millet, YvesCaeruleum est le résultat d’une rencontre entre un photographe et un écrivain. Le livre peut être lu et regardé comme un carnet de voyage où se croise un double regard sur la Corée du Sud. Les paysages y sont l’occasion de redécouvrir les couleurs et les gestes qui font le quotidien de ce pays. Le texte, lui, s’attarde davantage sur l’expérience du voyageur photographe, sur ce que peut être de voir un (...)
2008
The Peddlers of Invisible Worlds. Les colporteurs de monde invisible
par Mannisi, AlbanRéflexion sous forme d’entretien avec l’artiste environnementaliste Gerard Hauray sur son travail croisant recherche scientifique, Art, mobilité sociale et paysagère.
« The Peddlers of Invisible Worlds »
We can’t say there is an appropriate time for a conciliation between landscape practices and the scientific mysteries regarding them. There is no major climatic or ecological disorder nowadays ; (...)
2007
Vinyle salade. Des lieux aux portes de Séoul
par Mannisi, AlbanActes de la “Conférence Internationale sur les Arts et Cultures du Lieu”, Séoul, Corée du sud , 15 avril 2006.
Réflexion sur le paysage péri-urbain de Séoul.
Ce livre est issu d’une rencontre francophone organisée par Yves Millet pour l’association coréenne des études de la Culture Française et des Arts en France (C.F.A.F) et l’université Sungkyunkwan, le 15 avril 2006 à Séoul.
Le lieu nous est apparu (...)
2000
Central Park, Landscape Proposal, 1997-1998
par Mannisi, AlbanIn the summers of 1998 and 1999, Villa Medici welcomed the first and second editions of a triennial cycle of exhibitions dedicated to contemporary art : "La Ville, le Jardin, la Mémoire". For "Le Jardin", more than thirty international artists, as well as the artists in residence at Villa Medici, have created an itinerary of works in the Renaissance gardens of the Villa, in the Roman cistern, (...)
Projets de recherche
2024
WORLDLINESS | ÊTRE AU MONDE
par Mannisi, Alban
2023
PUGNACITY Sovereignty Impugned
par Mannisi, AlbanIn the light of the shock wave of the Israeli-Gaza war and the perpetuated atrocities justified by intersecting injustices, Custodian Heuristics Institute is committed to the delicate, concerned but paramount design research inquiry on contested sovereignty dynamics. PUGNACITY will examine the creation, responsibility and management of territories resulting from conflicted possessions, (...)
Colloques
2026
KOREAN WORLDLINESS natural peninsula intelligence
par Mannisi, AlbanWhat would we like to hear about South Korea’s built environment achievements today ? What can we learn from its ability to absorb Global North models and customs, integrating Western soft power into new energies that demonstrate alternative approaches ? Do we expect Korea to continue to ‘cope with Western mechanisms’ or to revitalise its indigenous humanities and engineering ? And is there (...)
2026
OTTOMAN PARALLAX other existence praxis
par Mannisi, AlbanWith the signing of the Versailles Treaty in 1921, the 21st century inherited an enclosure of multiple modes of existence that once adapted to constantly shifting environments. The dissolution of the Ottoman Empire and the emergence of new nation-states would come to symbolise what is now called the Global North. Under the guise of universal laws and moralities, Indigenous humanities and (...)
2026
Indivisible HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT
par Mannisi, AlbanL’engouement croissant pour la formation et la gestion des « paysages culturels » symbolise l’accélération de la perte de notre histoire spatiale et environnementale (Spatial Curriculum/ Kukan no Rireki), ainsi que la toxicité de nos ontologies politiques à leur égard. Il est de plus en plus douteux d’entendre des vœux de justice et de respect pour ces mondes et modes de vie autres, émis par ceux-là (...)
2025
DEGENERIC edgy in)discipline(s
par Mannisi, Alban
2025
DIVERTING PARACHUTE SCIENCE indigenous engineering reload
par Mannisi, AlbanJust as market society has tightened its grip on the management of our social and natural environments, neoliberal economics has hijacked the essence of educational institutions, transforming them from arenas for challenging knowledge into product design research and development. This derailment of Western ecological pedagogies sheds light on the moral collapse and institutional crises that (...)
2025
DE L‘INTERSTICE VIENT LA LUMIERE écologie politique dans l’adversité
par Mannisi, Alban
2024
BEWILDERING other oriented ontology
par Mannisi, AlbanThe globalization of environmental knowledge in the 21st century is fostering critical ecological pedagogies, stimulating informal exchanges outside the privileged circles that monopolized debates to replicate supposedly innovations until then.
By examining some projects and dynamics carried out internationally by SCAPETHICAL in which genuine environment ethics prevailed, we will explore (...)
2023
OFFSHORE-OUTSKIRT On Other Conviviality
par Mannisi, AlbanGeneric planning and management of the natural and social environment has favoured anchorage through terrestrial and urban fabrics. But now, the settlement and relationship between humans and biospheres evolved through fluid and mobile dynamics, before such aesthetic and ontology prevailing globally, are being reassessed and regenerated.
Just as that we must foresee the cessation of massive (...)
2023
palemahan pawongan parhyangan ETHICAL SECULAR WISDOM
par Mannisi, Alban
2022
The Soils Project : groundwork
par Mannisi, AlbanIn this webinar TarraWarra will present the work of Wandoon Estate Aboriginal Corporation (WEAC), who are the current Wurundjeri custodians and managers of Coranderrk Aboriginal Station, a site of enormous significance to Wurundjeri and other Kulin people. WEAC is guided by the framework of yalingbuth, yalingbu, yirramboi – yesterday, today and tomorrow – which reflects their philosophy to (...)
2021
Reimagining World Cities
par Mannisi, Alban
2021
UNTAME FORAGE cultivating politeness
par Mannisi, Alban
2021
Parlamento - Venice Architecture Biennale Italian Virtual Pavilion
par Mannisi, AlbanParlamento Panellists / Participants (selected List) :
Alban Mannisi & Charles Anderson (Melbourne, Australia), Bjorn Low (Singapore), Carlos Tapia (Spain), Youngbum Reigh (South Korea), Witiya Pittungnapoo (Phitsanulok, Thailand), Brooke Wandin (Coranderrk, Australia), Philip Samartzis (Ligonchio, Italy ; Melbourne, Australia), Noriko Deno (Tokyo, Japan), Naima Benkari (Muscat, Oman), (...)
2020
Deep Asian Ecology
par Mannisi, Alban
2020
Design Diplomacy : The Transmission of Autochthonous Practices & Customs
par Mannisi, AlbanINTERNATIONAL SEMINAR SERIES
Singapore | Spain | Korea | Japan | Australia | Oman | Hawaii
Organised by Alban MANNISI
This research project, constituted by a series of international embedded on-site workshops, investigates design practices and customs that exist outside of international environmental conventions in order to report on and disseminate off-the-shelf and non-speculative (...)
2020
ReciprociUdad Diplomacy
par Mannisi, AlbanReciprociUdad Diplomacy
is the second symposium / workshop of a larger research project entitled
Design Diplomacy : The Transmission of Autochthonous Practices & Customs
Topic :
Cohesive Urbanities & Societies / Cultural Landscape of Sustainable Touristic
Seville, Spain
27-31 January 2020
Coordinators
Alban MANNISI (RMIT Australia), Carlos TAPIA (University of Seville)
Partners (...)
2019
Realms of Memories. Atmospheric Park Design
par Mannisi, Alban– Korean Insurgent Ontologies approaches the idiosyncratic character of Korean resistance in the 19th & 20th centuries as part of its ontology ;
– Spatial Curriculum addresses the knowledge of genius loci from the resurgence of knowledge of local environmental ethics ;
– Hyochanwon Heteronomy deals with the specificity of the communities of the site to investigate the relation of its (...)
2019
Autochthonous Revitalisation of Environmental Applied Ethics
par Mannisi, Alban
2019
Hokkien Mee Diplomacy
par Mannisi, AlbanSINGAPORE / MALAYSIA_Cameron Highlands
08-14 July 2019
Hokkien Mee Diplomacy is the inaugural symposium/workshop of a larger research project entitled
Design Diplomacy : The Transmission of Autochthonous Practices & Customs.
Coordinator : Alban MANNISI
Team : Alban MANNISI, Charles ANDERSON, Yazid NINSALAM
Topics : Food Security, Spatial Injustice, Environmental Injustice, Urban (...)
2019
Ambiance of the Korean Garden Ethics Resilience
par Mannisi, Alban
2015
Minjung | Simin | Undong-ga : Urban Insurrection in Korea
par Mannisi, AlbanSmart Urbanism for Mega Cities, Symposium, Hanyang University, Dept of Urban Planning, 28-29 August 2014.
The Sustainable Biosphere recalled the balance to set up between autochthonous behaviours and orchestrated planning by the triumvirate of experts, political and civil society. In its period of rapid accession toward the global market, Korea temporarily ruled out the ethical resources (...)
2015
Model Transfer of Social Ecology In Asian Territory
par Mannisi, AlbanLecture Series Held in Mugyewon, Buam-Dong, Seoul_Korea
The Lecture Series aims to analyse the reasons and issues of the model implementation of Social Engineering in Asian Territories.
Expected Result :
Clarifying the foundations of social engineering and social ecology applied in Urban, Landscape and Environmental Planning. Establishing the indigenous acknowledgment of environmental (...)
2012
Justice environnementale de l’amenagement des franges ruralité/urbanité
par Mannisi, AlbanJe vais brièvement aborder la manière dont peuvent se poser les choix éthiques à ceux qui ont la charge d’aménager les projets d’agriculture dans ce que l’on appellera les franges et interfaces urbaines. Et ceci pour 3 raisons :
1- La rapidité des décisions environnementales due à l’obsolescence programmée des propositions environnementales qui apporte un lot de signe de technicité en plein (...)
2012
Archéologie d’une Justice Environnementale
par Mannisi, AlbanArchéologie d’une Justice Environnementale Démocratie Ecologique et Aménagement Urbain
Conference UNIFA a L’Universite Normale de Hangzhou, Chine , 14-18 Sept. 2012
Dans le Cadre du Symposium Internationale “Ville” réelle, Ville “rêvé”
L’ardeur avec laquelle certains pays ont intégré les éthiques écologiques issues de la gouvernance mondiale nous amène à interroger les fondements de la politique écologique (...)
2011
CAREGGI LANDSCAPE DECLARATION ON PUBLIC PARTICIPATION
par Mannisi, AlbanContribution à CAREGGI LANDSCAPE DECLARATION ON PUBLIC PARTICIPATION, Florence , Italie, Novembre 2011.
Suite a la journée d’étude "Public Participation", Uniscape, Florence, 10 novembre 2011.
2011
Democratic Participation in Territorial Resilience
par Mannisi, AlbanIALE, International Symposium of Landscape Ecology, Beijing, 18-23 août 2011.
Nowadays the involvement of public stakeholder in the process of territorial management testifies globally everyone’s willingness to get involved in Landscape Modelling. Also it makes tangible the crisis of the legitimacy of representative democracies. This willingness shows in non-governmental associations that each (...)
Workshops, valorisation
2026
The ethical landscape : What if sustainability is just colonialism wearing green ?
par Mannisi, AlbanWhat if sustainability is just colonialism wearing green ?
In Episode 08 of Cities of Tomorrow, Dr Hamed Tavakoli joins Dr Alban Mannisi for a thought-provoking conversation about ethical landscape design, sustainable urban planning, and the political forces shaping our cities. When ideas developed in one cultural context are presented as universal solutions, can sustainable development (...)
2026
Souveraineté environnementale. Écosophies florissantes en Asie
par Mannisi, AlbanSouveraineté environnementale. Écosophies florissantes en Asie
Les crises ontologiques mondiales ont renouvelé l’observation et l’intérêt pour les régions où les écologies sociales sont relativement épargnées par les impérialismes environnementaux occidentaux. Ces modes d’existence, ancrés dans une autre compréhension de leur biosphère, remettent en question la colonialité des savoirs écologiques. À (...)
2026
NARCISSUSCAPE Biopolitics Narratives Survey
par Mannisi, AlbanAlban Mannisi : NARCISSUSCAPE. Biopolitics Narratives Survey
Design Survey, a philosophy of attention that examines the economy of relations between present reality and the historicity of its past. It reflects both the technical conditions and political ambitions embedded in a territory, operating as a continuous dialogue between what a society chooses to preserve and what it projects into (...)
2026
DISSIDENCE world ecosophy shift
par Mannisi, Alban
2026
ٱلْخَالِي Rubʿ al-Khālī FILLING ONE’S OWN VOID
par Mannisi, AlbanTwenty-first-century post-cities rely on best practices inherited from declining Western governance models, originally encoded through early artificial intelligence–driven planning. This comes alongside a wealth of exogenous knowledge appropriated from indigenous humanities and engineering, that are now being re-indoctrinated to vulnerable native populations. Ecopiracy, parachute science (...)
2025
GAIA ALTERNATIVE REALITIES symbiocene systole diastole
par Mannisi, AlbanDespite the upheavals of the XXth Environmental Humanities having renewed approaches to Gaia biospheres, the plasticity of our predatory ontologies and ethics should lead us to more radicalities in our prospectives. The economics of ecological crises nurtured by speculative anthropotechnics leave serious doubts about the alternatives or progress made by conscious ecology’s experts. (...)
2024
soteria atlas ECOSEMIOTICS RESILIENCE MAPPING
par Mannisi, AlbanThe difficult integration of environmental ethics within our capitalocene is a major obstacle to their revival. It becomes clear after innumerable tries to force native societies to embrace our harmful and unsustainable strategies that it would be better for our compromised ecosystem if we adopted timeless customs and practices. Regretfully, the rejection of an ecological philosophy grounded (...)
2024
transformative biotope design REGENERATING NUSANTARA ECOSOPHY
par Mannisi, Alban
2024
MARITORY BIOCRACY VI Sardinia Bioshere Empowerment
par Mannisi, AlbanSCIENTIFIC COORDINATION
Annacaterina PIRAS | LWCircus – Onlus
Vittorio GAZALE | Asinara National Park
INTERNATIONAL LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTS & ARCHITECTS
Elisabetta BIANCHESSI | T12-lab + NABA | Milano
Serena CROCCO | Laboratorio Silenzio | Milano
Pedro CAMARENA | UNAM Universidad – LAAP + LWC-Mx | CDMX
Wang HUIXIAN | TURENSCAPE ACADEMY | Xixinan, Beijing
Alban MANNISI | SCAPETHICAL + Curtin (...)
2024
SOILPLOITATION twisted food narrative
par Mannisi, AlbanThe nutritional resource accessibility to urban population is a 21st century growing issue. It remains obscure as it is ingeniously shadowed by ultraliberal narratives of versatile built environment, agriculture, and real estate corporations.
15 years after the warning at the time of an Urban Farming Symposium in Tokyo toward the vicious tendencies exploiting food scarcity to fuel (...)
2023
EXPLORATORY STRATEGY on) Alternative Habitat Groundwork
par Mannisi, Alban
2023
MARITORIUM BIOCRACY climate urbanism in Southeast Asia
par Mannisi, Alban
2023
NŪSĀNTARA MARITORY BIOCRACY notes on the ‘Interim’
par Mannisi, Alban
2023
Servitude VAMPIRE TALES
par Mannisi, AlbanBuilt environment experts finally get the measure of our anthropogenic drifts through geo-engineering and computational automation (i.e., AI), having little intention to modify the extractive behaviours. On the other hand, with no intention to demystify such vampire tales, a whole stretch of resilient custodian civilization embedded in holistic environmental diplomacy continues to navigate, (...)
2023
WHEN IS ENOUGH, ENOUGH ? The Performance of Measurement
par Mannisi, AlbanSingapore Curatorial Statement :
WHEN IS ENOUGH, ENOUGH ?
The Performance of Measurement
In building the city we love, how do we measure the unmeasurable ?
The Singapore Pavilion foregrounds architects and researchers whose practices aim to elicit inclusion, connection, freedom, attachment, attraction, and agency in the city. In examining design processes that work for these six goals, we (...)
2023
Melbourne Design Week RMIT Air Studio _ Expert Panel
par Mannisi, Alban
2023
Environmental History of Air - Intangible landscape
par Mannisi, AlbanThe emerging corpus of Environmental History is today redefining the perception of variegated construction of the realities of a world that are difficult to grasp with Western ecological imperialism.
From intangible landscape to research fields of odour, wisdoms and maritime biospheres neglected so far by extractivists and toxic ecosophies, a growing movement of subaltern indigenous inquiries (...)
2022
Community will not be Designed
par Mannisi, AlbanOverwhelming environmental crisis has encouraged the built environment field to investigate, invent and revitalise local practices and knowledge. Endless dynamics reveal fruitful modes of interaction between society and their environment to renew our ecological transition scheme in times of climate deregulation. Often challenged by dramatically mutated biospheres, societies reveal outstanding (...)
2022
Maritorium Biocracy
par Mannisi, Alban
2022
BACTERIAS - weave microbial equity
par Mannisi, AlbanEnvironmental awareness has enabled to rethink the equitable alliance of social, environmental, and economic capital. Landscape designers have thus revigorated the dialogue between human and non-human which is now sine qua non of any built environment projects.
Landscape, considered as the perception of our environment, places the human being in the foreground facing their responsibilities (...)
2022
withdrawal maritimities _ NON-ANTHROPOGENIC DESIGN
par Mannisi, Alban
2022
Biocracy - Post Development Nudges
par Mannisi, Alban
2021
IMANENSI Environmental Construction of our Realities
par Mannisi, AlbanEnvironmental dynamics encompasses all our domains engaged by humans and non-humans, therefore those all that seek developments. Recently, ecological and ontological crises have reminded us of how much the “environment” had no geographical and sectoral limits ; It is everyone’s concern and depending on expertise and cultural landscape, our contribution differs.
Through ongoing earth summits and (...)
2021
뚜벅뚜벅 ttoubeok ttoubeok ASIAN SCAPE PLOD
par Mannisi, Alban
2021
blend in otherness - Scapethical Applied Ecosophy
par Mannisi, Alban
2020
Archifest 2020
par Mannisi, Alban
2019
Landscape Urbanism in Asia
par Mannisi, Alban
2019
Ulu
par Mannisi, Alban
2019
Bruised : Art Action and Ecology in Asia
par Mannisi, Alban
2015
Seoul Walks : Model Transfer of Socio-Urban Ecology in Seoul
par Mannisi, AlbanSeoul Walks : Model Transfer of Socio-Urban Ecology in Seoul
도시사회 생태계의 새로운 모델 탐구
Seoul Walks aims to bring together local residents and professionals, who are share interest in socio-urban transformation of Seoul. It builds upon experiences of the Model Transfer of Social Ecology in Asian Territory lecture series, which took place in Mugyewon in Buam-dong between October 2014 and February 2015, where (...)
2015
International Workshop on Japanese Culture and Landscape
par Mannisi, AlbanMANNISI Alban, “Citizen Empowerment in Planning Project”, Keynote Speech at the Finding Home Place Lecture & Workshop_14th, Kobe, International Workshop on Japanese Culture and Landscape organised by Toshio Kuwako_14-17th, Kobe, Nara & Kyoto.
International Workshop on Japanese Culture and Landscape
General Coordinator : Toshio Kuwako
Professor at Tokyo Institute of Technology
Place : (...)