IESA is the only French school to offer a short, modular program in promoting and animating green heritage. 4 weeks to acquire the keys to building a cultural project promoting a park or garden is a challenge that requires bringing together rich programming and expert speakers!

This culture careers program is intended for:

  • Informed enthusiasts who own a private heritage site (a park, a garden) to manage and who wish to open it to the public with an annual cultural program
  • Local government professionals: gardeners, horticulturists, landscape designers… (under a DIF training entitlement)
  • Students from outside IESA arts&culture wishing to complement a more general program (landscape architecture, urban planning, regional development…)
  • Students in the 3rd cycle Cultural Project Management program and trainees in the professional 3rd cycle Cultural Project Management program (optional course)

Program objectives:

  • Study the different types of existing parks and gardens and their regulations.
  • Develop a project methodology covering everything from creating a garden and opening it to the public to its communication, programming, and funding
  • Master the tools for managing and producing cultural projects dedicated to “green spaces”

Program structure:

  • on-site courses led by renowned speakers such as Claude Origet du Cluzeau, PhD in economics, a specialist in regional planning and author of a book on garden tourism published with IESA, or Jean-Michel Sainsard, Head of Art Works at the sub-directorate for historic monuments and protected areas
  • visits to famous parks and gardens, notably the Domaine national de Saint Cloud, the Jardin des plantes, and the gardens of the Château de Versailles
  • meetings with professionals such as Chantal Colleu-Dumond, Director of the Domaine de Chaumont sur Loire, and Joël Cottin, Head of the Gardens Department at Versailles…

REGISTRATION:

Program dates: June 3 to 28, 2013. Registration by May 20, 2013 at the latest with Anissa Abdellatif, head of the culture careers department at IESA arts&culture: a.abdellatif@iesa.fr

Fees:

  • Professionals & informed enthusiasts: €1500 full cycle // €150 per day and €75 per half-day
  • Job seekers and students: €950 full cycle // €75 per day

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Full program:

  • INSTITUTIONAL PUBLIC PARKS AND GARDENS

Course: Monday, June 3, Tuesday, June 4, and Wednesday, June 12, 9:30-17:00

Visits:

- Wednesday, June 5: National Plant Conservatory and Chèvreloup Arboretum
- Friday, June 7: Domaine national de Saint Cloud
- Wednesday, June 26: study day at Chaumont-sur-Loire

  • OPENING A GARDEN TO THE PUBLIC

Courses and round tables: Monday, June 10, Tuesday, June 11, Thursday, June 27, 9:30-17:00

  • PROMOTING NATURAL HERITAGE AND REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT POLICY

Course: Monday, June 17, Monday, June 24

Visits: Tuesday, June 18: practical case and visit: Natural heritage and regional development policies of the city of Sens (Yonne)

  • BOTANY

Courses:

- Friday, June 14, 9:30-12:30: basics and principles
- Friday, June 14, 14:00-17:00: plant exoticism, introducing plants into gardens, tropical botany in temperate climates
- Wednesday, June 19, 9:30-12:30: garden flowering
- Wednesday, June 19, 14:00-17:00: horticultural selections and colors

Visit and tutorials: Friday, June 28: Jardin des plantes

  • CREATE YOUR GARDEN WORKSHOPS

Course: Friday, June 21, 9:30-17:00: defining your garden, choosing plants, scents, and colors for gardens

  • HISTORY OF GARDENS

Courses:

- Wednesday, June 6, 9:30-12:30: Gardens from Antiquity to the Middle Ages
- Thursday, June 13, 9:30-12:30: Parks and gardens in classical Europe
- Tuesday, June 25, 9:30-12:30: Romantic gardens
- Tuesday, June 25, 14:00-17:00: Contemporary gardens and land art

Visits and tutorials:

- Thursday, June 6, 14:00-17:00: Musée de Cluny
- Thursday, June 13, 14:00-17:00: Musée du Louvre, the representation of landscape in art in the 17th and 18th centuries
- Thursday, June 20: Gardens of the Château de Versailles and Petit Trianon

Speakers:

  • Alain Baraton, head gardener of the Trianon National Estate and the great park of the Château de Versailles, member of the National Council for Parks and Gardens
  • Alain Karg, Head of Collections, Arboretum de Chèvreloup
  • Anne Schirm, Director of the Conseil national des Villes et Villages Fleuris
  • Bernard de la Rochefoucault, President of the Parks of France Foundation, member of the Institut Montaigne
  • Bernard Pasquier, Director of the Conservatoire national des plantes
  • Cécile Bulté, medievalist, PhD in art history
  • Claire Vigne Dumas, regional conservation of historic monuments - DRAC Île-de-France
  • Claude Origet du Cluzeau, PhD in economics, specialist in regional planning, author of books on garden tourism
  • David Demangeot, Head of Events and Cultural Programming - Domaine national de Saint-Cloud
  • Didier Rousseau, President of the Jardins Botaniques
  • Fabrice Yvelin, project officer, green spaces department of the City of Paris
  • Florence Berthout, General Director of the Villette Park and Grande Halle public establishment
  • Jean-Claude Boulard, Director of Green Spaces for the city of Sens
  • Jean-Michel Sainsard, head of art works at the sub-directorate for historic monuments and protected areas
  • Joël Cottin, Head of the Gardens Department at Versailles
  • Luis Belhaouari, PhD in art history, lead professor at IESA arts&culture
  • Lydwine Saulnier-Pernuit, Curator of the Musées de Sens
  • Madame de Larouzière, owner of the Jardin de l’Alchimiste
  • Michel Brousse, President of the Office de Tourisme de Sens
  • Michel Capdevielle, Mayor of Gélaucourt, a flower-decorated village
  • Michel Jourdheuil, Head of Parks and Gardens, Val d’Oise General Council
  • Michel Racine, Architect, landscape designer
  • Mr. and Mrs. d’Yvoire, owners of the Jardin des Sens
  • Régis Cocault, Director of the Office de Tourisme d’Auvers sur Oise
  • Sylvie Glaser, Administrator of the Domaine national de Saint-Cloud
  • Véronique Guyonnaud, owner of the Jardin de Barbirey
  • Yves Marie Allain, horticultural engineer, landscape designer
  • Chantal Colleu-Dumond, Director of the Domaine de Chaumont sur Loire