Olivier Gaudin

Olivier Gaudin is an assistant professor at the ENP (École de la Nature et du Paysage – School of Nature and Landscape Architecture; part of INSA CVL, the Institut National des Sciences Appliquées – National Institute for Applied Sciences Centre-Val de Loire), in Blois, France. He is also a researcher within the Ambiances, Architectures, Urbanités research unit (Grenoble, AAU_Cresson) and an associate member of the CEMS research unit (Centre d’Étude des Mouvements Sociaux; Paris, EHESS). His research focuses on pragmatist philosophy, urban studies, cinema, the cultural history of landscapes, and critical analysis of public space design projects.

He is the co-editor of two books: with Daniel Cefaï, Mathieu Berger and Louise Carlier, Écologie humaine. Une science sociale des milieux de vie (Créaphis Éditions, 2024); and, with Alexis Cukier, Les Sens du social, philosophie et sociologie (Presses universitaires de Rennes, 2017). He also contributed to Oileáin Árann (Créaphis Éditions, 2022), a photographic work by Beatrix von Conta. He is the managing editor of Les Cahiers de l’École de Blois, a member of the "Critique et Projet de Paysage" network, and a member of the editorial boards of the open-access online journals Métropolitiques and Pragmata, revue d’études pragmatistes.

A number of his publications are freely available via his Academia page.