: A Politics of the Gaze

A conversation between author Frédérique Mocquet and Mariabruna Fabrizi

jeudi 26 mars 2026
à 13:00
Lieu : à la bibliothèque

The Landscape Photography Observatory is a project run by the Ministry of the Environment, established in the 1990s to document changes in the French landscape. Building on the history of this photographic programme, the conversation will explore the aesthetic, political and technical frameworks that constitute landscape and photography, to discuss how images shape our perspectives on inhabited environments.

Frédérique Mocquet (author)
Frédérique Mocquet is an architect, holds a PhD in architecture and is a senior lecturer at Ensa Paris-Est (Université Gustave Eiffel). Her research in the history of urban planning, at the intersection of visual studies and environmental history, focuses in particular on the imaginaries and representations of nature and landscapes, and on the roles that images play in project processes and the configuration of territories.

Mariabruna Fabrizi
Mariabruna Fabrizi is an architect, lecturer and exhibition curator. She co-founded the Microcities agency and the online atlas Socks-studio. In 2025, she completed her PhD thesis in architecture, focusing on the construction of architectural imagination, at the University of Paris-Est (UGE doctoral school), within the OCS laboratory, under the supervision of Sébastien Marot and the co-supervision of Anna Rosellini. Her current research focuses on the spatialisation of mental processes, the relationship between architecture and information, and the evolution of domestic space.
Mariabruna Fabrizi joined the school in 2015 as a tenured senior lecturer in the history and theory of architectural representation and coordinates the “Representation” research area. She is co-coordinator of the Architecture & Experience Master’s seminar. Previously, Mariabruna Fabrizi taught at EPFL in Lausanne, Switzerland, where she was a research assistant, and at the Piet Zwart Institute in Rotterdam.
Together with her partner Fosco Lucarelli, she was a guest curator at the Lisbon Architecture Triennale in 2016, and curator and scenographer of the exhibition Inner Space at the Lisbon Triennale in 2019, as well as the exhibition Database, Network, Interface: The Architecture of Information at the EPFL’s Archizoom gallery in 2021. Together, they published the book Inner Space in 2019 with Poligrafa, and Database, Network, Interface with Caryatide in 2021.