THE LAST WILDERNESS

DIPLOMA PROJECT

THE LAST WILDERNESS...
Today, paradoxically, the more «natural» habitat, untouched «old nature» - if it still exists, even in the depth of a collective memory - retreats against the needs of our consumer society, which always requires more spaces to eat
up, the more borders between nature and culture seem porous since we live in a time of genetic modification. As the contemporary notion of "nature" seems to be very fragile, today may be more than ever before, the concept of nature has become one of the most cleaving topic -even used sometimes as weapon on the battlefields of ecology- the thesis is rather articulated around the notion of wilderness. The thesis is an ironic speculation on how a contemporary wilderness can save Nature, while, we are used to consider Nature shall save and shelter wilderness. Whereas nature is often seen as a frozen and passive ressource intended to be either an artificially preservered wild and virgin territory or an overexploited industrial land, "the last wilderness" is a beginning of an alternative.