GAIAGRAPHY CRITICAL ZONE EXPLORATION NOTEBOOK

Gaiagraphie is an immersion in Earth sciences with the aim of helping us rediscover landscapes that we think are familiar, but of which we actually know very little. This work combines exploration notebooks, discovery stories, theoretical and methodological interludes and cartographic representations in order to constitute a new tool for visualizing the critical zone (the habitable layer of the Earth, particularly monitored by environmental sciences), its dynamics and the cycles that make the Earth habitable. This book invites us to change scale, to question the contours of the Earth and to pluralize our environments. By shifting our perspective, our practices and the cartographic tools we use to equip ourselves to face the rapid changes in our environments, Gaiagraphie extends the exploration initiated with Terra Forma in 2019. This time, it is in the observatories equipped by scientists in the critical zone and through a meticulous investigation of the data collected there that the method of representation initiated by this first book is put to use.