ZooCam thesis - WP1 - Océane Rieu

Camargue, the salt trial - Adapting an area to salinisation and climate change
The Salt Trial is a territorial fiction that looks at salt as an environmental motif accused in a fictitious trial, inviting all the living people of the Camargue to testify. The trial is a unifying event, creating a shared narrative. This action-research project aims to break down the barriers between different approaches, by recognising and questioning a wide range of vernacular knowledge and know-how, and involving players from all sectors. It explores the possibilities for adapting and transforming human activities in the Camargue in the face of salinisation of the environment and climate change, and aims to trigger social change around the challenges of ecological transition.

The aim of this exploratory project is to analyse the many models of ecological transition at work in the Camargue. These models encompass initiatives with a strong environmental, economic and social impact, the implementation of which is the subject of heated debate,...