The contribution of digital in landscape approach. Experimentation of a creative research in the city of Thouars

Seven professionals from diverses disciplines set up creative research for fifteen days in July 2017 at Thouars (Deux Sevres, France). This creative research was intended to renew the methods of landscape analysis in the digital era. Municipal Council accepted the project. Local stakeholders, associations, and inhabitants take possession of activities to develop places of listening and talks. In the end, creative research, which wanted to be without political commitment, found itself in interactions between local stakeholders and in conflicts of interest. We show in this paper how the creative research become a place of mediation by the landscape. Indeed, this approach was imposed on the group and seems to be a solution to help the governance to implement territorial projects.