Virginie Pigeon
Virginie Pigeon is an architect and landscape architect trained at ISA Saint-Luc Liège and the École Nationale Supérieure de Paysage in Versailles, and she holds a PhD in urban planning and the art of building. She teaches at the Faculty of Architecture of the Université libre de Bruxelles (ULB), where she has held the Chair of Landscape since 2024.
Virginie Pigeon coordinates, on behalf of ULB, the Bachelor’s–Master’s programme in Landscape Architecture, delivered as a joint degree in collaboration with the University of Liège and the Haute École Charlemagne. Her research explores practices involved in the co-construction of landscape as a commons. Her work focuses on understanding the vernacular production of landscape by its stakeholders and inhabitants, through an in-depth reflection on cartographic media and intermediary objects. She is particularly interested in graphic and narrative modes of describing landscape, as well as in questions concerning rights to and of landscape. She has developed expertise in investigative and mediation tools that foster dialogue between experts and civil society on issues related to spatial planning, landscape, and public space. Alongside her academic activities, she also practices as a project author within the firm she co-founded in 2003, Pigeon Ochej Paysage. She is a member of the cartographic action-research collective Bistre, which she co-founded in 2024 with Sophie Boiron, Marine Declève, and Pierre Huyghebaert.
Contact: virginie.pigeon@ulb.be