Speakers & moderators

Born in 1975, Alexandre Lacroix has been editorial director of Philosophie Magazine since the launch of the journal in 2006. He has been a teacher at Sciences-Po Paris since 1998, where he teaches courses in political humanities and creative writing. He is president and co-founder of a writing school, Les Mots (www.lesmots.co). Alexandre Lacroix is a writer who has published some twenty essays and novels, as well as several illustrated albums for young people.

His approach to nature and ecology is called "environmental aesthetics," which examines our sensitive relationship with our environment. "Devant la beauté de la nature" (Allary éditions, 2018; reprinted in Champs-Flammarion, 2021) is a multidisciplinary investigation that starts with a simple, yet dizzying question: why do we experience such varied emotions when contemplating landscapes in general and sunsets in particular?

In the wake of the previous essay, "Au coeur de la nature blessée" (Allary editions, in bookstores October 6, 2022) focuses this time on the ambiguous emotions we feel in front of landscapes that bear the damage of industrial civilization, for example a pylon, a grain silo, a peri-urban area, and on the way global warming modifies our perception of seasons.

On the children's side, two albums for children from 3 years old deal with the ecological question in a poetic and offbeat way, Les Couleurs de la forêt (drawings by Pierre-Henri Turin, Père Castor, 2021) and Le roi qui rêvait d'un ciel toujours bleu (drawings by Sophie Lebot, Père Castor, 2022).