19. Il était une fois… une forêt

Hajer Gaaloul is a Tunisian landscape engineer who graduated from the Institut Supérieur Agronomique in Chott Mariem in 2010. After moving to Belgium, she continued her training by studying landscape architecture at the University of Liège, followed by a specialisation in environmental management at the Université Libre in Bruxelles. For more than 10 years, she has worked in the field of urban planning and landscaping, collaborating with a number of design offices in Brussels. She has been involved in various projects for public and private spaces, mainly in the Brussels-Capital region, throughout the conceptual development and construction stages. In fact, one of these public space projects won the first prize for urban planning. She is particularly interested in the climate change-related challenges facing cities, such as flood management, heatwaves, mobility, social inequality and biodiversity. She looks at how policymakers, designers and citizens can respond to these challenges to create more resilient cities. Driven by a passion for art and aesthetics, she is delighted to share her creativity at the 2025 Chaumont-sur-Loire International Garden Festival. She sees this event as a real opportunity to express her artistic vision through her landscape creations, while celebrating a place that harmoniously combines nature and art.