14. Le jardin de l’Odyssée

Odeline Marteau lives in Sologne, where she works as a landscape designer for the Pays de Grande Sologne, combining respect for the living environment with personal wellbeing in the places where we live. After a childhood of fairytales and building temporary habitats in the forest, she became interested in the profession of landscaper through the relationship between environments and their inhabitants. She studied at the École de la Nature et du Paysage in Blois and honed her eye for large-scale landscapes in her final dissertation, "Pour une réappropriation de la Sologne, ou comment repenser la trajectoire d'un paysage en fermeture” (For a reappropriation of Sologne, or how to rethink the trajectory of a declining landscape). She completed several internships with agencies such as Atelier 360° and Atelier GAMA, and has worked on everyday landscaping with the FAAR Paysage agency.

Camille Massias grew up in Loir-et-Cher, between the hills of the Loire Valley and the grain fields of Beauce. Since her time at the Lycée Agricole in Vendôme, she has developed a growing curiosity for ecology, agronomy and the development of rural areas. Her fascination with the living world and attraction to graphic arts led her to choose the profession of designer. In 2017, she joined the École de la Nature et du Paysage, and throughout her university career she has taken an attentive and passionate look at large-scale landscapes. In 2023, she received her diploma in landscaping with the distinction of "dialogue and compromise" for her work questioning the future of Beauceron's agricultural landscapes. Today, as a landscape designer and head of the "Small Towns of Tomorrow" project within the Pays de Grande Sologne, she helps local authorities in this mixed association to create their development projects.

Maxime Boay is passionate about the interactions of living organisms with different environments, be they human, animal or botanical. His curiosity drives him to study these fields from all angles in different parts of our planet. During his studies at the École de la Mouillère in Orléans, then at the École Nationale Supérieure de Paysage in Versailles, he developed great curiosity about landscaping through the prism of collective intelligence and common good in service of regional development. He is a passionate landscape designer at Agence Chora. This design office, which he cofounded in 2022, offers him the opportunity to enrich a number of gardens, parks and city centres on a daily basis, stimulating many living creatures and thus contributing to transforming our lifestyles.