Earthshine: an essay on watershed imagining

Part landscape essay, part atmospheric journey, Earthshine moves through garden cinema, green caves, and luminous riverscapes along the Aire River outside Geneva to ask a question that sits at the heart of contemporary landscape practice: how do we reimagine rivers not as infrastructure but as life terrains? Stefan Darlan Boris retraces the iconic 21st-century river restoration project by Georges Descombes and Superpositions, using it as a lens through which to examine watersheds as common ground in a new climatic regime. The essay is enriched by a series of previously unpublished river drawings by Descombes -- rare primary material for anyone working at the intersection of landscape architecture, ecological thinking, and climate imagination