Cristóbal Elgueta, Landscape Architect, Santiago, Chile - 13 April 2022

“Ecosystemic Landscaping”
Originally trained in forest engineering, Cristóbal Elgueta is a self-taught landscaper with a reputation for creating wild-looking gardens and parks with great biological diversity and limited input requirements. From the outset of his career, he focused on the composition and functioning of plant communities in Mediterranean climates which enabled him to create a garden design methodology that he baptized as Ecosystemic Landscaping. This is a way of understanding the garden not only as an aesthetic and design exercise, but also as a powerful tool to restore balance and reconnect with nature. His talk will deal with the path travelled by Cristóbal and his colleague Macarena Calvo in the development of their methodology to make the garden a rich, beautiful and diverse biological system.