I work as a design editor, closer to translation than to creation. What I bring into a project is not an idea, but a place: its gestures, its materials, its people, and the threads that hold them together.To be is, always, to be somewhere - Augustin Berque. « être c'est forcément être quelque part. »
To be is, always, to be somewhere - Augustin Berque. « être c'est forcément être quelque part. »
mesology in design
Reading about Fūdo and the work of Tetsurō Watsuji, later developed by Augustin Berque in mesology, I understood that climates, places and people shape one another.
To read a territory through mesology is to understand how a milieu shapes a way of inhabiting, sensing, and experiencing the world at the human level.
I use mesology to read a place beyond the folklore of its visible signs, finding the people and details that make it singular and rooted. For architects, interior designers, hospitality groups, brands and foundations.
"What the Fūdo is she going on about?"
- Sonu Shivdasani
Saigon, Vietnam · 2012–2013 — A private club, inspired by the architectural staple of the Independence Palace.
Japan, Seto Inland Sea · 2017–2020 — A territorial revitalisation across the Murozumi peninsula and the islands of the Seto Inland Sea.
Laos · 2018–2020 — A hospitality and tourism programme built from a reading of the corridor itself.
Nevis, West Indies · 2022–2023 — A house returned to the island, and to its time.
Maurice · Automne 2025 — A territorial reading for a private house and a four-star hotel refurbishment.
Vietnam · 1998–2016 — a lifestyle brand inspired by colonial serendipity, built around Vietnamese craft.
The Blue Blog
Field notes from the territories I read.
An editorial space — on mesology, environment, ecological remediation, crafts, and observations.
