The 14 th Inductees

Gilles Clément(Born in 1943), France
（Gardener, Landscape designer, Novelist）

Since the early 1970s, he has been designing and creating gardens in France and abroad. From 1977, he devoted himself to "public spaces" and established the Atelier Acante in 1985. From 1980 to 2012, he taught at the École Nationale Supérieure du Paysage de Versailles and other institutions, and was active as a temporary lecturer in Italy, Spain and France. He has published approximately 30 books, including "The Garden in Movement", "The Third Landscape Manifesto", and "The Planetary Garden", which have been translated into several languages.

His most famous projects include the André Citroën Park in Paris, Rayol Gardens in Var, Gardens of the New Arc de Triomphe in Nanterre, Gardens of Valloire Abbey in Somme, Matisse Park in Lille, Gardens of the Quai Branly Museum in Paris, and the roof of the submarine base in St Nazaire.. Currently, in addition to creating the gardens of Noirelac Abbey, he is also maintaining the Vivienne Gardens of the BNF in Paris.

“This planet can be regarded as a garden", he said, a space where life is finite, where this life is intermingled, and where human activity is pervasive. Humanity, as the gardeners, have a responsibility to manage the earth as a garden, and that the philosophy and methods of gardening in harmony with the environment have had a great influence on people.

Nakamura Keiko (Born in1936), Japan
（JT Biohistory Research Hall Honorary Director）

We believe that the reason why environmental problems are becoming more serious on a global scale is that the science that creates the developments and technologies that characterizes modern society have a mechanistic world view that favors progress and expansion. In 1993, the "Biohistory Research Hall" was founded with the aim of generating knowledge with a biohistorical worldview that can help to change society’s values.

Knowing that all living things on earth are diverse beings that evolved from cells with DNA (genomes) that were originally born four billion years ago, she proposed the idea for a new field called 'Biohistory', which presents a bio-theoretical worldview through elucidating upon the history and relationships of living organisms that share commonalities, and yet are moving towards diversity.

Together with people working in diverse fields such as the environment, education, childcare, art, civil engineering and architecture, she continues her activities at the research centre, a place of expression of the basic principle of biohistory, that 'humans are living beings and are a part of nature', in search of the creation of a society in which humans as living beings can lead vibrant lives.

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