Elie Seksig is an eco-social and landscape designer whose work engages with contemporary ecologies through direct action.

Rooted in foraging and everyday landscapes, his practice approaches design as a relational tool to foster reciprocity between spaces and their communities.

His active involvement in food forests reflects a desire to complexify multispecies entanglements by imagining convivial ways of inhabiting places.


2026 — BA Design Academy Eindhoven (NL)

2025 — Internship, La Foresta, Rovereto (IT)

2024 — Internship, KRATER, Ljubljana (SL)

2021 — Propaedeutic year, ECAL (CH)



get in touch: salut(at)elieseksig(dot)ch

spontaneous patches

2023, Eindhoven

Can I also take care of public green spaces ?

Public spaces in the Netherlands are maintained according to a pre-established «image quality level» ranging from A+ to D published in the Public Space Quality Catalogue. Any unplanned growth is labelled as a «weed» (onkruid).

The more «weeds» on a patch, the lowest its score.

Following the strategy of the plants who were not part of the plan, I initiated spontaneous actions around the Eindhoven.

These absurd interventions allowed me to test the boundaries of the system and get to know the different actors who are part of it.

spontaneous patches
CROW's ontology in relationship to
CROW's ontology in relationship to "Bloembak" (flower box)
Public Space Quality Catalogue entry describing the image quality levels of flower boxes from A to D
Public Space Quality Catalogue entry describing the image quality levels of flower boxes from A to D
Action 1:removing pavement
Action 1:removing pavement
Action 2:planting
Action 2:planting "weeds" in the traditional style
Action 3:growing vegetables
Action 3:growing vegetables
Action 4:transplanting willow
Action 4:transplanting willow
Action 5:claiming land for myself
Action 5:claiming land for myself