Doriane Happel is a french designer and landscape architect established in Oslo since 2013. She received her education in France, at Ecole Boulle, Paris and Ecole Nationale Superieure du Paysage, Versailles Marseille. She has developed broad creative and technical skills by working across a wide range of projects of different scales including public parks, urban transformation projects, and school playgrounds to name a few. She has also participated in organising creative workshops and designing and putting up decoration in venues for a variety of events (concerts and creative activities).

Through her practice she focuses on creating meeting points between culture, environment and communities. Her travels and experiences abroad are sources of inspiration for her design projects. Drawing is a way to collect pieces of stories, to understand new cultures and practices and an important communication tool. She has a sensitive approach to analyzing and understanding places through the different layers they are composed of.

She is currently experimenting with new forms of practice where she wants to develop a more personal approach to placemaking through art, culture and environment.

Image 1 - Telling a story of a place by reusing and redesigning existing elements (2016-2020)
Teamwork at Grindaker AS / Harbitz Torg-urban transformation, Skøyen, Norway (Møller Eiendom). Photo: Damian Heinisch
Image 2 - Sequences illustrating the different social and ecological concepts (2019)
Teamwork at Grindaker AS / Part of an international ideas competition for the design of Lentoasemanpuisto on the site of the former Malmi airport (Held by the City of Helsinki og MARK).
Image 3 - Concept drawing-From planting a tree to creating a sense of community (2019)
Teamwork at Grindaker AS / Part of an international ideas competition for the design of Lentoasemanpuisto on the site of the former Malmi airport (Held by the City of Helsinki og MARK).
Image 4 - Extracts from travel book (2015-2017)