Alexandre Champagne holds a Ph.D. in Landscape Architecture from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and an MLA from Cornell University. Before pursuing his education in the United States, he was a financial analyst at the Banque de France in Paris. He interned at Peter Walker and Partners (Berkeley, CA) and worked briefly at Michel Desvigne Paysagiste (Paris, France) before co-founding the firm Aire d’essai (Los Angeles, CA) in 2004. Based on choreographies of tailored individual and collective practices, his projects have been mini laboratories in which to experiment with ideas of communality, wellbeing, and education. His research addresses urban challenges and how professional involvement could have broader impacts on social well-being by relying on an applied-philosophy approach guided by interdisciplinary perspectives.