Pierre-Étienne Paradis holds a master’s degree in Political Science and International Law. The son of a geomatics pioneer and an art history teacher, he has long nurtured a particular interest in architecture and urban planning, alongside a fascination with maps from an early age. He began exploring spatial relationships and their symbolism in 1995, when he became acquainted with ley line theory and the concept of psychogeographical drift. With a multidisciplinary, exploratory, and self-taught approach, he combines careful observation of satellite imagery with firsthand knowledge of landscapes gained through extensive travel, integrating historical and geopolitical insights acquired in professional and academic contexts.
From 2010 onward, the rise of consumer mapping software allowed him to deepen his research and discover a “hidden dimension” in certain site alignments and spatial configurations—one that defies rational explanation and causal logic. In search of a way to describe these coincidences, he naturally came into contact with Michel Bogé, the inventor of the term symplanicity, in 2018.