2025 « CRÉATIVITÉ ET PATRIMOINE INDUSTRIEL » Journées du patrimoine

Welcome to the workshop « Maisons Improbables & Architecture Approximative », the only place where a milk brick can legally become a dream pavilion. Here, no need for building permits: imagination acts as reinforced concrete. We cut, we glue, we assemble askew, then we affirm with aplomb that « it’s wanted ». The workshop is a space where objects promised in the trash know a second life full of prestige. Laughter guaranteed, unbridled creativity and a slight smell of glue to the program.

In a society that flashes, that beeps, that time everything, even happiness, creativity happens without a badge or password, and that’s good. It grows where you don’t expect it, often in a mess, often useless… so absolutely necessary.

Creating is loosening the tight collar of everyday life. It’s saying no to the instructions for use, to the ‘as it should be’, to the ‘it’s useless’. It’s breathing a little wider in a world that likes well-closed boxes. When everything requires to be profitable, efficient, measurable, creativity dares to be free, unreliable, and deeply human. It doesn’t always provide answers, but it opens windows. It doesn’t solve everything, but it prevents suffocation. To imagine, tinker, invent is to take back a small intimate power: that of transforming the real, even if only for an instant, into something more livable.

In a stifling society, creativity is not a luxury. It’s a breath of fresh air.