Plané’Terre is a programme designed to raise awareness and promote discovery around the material earthits uses in architecture and the issues it raises in relation to the environment, heritage and ecological transition. Designed as an educational, scientific and artistic initiative, it is aimed at a wide audience: schoolchildren, teachers, charity volunteers, professionals and curious minds of all ages. Each workshop can be offered independently or integrated into an educational programme built around the school year.

Organised into 22 workshops – sensory, scientific, technical, artistic, writing or theatre – Plané’terre invites participants to explore earth in all its dimensions. The aim is to raise cultural and environmental awareness while promoting earthen architectural heritage.

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The Élémenterre kit is an educational tool developed by CRAterre for students, professionals, the general public and schoolchildren. It allows participants to discover the properties of earth as a building material and understand why and how it can be used in construction.Through a series of interactive and counterintuitive experiments on granular material, participants are invited to carry out simple scientific experiments to discover the composition and properties of earth, a material that is so common yet so little recognised.

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Following on from the Plané’Terre programme, the Matière & Émotions workshop proposes a sensory, artistic and expressive experience around the material of earth. Designed to link scientific discovery with physical and poetic expression, this workshop invites participants – especially children – to feel, manipulate, describe, create and narrate.

Educational objectives:

• Express your emotions with your body, then with traces, imprints and signs, dots and lines, the first gestures made with the hand tool.
• Invent and tell a story about this learning experience
• Create an art exhibition based on all these expressions.

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« Grains de Bâtisseurs – Grain-based materials, from geology to architecture » is a discovery pathway where visitors can try out a series of interactive and counter-intuitive experiments on mineral grain-based materials. This allows them to acquire scientific and technical knowledge about grain-based materials through a journey from geology to architecture, a scientific and technical understanding of granular materials.

The Grains de Bâtisseurs experiences are organised according to a process which, while introducing visitors to the basic properties of granular materials, encourages them to move successively from geology to construction and to establish links between landscapes, materials and architecture.

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