The Plané'Terre discovery and awareness-raising program offers specific educational, training and dissemination schemes, with the aim of helping to educate schoolchildren from kindergarten to secondary school, meeting the training needs of teachers and raising awareness among the general public.

The workshop program is combined with training courses for teachers planning to take part in long or short educational initiatives (school projects, EPI), as well as training courses for volunteers from cultural and heritage associations.

Training courses are organized on request, and teaching materials are made available free of charge to teachers and associations, for actions aimed at schoolchildren or the general public.

The program also aims to participate, collaborate, disseminate, lead and initiate scientific and artistic awareness-raising initiatives aimed at the general public, families and children. The aim is to promote knowledge and practices, both ancient and contemporary, concerning earthen materials and earthen architecture, in line with sustainable development and local dynamics.

ÉLÉMENTERRE is an educational tool developed by CRAterre to help architecture and engineering students, construction professionals, schoolchildren and the general public, adults and children alike, discover the properties of earth materials and understand why and how it's possible to build with raw earth.

ÉLÉMENTERRE offers participants intense moments of experimentation and discovery. Invited to carry out simple scientific experiments, they develop a direct, tactile, playful, surprising or spectacular relationship with the material earth, and discover that earth, such a common yet little-known material, is made up of grains - pebbles, gravel, sand and clay - water and air. By combining them, we obtain a solid material that can be used to construct buildings and homes capable of withstanding centuries of use. This is how we move from grain to architecture.

ÉLÉMENTERRE offers an introduction to earthen architecture around the world, based on a global approach to sustainable development.

ÉLÉMENTERRE is a pedagogical tool that develops a new understanding of earth as a material, enabling participants to be more open to creation and innovation.

ÉLÉMENTERRE is the result of research carried out at the CRAterre Laboratory, part of the École Nationale Supérieure d'Architecture de Grenoble, around the Grains de Bâtisseurs research program. More precisely, it is a research program directed by Hugo Houben, based on the work on granular matter initiated by Pierre Gilles de Gennes, winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1991, which gave rise to a new teaching tool, the ÉlémenTerre kit developed by ethnologist Nathalie Sabatier and architect Alba Riverotion.

The Matière et Émotions art workshop combines the scientific and artistic discovery of earth with the children's bodies and words to describe their sensations and emotions:

• 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.

An age-old building material, raw earth is a resource with ecological, social and economic qualities for the construction industry. Like most natural materials, earth is still underestimated today. amàco's matières à construire workshop is an opportunity to rediscover the inherent qualities of raw materials that are close at hand, and their relevance to construction needs. Whether it's earth or plant fibers, amàco studies them by crossing scientific, technical, artistic and architectural cultures to reveal their nature, behavior and constructive and aesthetic potential.

To help people understand how it's possible to build with the raw materials that surround us, amàco films simple scientific experiments. These videos reveal surprising physico-chemical behaviors and unexpected beauty, inviting us not only to consider these natural materials differently, but also to understand the value of using them in contemporary architecture. Several video series are available: Grains de bâtisseurs, Matières à construire, Matières. The Construire en terre crue series shows construction techniques and links up with the scientific videos.

This educational content, the result of research work, feeds into amàco's training activities in higher education establishments, as well as with professionals, supporting them in their construction projects using bio-geo-sourced materials.

All amàco videos : https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9HfEFwOmVXdYI15pZSyacQ
Find out more about amàco : https://amaco.org/