In august 2018, Collectif Etc has been invited in Tromso, Norway, to build a temporary art installation in two weeks. Inspired by playgrounds, this was part of a wider project toward city planning lead by Raumlabor, a Berlin-based collective.

We set up a general idea : their would be a center, like an island, and a ring surrounding it, creating a limit. We called it “The Atoll”, rooted in local islands and fjords imaginary but shifted into something more exotic. Is was conceived as a “Republic of children”, the ring creating an inside and an outside in the project.

It was a delicate challenge : discovering the city, having workshops with children, designing, building, making a movie and some flags as signage in two weeks.

To see more details, you can read the post published by the Collectif Etc on its website  here.