This project is rooted in a desire to reconnect with the history and culture of Les Arcs.
From the outset, design has been an integral part of the creation methodology for all the resort's infrastructures. Charlotte Perriand's 20-year involvement with Les Arcs has also made design a major element in the identity and positioning of this tourist destination. 
Today, the mountains are at the heart of major economic, social and environmental challenges. These players need to rethink their tourism model and develop a new paradigm that is more resilient, more sustainable, more diversified and less dependent on seasonality. In fact, Les Arcs is more than just a ski resort: it's a mountain resort, a magnificent natural area,
a source of rejuvenation and reconnection with the environment. The sporty mountain of yesterday is now doubled as a healing mountain. The project responds to Les Arcs' invitation to consider how design can support the emergence of new uses to encourage the transition to a more resilient model.

• Starting with the wool from the sheep in the surrounding mountain pastures. "To remake a look, it's not just a lesson in color. It means learning to reposition ourselves in this fragmented world, chopped up by all the systems of tutelage or enslavement of the mind. It can start with a tree that was just a name and suddenly becomes a being. Claudie and Francis Hunzinger. Working with natural materials and ennobling them allows us to question our practice and establish a different relationship with living things.

• By collaborating with a local textile mill: Filature Arpin, and more specifically by using these scraps/resources as the starting point for the project. The aim of the workshop is to create, together, an interior space that will provide a particular experience, related or complementary to a mountain experience. This device will have to be both self-supporting and transportable, as it could be installed in two different spaces: on the stage where the meetings take place, and in the conviviality of a hotel that also welcomes the participants. This space will be on display and in operation during the "LES ARCS ARCHI' DESIGN 2024" meeting from April 3 to 5, 2024.

Workshop directed by matalie crasset
matali crasset is a French designer of international renown. Since training at Les Ateliers-ENSCI in the 1990s, she has championed design at the crossroads of artistic, anthropological and social practice. She works for a design of creation, of the living and the everyday: how can design contribute to living together and accompany us in the contemporary world? It is from this simple yet committed premise that she thinks and works "in motion". For the past 30 years, she has been inventing her own unique path, nourished by the hundreds of projects she has carried out in architecture, scenography, object design, furniture, public spaces and amenities. 
Her borderless, territory-free design is the expression of a deep-seated belief in the creative process as a human, social and ecological project. This is because the purpose of a project does not lie in its one and only realization, but in the process itself and its ability to create links and a system of exchange and reciprocity between individuals and with the natural environment. In this way, every project becomes a shared endeavor.
In partnership with Arpin spinning mill
Fabric manufacturer since 1817 Founded in Séez-Saint-Bernard in 1817, our company is one of the last to weave and manufacture finished products and made-to-measure items from raw fleece. Still based in the same Filature, we work on machines listed as National Heritage to offer you fabrics, plaids, cushions and garments that reflect our know-how and the quality of our materials.