Léa Gase and Matylda Florez, students on the Master in Fine Arts - TRANSform. Art & society, have teamed up to create Le Marelia. This composition of 385 ceramic tiles and eleven different handmade shapes inlaid in the floor forms a visual pathway. In addition to the colours pink, yellow, dark blue, sky blue and green, the textures are embossed with the plants that give their names to the buildings - dahlia, maple, sequoia and azalea - which are hollowed out to enliven the surface. 
Le Marelia draws a tree, like a family tree at the centre of this living space, which also houses a retirement home and a crèche, and where generations will come together. Le Marelia is not just any old hopscotch, but a cross-country path that runs from one street to the village square, inviting the youngest children to invent their own rules for moving from one square to the next, and inviting the oldest children to reminisce about their childhood games. There's no doubt that it creates a meeting point, both literally and figuratively, in this new space.
At once aesthetic, playful and metaphorical, this work is designed to encourage intergenerational encounters, to bring out a moment of shared life, however fleeting, a collective moment.

Le Marelia is already a team project, requiring the skills and expertise of Isabelle Schnederle and Johan Pardo, who created it in the HEAD ceramics workshops, as well as Form C, who created the reserves in the tablecloth, and Christian Karrer, who installed the elements.