We find ourselves at the end of a world based on the illusory belief in unlimited material growth that is colliding with the limits of the Earth. To enable the transition from a growing, self-destructive society to one that sustains life, we are engaging in an architectural process based more on connections than on goods. Our responsibility is individual and collective to our environment, to the land and its human and non-human inhabitants. As architects, in the same way as all inhabitants of the Earth, we are actors in the ecological transition.

The Folies studio invites us to build the project from the inside, through active and participatory observation with resource tools such as the work that links permaculture, reuse, eco-construction and ecofeminism. The Folies question our connection with Nature and materialise it with awareness, sustainability, respect and commitment, without providing univocal answers. Above all, they raise questions. They create relationships and alternatives for collaborative and participatory practice, involving the environment, the land, its inhabitants and all living forms. Alone, they offer a point of view constructed on and by their environment. Together, they materialise a network, a multi-faceted yet coherent urban grid.

The Folies are located in a natural, preserved but developed area of the City of Geneva. Surrounded by calm and biodiversity, the small structure invites us to reconnect with Nature through its anchorage. This rootedness takes meaning in its connection with the place, in resonance, in healthy and benevolent harmony.