Time Capsule:
Post-war in a bottle

Du 01.02.2027
au 05.02.2027
workshop
experimentation

Every year, during the break between semesters, the school organises a one-week Winter School bringing together more than 400 students to explore a shared theme. Open to students from the school as well as those from other French and international institutions, this week of collective experimentation provides an opportunity to explore architecture, the city and the landscape, alongside professionals and practitioners from a variety of backgrounds: architects, designers, artists, photographers, urban planners, researchers, etc.

For the 2027 edition, the school has entrusted the curatorship to Marion Lacas and Jacques Ippoliti, architects and urban planners from the Vis-à-vis practice and lecturers at the school. They have chosen ‘Time Capsule’ as the theme.

A distinctive feature of the 2027 Winter School will be the production of contributions for the forthcoming ‘Postwar’ Triennial of Cities and Territories. The works created during the week in February will be exhibited on campus in the autumn.

Discover this year’s winners and their workshops

01. La lettre volée et le marchand immoral
by Luca Merlini

Edgar Poe's The Purloinded Letter has this message: what is best hidden is what is in the eyes. From this story, the idea is that the content of time capsules are not in capsules, they are visible. All the contents are like a cloud that contains us as a capsule. We are in a capsule.
The immoral merchant wants to do business with the world of capsules. He sells what we are, our loves stories, our memory, our habits, our everything.
He opens a shop with a cupboard for display the capsules.

Supervised by Luca Merlini

Luca Merlini is born in Mendrisio and graduated in 1977 in architecture in the ETH of Zurich. He is both Swiss and French.
He worked in New York and Paris with Bernard Tschumi, first on theoretical projects, for the Parc de la Villette competition and its completion (1980-92). His office is in Lausannne.

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02. Autoroute era
by Cyprien Desrez

This workshop propos to student to create kind of habitable architecture made with papier-mâché. The idea is to produce a building, with the motorway mythology. The papier-mâché hut will permit to walk across and will exist in its own right. The workshop should permit to show a motorway aesthetic and landscape questioning. We will work around the idea of outside and inside. The final product will be the result of a group work, rich and curious.

Supervised by Cyprien Desrez

Cyprien Desrez was born in Lisieux, Pays d'Auge, to a district nurse mum and a groom dad. He get his "Galop 2" and a standard driver's license. In 2014, he was named "Fried Chicken Nuggets Line Ace" at the McDonald’s in Touques. He roam just as much in real life as in the digital world, by hitchhiking along the motorways or by traveling in Red Dead Redemption.

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03. 2050: Woven Utopias - What We Will Have Won
by Léa Maisonneuve, Olivia Bordaz and Alice Jackson

In 1968, students and workers were in the streets. Their demands were not met, but their placards became part of history.
We are imagining a future where the protestors won. Time travelling to 2050, we will see the placards that were used to achieve the political demands of today. A workshop where sewing becomes a tool for protest, and recycled fabric becomes a political material.
Students will design their own placards. On Friday the placards will be combined to reveal one huge banderole and echo the protests from the streets. These placards will focus on the future of the welfare state, expressing political and social desires of today. Rejecting arguments of rationality, we encourage the students to ask, what would be their utopia?

Supervised by Léa Maisonneuve, Olivia Bordaz and Alice Jackson

Léa Maisonneuve is rchitect-scenographer with a State Diploma from Ensa Paris-Est (2024), recently specialized in scenography at Belleville, she works as a production assistant in cultural engineering and artistic coordination at Le 104, Paris. A dancer with the Batché company and a volunteer scenographer for Furia Collective, she fuels her practice through a constant dialogue between artistic disciplines.

After completing a master's degree in urban planning at Sciences Po Paris, an internship in architecture convinced her of the value of combining all scales. Olivia Bordaz graduated from a master’s degree at Ensa Paris Est. Through her dissertation and site experience,her practice seeks to reconcile craftsmanship and urban issues. She has been working at the studio Carter Gregson Gray in London since 2025.

After graduating from Falmouth University in 2023 in woven textiles and sustainable design, Alice Jackson is currently undertaking a master’s in Political Ecology from SOAS University. Alongside this she works in a haberdashery and sewing school. Her research focuses on the intersection of the fashion industry and ecology; marrying her design background with a desire for climate justice.

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04. Street Cries
by Michael Langeder and Charles Bédin

Street Cries explores the post-war impact of the automobile on urban life by reviving the extinct tradition of the "street cry." Students transform bicycles into customized, mobile trade stations to offer hyper-local services (e.g., bike repair, coffee brewing, mobile barber). Using upcycled materials and metalworking tools, participants design and fabricate three specific add-ons for their bikes: a mechanical acoustic device to announce their trade, a visual flag, and a deployable micro-infrastructure (like a fold-out table or seat). The week culminates in a performative bicycle parade, bringing acoustic life and small-scale human activity back to the neighborhood streets.

Supervised by Michael Langeder and Charles Bédin

Michael Langeder creates scenographies for daily life. Based in Brussels, his practice sits at the intersection of architecture, design, and performance. He treats everyday spaces as stages and objects as instrumental props. Cultivating a language of 'functional ambiguity', he produces 'architecture in disguise' that rewrites the rituals of everyday life.

Charles Bédin, an architect and metalworker based in Brussels, has worked in Paris and London, notably at Caruso St John Architects. He has been based in Brussels since 2017 and trained in metalwork at Arts et Métiers. As part of the studiœmile collective, he designs and builds furniture, architectural elements, and art installations.

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05. PRESS HERE !
by Clément Dauvilliers

Press to switch on, open, go up, heat, call, order, generate. During the 20th century, especially in the postwar period, the button became the emblem of a world available on command: a tiny gesture could trigger systems whose complexity disappeared behind the interface. Today, touchscreens, voice control and AI are beginning to make the physical button disappear. PRESS HERE! proposes to turn it into a time capsule of the cult of the machine. Working in small groups, students will build automata, kinetic objects, mechanisms or improvised contraptions to activate. Each command will produce an unexpected, disproportionate or absurd action. The gag becomes a critical tool, revealing what automation allows us to stop doing, seeing or understanding.

Supervised by Clément Dauvilliers

Clément Dauvilliers is an architect. Educated at ENSA Versailles, TU Munich and Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, his background combines architecture, heritage and landscape. After eight years in architectural practices, he founded his own studio in 2023. Selected for Ensa Paris-Est’s Échelle Un incubator in 2025, his practice focuses on existing contexts, uses and imaginaries.

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06. Les fantômes de l'État-providence
by Claire Serres and Bettina Blanc Penther

"Les fantômes de l'État-providence" (Ghosts of the Welfare State) is a site-specific performance workshop. Choreographer Bettina Blanc Penther and vocal
artist/performer Claire Serres combine their practices around a shared desire : to create a sense of unity between bodies and a shared space. They invite workshop participants to collectively imagine a "hauntology" of the site—a series of contemporary rituals—engaging with the school’s interior and exterior spaces and/or its surroundings. What haunts our spaces and our bodies? What aspects of our shared history are being reenacted? How can we exorcise or summon these ghosts?Bettina and Claire propose addressing these questions directly to the buildings, streets, walls, and plazas, and listening for their echoes.

Supervised by Claire Serres and Bettina Blanc Penther

Claire Serres is a vocal artist and performer born in 1988, graduated of the Haute École des Arts du Rhin in Strasbourg. With her association Sirène Song, she develops listening and vocal collective games for everyone. She released Mües in February 2026, her first polyphonic vinyl album.

Bettina Blanc Penther is a Paris-based choreographer and performer, born in 1991. They hold a degree from the Photography/Video department of the École nationale supérieure des arts décoratifs in Paris. Alongside their own work, they collaborate on choreographic projects and lead dance workshops for diverse audiences. In 2021, they founded the company No SMALL MESS with Pauline Brun.

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07. De la caverne à l’école
by Camille Boutemy and Félix Chameroy

From the cave to the school, the fabric from JR’s inflatable artwork becomes the raw material for a new architecture. Its reuse will guide the collective construction of a large inflatable structure within the school. Floating in the atrium, this lightweight envelope will inhabit the void and transform perceptions of the school from the surrounding walkways. Inside, a shift in scale and atmosphere will create a striking contrast: light and material will shape an immersive, sensory space. From design to fabrication, students will explore the potential of reuse and lightweight structures to create new spaces using minimal, already available material.

Supervised by Camille Boutemy and Félix Chameroy

Camille Boutemy is a qualified architect (HMONP). She defended her PhD thesis in 2025 at ENPC, focusing on the design and construction of inflatable structures used as formwork. She also gained extensive professional experience at Barthélémy Grino Architectes. She is currently a research fellow with RSPA ENSAéco and teaches at Ensa Paris-Est, ENSA Paris-Malaquais and ENPC.

Félix Chameroy is an architect, artist and craftsman. Trained at ENSA Paris-Malaquais, he also holds a vocational qualification in industrial metalworking. His practice combines architecture, art and fabrication, with a particular focus on inflatable structures. He is the founder of Dynamorphe and an Associate Professor at ENSA Montpellier.

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08. MetropOil
by Noé Toulouse and Akram Lemouchia

Chrome, speed, cheap gas on tap: the car promised freedom, until its promises turned against it : traffic jams, pollution, dependency. From the Trente Glorieuses to today, the controversy has never let up. This workshop picks up the tools of architecture to build MetropOil, a fictional metropolis born of postwar fantasies, using the era's utopian projects and promotional imagery as an architectural grammar. Each team lands its own radical position and interrogates its logistical underside the factories, warehouses, and supply networks that make it possible then gives voice to the perspective of one of the city's inhabitants.

Supervised by Noé Toulouse and Akram Lemouchia

Noé Toulouse graduated from Ensa Paris-Est, where he took part in the Fragments master's program, which examines architecture through its relationship to the metropolis and the territory. He has worked at architecture firms in Paris and Athens and currently works at the urban planning practice Adélaïde. Model-making at multiple scales has been part of his practice for several years.

Akram Lemouchia is an architect who graduated from Ensa Paris-Est, where he took part in the Fragments master's program. His graduate thesis examined the representation of interwar public space through the weekly magazine Vu. He has worked at architecture, urban planning, and landscape firms, including Altitude 35, and is a laureate of Europan 18 for the Dembéni site in Mayotte.

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09. Bons baisers de Disneyland
by Anna Pelli and Adèle Courcelle

In the 1950s, Disney invested heavily in bringing its iconic animated films to life in theme parks. Disneyland Paris is the archetype of this approach and has become a symbol of mass-market entertainment venues where such entertainment is transformed into a commercial product.
Despite some contemporary criticism and the inconsistency of these facilities with regard to environmental concerns, many similar projects continue to emerge.
The workshop will produce a collection of postcards addressed to the future that will dissect the myth of Disneyland’s “enchanted world” and the ideology it implicitly conveys. This collective archive will examine what these parks say about our society and reveal various possible futures.

Supervised by Anna Pelli and Adèle Courcelle

During their architecture degree, Adèle and Anna Pelli explored the connections between the Seine and its area, collaborating as a group of seven to create a narrative—both graphic and written—that blended research, debate, controversy, and projections.
Since then, Anna has continued to explore the field of landscape architecture while working at Atelier Roberta.

Adèle Courcelle works at the architectural firm of Damien Antoni and teaches geometry at ENSA-PB. She ran an architectural consultation office in Basse-Pointe (Martinique) as part of the Post-Carbon DPEA program in 2024.

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10. A Festança de Roberto : Les funérailles rêvées
by Jean-Philippe Teyssier and Alexis Faucheux

In 1994, Roberto Burle Marx’s funeral was marked by great solemnity. It contrasted with the celebrations he organised at the Sítio, bringing students, artists, architects, gardeners and friends together around food, flowers, music and decorations.
As part of the Winter School Time Capsule / Post War in a Bottle, the project proposes to relocate this ceremony to 2027. The aim is not to reconstruct his funeral, but to imagine a festive ceremony drawing on his work, practices, ambiguities and personality.
Students will document his activities as a landscape architect, painter and botanist. They will explore his gestures and identify sounds, plants and colours to collectively design this ceremony.

Supervised by Jean-Philippe Teyssier and Alexis Faucheux

Jean-Philippe Teyssier is a French landscape architect (DPLG), trained at ENSP Versailles and the Edinburgh College of Art. Deputy Director of the Louvre Gardens from 2021 to 2023, he develops a practice at the intersection of landscape, ecology, heritage and education. He teaches at ENSP Versailles and Paris-Belleville, and is an author and filmmaker of documentary films for Arte.

Alexis Faucheux has been a landscape architect, is the director of Zeppelin, a territorial design cooperative. His work focuses on enhancing the resources of territories, particularly rural areas, and their natural and historical heritage. A State Landscape Architect and lecturer at ENSP Versailles since 2013, he sees landscape design as a means of improving the habitability of places.

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11. Glace, goût hiver
by Pierre Kraft and Alice Braastad

ICE CREAM, WINTER FLAVOUR proposes creating a paradoxical time capsule: a capsule made of ice, designed to disappear in order to release what it holds. Over five days, students will build an experimental radiative cooling device inspired by the research of Félix Trombe, compile a photographic atlas of winter memory, and stage the capsule’s melting. The capsule will not protect its contents from the passage of time: it will reveal them through its own destruction.

Supervised by Pierre Kraft and Alice Braastad

Pierre Kraft graduated from Ensa Paris-Est in 2022, specialising in Structure & Architecture. He worked at Bruther, Obvie Architecture and Atelier 43, and assisted Victor Miot’s second-year studio. In 2024, he obtained his HMONP and was a winner of the Festival des Cabanes des Sources du Lac d’Annecy. He founded PK-A in April 2026.

Alice Braastad trained at Ensa Paris-Est, with an HMONP qualification and experience at Obvie Architecture and Nicolas Dorval-Bory Architectes. The studio spans drawing, making, imagery and material experimentation. Its motto, “Fooling around,” embraces play and unexpected paths—a curiosity further explored through glassblowing and work with resident artists at Fondation Martell.

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12. LOCI SOLI
by Samy Brillaud and Élodie Bitsindou

On May 19, 1978, Georges Perec recorded a six-hour program for France Culture in which he attempted to describe things seen from a location in the very heart of Paris.
LOCI SOLI descentralizes this perspective and explores the postwar legacy through the exploration of suburban spaces. An immersive protocol of sound recording and reproduction allows us to examine, without preconceptions, the replicative dimension of modernity. The Sound Capsule that emerges from this collective process gives voice to this heterotopic, generic, and standardized universe—often stereotyped, yet permeated by powerful emotions.
LOCI SOLI is a haunted memory, addressing itself to a post post-modern era, at the twilight of modernity’s promises.

Supervised by Samy Brillaud and Élodie Bitsindou

Samy Brillaud is architect and photographer. He grew up in a suburban neighborhood near Bordeaux. His first experience with architecture began with playing soccer against his neighbor’s garage door. This interest for spontaneity and hacking is reflected in his hybrid approach, and his enthusiasm for post-suburban fields.

Élodie Bitsindou is a lecturer and researcher at ESPI2R (Research in Real Estate). She holds a PhD in Architectural History from Sorbonne University (Centre André Chastel) and was a 2021 Fulbright Scholar. Her research examines American influences on suburban housing in France and, more broadly, the democratization of architectural forms in the suburbs.

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13. Anatomie d'une fuite - de l'appareil domestique au mécanisme partagé
by Matthieu Brasebin and Elisabeth Terrisse de Botton

Postwar domestic comfort was built around specialised machines that gradually transformed our gestures, spaces and relationship to labour. Now familiar, they conceal the resources, flows and infrastructures that enable their funtioning. The workshop proposes to open these black boxes and consider each appliance as an architecture: an envelope containing spaces, networks, exchanges and systems of regulation. Students will reveal their principles, isolate their mechanisms and build a shared archive before recombining them into new 1:1 devices. A way to question the promise of the machine as a means of liberation and imagine other relationships between comfort, resources, human labour and domestic life.

Supervised by Matthieu Brasebin and Elisabeth Terrisse de Botton

Matthieu Brasebin studied at ENSA Paris-Malaquais, Université de Montréal and EPFL, where he graduated. In 2023, he co-founded Brasebin Terrisse, a Brussels-based architecture practice whose work has since been presented at several international biennials, exhibitions and festivals.

*Elisabeth Terrisse de Botton studied at ETSAB in Barcelona, where she graduated with honours, and at ENSA Paris-Malaquais as an exchange student. In 2023, she co-founded Brasebin Terrisse. In 2023, he co-founded Brasebin Terrisse, a Brussels-based architecture practice whose work has since been presented at several international biennials, exhibitions and festivals. In 2025, she is awarded the Godescharles Prize.

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14. Son culte et méta-capsule
by Nathalie Vidal and Corsin Vogel

The identical replication of manufactured objects has existed for millennia (tools, dwellings, coins, etc.). However, the recording and reproduction of sound has only been possible for the last 150 years, with widespread adoption after 1945 of 33 and 45 rpm vinyl records, magnetic media, and later digital sound.
In this project, the time capsule is considered primarily in its literal sense of ‘encapsulating time’, such as sound. Furthermore, the concept of the ‘cult of the machine’ is central to an acoustic approach to our environment. Therefore, the aim is to explore, through sound, the evolution of machines and instruments from the post-war period to the present day, as well as the sound transmission and its artefacts across the various mediums, both analogue and digital, that emerged during this period.

Supervised by Nathalie Vidal and Corsin Vogel

After studying musicology and training at La Fémis, Nathalie Vidal has worked on numerous feature-length fiction and documentary films as a sound recordist, sound editor, and sound mixer with directors such as Agnès Varda, Claire Simon, Mariana Otero, Alain Guiraudie, Philippe Faucon, Claire Denis, Patricia Mazuy, and Dominik Moll.
She recently joined the faculty of the sound master’s program at ENS Louis-Lumière.

Corsin Vogel is an artist, an associate professor at the ENS Louis-Lumière and the Paris Conservatory, and a research associate at the PRISM (Perception, Representations, Image, Sound, Music) laboratory at Aix-Marseille University / CNRS. In his creative work, he is particularly interested in the concepts of territory and cultural heritage, as well as the plasticity and spatiality of sound.

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Curators
Marion Lacas and Jacques Ippoliti are architects and urban planners who graduated from ENSA Paris-Malaquais and are co-founders of the VIS-À-VIS firm.
Marion Lacas teaches at ENSA Nantes at the bachelor’s and master’s levels in the City and Territory program, and Jacques Ippoliti teaches at Ensa Paris-Est in the Fragments program.