The goal of this workshop was to familiarise ourselves with the digital tools common to the Fablab by developing a project around a constraint: integrating sport into the city of Lille. 

Each project had to be feasible at Fablab, the finality was to 

thus the creation of an Open Source file conceivable for all.

My team and I had to get into the pétanque game!

 

Divided between two typical districts, Wazemmes and Moulin, the eight pétanque courts of the city of Lille are overrun on sunny days. Populated by regulars, they can discourage curious players. Lille and pétanque have one thing in common: they are both strongly associated with conviviality, and above all with aperitifs!

 

But how to bring pétanque to Lille's bars? 

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By taking an interest in three key places in the city of Lille: the Maison Folie Moulin, the Maison Folie Wazemmes and the Gare Saint-Sauveur, all of which have a courtyard, an outside area, close to the bar, which makes it possible to play. Our answer was the creation of an Illustrator file allowing the laser cutting of a tray and its wedge in oukoumé plywood (better resistance to compression and bending as well as to water). This tray, being raised thanks to its small wedge, offers the possibility for consumers to carry glasses, balls and piglet to the outside space so that they can easily enjoy the joys of the "aperitif-petanque" Lillois! 

 

Through this project we have expanded our technical knowledge and tamed laser cutting by multiplying tests on different types of plywood to obtain a clean and resistant cut during bending. 

 

Like the other selected projects, it was presented and exhibited for one month at the Fablab.

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Designers Coline Dartois, Lou Ducoulombier, Alice Than