2026 IIHF Ice Hockey World Championship 
Dario Python, Agnes Collaud et Valerio Sartori 2024
In the distance, the laughter of children and parents can be heard around a blue octagonal shape, inviting the curious to come closer. Moving forward, we discover that this is not a game like the other elements in the park, but a table. It invites the public to bend down and reach underneath to sit down in its center. Swings suspended from a metal structure allow people to sit around it.
The table is made from the elements of the children's playground on the site. These were replaced during the redevelopment of Domino Park by new urban equipment. Instead of throwing away these existing structures, La Ressourcerie proposes to reuse them in situ, i.e. to give them a second life by keeping certain components, in order to create the new table and its seats. By reusing them, less waste is created and they are used to their full physical potential. The new construction also benefits from resources available directly on site. Some are more recognizable than others, so the turnstile and swings are clearly identifiable. In this way, the memory of the site is preserved: a trace of their former use is kept, while giving them a new purpose. These elements, which have delighted children since the 1990s, will now be a table and chairs that grown-ups in their thirties will remember.
The principle of reuse also applies to the tabletop, made from planks from the current slide's access deck. This playful table, made of familiar objects and surrounded by fun and laughter, stimulates activity and conviviality in the public space. Swinging is no longer practiced individually, but collectively, to encourage exchange and social cohesion.
La Ressourcerie, a group of professionals working in various fields (architecture, socio-cultural activities, art, wood construction), has chosen to commit itself to a sustainable civic approach by developing a center of competence for reuse. Based in Fribourg, La Ressourcerie offers a space for creation and encounters, as well as a matériauthèque, a community sorting and storage facility.
Parc du Domino
1700 Fribourg
