Bamboo workshops, conferences and workshops for companies and schools

Do you want to organize a bamboo workshop, an atelier or a conference in your school, company or community?

Bambou Créations works all over France to introduce people to bamboo, its properties and its processing techniques. We offer educational workshops, conferences, practical workshops and collective projects adapted to your audience and your objectives.

Bamboo conferences and workshops for schools, companies and communities

Bambou Créations organizes conferences and workshops on bamboo: municipalities, educational and university institutions, engineering and architectural schools, planners, joinery workshops, landscapers, green spaces, associations, fablabs, trade show venues, ESAT centers, construction sites for professional insertions....

Thus, these conferences and workshops on bamboo allow the public to become aware of the benefits of the bamboo material in construction, bamboo architecture, decoration, interior and exterior design,

The goal is therefore to promote the bamboo material as a local and sustainable resource.

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Bamboo conference in school or company: content and topics covered

During our conferences, we highlight the different aspects of this material:

• The physical and ecological properties of bamboo,
• The transformation of bamboo: the cutting, the different protection techniques, the assembly techniques
• Applications of bamboo: traditional and modern uses, artists and architects of bamboo, architectural and event projects in France

Contents of bamboo workshops in schools or companies

Our bamboo workshops are customizable; we can offer our clients the following services:

• Presentation of the tools used by a bamboo artisan for the processing of bamboo: sawing, sanding, polishing, heating, twisting, making splices, assembling bamboo with rope, …

• Making available bamboo material so that the public or students can transform the bamboo material and create objects

• Frame the students in a pedagogical project of transforming bamboo by guiding them through the techniques, the possibilities of bamboo, …
• Organizing an artisanal bamboo team building activity, challenging teams to build a bamboo project: arches, pergolas, animals, …

Bamboo workshops and participatory projects: examples of achievements

We can offer our partners the realization of a structure from A to Z with the public being trained:

• Dome,
• Work of art,
• Scenography,
• Bamboo architecture, …

Team Building at the Ecole Supérieure du Bois (ESB): bamboo honeycomb arches (October 2024)

Bamboo training – Adult Training Center CFPA – Lycée Agricole Montardon (64)

Bamboo workshop at the ENSA in Dijon: 24 French and Chinese students 2023

Bamboo workshop at the School of Fine Arts in Nancy (ENSAD) – March 2021

Participatory bamboo projects with the green space teams of the City of PARIS

Bamboo workshop at the Design School in Toulouse – Lycée Joséphine Baker

Do you want to organize a bamboo workshop, a conference or an atelier at your establishment?

Describe your project to us: we will propose a format adapted to your audience, your objectives and your location.

Customer testimonials

Testimonials from teachers and school principals:

« ESB is an engineering school specializing in wood and bio-sourced materials. AInsinuations, dAs part of our inter-semester program, we wanted to introduce our students to bamboo. The Bambou Créations workshop very well suited the program’s objectives: to introduce a new subject to our students, to get them involved in projects, and to develop their skills. Bertrand Chereau’s intervention completely met our pedagogical expectations and our students’ desire to create.. They had a very pleasant time, welcome at the end of this busy semester. » 

Malvina VIEUX, e-learning and TICE Manager at the Ecole Supérieure du Bois de Nantes

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«It was within the framework of a Workshop whose theme was bamboo and nomadic lighting that Bertrand Chéreau, a bamboo artisan, came to share his passion for this plant and this material with those who are incredibly talented in the field of product design and space design alike.In fact, lThe students first learned various techniques for shaping the material (cutting, grinding, sanding, grooving, hot bending and assembling). Then they came lances in the design and production of their own prototypes of lighting systems.

Students and teachers have The availability, enthusiasm and professionalism of this friendly bamboo planter were unanimously appreciated; he spared no effort to ensure the success of this joyful workshop.. Thanks to you, Bertrand, and good luck!» 

Bruno Lhonneur – teacher of applied arts – CPGE Arts & Design in Toulouse.

Testimonials from the students:

Testimonials from students of the Ecole Supérieure du Bois (ESB Nantes) :

« Thank you for your intervention. The discovery of the material was very interesting and pleasant. You managed to convey your passion to me.« 

« Thank you to the speaker who accompanied us throughout these inter-seasons because he was able to pass on his passion and knowledge to us. EIn effect, I‘I really enjoyed these three days and I learned a lot.« 

« Thank you for providing us with such a detailed course and for helping us understand how to use this material. Thus, l‘Intersemestre was very fun and interesting.« 

« A passionate speaker in his field and very friendly« 

Testimony from a first-year student at the CPGE ART&DESIGN of the Rive Gauche high school in Toulouse, Marion Brenienek- 19 years old

« Bertrand’s arrival at our institution was a real intellectual and personal enrichment through many surprising insights into bamboo as well as guided experimentation with its material qualities in the workshop.»