Bricolage

Bricolage –

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from the French-language verb bricoler, meaning "to tinker" or "to fiddle" – is that language's equivalent of the English phrase "do-it-yourself".

Related Topics:
French-language - Do-it-yourself

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Bricolage is also often contrasted to engineering: building by trial and error rather than based on theory.

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A person who engages in bricolage is a bricoleur. A bricoleur is a person who creates things from scratch, is creative and resourceful: a person who collects information and things and then puts them together in a way that they were not originally designed to do.

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