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".

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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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French-language: French (French: fran?ais) is the third of the Romance languages in terms of number of speakers, after Spanish and Portuguese. In 1999 French was the 11th most spoken language in the world, being spoken by about 67 million people (called francophones) as a mother tongue, and by 128 million total incl...

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