As part of a workshop given by artists Anne-Lise Tacheron and Daphnée Gharaee to various classes in the City of Lausanne, recycled toys are made available for modification and transformation. These workshops have given rise to the Chimère exhibition at the Forum de l’Hôtel de Ville, which I’m visiting in March 2022. It’s a workshop that allows us to question the everyday objects we grow up with. By taking apart and recombining recycled toys, children create new objects that convey different narratives, questioning gender and the construction of identity through play.