ABOUT MARTIN & L'ENCLOS
A Practice for Disturbing the First Reading
L’Enclos is the evolving studio-lab and public record of Martin Lenclos: images, objects, devices, field projects, written inquiries, and everyday practices made to test how form, identity, and meaning are constructed.
The work is not organized as a program or a service menu. It is organized as an inquiry.
Nothing here is built to give final answers. The work is built to interfere with the first version of reality the mind hands over, and to leave traces of what changes when that first reading is not treated as final.
Projects: Martin Lenclos
THE WORK
L’Enclos moves through four recurring forms: images, objects, devices, and practices.
Images hold perception at a distance. Objects disturb usefulness. Devices make the viewer participate. Practices move the inquiry into ordinary life.
Across these forms, the central question stays the same: what changes when the first reading of a moment, object, image, or identity is no longer treated as final?
Photo: Martin Lenclos
The unifying experiment is provisional: to live and make as if perception is the first creative act. Not as doctrine. Not as a brand position. As a way of making, looking, testing, and reporting back.
Some projects become images. Some become objects. Some become practices. Some fail as products and become clearer as questions. The point is not to produce conclusions, but to leave behind evidence of what shifted when the frame changed.
Image: L’Enclos
STUDIO DESIGN EXPERIMENTS
Les Ateliers de Design gathers product-like studies and speculative formats where interfaces, rituals, toys, and visual systems are used to alter how people relate to everyday things.
The work moves through recurring formats such as Interface Recalibration, Dissolving Icons, and Counter-Interface Play: phone cases that soften a device’s authority, ice molds that make cultural symbols disappear, and toy-like systems that turn digital habits into handmade exchange.
Collaborations remain possible when the question is not how to make another product, but how to change the conditions through which a product, symbol, or interface is perceived.
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Before The Dreamer?
Before L’Enclos, I was already exploring the edges of perception through media arts. From 3D installations to photographic collages, my early projects asked audiences to question how they see and what reality might be. These projects became the groundwork for today’s inquiry into consciousness-first design.
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Why L’Enclos?
L’Enclos is a name inspired by the quiet mystery of French churchyards and by my grandfather—a sculptor and designer of sacred furniture, who taught me that everyday objects could hold silence, memory, and meaning.
Read the story →ABOUT MARTIN
Martin Lenclos is a Paris-born, Brooklyn-based designer-artist and founder of L’Enclos, a studio-lab working at the intersection of design, philosophy, and lived experiment.
His early work was shown in France, the United States, and Canada, and led to lectures at Columbia and NYU, as well as projects and collaborations with institutions including the Museum of the Moving Image and MoMA.
He later spent years working across media, product design, and startup innovation, helping launch companies, develop products, and shape brand and investor narratives for entrepreneurs and emerging technologies.
Today, through The Dreamer Project, he brings that same design and systems-thinking approach to a different question: how perception shapes reality, identity, and the way we live.
Image: Martin Lenclos
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