An evolving body of work exploring perception, form, and identity—from the human, to the symbolic, to the shared.

THE CORE INQUIRY

L’Enclos isn’t built to give answers.

It’s built to interfere with what you already know.

The Dreamer Project sits at the center—a living experiment in consciousness-first living. The Studio provides a method to test that stance plus a Practices & Tools library (the First Dream lens, the We The Dreamer frame). Join via tutorials, urban walkshops, and (soon) live classes. Les Ateliers is our art/design arm for artist and brand collaborations.

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THE WORK

Exploring Perception

L’Enclos is the evolving body of work of Martin Lenclos—a designer-artist and philosophical experimenter exploring how a shift in perception can change what a moment becomes. It bridges media arts, experiential design, and quiet inquiry into consciousness, producing objects, images, ideas, and methods that question how we see, and who we believe ourselves to be.

Practices of Seeing

These explorations emerge from a lifelong curiosity—not toward what things are, but how they are seen. Across artworks, design objects, perceptual methods, and lived experiments, Martin’s work returns to a single thread: the shaping of attention, interpretation, and what becomes possible when a first reading is no longer treated as final.

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The Unifying Creative Experiment

What unites the work is a single, ongoing exploration: to live as if reality begins in consciousness — not as doctrine, but as a way of seeing. From this point of view, even ordinary objects become symbolic, and design becomes a tool for self-inquiry.

This inquiry has taken different forms over time: design experiments that loosen attachment to objects and outcomes, methods such as Design for Nothing that work with attention itself, and more recent practices and frameworks — including We The Dreamer and The Dreamer Project — that test what happens when daily life becomes a site for mind-first experimentation.

Martin’s practice is less about producing conclusions than about noticing the mind’s habits, its fictions, and its freedom. He designs not simply to express, but to perceive — and to invite others into that same experiment: to test whether a shift in perception changes what the world seems to be, and how one moves within it.

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Les Ateliers

Les Ateliers de Design extends this inquiry into objects, images, and public-facing forms. Across speculative products, graphic design, immersive explorations, and works now gathered in the Art Store, the studio has used form not only to communicate, but to question: to loosen fixed meaning, interrupt habit, and invite slower looking.

Some works take the form of Self-Questioning Devices; others belong to earlier design phases that treated products less as solutions than as perceptual prompts — gestures that reframe value, attachment, and the meaning we project onto objects.

If you’d like to keep exploring, subscribe to the ongoing letter on creative perception and shared dreaming.

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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.

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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.