Nous en mieux. Le grand projet culturel au service de la (pré)figuration du territoire

This article aims to show how a project for a major public cultural facility, in this case a large library, is used by the territorial collectivity implementing the project to "produce the territory". How to create a territory, and more precisely to create this specific kind of territorial collectivity called in French “métropole” through culture? After a brief presentation of the project and the context of the research, I will analyze the notion of "territory", as the study of the design of the large library makes it possible to grasp. I will then explore the way in which the cultural project is mobilized to construct the territory. Finally, I will deal more particularly with the links between cultural project, territory and temporality: how does the large media library act as a link in a territorial history?