Purpose – The purpose of the research is to describe how the organizational design and socio-material space characteristics of the camping enabled the creation of a particular atmosphere nurturing creativity, understood here as a collective outcome; and how the collective creativity was embedded into the physical space of the camping. Theoretical framework – The case study bridges the organizational psychology literature stream on on creativity in organizations (Klijn & Tomic, 2010) (Zhou & Shalley, Handbook of Organizational Creativity, 2008) and workplace creativity (Baas, De Dreu, & Nijstad, 2008; George, 2007; Hennessey & Amabile, 2010; Runco, 2004; Shalley, Zhou, & Oldham, 2004) with the sociomateriality stream in organizational literature (Pickering, 1995, Dale 2005, Leonardi 2008, Orlikowski 2007, 2010). Methodological approach – We used the grounded theory approach ( (Glaser, 1992) and (Charmaz, 2006)) to derive a posteriori a theoretical framework from data systematically obtained from field observations. We chose this method to uncover processes, relationships and behaviors of individuals in an organizational context that has been little explored up to now. That enabled us to grasp the complex nature and to create a grounded understanding of the project under study. We used overt participatory observation as data collection method ( (DeWalt & DeWalt, 1998) and (DeWalt & DeWalt, 2002)). The decision to be embedded in the action and context of the social setting of the camping is motivated by the opportunity to be accepted in the community of volunteers, to have access to their “backstage culture” and to view or to participate in unscheduled events (DeMunck & Sobo, 1998). To complement data obtained from the observation, we conducted a set of individual interviews. Main results – Our main finding is that socio-material characteristics of the camping site encapsulated the root values on which the project was built and predetermined the camping’s collective dynamics. Democratic participation and the quasi-absence of vertical hierarchic relations as the principle of the organizational structure favored free flow of ideas and interaction between volunteers. The implicit organizational work processes such as “participative assessment” and “functional legitimation” by peers contributed to consolidation of the project around a collective of highly dedicated volunteers; with a sense of initiative and willingness to participate. The created camping’s creative atmosphere, understood as cognitive representations and interpretations of its organizational setting and of its socio-material space was“a place of realization of dreams of artists bricoleurs and performers” but also “a place where one feels good and where one stays, for a drink or for a long weekend”, a “sort of summer 1936, where perfume of possible is floating in the air”.