Print glass in 3D? Yes, she can!
Mediated Matter researchers of the MIT Media Lab in Boston developed the very first 3D printer for glass. Opening new possibilities for design and architecture.
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Ewen Chardronnet is an artist, journalist, writer and curator. Since 2000, he has been broadening his activities as an author and organizer of numerous intermedia productions, exhibitions and events planning.
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Column of a material maker (8)
Our maker in bio-sourced materials has not been idle this summer. La Termatière completed its funding, launched a market study, wrote its R&D program and recruited a partner.
A hackerspace launches the Artsat satellite, awarded at Ars Electronica
The Ars Electronica festival, awarded a prize to the artistic satellite ARTSAT, conceived at the hackerspace in Japan’s Tama Art University. Makery met Akihiro Kubota, its instigator.
Make your own DiY pallet pool for under 100 euros
Had enough of the heat? To cool off without shelling out more than 100 euros, Makery found this DiY pool made from recycled pallets.
Slovenian land art for nanotourism
Is sustainable tourism feasible? In July, the Architectural Association School of Architecture, London, gave a workshop at KSEVT, a center dedicated to cultural space programs perched in the Slovenian Alps.
Special girls: stand and pee with dignity
Festivals are filling up, and so are urinals. Ladies, this one is for you. In order to avoid peeing on your shoes or mooning the public gaze, Makery gives you this DiY to freely urinate standing up.
The Baganda, ancestral makers of bark cloth in Uganda
How an ancestral know-how of bark cloth production became an international eco-fashion company, between Uganda and Germany.
Luce Moreau, that artist who sculpted with bees
Making working bees build apicultural sculptures is the project of the artist from Marseille, in “Working Holidays” residence in Maribor, Slovenia. Meeting.
Wikibuilding: What if architecture were collaborative?
Promoting collaborative urban planning for the past 15 years, Alain Renk hits the mark with Wikibuilding, preselected for the Reinventing Paris competition.
Plug in the banana with Makey Makey GO
Following its second successful Kickstarter campaign, Makey Makey will commercialize its new prototyping kit on USB stick. For when you want to hack your banana in a jiffy.
Column of a material maker #7
June priority for La Termatière, the bio-sourced materials agency: hunting for euros! Contests, feasibility studies allowing me to check what my vine shoot has in its fibre.
GynePunk, the cyborg witches of DIY gynecology
The Catalan collective GynePunk wants to decolonize the female body and develops first aid gynecological tools, for socially disadvantaged women, refugees, sex workers.
Do it Yourself special heatwave: 15-minute A/C
39 degrees... so what? Makery shows you how to keep cool despite the heatwave with DIY air-conditioners that can be built in less than 15 minutes. A little sweat for lots of comfort.
Barcelona awards World Cup of Newsroom Innovation to France 24-RFI
On June 18th-19th in Barcelona, Editors Lab Final 2015, a competitive hackathon for the world's biggest newsrooms, crowned France24-RFI's Earth Alert app, which crowdsources alerts related to sustainable development.
Hiatus between French PM and his “dear geeks” at Pas Sage en Seine
While French Prime Minister Manuel Valls presented his government's digital strategy at La Gaîté lyrique in Paris, the open software community met not far for Pas Sage en Seine.
Louis Eveillard’s critical design
Just as much at ease in the tangible world as in virtual reality, designer Louis Eveillard juggles data visualization and inserts code where we least expect it. Interview.
Do Doc and Opendoc, design to help documentation
From the 11th until the 14th of June, l’Atelier des chercheurs is presenting at Futur en Seine Do Doc, an educational documentation station that inspired Opendoc, a new tool for fablabs.
Top 10 hardware prototyping kits (continued)
As the Internet of Things takes off, prototyping kits are all the rage. Makery shows you what's new in 2015.
Column of a material maker #6
Peanut shells, rice bran, cow pat and homemade moulds… Our material maker continues her inspiring immersion in Togo, at the bio-sourced local material lab.
Make Works, the Scottish platform uniting makers and manufacturers
Fi Scott, a designer/maker, lists Scotland’s makers and manufacturers on the Scottish platform Make Works. A sort of Airbnb of makers.