3D printing against Daech
Iranian artist Morehshin Allahyari is committed to 3D printing thousands-year-old sculptures that were destroyed in Mosul in February by Daech jihadists.
by Ewen Chardronnet
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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The hackathon where Wikimedia France speeds up knowledge
Wikimedia France held a hackathon near Lyon from May 23rd to 25th, where 250 members of a community with millions of volunteer contributors got together to improve the sharing of knowledge.
Make It Work: Opening the black box of climate talks
Staging mock negotiations ahead of COP21 in December is the aim of the “Theatre of Negotiations” event this week. Makery visited the construction site.
Minodoo, Togo’s nomadic maker community
In Togo, the makers community of Minodoo organizes OpenSourceTours, some wandering introductory events in the true spirit of open source.
Hackers meet the mainstream at THSF in Toulouse
A huge mix of geekeries and experiences for the general public made up the programme for the THSF, a festival organized by art collective Mix’art Myrys and Tetalab hackerspace, May 14-17, in Toulouse.
FabFamily materialises the design edition of the future
An application to have an object you designed in vector produced, it's Fab Family, editing platform for a democratised and distributed design.
Beware of DIY longship approaching
The crew of Compagnie du Bátar presented in Toulouse Fablab Festival its very own longship, 100% homemade in extreme DIY.
WYHIWYS 5: Super Mario Hack
Artist Damien Bourniquel, from Blackboxe, has created for Makery a mash-up of his WYHIWYS series dedicated to Mario, the legendary plumber.
Toulouse FabFest: the union of French labs in front of 5,000 visitors
A network of French fablabs in the works, 50 fablabs and 5,000 visitors were present: The Toulouse Fablab Festival passes the test of its first edition with flying colours.
Climate Games: “We are nature defending itself”
Hack the COP: the two co-founders of the Insurrectionary imagination laboratory are preparing the Climate Games, civil disobedience games for December in Paris.
Bricole it Yourself: the modular synthesizer
It’s possible to recreate the pleasant analogue fuzz of Moog era synthesizers without breaking the bank. At Shoogle studios in Glasgow, Makery built a synth for ten pounds.
Column of a material maker #5
For her agro-material design agency project La Termatière, Caroline Grellier went off to Togo to observe the activity of a research centre in local materials.
Michel Lallement: “At Noisebridge, he who does is legit”
Interview with French sociologist Michel Lallement, who writes in “Maker era” his one year immersed at Noisebridge, a hackerspace in San Francisco.
Nepal mobilizes the OpenStreetMap community after the quake
To aid rescue efforts after the earthquake that devastated Nepal, Kathmandu Living Labs opened an OpenStreetMap Situation Room.
Drone hackathon judged by the military?
On April 24-26, 200 people competed in the very first Hack the Drone, organized by GDF Suez in Paris. On the jury, the Centre of Excellence on Drones of the French air force.
Bring Your Own Beamer, the talent show for image hackers
Last Saturday night Jardin d’Alice hosted the event: ‘BYOB’, or Bring Your Own Beamer, an open stage for artists working within the audio-visual medium. Makery was there.
When open source architecture conjures up the “Ikea model”
Why do open source architecture initiatives, which seek to modify the conditions and forms of construction itself, claim a likeness to Ikea?
Brazil introduces learning by doing
One of the best Brazilian universities is opening an engineering course with an integrated fablab that favours learning by doing. Makery went to see what it was all about.
With AKER, fabricate your urban farm
AKER proposes open source kits for urban agriculture and hopes to contribute to the growth of Open farming movement.
Column of a material maker #4
La Termatière, Caroline Grellier’s project of viticulture by-products development, must define its investments needs in order to progress from DIY to mass production.