Michel Bauwens: “Makerspaces are the nurseries of collaborative models”
In “Saving the World”, theorist Michel Bauwens defends his optimistic vision of the P2P, on the brink of revolutionizing production and society.
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Gambiarra: repair culture by Felipe Fonseca
Felipe Fonseca co-founded the MetaReciclagem network in 2002. This “historical” maker denounces the entrepreneurial drift of the movement in “Repair culture” and here, for Makery.
Hacking hard in Strasbourg to take health care into our own hands
From March 19-22, 600 hackers, startuppers and health professionals participated in Europe's greatest gathering in its sector, the Hacking Health Camp in Strasbourg.
Derek Holzer: “My interest in instruments fabrication reflects the artist’s economic reality”
During the last Club Transmediale Festival in Berlin, Derek Holzer presented DELILAH TOO, an installation on the vocoder based on his researches on archeology on privacy.
Engineer Lolo: Arduino under his skin
As TRATECH, a sort of maker faire in Ghana, comes to a close, Léonce Atanley, never without an Arduino in his backpack, tells Makery about his future projects as an experienced maker for Africa.
Tomás Diez: “A whole ecosystem emerges around the Fab City in Barcelona”
The Fab City concept developed in Barcelona has its herald. Tomás Diez, founder of the Barcelona Fablab and organiser of FAB10 in July 2014 is adamant: fablabs are part of the solution.
DiY for reconciliation with smartwatches
You don't have a smartwatch, so what? For you, Makery uncovers projects of makers to equip oneself without breaking the bank. Or just for fun.
Florent Youzan, advocate of free software in Africa
In Ivory Coast, computer engineer and tireless advocate of free software Florent Youzan is the co-founder of Ovillage, a third-space in Abidjan that produces social innovation projects.
Simone Amber: “Fab Lab Connect produces collaboration between labs”
Fab Lab Connect is an initiative launched at the Barcelona Fab 10 by the Fab Foundation. Simone Amber details the ambition of this funding platform for open projects to replicate.
Do it Yourself: a smart house for chickadees
With a little help from SoFAB in Sophia Antipolis and Pobot for the prototyping, four high school girls built a connected birdhouse—finalist in the Science Factor competition.
Game and the City plays on the banality of street furniture
From 27 February to 1st March, Nantes street furniture is the object of amusing detournements for the second edition of the hackathon Game and the City.
Exyzt: 12 years of machines to inhabit
Exyzt exhibit 12 years of explosive temporary architecture at Montpellier’s Tropisme festival. A best-of retrospective and the final exclamation mark of the collective.
Column of a material maker #3
A podium at the Paris Agricultural Show start-up contest and a meeting with scientists: the great leaps forward of Caroline Grellier's viticulture by-products upgrading project.
WYHIWYS 4: Is there a pilot in the drone?
Drones flying left, right and centre… The new WYHIWYS (What You Hear Is What You See) column from Damien Bourniquel, hacker artist at Blackboxe, for Makery.
Do it Yourself: The tutorial’s tutorial
Everyday accidents and the joys of programmed obsolescence are the delight of DIY tutorials. Here you'll find a guide to online tutorial sites and traps.
Toward a Fabcity in São Paulo?
The city of São Paulo invests 9 million reais in creating 12 fablabs until the end of the year. They will be accessible free of charge.
Do it Yourself: the vital recipe of the all-purpose dough
Test the homemade recipe for the repairing and protecting dough, based on corn flour and silicone.
Sam Meech knits glitches
How to hack a domestic knitting machines with punchcard electronics? British artist Sam Meech presented “Punchcard Economy” at Berlin's Transmediale.
Garagem, a Brazilian fablab in start-up mode
In Sao Paulo, Garagem born in 2013 as a company, is developing a platform for innovative projects and is setting up mid-February its first “Biohack Academy”.
McKenzie Wark: “You don’t just need to hack to be a hacker”
Author of “A Hacker Manifesto” and “Gamer Theory”, McKenzie Wark has responded to our questions post-Transmediale on his hacktivist theory for the Anthropocene.