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Turner Prize turns to collaborative DIY architecture
Published 2 December 2015 by Ewen Chardronnet
The Turner Prize, Britain's prestigious art prize, is known for championing experimental art. Among the 2015 finalists is an architects collective nominated for a social project, in Liverpool.
Understanding climate change with Roscoff worms
Published 27 October 2015 by Ewen Chardronnet
The Roscoff Biological Station in France's Finistère region has developed a kit to help people understand the consequences of ocean acidification on marine symbioses such as coral.
Pimp up your hair drier into an Atari Punk Console
Published 27 October 2015 by Ewen Chardronnet
A hair drier, what for? In less than three hours, we turned our old Babyliss into an Atari Punk Console with sinusoidal sounds.
La Cool Co: “France still doesn’t understand open innovation”
Published 26 October 2015 by Ewen Chardronnet
The designers of La Cool Co were at Maker Faire Rome 2015, where they talked about the difficulties of developing an open innovation project in France, their smart greenhouse proto.
The reason why MIT is co-organizing a hackathon in Brazil
Published 26 October 2015 by Ewen Chardronnet
What to think of hackathonmania? Makery deciphers the method on the occasion of a makethon co-organized in Brazil by Natura, leader in natural cosmetics, and the MIT.
A smart bonsai, a drawing robot and mannequin heartbeats…
Published 20 October 2015 by la rédaction
Photo highlights of the 5th Bricole It, an afternoon of casual coding and tinkering hosted by Makery on October 17.
In tune with possible futures at Werkleitz festival
Published 20 October 2015 by Ewen Chardronnet
The MoveOn-Werkleitz festival, Germany, was celebrating 20 years of Emare artist residency program in medialabs. And disrupts entrenched habits by inviting migrants.
(Français) La Maker Faire Rome allie bidouille et salon de l’innovation
Published 19 October 2015 by Ewen Chardronnet
Du 16 au 18 octobre, la Maker Faire Rome, berceau des éditions européennes, a engrangé 100 000 visiteurs. Sans résoudre le hiatus entre DiY désintéressé et ambitions économiques.
BrutBox, music in the hands of the disabled
Published 13 October 2015 by Ewen Chardronnet
The BrutPop collective and the LFO fablab created BrutBox, a creative music tool that is tailor-made for disabled people.
Art in the black hole of Fukushima
Published 13 October 2015 by Cherise Fong
“Don’t Follow the Wind” is an invisible exhibition inside the contaminated Fukushima's Exclusion Zone. For the awareness of future generations.
Column of a material maker (9)
Published 13 October 2015 by Ewen Chardronnet
From maker to researcher, is there only one step? Caroline Grellier discussed the subject with the National institute for agronomical research (Inra) and Sup’Agro Montpellier.
The mushroom DIY
Published 12 October 2015 by Ewen Chardronnet
It’s the high season for mushrooms, but not all aspiring makers live in the country. Makery tells you everything about growing oyster mushrooms at home.
Peter William Holden’s batty hat work
Published 12 October 2015 by la rédaction
The artist Peter William Holden reveals the cogs of “Critical mass”, his latest robotic installation combining engineering of illusion and art of body movement.
DIY clay robot
Published 6 October 2015 by la rédaction
Children are creative, but when they have nothing to build, they take things apart. Here are some robot-monsters tested by a workshop in Berlin to initiate the little ones to constructive tinkering.
Fabble, a new platform to make, show & tell, share
Published 5 October 2015 by Cherise Fong
Inspired by Instructables, Fabble is a budding Japanese website for sharing geeky but poetic DIY projects.
Medium, the Oculus virtual sculpture workshop
Published 5 October 2015 by la rédaction
Oculus reveals Medium, an application that allows you to sculpt in virtual reality, during the Oculus Connect conference, from the 23rd to the 25th of September in Hollywood.
(Français) Alors, cette fédération des labs français, ça vient?
Published 5 October 2015 by Ewen Chardronnet
En mai a été lancée l'idée d'un réseau national des fablabs. Olivier Gendrin, coordinateur du chantier de la future association et Emmanuelle Roux, du FacLab, échangent sur la difficulté à construire cette fédération.
Hybrid landscapes, ecology and DIY in the wild
Published 1 October 2015 by la rédaction
Field Notes Hybrid Matters is a bi-annual arts & science field laboratory organised in one of the northern most corners of Finnish Lapland, Kilpisjärvi lake.
Collisions of TodaysArt at The Hague
Published 29 September 2015 by Ewen Chardronnet
How DIY and hacking are infusing current art practices at this year's TodaysArt festival, which took over The Pier, overlooking the seaside of the Dutch capital.