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.
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.
In Montreal, the hatching of fablabs belongs to makers with catching enthusiasm. We met some of them.
Montreal, eldorado of new media since the 1990s, has the advantages of being bilingual, inexpensive and welcoming. Report on emerging makerspaces and hackerspaces.
Why is there only one hackerspace in Tokyo? It has moved around a lot over the past 6 years, all the way to this quiet garage northwest of the city, where Makery paid a visit.
The oldest French fablab hosts start-ups. Makery met four of them.
Makery visited SPQwoRk, a “talents container” between co-working space and fablab, in the Tirburtina district in the centre of Rome.
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”.
YCAM in Yamaguchi opens its media arts production to prototyping and open source, beginning with its in-house fablab, Edu Lab.
A visit to Kyushu, better known for its natural hot springs (from volcanic sand to melting mud to boiling waters), which also has its own reserve of digital hot spots.
One of France’s oldest fablabs, Plateforme C in Nantes, moved into its new space one year ago. PING, the local organization behind the project, is celebrating its 10th anniversary this month.
The SENAI fablab officially opened within the eponymous technical training centre of Rio de Janeiro.
Makery pushed the door of four open labs in Brussels, meeting the users.
Even though the maker world, in Europe at least, is still largely dominated by a masculine population, Brazil supposedly does better in terms of parity. Why?
Makers from Togo, Ghana, Benin and Ivory Coast met in June 2014 in Ouagalab, the first fablab of West Africa.
Explore the local playground of DIY paulistas with Fabien Eychenne, a fablab specialist who recently relocated to Brazil’s economic capital.
In the parisian suburb, Electrolab’s 120 members are working relentlessly to expand their hackerspace from 150 to 1500 m2.
The new FabMake is located at the heart of the Technocampus, huge industrial complex dedicated to research in Nantes.
A huge high-tech prototyping workshop: this is Usine IO in Paris. Guided tour with Gary Cige, co-founder.
NASA’s oldest lab applies maker culture to build the future Curiosity and Voyager.
