La Cool Co: “France still doesn’t understand open innovation”
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.
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Column of a material maker (9)
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.
POC! End clap and prototype review
“We've been here since August 15, it won't be easy going back to normal life.” A few hours before the closing of POC21, we went to see the eco-hackers' solutions for the green transition.
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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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 design lab revisits the game of life in architecture
The Spyropoulos Design Lab in London explores a “conscious” architecture driven by design and Arduinos according to behavioural patterns. An ecology serving man and city.
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.
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.
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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.
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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.
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.
Column of a material maker #2
The designer Caroline Grellier keeps the diary of her project of viticulture by-products upgrading. Her Cooperative is now doubly incubated by Agro Valo Méditerranée and Alter’Incub.
Space Seed takes root in the labs
Chinese artist and designer Li Yu was at La Paillasse (biohackerspace, Paris) for a new stage of her poetic and crazy “Space Seed” project. Interview.
Column of a material maker #1
Does a maker make a good innovator? Caroline Grellier, designer, chronicles her project “Cooperative for the upgrading of viticulture materials", incubated by Sup’Agro Montpellier.
Transformeurs: upcycling showdown in Nantes
66 artists took part on December 12-14 in the 6th Transformeurs upcycling challenge in Nantes, which attracted some 4,500 visitors.
Lyon celebrates Light in Morse code with “Surexposition”
“Surexposition”, fruit of the collaboration of Orange Labs and the Ensad lab, is a giant light beam projecting SMSs of participants of the Festival of Lights in Lyon.
Do it Yourself: this year, we are making presents ourselves!
The Christmas spirit, DiY version: Makery is helping you concoct 100% DiY presents, for more or less conversant makers.
Do it Yourself: pallet it be
All about pallets, a cheap, easily accessible, rather ecological material. The LEGO brick of reclaimed furniture design.
Loungeshare #3, from dustbin to daring design
27 designers, craftsmen and curious onlookers got together for a design salvage workshop at ICI Montreuil this week-end.