These researchers “contaminated” by the maker spirit
The symposium of RGCS, international network of researchers around collaborative workspaces, took place in London mid-January. Report.
by Elsa Ferreira
“Learning aquaponics is easier than it looks”
At Green Lab in London, we attended a workshop to create an aquaponic system. In order to be an aquaponist, you need to know a bit of everything: chemistry, design, plumbing, maths...
Now on sale: “Hello World”, the first album by an AI
January 12 marks the release of “Hello World”, fruit of the collaboration between composer Benoit Carré, the AI Flow Machines and guest artists.
Music Hackspace: it pays to squat
In 2011, the Music Hackspace was a group of noisy hackers getting together in a café. Six years later, the collective moved into a prestigious cultural institution in London.
Is our memory worth more than DNA samples?
For the love of art, science and Afrofuturism, we boarded a spacecraft full of DNA catchers.
In London, the first Green Lab shoots
In London, the Green Lab has been exploring agritech and urban agriculture for six months. We took part in an aquaponics workshop to meet them.
At Sex Tech Hack, the more you moan, the more it vibrates
On November 24-26, 2017, the student technology club at Goldsmiths University in London held the second edition of Sex Tech Hack, just as fiercely inclusive and indie as the first.
And Sheffield invented the algorave…
For more than a decade, the algorave scene has made ravers dance to computer code. Makery went to investigate where it all began, in Sheffield, which hosted the Algomech festival in early November.
(Edit) The boss of Make apologies again to Sexy Cyborg
Two weeks after the tweet in which he accused the Chinese maker Naomi Wu of not being what she said she was, the boss of Make Media made his second mea culpa.
Sexy Cyborg vs. Make: “I just don’t fit into their reality”
Chinese maker Naomi Wu, alias Sexy Cyborg, defends herself in Makery against the founder of Make, who did “crippling damage” to her reputation by accusing her of being no more than a persona.
In London, the future of music sounds DIY
We Are Robots, the first edition of a festival dedicated to music and its future innovations, was held on November 2-5 in London, where we met up with the cream of maker musicians.
One night at the DIY robot museum
The Science Museum in London organized a night event around retro-gaming on October 25. Cardboard robots, games and friction slide, regression has some good sides.
Electro insects, ready-to-wear synths and algo rave in London
A titanic program for an extraordinary festival. On September 20-30, London celebrated Unconscious Archives, a festival at the crossroads of arts, music and DIY.
Alex Newson brings the makers to the London Design Museum
“Designer Maker User”, the exhibition of the new Design Museum, tells the story of manufactured production, from the pre-industrial era to the era of digital crafts.
In London, makers face gentrification
How is the maker scene doing in the largest city of the European Union? Makery made the rounds of the digital fabrication spaces, less fablabs than makerspaces.
Apple and John Deere fight “right to repair” bill in the U.S.
In the United States, industry and consumers come face to face on a “right to repair” bill. Eight states are considering the legislation.
The Restart Project wants to fix toasters all the way into schools
Since 2012, the Restart Project has been meeting several times a week in London to fix objects together instead of throwing them away. Report from Camden.
Budding in the shadow of Teamlab in London
The exhibition is brief. Three rooms, height projects. Until March 11, the Pace gallery in London presents "Transcending Boundaries" from Teamlab. Small island of digital nature.
70 mini fablabs will open soon in India
70 mini fablabs are set to be built in the next 9 months with the support of the Indian government in Kerala, South India.
Destroy the BBC Tower digitally
Imagine a “DIY and inventive destruction” in animation from a 3D model: “White Noise” magazine calls for a project around the BBC East Tower, which will be soon destroyed for real.