Published 17 June 2020 by Cesar Garcia Saez

Co-founder of Makerspace Madrid, Cesar Garcia Saez comes back to the mobilization of the makers during the Covid-19 pandemic in Spain.

Published 2 June 2020 by Elsa Ferreira

100 hours: the time it took the team at University College London, assisted by Mercedes’s Formula 1 department, to develop the first prototype of a CPAP device.

Published 27 May 2020 by Rob La Frenais

The recently published 'Art as We Don’t Know It' catalogue showcases art and research that has grown and flourished within the wider network of both the Bioart Society and Aalto University's Biofilia lab in Finland during the previous decade. Review.

Published 22 May 2020 by Cherise Fong

If JOGL’s OpenCovid19 Initiative came out of a crisis, the collaborations that are forming among its members prove that this online platform is much more than a flash mob. What does the data say?

Published 20 May 2020 by Elsa Ferreira

In the UK, DIY problem-solving makers and open-source engineers, in collaboration with clinical teams, are contributing their technical expertise to the collective response against Covid-19.

Published 11 May 2020 by Elsa Ferreira

Can an inter-communal alliance solve the problem of test shortages? Just One Giant Lab (JOGL) pools skills to explore an experimental yet promising diagnostic technique: LAMP.

Published 10 May 2020 by Ewen Chardronnet

In Paris, a citizen collective is working to produce an emergency medical ventilator that is open source, low-cost and easy to reproduce.

Published 8 May 2020 by Rob La Frenais

The independent curator and critic Rob La Frenais runs the "Future of Transportation" group on Facebook. New chronicle about mobility after the lockdown.

Published 5 May 2020 by Cherise Fong

JOGL, a global platform for collaborating on open source biotech projects, recently launched a series of micro-grants for projects directly tackling the Covid-19 crisis.

Published 28 April 2020 by Denis "Jaromil" Roio

New correspondance on proximity-tracing with Denis Roio aka Jaromil from Dyne.org.

Published 28 April 2020 by Ewen Chardronnet

In early April, Makerscovid.paris received an outsize order for 8,400 protective gowns. Two labs and a library rose to the challenge.

Published 26 April 2020 by Rob La Frenais

Independent curator and critic Rob La Frenais runs the "Future of Transportation" group on Facebook. He writes in Makery his thoughts about mobility after the lockdown.

Published 26 April 2020 by la rédaction

Makery relays voices from fabrication spaces federated around the collective Makers x Covid Paris to support the city's frontline workers.

Published 22 April 2020 by Quentin Chevrier

Capturing the moment for distributed production of PPE, photographer Quentin Chevrier followed deliveries around a city on lockdown by the collective Makers x Covid Paris.

Published 20 April 2020

On April 12, the Contemporary Culture Lab (C-LAB) in Taipei launched a series of DIY anti-virus workshops for all ages, the first of which focused on transforming a Micro:bit micro-computer into an infrared thermometer.

Published 17 April 2020 by Denis "Jaromil" Roio

Denis Roio aka Jaromil shares here his further thinkings about the development of an ethical contact-tracing solution.

Published 16 April 2020 by Denis "Jaromil" Roio

Feeding the debate on proximity-tracing during Covid-19 pandemia, Denis Roio, aka Jaromil from Dyne.org, challenges some polarizing beliefs forming around the concepts of privacy and urgency.

Published 15 April 2020

In partnership with Makery, Covid-Initiatives is launching a call for contributions in order to extend and improve the map and accurately and comprehensively document maker initiatives in Europe and worldwide.

Published 9 April 2020

In Tokyo, biohacker Shingo Hisakawa is converting his NinjaPCR open source thermal cycler into a real-time DNA amplifier, which could test for the coronavirus Covid-19.

Published 9 April 2020 by la rédaction

In France, the mobilization of makers and fablabs against Covid-19 is unprecedented, but they are left to liaise directly with health care workers and civil society.