/ Lab Life
Volumes is a collaborative space in Paris that includes coworking, a makerspace and a food lab. Now it’s preparing to open its second space just around the corner.
/ Voices
For the last few days people have been flocking to the elite resort of Davos, Switzerland, where every year the World Economic Forum is held. Climate change activists also converge, but how to persuade industry and governments to listen to science data? Rob la Frenais talked to activists present in Davos.
/ Interview
In residency at the Re-store in Paris, thr34d5 (threads) medialab uses design and open source as vectors toward a more inclusive society, with a little kombucha on the side. Interview.
/ Investigation
Nine years after the tsunami that devastated northeastern Japan, a team of women in Ishinomaki are upcycling shards of broken pottery into pieces of jewelry that are sold around the world.
/ feral-labs
In the early fall of 2019, Helen Leigh was the Feral artist-in-residency programme at Catch, Center of Art, design, and Technology. Leigh is a creative technologist with a focus on craft-based electronics and education.
/ Interview
Onkraj Gradbišča garden in central Ljubljana ia a loosely organized commons for gardening, woodmaking, performance arts, sound sculptures and biohacking. Makery met two of its founders.
/ Investigation
The United Nations had moved COP 25 from Santiago to Madrid. What does it mean for climate activists who went on slow travel to the COP?
/ Voices
Artists Maxime Berthou and Mark Požlep have just returned from their 50-day journey down the Mississippi river on a steamboat—crossing 10 states, collecting corn and distilling whisky.
/ art4med
Finnish artist Emilia Tikka designs fictions where biotechnologies are used to modify the human genome. Her film “Legacy” was directly influenced by amonthlong research residency in Japan.
/ Interview
In January 2020, Villette Makerz will launch a new course on circular design and learning through materials. Makery met its director Samuel Rémy at Parc de la Villette.
/ Interview
Les 4 et 5 octobre le Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers accueillait le premier Forum Fédération de l’association Open Space Makers. L’initiative soutenue par le CNES vise à rapprocher le monde des fablabs et de l’open source de la recherche spatiale. Entretien avec Damien Hartmann, président de l’association.
/ Interview
Yann Minh was on October 12-13 in Marseille at Couvent Levat for the second Technomancie festival. Part 2 of an in-depth interview with this prolific artist.
/ medialab
The European network Distributed Design Market Platform met at Fablab Budapest to reflect on two years of collaboration and announce its new book “Design, Remix, Share, Repeat”.
/ Interview
On October 12-13, Yann Minh was at Couvent Levat in Marseille for Technomancie 2 festival.Part 1 of an in-depth interview with this prolific artist.
/ DIY
Fablab Lisboa will give a workshop to build your own watering system on October 26 at Volumes Coworking in Paris. Makery asked Rafael Calado and Gustavo Funke to explain their objectives.
/ Interview
As the first Japanese man to be certified in India to practice Ayurveda, Hiroo Komine has more recently expanded his scope of interest to biohacking. Makery met him at Dinacon in Panama.
/ feral-labs
Schmiede took place on September 11-20 in Hallein, Austria, where a former salt warehouse transformed into one of Europe’s prime venues for digital arts.
/ feral-labs
Field Notes is an art&science field laboratory organised from September 15-22 by the Bioart Society in Kilpisjärvi, Lapland/Finland. Here are Friday's and Saturday's logs.
/ Interview
Vuk Ćosić, one of the pioneers of Net.art, contemplates Ars Electronica through his personal rearview mirror.
/ Voices
Croatian makerspace Radiona’s inaugural Electric Wonderland summer camp took place on September 1-7. Our Feral Labs chronicler in residence folded up his bicycle and jumped on a train.
