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On July 11, before FAB14, the Fab City Summit begins. But what is the fabcity? We posed this question to co-organizers and architects Francesco Cingolani and Minh Man Nguyen.
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From June 23-30 in Durban, South Africa, the digital festival Digifest welcomed the International Symposium on Electronic Art (ISEA). With a lot of discussions on the future of makerspaces.
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Produce locally, cheaply and favor the human factor? This is the challenge taken on by the workshop-store Unto This Last in London, pioneer of digital handcrafted furniture production.
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33 meters below ground level, Richard Ballard is growing his vegetables by hydroponic and vertical cultivation, supplied with renewable energy. A taste of the future.
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C'est l'histoire d'un bateau construit par des lycéens de Mulhouse qui navigue sur le canal Rhin-Rhône, avant d'être transformé en toit. Une architecture utopique et collaborative portée par l'artiste Jan Kopp.
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The Croatian pavilion at the Venice Biennale exhibit a 57-square-meter pergola inspired by the formation of clouds. One of the most imposing structures to date 3D-printed by robots.
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After lab-grown burgers and plant-based sausage, what about a meat alternative made from insects? Insect farming is gaining traction, all the way to DIY home kits.
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The ManufActeurs are part of the people building the fabcity in Brest. We met Julien Masson, member of this collective of architects, designers and landscapers.
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As a preamble to the Fab City Summit, the 5th MakeryMedialab invited the association Fab City Grand Paris and the collective Quatorze. Focus on the project In My BackYard.
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Acid house, noise and synthesizers inspired from Kant or Philip K. Dick… Meeting with Ewa Justka, maker artist of outrageous creations.
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Following an initiative by Wolfgang Tillmans and Rem Koolhaas, designers, experts and artists participated in Eurolab from May 31 to June 3 in Amsterdam. A creative forum to “act for democracy”.
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This is our summer guide to holiday camps for coders, tinkerers, biohackers… Travel through our map featuring 20 points of interest, from Barcelona to the depths of Lapland.
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A collective of English gardener-artists set up a cooperative at Somerset House and are growing vegetables between concrete and tarmac. In order to counter this hostile environment, nothing beats good compost.
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Microsoft has acquired GitHub for 7.5 billion dollars. The news has raised concerns within the community of open source developers.
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Not a week goes by without a new announcement by the tech giants regarding our robotic future. OpenCat was born from the imagination of a single maker, who is working hard on its open source debut.
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Du 31 mai au 2 juin, le collectif MU propulse dans trois lieux du nord-est parisien Métamines#2, plateforme d'échange sur la fabrique de la ville. Explications avec Olivier Le Gal et David Georges-François.
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Whether studying the regenerative abilities of the salamander or the myth of aquatic humans, the Slovenian artist is pushing the limits of life in order to rethink what it means to be human.
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In Benin, the Potemat laboratory brings together participative approach, DIY and maker spirit around the project of upcycling by-products of the cotton industry.
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What future for urban manufacturing? The report "Cities of Making" offers an insight into urban manufacturing in three European cities: Brussels, London and Rotterdam.
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Are hackathons a new form of exploitation? Does the hacker culture serve as a consent factory as suggested by two American sociologists? Makery investigated.
