/ Events
The annual conference of MIT-approved fablabs was held in Chile from July 31 to August 6. Constance Garnier, an expert on the French scene, reports back from Santiago.
/ Investigation
From surplus supermarkets to public refrigerators to food-tech, initiatives are proliferating in the fight against food waste. A worldwide round-up.
/ Interview
Peter Frase is the author of “Four Futures: Life After Capitalism” and contributes to the American leftist magazine “Jacobin”. We caught up with him at the Border Sessions festival.
/ Interview
Second part in polar areas of our wide-ranging interview with Marko Peljhan, behind the Makrolab, on the occasion of the twenty-year anniversary of this utopian techno-ecological architecture.
/ DIY
We tested it for you at the Névez IndieCamp in Brittany. The rocket stove is an economical eco-wood-burner to cook or warm up, at home as well as camping. Tutorial.
/ Voices
At Arts Codés, a Parisian cooperative space, Jean-Philippe Renoult scrutinized the CNC electric panel by recording the low frequencies of the machine. Headphones highly recommended!
/ Interview
Interview with Marko Peljhan, the Slovenian artist behind Makrolab, which since 1997 has traveled around the world, hosting artists, hackers, scientists. Part 1.
/ News
To build an ephemeral city out of raw clay in less than 48 hours with 500 pairs of hands: this was the festival challenge of the experimental architecture organization Bellastock.
/ News
Experience a 100% DIY “maker vacation” at IndieCamp in Névez, Brittany, featuring a solar-powered shower, mycelium, ironworking and Raspberry Pi workshops.
/ Tidbits
On July 13, in Amsterdam, 10 scientist makers set off on their European tour on board the Do-it-Together Science Bus, in association with the Waag Society fablab.
/ Voices
Nearly five months that our material maker is in Africa with Termatière, her bio-sourced materials company. The key moments upon her return.
/ Proto
Conceived at the Green Fab Lab in Barcelona and currently in crowdfunding, Aquapioneers is an aquaponics kit for all pioneers of agriculture above ground.
/ Tidbits
The most powerful MRI medical scanner in the world, equipped with a magnet weighing more than 130 tons, was presented on July 6 by the NeuroSpin institute, a research center dedicated to human brain imaging.
/ Portrait
The cliché of Africa, one digital revolution behind, is not for her. At 27, the “serial maker” has co-founded Baby Lab, a third place in Abidjan, and created her own brand of recycled jewelry.
/ Voices
Antoine Bonnet aka KiK, circuit-bender, maker artist in electronics, DIYbio, textile and sound design had just died. We were about to publish his first column. Here it is as a tribute.
/ Events
The second edition of Border Sessions, the festival at the frontiers of technology, was held in The Hague on June 28-30. In its own friendly way, it pushes us to think “out of the box”.
/ Tidbits
The European Parliament voted this July 4 in favor of a report destined to make goods longer-lasting and easier to repair.
/ Tidbits
The architecture made from mycelium proposed by Aleksi Vesaluoma with Grown Structures could enable to design solid structures, durable and respectful of the environment.
/ DIY
The makers of Ecoteclab are into low-tech and sustainable development. We were with them in June at their monthly DIY workshop to create an instrument that measures the wind.
/ Voices
They organized in May a seminar on biohacking in healthcare. Thomas Hervé Mboa Nkoudou and Jérôme Avom explain the potential of open science for developing countries.
