Schmiede 2022: Enter the labyrinth of ideas
For the past 20 years, the Smiths of Schmiede have been gathering in the Old Saline of Hallein in Austria. Ten days of wild collaboration that culminate in an extravagant group exhibition.
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Catch x Softer: Softening technology
Catch Summer Camp: la space to learn, meet, exchange and imagine a world where technology is welcoming. A bit of softness in a world of (techno) brutes.
Cyberwitch: technological emancipation, relationships with the living and spirituality
Interview with Lucile Olympe Haute, an artist, activist, teacher, researcher, cyberwitch, coder and specialist of web-to-print.
Make Friends Not Art: Documenta Fifteen, learning from the Global South
This year, Documenta Fifteen claimed to be different from previous editions, and after the consequences, there will never be one like it again. Makery was there.
Listen to the immersive soundscapes of PIFcamp
Julien Bellanger, co-founder of the Ping association in Nantes and head of development at Radio Jet FM, captured PIFcamp’s site-specific soundscapes in the Slovenian Alps.
Doing-It-Together with the Mountain Makers of Manzat
The Mountain Makers community opened their doors on August 8-13, bringing together 20 hackers/makers along with active members of the Vulca association.
In Croatia, Electric Wonderland wakes the mountain
On August 5-11, the Croatian makerspace Radiona hosted Electric Wonderland, a summer camp of DIY synths and creative circuits among campers and hikers in the Velebit mountains.
BIVOUAC#9: A poetic hybrid adventure in the Vanoise mountains (2/2)
Learning to be in a hybrid relationship with the natural environment, performing in high altitude, perceiving differently… Laurent Chanel offers all this and more during his cycle of Bivouac# open-air workshops.
BIVOUAC#9: A poetic hybrid adventure in the Vanoise mountains (1/2)
Learning to be in a hybrid relationship with the natural environment, performing in high altitude, perceiving differently… Laurent Chanel offers all this and more during his cycle of Bivouac# open-air workshops.
Memory palace, laser show, ghost radio… What are the PIFcampers making? (2/2)
What are 65 hackers, makers, artists, musicians and other techno-explorers doing in the middle of the Slovenian Alps?
Nature concert, potato synthesizer, drunk robot… What are the PIFcampers making? (1/2)
What are 65 hackers, makers, artists, musicians and other techno-explorers doing in the middle of the Slovenian Alps?
PIFcamp: a self-assembling community in the Slovenian Alps
From July 31 to August 6, the lush mountains of Slovenia once again set the scene for the 8th edition of PIFcamp: a summer camp for hackers, makers, artists and other techno-explorers.
At Cultivamos Cultura, in Portugal, life as art
From the 4th to the 22nd of July, Cultivamos Cultura, in the Portuguese town of Sao Luis, was taking place. A Summer School of art, making and sharing ideas and knowledge. Artist Maro Pebo reports.
Constructing convivial alternative habitats at Bellastock
An ephemeral city under construction, wild tech village, urban fiction, Bellastock is human-scale architecture laboratory that has opened up to experimentation, education and mediation.
Critical Makers at Nø School Nevers 2022
Detour to Nø School in Nevers, France, where every summer for the past four years, participants from around the world gather for workshops, talks, performances and concerts.
Infiltration Process: eco-friendly, open source civil engineering in Lyon
Infiltration Process summer camp invited international post-graduate students in rainwater management, urban hydrology and eco-engineering to the open-air lab “Eco-Campus” at the University of Lyon in France.
The sustainability turn of the Fab Lab Network, Anastasia Pistofidou reflects on the biomaterials community within the Fablab movement (2/2)
On June 6-11, Fabricademy Bootcamp was held at the fablab Onl'Fait in Geneva. Anastasia Pistofidou reflects on the biomaterials community within the Fablab movement.
Anastasia Pistofidou, co-founder of Fabricademy: “If technology is ubiquitous, then craftsmanship is an emergency” (1/2)
On June 6-11, Fabricademy Bootcamp was held at the fablab Onl'fait in Geneva. Interview with its co-founder, Anastasia Pistofidou.
2022 map of summer camps in Europe and beyond
Where to go this summer? Makery made a selection of summer camps&schools in Europe for 2022. Up to 30 summer destinations from South Portugal to North Denmark, from UK to Hungary... and Sri Lanka.
Rosemary Lee: Resilience as a Critical Approach to Technology
Rosemary Lee proposes an essay on resilience as a critical approach to technology.