Art-Act’s mushroom-inspired remediation for humans
Sandra and Gaspard Bébié-Valérian explore issues related to the environment, energy, food, natural and hyperindustrial resources and the constituent powers of our society.
Interview
Erich Berger: “Field Notes explores spaces of possibilities in Lapland”
The Bioart Society has already been exploring the subarctic territory for the past ten years from the Kilpisjärvi station. Erich Berger presents the Field Notes program and a new call for 2019.
From Lausanne to Hong Kong, 20 years of Solar Sound System (2/2)
In honor of Solar Sound System’s 20th anniversary, Makery spoke with its founder Cédric Carles about the project’s long and winding journey. Part 2 of our interview.
Energetic Solar Sound System celebrates its 20th anniversary (1/2)
In honor of Solar Sound System’s 20th anniversary, Makery spoke with its founder Cédric Carles about the project’s long and winding journey.
Thomas Ermacora: “I hope for a hundred or so fabcity districts in 2030”
The urbanist Thomas Ermacora is one of the speakers of the Fab City Summit. He explains why the future of cities is in the hands of a new generation of techno-creative people.
“It’s official: I have an artwork in outer space“
On June 29, the Mexican artist Nahum sent an interactive artwork to the International Space Station—a personal experience through a real-time manipulation protocol from Earth.
A Fab City Summit in Paris to “get fabcity out of the woods”
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.
“Fabcity isn’t just data, it’s also about doing together”
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.
Africa OSH: “Africanize the maker movement”
The first Africa Open Science Hardware Summit will take place from April 13-15 in Kumasi, Ghana. Thomas Hervé Mboa Nkoudou, co-organizer of the event, answered our questions.
Fablab Budapest must “grow to avoid being a victim of its own success”
During his European tour of social and solidarity initiatives, Thomas Tichadou (We Can Be Heroes) met Dávid Pap, founder of Fablab Budapest.
Navi Radjou: “Doing more with less is the essence of frugal innovation”
Navi Radjou, co-author of the best-seller “Jugaad innovation”, returns to the roots of frugal ingenuity. Or how makerspaces in India will “activate the chakras” of future entrepreneurs.
The “Letatlin” resumes its flight
Forgotten, found again, restored, Tatlin’s flying machine takes back its place in art in Moscow. Miha Turšič, who identified it in a Russian military museum, tells us about its revival.
MakerTour lives on: after Europe, Asia
In 2015, two fans of the maker movement conceived MakerTour, a journey through France and Europe. Following their lead, MakerTour Asia was launched two years later. We look back on their journeys.
Sexy Cyborg vs. Make: “I just don’t fit into their reality”
Chinese maker Naomi Wu, alias Sexy Cyborg, defends herself in Makery against the founder of Make, who did “crippling damage” to her reputation by accusing her of being no more than a persona.
Engineer Lolo: “In my Micro P Lab, machines are running 24/7”
Léonce Atanley is multiplying Micro P Lab projects from his student room in Ghana. Interview with an advocate of 3D printing for Africa.
Peter Frase: “We can’t solve everything by techno-tinkering”
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.
Marko Peljhan: “Poles are sensors of our planet” (2/2)
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.
Marko Peljhan: “We materialized the utopia of the Makrolab” (1/2)
Interview with Marko Peljhan, the Slovenian artist behind Makrolab, which since 1997 has traveled around the world, hosting artists, hackers, scientists. Part 1.
Krzysztof Nawratek: “Urban re-industrialization is a political project”
#Fablab Festival. Interview with Krzysztof Nawratek, architect and urbanist from the University of Sheffield, about the essay he directed, “Urban Re-industrialization”.