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”.
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Alex Newson brings the makers to the London Design Museum
“Designer Maker User”, the exhibition of the new Design Museum, tells the story of manufactured production, from the pre-industrial era to the era of digital crafts.
At FAB13, Argentina will defend “open and green digital tools”
Interview with José García Huidobro, founder of Fab Lab Buenos Aires. His views on the fablabs' ecosystem in Latin America.
How Constructlab is building “spaces that consider the commons”
Informal and “homeless”, the international collective Constructlab leads temporary architectural projects around the world. Interview with founding member Alexander Römer in Berlin.
Anouk Wipprecht listens to the body
We met fashion-tech designer Anouk Wipprecht and her fantastic vestiary of dress interfaces doped on data. The Dutch designer developed this passion in the open source community.
Zaven Paré: “Without narration, the robot has no point”
Plastic artist, designer of poetical automated creatures, Zaven Paré, precursor of the actor-robot, has been involved with robots for more than 20 years. Interview.
Workbench Projects, the makerspace under the Bangalore metro
Anupama Gowda and Pavan Kumar, encountered at the FAB12 international fablab conference in Shenzhen, created the first fablab in Bangalore, India, under a metro station. For Makery, Anupama Gowda tells its story.
Sexy Cyborg: “The maker community is for privileged white people”
She has a flat stomach and a full brain. In Shenzhen, Naomi “Sexy Cyborg” Wu makes infinity mini-skirts and translucent “blinkinis”. Interview with the “lady maker”.
Stephanie Santoso: “Nation of Makers advocates for the movement”
Nation of Makers was launched in 2016 by Adam Savage to promote making for everyone. Interview with its cofounder Stephanie Santoso, Making advisor at the White House.
Time’s Up: from piracy to fair trade (2/2)
Part 2 of our interview with the Time’s Up collective from Linz on their floating investigation of fair trade sail cargo practices.
Time’s Up: geek piracy, UFOs and sail cargo fair trade (1/2)
The artist collective based in the harbor of Linz for the past 20 years has become increasingly engaged in DIY nautical culture. Part 1 of a flowing interview.
The Influencers festival “breathes activism into Barcelona”
The Influencers festival, on October 20-22 in Barcelona, presents the best of tactical media. We met its founder, Bani Brusadin.
With Julien Beller, urgency architect for migrants in Paris
Mid-October, Paris will have its “orientation and shelter place” for refugees. Makery decided to support this construction site entrusted to the architect Julien Beller.
One year in a dome in Hawaii: “DIY will be part of life on Mars!”
French astrobiologist Cyprien Verseux, 25, spent one year in a simulated habitat on Mars. He talks about his experience rich in Do it Yourself.
Thomas Landrain: “La Paillasse or alternative scientific research”
Interview with Thomas Landrain, president of La Paillasse, a Parisian biohacklab that has disrupted scientific research and initiates projects for open innovation.
How to (not) innovate with a coconut (2/2)
Marc Dusseiller, co-founder of the DIYbio network Hackteria, is a passionate promoter of open hardware. This is all the more evident in part 2 of our interview.
Marc Dusseiller, biohack pioneer (1/2)
Marc Dusseiller, cofounder of the international open source network of biohackers and bioartists Hackteria talks about how the DIYbio movement came to Europe.
Spain creates its lab network to “reach out to a new public”
Karim Asry and Cesar Garcia Saez, founding members of the brand new association of Spanish labs, were in Toulouse at the Fablab Festival. Encounter.
Sherry Lassiter: “French fablabs should join in with the international network!”
After the Fablab Festival, the "mom of fablabs" and director of the Fab Foundation would like the French to massively join the international network founded by the MIT.
Antonin Fourneau tells all on Eniarof Moscow, the festival of DIY games
Eniarof installed its consoles at Polytech Festival in Moscow. Behind this DIY deviant funfair, the French artist Antonin Fourneau. For Makery he tells about this 19th edition.