Covid-19: UCL-Ventura, a breathing aid prototyped at F1 speed
100 hours: the time it took the team at University College London, assisted by Mercedes’s Formula 1 department, to develop the first prototype of a CPAP device.
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‘Art as We Don’t Know It’: Against the Unbearable Whiteness of Bioart
The recently published 'Art as We Don’t Know It' catalogue showcases art and research that has grown and flourished within the wider network of both the Bioart Society and Aalto University's Biofilia lab in Finland during the previous decade. Review.
JustOneGiantLab: Quantifying communities to analyze a pandemic
If JOGL’s OpenCovid19 Initiative came out of a crisis, the collaborations that are forming among its members prove that this online platform is much more than a flash mob. What does the data say?
Covid-19: UK makers ramp up their response
In the UK, DIY problem-solving makers and open-source engineers, in collaboration with clinical teams, are contributing their technical expertise to the collective response against Covid-19.
OpenCovid19 Initiative: diagnostic testing through open and collaborative research
Can an inter-communal alliance solve the problem of test shortages? Just One Giant Lab (JOGL) pools skills to explore an experimental yet promising diagnostic technique: LAMP.
Minimal Universal Respirator, frugally engineered
In Paris, a citizen collective is working to produce an emergency medical ventilator that is open source, low-cost and easy to reproduce.
Slower travel: new post-viral geographies in Europe
The independent curator and critic Rob La Frenais runs the "Future of Transportation" group on Facebook. New chronicle about mobility after the lockdown.
Just One Giant Hackathon against Covid-19
JOGL, a global platform for collaborating on open source biotech projects, recently launched a series of micro-grants for projects directly tackling the Covid-19 crisis.
Pandemic and techno-politics: “We must design for natural resistance to be within”
New correspondance on proximity-tracing with Denis Roio aka Jaromil from Dyne.org.
Covid-19: Parisian textile makers sew protective gowns for the frontline
In early April, Makerscovid.paris received an outsize order for 8,400 protective gowns. Two labs and a library rose to the challenge.
New mobilities after the lockdown: How about retooling the airline industry?
Independent curator and critic Rob La Frenais runs the "Future of Transportation" group on Facebook. He writes in Makery his thoughts about mobility after the lockdown.
Makers x Covid Paris: “We literally heard hospitals calling for help”
Makery relays voices from fabrication spaces federated around the collective Makers x Covid Paris to support the city's frontline workers.
Covid-19, mobilized in photos: Delivering protective gear with Makerscovid.Paris
Capturing the moment for distributed production of PPE, photographer Quentin Chevrier followed deliveries around a city on lockdown by the collective Makers x Covid Paris.
Covid-19: In Taiwan, a workshop to make infrared thermometers
On April 12, the Contemporary Culture Lab (C-LAB) in Taipei launched a series of DIY anti-virus workshops for all ages, the first of which focused on transforming a Micro:bit micro-computer into an infrared thermometer.
Covid-19: New forms of rationality and liberation
Denis Roio aka Jaromil shares here his further thinkings about the development of an ethical contact-tracing solution.
Covid-19: Why proximity-tracing is important and its integrity should be contextual
Feeding the debate on proximity-tracing during Covid-19 pandemia, Denis Roio, aka Jaromil from Dyne.org, challenges some polarizing beliefs forming around the concepts of privacy and urgency.
Covid-Initiatives: Mapping makers worldwide mobilized against Covid-19
In partnership with Makery, Covid-Initiatives is launching a call for contributions in order to extend and improve the map and accurately and comprehensively document maker initiatives in Europe and worldwide.
Covid-19: Japanese biohackers develop Ninja qPCR for real-time testing
In Tokyo, biohacker Shingo Hisakawa is converting his NinjaPCR open source thermal cycler into a real-time DNA amplifier, which could test for the coronavirus Covid-19.
Covid-19: French makers’ unprecedented mobilization
In France, the mobilization of makers and fablabs against Covid-19 is unprecedented, but they are left to liaise directly with health care workers and civil society.
Tracing Covid-19 patients while preserving privacy?
A team of European researchers offers a decentralized protocol that could store relevant information on people without mass collecting personal data.