Why do women participate less in fablabs and hackerspaces?
A survey analyzes the low representation of women in hackerspaces and makerspaces in Great Britain.
by Ewen Chardronnet
Ewen Chardronnet is chief editor of Makery since April 2019. A graduate of the Ecole Supérieure de Journalisme in Paris, Ewen Chardronnet now shares his activities between journalism and cultural production.
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First extra-terrestrial 3D print
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Inflate barricades around the COP
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COP21: maiden flight of the zero carbon hot air balloon
In the desert of New Mexico, artist Tomás Saraceno realized the very first human flight in a zero carbon solar-powered hot air balloon.
Understanding climate change with Roscoff worms
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In tune with possible futures at Werkleitz festival
The MoveOn-Werkleitz festival, Germany, was celebrating 20 years of Emare artist residency program in medialabs. And disrupts entrenched habits by inviting migrants.
Collisions of TodaysArt at The Hague
How DIY and hacking are infusing current art practices at this year's TodaysArt festival, which took over The Pier, overlooking the seaside of the Dutch capital.
A hackerspace launches the Artsat satellite, awarded at Ars Electronica
The Ars Electronica festival, awarded a prize to the artistic satellite ARTSAT, conceived at the hackerspace in Japan’s Tama Art University. Makery met Akihiro Kubota, its instigator.
Slovenian land art for nanotourism
Is sustainable tourism feasible? In July, the Architectural Association School of Architecture, London, gave a workshop at KSEVT, a center dedicated to cultural space programs perched in the Slovenian Alps.
Luce Moreau, that artist who sculpted with bees
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GynePunk, the cyborg witches of DIY gynecology
The Catalan collective GynePunk wants to decolonize the female body and develops first aid gynecological tools, for socially disadvantaged women, refugees, sex workers.
3D printing against Daech
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Make It Work: Opening the black box of climate talks
Staging mock negotiations ahead of COP21 in December is the aim of the “Theatre of Negotiations” event this week. Makery visited the construction site.
FabFamily materialises the design edition of the future
An application to have an object you designed in vector produced, it's Fab Family, editing platform for a democratised and distributed design.
Climate Games: “We are nature defending itself”
Hack the COP: the two co-founders of the Insurrectionary imagination laboratory are preparing the Climate Games, civil disobedience games for December in Paris.
Nepal mobilizes the OpenStreetMap community after the quake
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When open source architecture conjures up the “Ikea model”
Why do open source architecture initiatives, which seek to modify the conditions and forms of construction itself, claim a likeness to Ikea?
With AKER, fabricate your urban farm
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Derek Holzer: “My interest in instruments fabrication reflects the artist’s economic reality”
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Exyzt: 12 years of machines to inhabit
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