Are hackathons just cons?
Are hackathons a new form of exploitation? Does the hacker culture serve as a consent factory as suggested by two American sociologists? Makery investigated.
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They made the Fabrikarium in India
From February 10-14, the Makers Asylum in Mumbai got together a hundred or so people for a Franco-Indian hackathon aiming to find DIY solutions to disability. Portraits.
In India, a Fabrikarium to hack disability
From February 10-14, we were at Maker’s Asylum in Mumbai for a Franco-Indian hackathon with the association My Human Kit. Or the art of dealing with disability in a relaxed and friendly atmosphere.
At Sex Tech Hack, the more you moan, the more it vibrates
On November 24-26, 2017, the student technology club at Goldsmiths University in London held the second edition of Sex Tech Hack, just as fiercely inclusive and indie as the first.
At SexTechLab: “So how do you come with that?”
France’s first sex hackathon took place on May 19-21. Even if its main sponsor was the market leader of the French porn industry, the event was rather demure.
Sign language animatronics still in its infancy
A prototype designed during a hackathon at McGill university in Quebec translates into speech signs with hands printed in 3D.
Hack Brexit presents its first fact-checking and dataviz tools
One month after Brexit, there was Hack Brexit, a hackathon to create tools that counteracted misleading political campaigns. Six months later, the collective presents two prototypes.
At the first Sex Tech Hack, a hackathon on sexuality in London
On December 17 and 18, at Goldsmith University, in Great-Britain, took place the first hackathon to thwart the relations between sex and technology. Report.
In London, Saraceno summons its community of atmosphere hackers
On November 26 and 27, the artist Tomás Saraceno brought together researchers from the most prestigious universities in the world for a hackathon unlike any other. Objective: invent the Aerocene era.
100 more terrible ideas at France’s 1st stupid hackathon
Sprint session of ironic prototyping at the first French stupid hackathon organized by the Stereolux Arts and Technologies Laboratory in Nantes on October 29.
Dada about data at Cabaret Voltaire
On March 4-5, 7,000 people followed the livecast of lucubrations by 80 poets, hackers and media artists united in Zürich for the Great Dada Manifesto, a hack-homage to dada.
The reason why MIT is co-organizing a hackathon in Brazil
What to think of hackathonmania? Makery deciphers the method on the occasion of a makethon co-organized in Brazil by Natura, leader in natural cosmetics, and the MIT.
The hackathon where Wikimedia France speeds up knowledge
Wikimedia France held a hackathon near Lyon from May 23rd to 25th, where 250 members of a community with millions of volunteer contributors got together to improve the sharing of knowledge.
Drone hackathon judged by the military?
On April 24-26, 200 people competed in the very first Hack the Drone, organized by GDF Suez in Paris. On the jury, the Centre of Excellence on Drones of the French air force.
Hacking hard in Strasbourg to take health care into our own hands
From March 19-22, 600 hackers, startuppers and health professionals participated in Europe's greatest gathering in its sector, the Hacking Health Camp in Strasbourg.
Game and the City plays on the banality of street furniture
From 27 February to 1st March, Nantes street furniture is the object of amusing detournements for the second edition of the hackathon Game and the City.
Publishers play nicely at publishing hackathon in Paris
From December 12-14, Le Labo de l’édition in Paris hosted its second hackathon on the theme of book applications, as a new way to imagine reading in digital media.