Germany launches a legal battle against the DIYbio CRISPR-Cas9 kit
The incredible story of The Odin’s CRISPR-Cas9 gene-editing kit, which travels across the Atlantic and sets off the first legal-sanitary counter-attacks.
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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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.
The “3D Additivist Cookbook” guide to subversive making
The “3D Additivist Cookbook” was launched at Transmediale in Berlin on January 31. About a hundred artists, makers and activists contributed to this book of 3D printing recipes and imaginative and provocative methods.
A wireless ultrasound-stethoscope authorized on the American market
Clarius Mobile Health is authorized to commercialize its wireless ultrasound-stethoscope in the United States.
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.
Open Gov Summit: France pinned down by its nonprofits
Open Gov Summit: French organizations promoting civil and digital liberties criticize France's flawed expression of open democracy.
Platform cooperativism: an alternative to uberisation
The good papers from “Ours to Hack and to Own” by Trebor Scholz and Nathan Schneider. This book supports the launch of an international consortium for platform cooperativism.
Chlorophyll under the skin… and in the blood
At Rencontres Bandits-Mages in Bourges, France, the Quimera Rosa collective presented “Transplant”, a biohacking art project that injects and tattoos chlorophyll to create human-plants.
Špela Petrič and her plant-human embryos
The Slovenian bio-artist Špela Petrič offered a performance with extraction of hormones on October 21 at the Plateforme C fablab in Nantes. She also presented her “plant-human monsters".
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.
Libviz, the dataviz of favorites
It’s the very first prototype to which the Makery medialab is contributing, as part of the cooperation platform Artlabo. Libviz is a website to view shared and augmented favorites.
The Makery medialab and Ping at Visualizar’16 Open Cities
In order to create Fabcity dataviz tools, Makery and Plateforme C participate in the Visualizar’16 Open Cities workshop at Medialab Prado in Madrid, from September 26 to October 5.
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.
Putting an end to the Smart City
On September 16 and 17, Barcelona hosted the conference “Responsive Cities” on the new technologies and urbanism of tomorrow, that buries the Smart City.
(Français) Julien Beller du 6b est l’architecte du camp des migrants à Paris
Julien Beller, l'architecte activiste qui a notamment travaillé pour les gens du voyage, est en charge du chantier du camp d'accueil des migrants qui ouvrira en octobre boulevard Ney à Paris.
Jeremy Corbyn launches his Digital Democracy Manifesto
Jeremy Corbyn, the British leader of the labor party in a campaign for its reelection, publishes a “Digital Democracy Manifesto” that defends the cultures of open source and digital liberties.
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.
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.