/ Lab Life
In 2011, the Music Hackspace was a group of noisy hackers getting together in a café. Six years later, the collective moved into a prestigious cultural institution in London.
/ News
How can we prepare the cohabitation of robots and humans on the Moon? Artists and space experts discussed the issues at the first workshop of the Moon Village Association in Strasbourg, France.
/ Tidbits
The UN rewards a young British engineer for having designed a hydroponic system that uses ten times less water and cultivated area than conventional horticulture.
/ News
For the love of art, science and Afrofuturism, we boarded a spacecraft full of DNA catchers.
/ News
Live on the Internet, on December 5, Paris Hospitals carried out shoulder surgery via a collaborative mixed-reality platform, raising the question of the Cloud in hospitals.
/ Tidbits
The next Fab Academy will begin in January, an intensive five-month course created at the MIT by Neil Gershenfeld and hosted by more than 80 labs in 36 different countries.
/ Lab Life
In London, the Green Lab has been exploring agritech and urban agriculture for six months. We took part in an aquaponics workshop to meet them.
/ News
Not all conversational robots are sinister or subservient. With minimalist means, some manage to explore new styles of human-machine interaction. Our top 10 chatbots.
/ News
Tension is rising in the maker community. La Casemate, a fablab in Grenoble, France, was destroyed by arson on November 21. A political act against the “nuisance” of fablabs, claimed anonymously. Reactions and solidarity follow.
/ News
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.
/ Tidbits
A Chinese rammed earth house designed to withstand earthquakes received the title of World Building of the Year 2017. An international recognition for a sustainable architecture.
/ Investigation
For more than a decade, the algorave scene has made ravers dance to computer code. Makery went to investigate where it all began, in Sheffield, which hosted the Algomech festival in early November.
/ Voices
Resuming her studies, changing her plans facing African political hazards… Our bio-sourced material agency project leader is learning to juggle.
/ News
/ Voices
In order to make his microfarm a reality, Alexis trained in permaculture at the Norman farm of Bec Hellouin. He took the opportunity to interview his founders, Perrine and Charles Hervé-Gruyer.
/ Tidbits
Two weeks after the tweet in which he accused the Chinese maker Naomi Wu of not being what she said she was, the boss of Make Media made his second mea culpa.
/ Investigation
Before the industrial vats, Shojinmeat Project’s first objective is to culture meat cells in home incubators. This Japanese citizen science movement has nothing to do with artificial burgers or vegan activism.
/ News
The maker world has taken a blow. On Wednesday, November 15, the TechShop makerspace chain, now liquidated, announced the closure of its ten locations in the United States.
/ Interview
Chinese maker Naomi Wu, alias Sexy Cyborg, defends herself in Makery against the founder of Make, who did “crippling damage” to her reputation by accusing her of being no more than a persona.
/ Proto
As a preview, the French designer Fanny Prudhomme is presenting les Parleuses, a sexual education kit created for her diploma in design, a set of women's sexual organs, hand-sewn or to be made.
