David Rochelet, who founded the Doualab in Cameroon, is also part of the adventure of the Ongola Fablab, the first in the capital Yaoundé. He tells us about its opening on April 6.
Experiencing very high altitude to prepare for a journey into space: artist-researcher Benjamin Pothier tells Makery about his expedition in the Chilean highlands.
The artist-researcher Benjamin Pothier joined a geological and glaciological expedition in the Chilean desert, in conditions analogous to Mars. First part of his logbook for Makery.
One foot in France and the other in Africa, our material maker found the balance for her business of upcycling projects for local resources, Termatière.
The Gosh community gathered on March 22-25 in Santiago, Chile. Report from Freyja van den Boom, a researcher and supporter of Open Knowledge International.
Benjamin Cadon (Labomedia) attended the Internet Freedom Festival, an international convergence of hacktivist struggles in Valencia, Spain, on March 6-10. Report.
From March 10-12 was held the 8th Ludesco, a festival around games at La Chaux-de-Fonds, in Switzerland.
David Rochelet founded the Doualab in Cameroon. First column from this French engineer convinced that Africa could become the largest makerspace in the world.
It has now been two years since our maker started her column on Termatière, her business creation project in bio-sourced materials. Review of an eventful adventure.
The first material of Termatière, a vine shoot composite, is in the hands of potential clients. Our maker met other fans of materials to recycle in Africa.
Constant in Brussels is exhibiting “(New) Objects in Common: Peggy” by the Libre Objet collective. Our DCALK columnists introduce this open source furniture project for fablabs.
Is this the home stretch? Termatière, the business project specialized in the low-tech conception of new bio-sourced local materials, has never been as close to becoming a reality…
At Woma, in Paris, the CNC occupies an entire room. This digital milling machine commands everyone’s respect. Here it is, picked up in binaural by the artist Jean-Philippe Renoult.
The future biodesign agency Termatière now has its first material, a composite of vine shoots for manufacturing wine crates.
For the last 9 months Alexis & Blanche have been trying to reduce their waste to zero. By the end of September, they reached 90g per person per week. How do they do it?
Our material maker flew off to Africa to get her fill of Togolese, Burkinabe and Beninese inspiration for Termatière, fabrication of bio-sourced materials project.
When the artist Jean-Philippe Renoult takes an interest in makers’ machines, a whole soundscape emerges. In the limelight of Makesound, his binaural series, a professional drill.
Once we know what the commons can be, how it can be governed and by whom, the question is: What does the commons stand for? That is, what social project does it carry?
This summer, Termatière, the material company project recycling agricultural waste, moved on to prototyping: a vine shoot composite panel, designed in a lab, was cut in a fablab.
The Science Underground Academy was held in Dubrovnik, Croatia, from July 13-22. Slovene bio-artist and guest mentor of this 2nd edition Robertina Šebjanič reports on this experience for Makery.
