“Fabcity isn’t just data, it’s also about doing together”
The ManufActeurs are part of the people building the fabcity in Brest. We met Julien Masson, member of this collective of architects, designers and landscapers.
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Africa OSH: “Africanize the maker movement”
The first Africa Open Science Hardware Summit will take place from April 13-15 in Kumasi, Ghana. Thomas Hervé Mboa Nkoudou, co-organizer of the event, answered our questions.
Fablab Budapest must “grow to avoid being a victim of its own success”
During his European tour of social and solidarity initiatives, Thomas Tichadou (We Can Be Heroes) met Dávid Pap, founder of Fablab Budapest.
Navi Radjou: “Doing more with less is the essence of frugal innovation”
Navi Radjou, co-author of the best-seller “Jugaad innovation”, returns to the roots of frugal ingenuity. Or how makerspaces in India will “activate the chakras” of future entrepreneurs.
The “Letatlin” resumes its flight
Forgotten, found again, restored, Tatlin’s flying machine takes back its place in art in Moscow. Miha Turšič, who identified it in a Russian military museum, tells us about its revival.
MakerTour lives on: after Europe, Asia
In 2015, two fans of the maker movement conceived MakerTour, a journey through France and Europe. Following their lead, MakerTour Asia was launched two years later. We look back on their journeys.
Sexy Cyborg vs. Make: “I just don’t fit into their reality”
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.
Engineer Lolo: “In my Micro P Lab, machines are running 24/7”
Léonce Atanley is multiplying Micro P Lab projects from his student room in Ghana. Interview with an advocate of 3D printing for Africa.
Peter Frase: “We can’t solve everything by techno-tinkering”
Peter Frase is the author of “Four Futures: Life After Capitalism” and contributes to the American leftist magazine “Jacobin”. We caught up with him at the Border Sessions festival.
Marko Peljhan: “Poles are sensors of our planet” (2/2)
Second part in polar areas of our wide-ranging interview with Marko Peljhan, behind the Makrolab, on the occasion of the twenty-year anniversary of this utopian techno-ecological architecture.
Marko Peljhan: “We materialized the utopia of the Makrolab” (1/2)
Interview with Marko Peljhan, the Slovenian artist behind Makrolab, which since 1997 has traveled around the world, hosting artists, hackers, scientists. Part 1.
Krzysztof Nawratek: “Urban re-industrialization is a political project”
#Fablab Festival. Interview with Krzysztof Nawratek, architect and urbanist from the University of Sheffield, about the essay he directed, “Urban Re-industrialization”.
Alex Newson brings the makers to the London Design Museum
“Designer Maker User”, the exhibition of the new Design Museum, tells the story of manufactured production, from the pre-industrial era to the era of digital crafts.
At FAB13, Argentina will defend “open and green digital tools”
Interview with José García Huidobro, founder of Fab Lab Buenos Aires. His views on the fablabs' ecosystem in Latin America.
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.
Anouk Wipprecht listens to the body
We met fashion-tech designer Anouk Wipprecht and her fantastic vestiary of dress interfaces doped on data. The Dutch designer developed this passion in the open source community.
Zaven Paré: “Without narration, the robot has no point”
Plastic artist, designer of poetical automated creatures, Zaven Paré, precursor of the actor-robot, has been involved with robots for more than 20 years. Interview.
Workbench Projects, the makerspace under the Bangalore metro
Anupama Gowda and Pavan Kumar, encountered at the FAB12 international fablab conference in Shenzhen, created the first fablab in Bangalore, India, under a metro station. For Makery, Anupama Gowda tells its story.
Sexy Cyborg: “The maker community is for privileged white people”
She has a flat stomach and a full brain. In Shenzhen, Naomi “Sexy Cyborg” Wu makes infinity mini-skirts and translucent “blinkinis”. Interview with the “lady maker”.
Stephanie Santoso: “Nation of Makers advocates for the movement”
Nation of Makers was launched in 2016 by Adam Savage to promote making for everyone. Interview with its cofounder Stephanie Santoso, Making advisor at the White House.