For ten days in July, Hackers & Designers held the 2024 edition of their summer camp with a program full of workshops, interventions, communal activities, radio sessions, and collective experiments centered on the topic of “Unruly Currents & Everyday Piracy”.
In early June, Ultra and Makery co-hosted Artlabo Retreat on the island of Batz in Britanny, France. One week of creating together, with the island at the heart of the activities.
MakersXchange is conducting in-depth interviews of makers about mobility, good practices for social inclusion and skills development. Meet Enrico Bassi from OpenDot in Milano.
Dans Identités du transitoire (Les Presses du réel, 2021), Jehanne Dautrey et Patrick Beaucé, explorent l'architecture qui se monte aussi vite qu'elle se démonte. Des constructions agiles et politiques ou urgence et réflexion partagent un même espace-temps.
Interweaving digital fabrication, textile design and open science, Fabtextiles in Barcelona is a pioneering fablab for biomaterials.
In Paris, Centre Pompidou’s “Designing the Living” exhibition frames living matter as raw material for design. Makery went in to take a look.
Last days in Benin for our material maker. Mission for upcycling waste from the cotton industry nearly wrapped up, project with the Atelier des Griots finalized. How time flies!
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.
In order to upcycle by-products of the cotton industry in Benin, our maker is visiting factories, cotton farmers, getting familiar with the machines, experimenting in the lab…
Environment, transportation, energy… Thingful cross-references and searches through data from millions of geolocated sensors in the Internet of Things. We met Usman Haque, its designer.
Off to Benin. Following her return to university, our maker is moving from principles to practice with a project on upcycling residues from the cotton sector.
In DIY mode, the Fab Foundation offers digital fabrication classes inspired from costumes and objects from the Marvel studios film.
Bioart, minimalist architecture, haptic digits, 3D-printed new materials… winners in review of the 6th edition of the YouFab international competition for digital fabrication.
Resuming her studies, changing her plans facing African political hazards… Our bio-sourced material agency project leader is learning to juggle.
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.
How will we travel tomorrow? From railway vehicles to solar tuk-tuk, Rob La Frenais, who conducts the Future of Transportation project with the Srishti Institute, gives a few art and DIY ideas.
Start of the school year update for our maker and her bio-sourced material agency, Termatière. Or how to concile maker aspirations and social entrepreurship.
Do humans have more control on their environment with digital modelling and design tools? The Design Modelling Symposium, in Paris from September 16-20, opened up avenues.
Nearly five months that our material maker is in Africa with Termatière, her bio-sourced materials company. The key moments upon her return.
The architecture made from mycelium proposed by Aleksi Vesaluoma with Grown Structures could enable to design solid structures, durable and respectful of the environment.
