How Wolfgang Tillmans is rebranding Europe
Following an initiative by Wolfgang Tillmans and Rem Koolhaas, designers, experts and artists participated in Eurolab from May 31 to June 3 in Amsterdam. A creative forum to “act for democracy”.
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Commitment mechanics in the land of clocks
From March 10-12 was held the 8th Ludesco, a festival around games at La Chaux-de-Fonds, in Switzerland.
Open 2017: strength will lie in the unity of cooperative platforms
February 16 and 17, the 2017 Open conference took place in London, gathering a hundred or so militants of commons, cooperativism and open source.
Hack Brexit presents its first fact-checking and dataviz tools
One month after Brexit, there was Hack Brexit, a hackathon to create tools that counteracted misleading political campaigns. Six months later, the collective presents two prototypes.
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.
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.
Intestinal considerations on the commons
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?
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.
Heroic Makers vs Heroic Land, by Isabelle Arvers in the Calais jungle
Video games expert Isabelle Arvers is making a machinimadoc with the refugees in the Calais “jungle” (North of France). In a Makery exclusive, she shares her first edits.
(Français) Alors, cette fédération des labs français, ça vient?
En mai a été lancée l'idée d'un réseau national des fablabs. Olivier Gendrin, coordinateur du chantier de la future association et Emmanuelle Roux, du FacLab, échangent sur la difficulté à construire cette fédération.
Why a Paris suburb is replacing an urban farm with a parking lot
The city of Colombes, near Paris, is tearing down the local farm R-Urban… in order to make way for a parking lot. Report at Agrocité.
Make It Work: Opening the black box of climate talks
Staging mock negotiations ahead of COP21 in December is the aim of the “Theatre of Negotiations” event this week. Makery visited the construction site.
Toward a Fabcity in São Paulo?
The city of São Paulo invests 9 million reais in creating 12 fablabs until the end of the year. They will be accessible free of charge.
Ouagadougou makers had their revolution and completed their fablab
Burkina Faso had its quiet revolution on October 30th by demonstrating to obtain the departure of president Compaoré. The Ouagalab makers took part in the demonstrations whilst completing work on the future fablab.