Day 2: Getting to know the environment.
| April 3, 2012 | Posted by Pedro under MakerLab Milan |
Today we are going around the city and collect insights (Through notes, video, photos) to share with the rest. Everybody is welcome to send us their inspiration.
Day 1: Getting to know each other (Reflection)
| April 3, 2012 | Posted by Pedro under MakerLab Milan |
On Monday we dedicated the day to get to know eachother.
The MakerLab presentation can be found here
Then, we asked the Makers attending the first day to answer those questions (and invited people that was not there to send us their image) In this way we hope to frame the theme for this MakerLab between everybody taking part.
What do you want to do? What do you want to know about?
Photos taken by Giulia Soldavini
MakerLab Welcomes WEFAB @ Superground on Thursday
| April 2, 2012 | Posted by Pedro under MakerLab Milan |
This thursday at 19:00 the guys from WEFAB will be coming around with a Eggbot (to decorate eggs) and a Makerbot (to 3d print the eggholder) If you are interested in this technology, or want to learn about 3dprinting, or even if you just want to decorate a Eastern egg for your family, come around to the Superground and try out.
Vieni a trovarci giovedì da Superground, nella residency MakerLab. Porta il tuo uovo o acquistane uno bio da noi, scegli una grafica e fallo decorare dalla nostra EggBot!
Ti senti un/a pro? Allora prepara il tuo file in Inkscape seguendo il tutorial di EvilMadScience .
MakerLab Kick off: Monday 02 April 2012 @ Superground, Milan
| April 1, 2012 | Posted by Pedro under MakerLab Milan |
MakerLab Milan 2012 explores Openness, Participativeness, and Collaborativeness providing a space for local thinkers and doers to prototype answers to some of the current challenges cities have to deal with by involving the public.
Therefore the challenge for this new edition of the Makerlab is:
“How to involve the public to multiply the effect of those actions that we -Disrupters- want to implement?”.
How to get involved:
- Be part of the team and contribute to the whole process
- Co-Work at the Superground. You can use our temporary co-working space at the Superground to work on your own projects.
- Submit insights. Everyday we will post the task for the next day, everybody is invited to take part by sending us their contribution via facebook, blog, twitter, flickr….
- Propose a workshop for the public intervention.
- Or come to the Superground and share dinner with us(from the 2nd to the 15th April 2012)
Day 1 task:
If you can’t come today (Monday) send us a picture of yourself with a banner where you state two questions in relation to the theme stated above.
- What do you want to do?
- What do you want to learn about?
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MakerLab Milano 2012 esplora Openness, partecipazione, collaboratività e offre uno spazio per i pensatori e gli attori locali per coinvolgere il pubblico nella prototipazione di risposte ad alcune delle attuali sfide che le città devono affrontare.La sfida per questa nuova edizione del Makerlab è la seguente: “Come coinvolgere il pubblico per moltiplicare l’effetto delle azioni che vogliamo avviare?”.
Durante le due settimane di residenza (01-15 Aprile @ Superground, via Bussola) collaboreremo per sviluppare una serie di azioni pubbliche interattive per il Public Design Festival (17-21 aprile @ Cascina Cuccagna, via Muratori). Ogni giorno pubblicheremo un compito che sarà portato a termine dal team locale con il contributo di tutti i membri del MakerLab. La sera apriremo le porte ad attivisti locali, amici e visitatori per venire e di condividere il cibo, progetti ed utopie con noi.
Come partecipare:
- Entra a far parte della squadra e contribuisci al processo:
- Co-Work a Superground. Potete utilizzare il nostro spazio di co-working temporaneo per lavorare sui vostri progetti.
- Condividi le tue idee. Ogni giorno pubblicheremo un obiettivo per il giorno successivo, tutti sono invitati a partecipare inviando il loro contributo via facebook, blog, twitter, flickr ….
- Proponi un laboratorio per l’azione pubblica.
- Vieni a cena al Superground e condividi i tuoi progetti con noi (dal 2 al 15)
Il compito di oggi:
Se non puoi passare da noi oggi (Lunedi) mandaci una tua foto con un cartello in cui dai la tua risposta alle seguenti domande riguardanti la MakerLab residency.
- Cosa vuoi fare?
- Cosa vuoi imparare?
MakerLab is supported by:
Goethe Institut Mailand (Cultural Partner)
Modulor (Material partner)
WeFab (Content partners)
Links:
Read what we are up to in our web / or facebook
Submit pictures to Flickr group
Talk to us on @makerlabmilan
CeBeta – Coworking at Europe’s Biggest Tech Fair
| March 21, 2012 | Posted by Pedro under CeBIT |
CeBIT is Europe’s biggest consumer technology fair. Over 5 days and across 26 halls, big-name businesses, middle players and startup companies showcase their products, drawing crowds in their hundreds of thousands. The annual expo, held in the Hannover Fair Grounds, usually attracts a certain attendee: buyers, distributors and company representatives, suited and corporate, come together to compete against one another, showcasing products that have been created in firms with closed-house policies. In essence, it represents the antithesis of the coworking movement, which is based on principles of collaboration, co-creation, and openness.
This is partly the reason why, this year, betahaus was invited to CeBIT to introduce the concept of working collaboratively to the corporate world. The space that was created was in every way different to the other stands populating the expo, and came into being with the help of dozens of individuals from different professional backgrounds. Together, we created an environment which reflected the betahaus philosophy.
JAY – core group, project coordinator/catalyst/facilitator: We went to CeBIT with the objective to bring our culture – the Spirit of Betahaus and Coworking communities in general – into the CeBit Global Conference. For those familiar with the conference this is no small task as the environment is somewhat formal, austere, tightly scheduled, organized and controlled. Coworking, by contrast, is distinctly informal, chaotic, and evolving. Ironically, in order to create an open space of engagement, we had to create our own walls, and build an environment where our participants felt at home.
MakerLab Milan 2012: Looking for Co-llaborators
| March 19, 2012 | Posted by Pedro under MakerLab Milan |
This is a Research through Action project, and we are inviting people from all backgrounds to come and research with us.
We are going to set our residency in Milan for a period of two weeks to be able to design a MakerLab within the local environment were we are going to intervene and would like to connect with local people that could be interested.
We are looking for people that:
- Like to empower others to design, self-organise, and collaborate;
- Are political about their work;
- Like to experiment,
- Like to share their findings Open Source;
- Consider them self Creative Activists;
- Like to do co-working, but can also function independently
- Are creative about resources;
- Combine traditional techniques and last technologies;
The Residency will be happening from the 1st -14th of April. And it will be followed by a Public Action which will be happening from 17th -24th of April.
If you are interested, write to us at open (at) makerlab (.) info
MakerLab Fusion 2011: Short Video
| March 16, 2012 | Posted by Pedro under MakerLab Fusion |
Julian Adenauer from Facade Printer have done this short video with some of the actions at last year Fusion intervention.
MakerLab Milan 2012: Introducing the project
| February 6, 2012 | Posted by Pedro under MakerLab Milan |
MakerPlatz: PREVIEW “ANIMATION AS DOCUMENTATION”
| December 22, 2011 | Posted by Pedro under MakerPlatz |
PREVIEW “ANIMATION AS DOCUMENTATION” from Mädchenzimmer on Vimeo.
Check out this Animated documentation from Mädchenzimmer about the MakerPlatz happening.
Makerplatz
| December 11, 2011 | Posted by Jay under MakerPlatz |
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There is a place in Berlin, where Moritzplatz used to be.
Makerplatz.
A hub for makers.
Here there are resources, marketplaces, and infrastructures for people who make things.
At Makerplatz you can find materials, both for sale, and for free (“waste”), you can find Laser Cutters, printers for any material including 3D models, you can find giant cameras, gardens, desks with internet for the Web creators, and physical tools for their offline cousins. Here you will find communities of all types, and builders of communities where the need is not yet met.
Here you can find spaces to make pretty much anything.
Photo Credit: Kay Strasser, Action Credit: Formulor, Letters are my Friends, Jay Cousins, Andy from Invented Here, and Thomas Gnahm
Photo Credit: Kay Strasser, Action Credit: Formulor, Letters are my Friends, Jay Cousins , Invented Here, and Thomas Gnahm