Together with landscape planners, engineers, eco-activists and cultural-creative folks from Bangalore/India and all over, we together focus on urban water bodies within our upcoming “Lake-of-Change” MakerCamp. „Lake of change“ starts […]
Transforming a riksha to an Impact-Kiosk As the River Ganges in Varanasi is the most holy water-body throughout India, we @makers4humanity were not allowed to float an upcycled island on […]
Jetzt geht´s los: die ersten “HexaFloat”-Prototypen (modulare Inselteile) von Open-Island 2.0 werden zu Pfingsten beim makers4humanity-Lab 2018 in Ferropolis gewassert. 🙂 (sorry, this post is in German only :-/) Viele Jahre […]
Let´s prototype a floating autarkic habitat. Let´s build an “Insula Communis”, an Open-Island! On a flooded opencast brown coal mine in the remote center of Germany. Together with 50 interdisciplinary […]
After having developed and tested our DIY-upcycling-island construction kit in different environments and implementations, it´s now time to spread the word and disseminate the knowledge of building floating islands out […]
After presenting the Open-Island construction kit at the MakerFest in Ahmedabad/India in January and developing 7 thematic float modules with this system in Berlin later this year, we now got […]
7 days construction time, 7 days action aboard: Open-Island Ahmedabad was built for the MakerFest India 2015 on Sabarmati River, Ahmedabad. Together with students of the National Institute for Design (NID), Anshul, […]
Noch können wir keine Details veröffentlichen, aber soviel steht fest: OPEN-ISLAND kommt 2015 nach Berlin! Die Open-Source Schwimm-Insel aus Recyclingmaterial soll in einer Reihe Workshops mit verschiedenen Partnern in Berlin […]
Sometimes it is an hazardous game to send out media informations and you never know, what journalists/bloggers will write. Even more if it is a complex project like our Open-Island, packed […]
