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 […]
The day after… …the splash Festival in Ferropolis/Central Germany, 2016. We collected all the useful trash from only a little part of the campgrounds and were well equipped for the […]
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 […]
7 floating islands on the River Spree in Berlin. Made out of trash by passionate Makers. Showcasing innovative low-tech DIY-applications for > energy > shelter > food production on floating […]
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 […]
A befriended StreetArtist told me: „If you want to globalize something, go through Berlin with some crazy shit!“ After demonstrating the Open-Source and DIY-Recycling-island „Open-Island“ in Ahmedabad/India earlier this year, […]
