Source: Make: DIY Projects and Ideas for Makers
Maker Faire Paris is setting up for its 5th year at Europe’s largest science museum, the Cité des Sciences et de l’Industrie (Museum of Science and Industry), whose fantastical facade is pictured below. For three days, November 23, 24 & 25, this future focused space highlights the importance of the maker movement in reinventing and experimenting with new approaches to de- and re-industrialization in ways that are more responsible, sustainable, and focused on the personal development of individuals.
With Maker Faire Paris as its showcase event, France’s growing maker movement – and its growing number of makerspaces, fablabs, and workshops – is more connected than ever. As production team member Bertrand Baudry notes,
Maker Faire Paris is France’s gathering of Makers, people who experiment, invent, hack and repair in their everyday life, be it in FabLabs, makerspaces, hackerspaces, recycling centers, at school or from their garage… While not all of them claim to change the world, they remind us that we can be proud of what we do with our own hands while contributing to the well-being of everyone. If you want to change the world all you need to do is to “re-Make” it, and anyone – even without technical knowledge – can come up with innovate ideas and draw on the skills of the Makers’ community to realize them. The “open source” values – free access to information for all – on which this approach relies extend to the real world through peer learning and know-how sharing.
The nearly 250 Maker exhibits, a 1000 square meter boite noire (dark room), 20 presentations, and 75 workshops are spread across some 8,000 meters of exhibition space and will be organized into five zones that are as much conceptual as practical: Sound Makers / Drones; 3D printing / Electronics / Robotics); Repair School / Kids / Food / Green; Upcycling / Circular Economy / Arts; Gaming / Cosplay / (more) Arts / Design / Fashion. Like many Maker Faires around the world, the the event’s producers and its title sponsor, Leroy Merlin, put a strong focus on education by organizing a Friday program geared to the 7,000 students scheduled to attend and offers 100+ hands-on workshops throughout the weekend. Make:’s own Caleb Kraft will be on-site during the Faire live-blogging to share the sights and sounds with you throughout the weekend.
World traveler and übermaker Eunny toured last year’s show, giving an idea of what to expect (inside):
Here’s a quick peek at some of the fantastic Makers + Workshops that will be showing & telling their projects this weekend.
Ateliers Jonck
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