“I realized that basically the way that cities are being developed is a little broken.” — Thomas Ugo Ermacora, founder, Clear Village Recoded City examines alternative urban design, planning and architecture for the other 90%: namely the practice of participatory placemaking, a burgeoning practice that co-author Thomas Ermacora terms ‘recoding’. In […] more »
We had a busy time last Saturday with 30 makers hacking the idea of what a wheelchair can be. #HackOnWheels is the brainchild of our Maker in Residence Rachael Wallach and the make-athon brought together wheelchair users, designers, engineers, and makers to design, develop and test the first open source […] more »
Last night Machines Room was packed with people talking Hardware. CRL, London’s newest Hardware Accelerator, held an evening inviting applications to their second cohort of hardware startups. There was a really interesting discussion chaired by Mat Hunter with Alex Peet, CRL’s ex-Dyson Workshop Manager, and Matt Webb, ex Berg mentor […] more »
Craig Dunlop (//machinesroom.org/members/CraigDunlop) and Peter A. Smith (//machinesroom.org/members/PeterASmith) have spent the last month experimenting in Machines Room as part of their Maker Library One Month Residencies. Craig is Maker Librarian in WorkSpace, Cape Town, South Africa and has spent his time learning digital fabrication techniques, building a plastic shredder, renovating an old […] more »
Good to Nature, Good to People, Good to Business: A Holistic Blue Economy is the Answer This unique introductory workshop is a roadmap for sustainable business based on the Blue Economy principles and made for everyone interested in saving the world: Students, Entrepreneurs, Start-Ups, Universities, NGOs. It is the first […] more »
Last week we welcomed 6 new resident makers into the Maker Library. 4 professional makers join us for six months; Ross Atkin, Helen Steer, Phoenix Perry & Rachael Wallach. Craig Dunlop has come all the way from Cape Town where he is Maker Librarian and director of WorkSpace maker space and starts […] more »
Last week we hosted a day long workshop on Open Source Circular Economy led by Erica Purvis – people from a wide range of disciplines came together to develop practical ways of integrating the circular economy model into community spaces. Very useful for us as a makerspace which is on […] more »
Beyond the Pages: Recoded City Date: 9 June 2016 Time: 6:30PM Location: Machines Room, 45, Vyner Street, Hackney, London, E2 9DQSpeakers: Thomas Ermacora (Chair), editor of Recoded City: Co-Creating Urban Futures Lucy Bullivant, editor of Recoded City: Co-Creating Urban Futures Clementine Blakemore, WORKSHOP architecture Alastair Parvin, WikiHouse Petra Havelska and Igor Marko, Marko & PlacemakersBeyond the […] more »
OPEN CALL: Free Professional Development Programme for London-based creatives LONDON CREATIVE NETWORK is a new development programme for creative practitioners in London, run by SPACE, with Cockpit Arts, Four Corners and Photofusion. Cockpit Arts will support designer-makers through a rolling programme to develop new processes, products and services, underpinned by business skills and leading to a more sustainable practice. […] more »