JASON EXPLORING BeNeLux MAKERSPACES
Jason, exploring BeNeLux A new explorer start his journey in 2024, supported by VULCA Jason, Belgium maker located in Brussels, wants to explore makerspaces, fablabs and hackerspaces all over the BeNeLux. Let’s learn more about him and his coming tour We met Jason during a maker event organised by RFFLabs in Paris. It was in OctoberMake 2023. The month after, Jason took his ticket to join Vulca Seminar in Ljubljana (Slovenia). Quickly, Jason started to open the discussion with us to see how he could contribute to Vulca in his part of Europe. Jason want to better understand the maker movement in BeNeLux, so naturally, we proposed him to join our team of makerspaces explorers In 2024, Jason will be exploring every months new makerspaces, Fablabs and Hackerspaces starting with BeNeLux over weekends. Located in Brussels, Jason will mostly travel using public transports such as train, bus. Vulca team group picture Jason, tell us more about you I come from a family whose mantra is : “You own what you have in your hands and in your head; the rest, people can take it away from you.” I very much embrace this belief that know-how and knowledge are our only possessions in life, proof is, these are the only things we actually take to the grave. Since I am 12, I have been dreaming of an open workspace on the district main square where everyone can bring their stuff and repair it together with the others. I believe in a world where everyone has access to everything and when I discovered fablabs, I figured that the open workspace + digital fabrication is the future I was dreaming of so I’m fully in. I believe in a world where human & relationships come first, so I’m now visiting fablabs across the BeNeLux to weave relationships and build this network and this community at the heart of Europe. Also I’m meeting maker/fablab communities as much as I can from across the world from Japan, India, Rwanda, Kenya, Tanzania, Europe, … Jason participating on an Escape game made by Navid and Leon I am a Belgian engineer curious about everything, hyperactive and dreaming of a world where everyone is free to be curious, to be creative and to exercise their critical mind. I value intellectuals who make and makers who think, so you can find me or get me hooked talking about philosophy or hammering & welding things together. I love board games, learning languages, discovering new perspectives and imagining better futures. When I’m not visiting labs, I work as a freelancer in Product & Strategy for MedTech & Digital Health companies and I am building a company in prevention in orthodontics, Breeze Medical Jason & Aleksandra – Vulca Seminar Slovenia My journey in fablabs I did the FabAcademy in 2021 in Brussels and started meeting the Fablab Network community. I did it with the objective of building a digital microscope that could be locally manufactured in Africa to diagnose among other things, malaria. I ended up making a foldable 3D scanner but learned a ton of things on the way thanks to Quentin Bolsée. Nevertheless, at the end of 2021, it was time to continue the microscopy project and I left for Tanzania where I printed my first African digital microscopes with my good friend Valerian Sanga (member of GOSH) Then I went to Rwanda where I kept visiting Medical labs with Maurice and fablabs where I met Dany, Olivier, Héritier, Lambert, Frédéric and many others from FabLab Rwanda. Back in Brussels, I started visiting the different labs of Brussels. Then in 2023, I went to Bhutan for the FAB23 where I met Constance, Rico, Matthieu, Haflidy, Hafey, Nanditha and so many others and continued with visiting some Indian labs. After that, Constance invited me to participate to OctoberMake in Paris where I met even more incredibly cool french makers including Alexandre who invited me to the Vulca Seminar in Ljubljana where I met again some of the folks that I knew from the Fab Network and plenty of yet new places. After all of this, and having a great match with the Explorer approach of Vulca I joined as Explorer. Jason, introduced to Vulca community during the seminar I am also looking at businesses that run through digital fabrication and embrace free software & open source movement such as Mekanika or Ugani Prosthetics. Here with Joren from Ugani Jason, exploring BeNeLux In 2024, Jason plan to visit over weekends fablabs, makerspaces and hackerspaces in Belgium, The Netherlands and Luxembourg. If you want to welcome our explorer in your city in 2024 and better connect you with the European Maker movement, please contact us.
Welcome REMI
Welcome REMI 🚐 A new explorer start his journey, supported by VULCA and RFFLabs With his grey van, Remi prepare his EUROPEAN VULCA TOUR of Fablab, Makerspaces and Hackerspaces. He started in France in 2021 with the help of the French Fablab Network (RFFLabs). Today, in 2022, his wheels are warm enough to drive in neighboring countries. REMI MAUVOISIN The new VULCA EXPLORER on WHEELS ! Remi tell us a bit more about himself « My name is Rémi and I was born in the mid-80s. I grew up in the south west of France with my brother where our parents taught us the art of making, sharing and curiosity. After building tiny houses, repairing motorbike and hacking computers in my village, I discovered the city while studying in Bordeaux to become a technology teacher. Indeed, I wanted to continue hacking, tinkering, recycling while sharing this with others and the educatio system was perfect for it. For 15 years, I’ve been doing school projects, concerts in Parisian venues, helping my friends building their houses, playing alternatively basketball and football, reading a lot about low-tech philosophy and piles of wood cut in winter to keep me and my family warm. I decided to turn towards other horizons, while keeping this desire to share my experiences and my skills, by being more interested in the new ways of doing things FabLabs and makerspaces. So here I am, on the road to meet people and their projects, in order to create a link between all these initiatives, before embarking on this adventure myself! » Remi preparing his next VULCA TOUR His first tour out of his native country will be during +3 weeks in North of Spain. (You can see the road map below). For Remi, touring in Europe is a wonderful way to learn new language, meet other culture and understand the different model of open-workshop, before to get back to his family village, in the south ouest of France and start also his Open-Workshop including a space for makers in residency. As Alex.R is currently doing with Mountain Makers. REMI’s FIRST TOUR IN SOUTH OF FRANCE AND NORTH OF SPAIN If you are in his road, contact Remi. He can probably make a stop in your city or village. ALEXANDRE ROUSSELET Just a few words about our FIRST VULCA explorer. Even if he started hitchhiking or by bus/train/plane with Nicolas between 2015 and 2016, he quickly decided to buy his own van. Indeed, the van allows the VULCA EXPLORERS to go to every village or rural area, such as FabFarm in Algarve (south of Portugal) or Pralnia MakerSpace in Sokolowsko (Poland) or visiting Tzoumaker, in Kalentzi (Greece). Alex has driven for +150 000 Km in 36 Countries, visiting +400 makers communities, which make VULCA one of the most connected NGOs to the Europeans Makers movement so far. Now Remi and Alex will work and explore Europe together. Each of them will make their own roadmap. They will also participate and represent VULCA in as many as possible European Makers Events, promoting Makers Mobility and the concept of Residency for Makers that should be more common in European Makerspace and Labs. For the maker movement, each VULCA TOUR is a chance to be connected to each other with the help of an explorer that make the link. Indeed, our makerspaces explorers allow better connection for those that need to be more linked in order to learn, make and share together. As an exemple, Constance Garnier was personally connected to 13 European Fablabs to finish her research in 2019. Or also, Buinho was connected to Fablab Cuenca for a EU project that they got in 2021. Or Navid Lari, a Belgium Makers from Open Fab found his residency in Fablab Vagur (Feroe Island) in 2022. Navid Lari, The picture below wouldn’t exist if our explorers wouldn’t be on the road meeting Fablabs and makers to match-make them. Navid, a Belgium Maker in Residency in Fablab Vagur (Feroe Island) Remi and Alexandre, Are on the wheels and ready to drive until your Fablab, Makerspace, Hackerspace or Open-Workshop. They would be also pleased to take part to your conference, seminar or hackathon and share with you and your audience, what they have seen in hundreds spaces in Europe. The best way to meet them ? Contact us here
Media Library
We have in stock about 100 videos and thousands of picture of visit from our +350 M_Hackerspaces visit.
Every week we’ll add some of them in our library !
Open Door Manzat Experimenta
OPEN DOOR – MANZAT EXPERIMENTA MANZAT – FRANCE 3rd to 9th August 2020 REGISTRATION IS CLOSED (but you can contact us for the next open door) Vulca Experimenta methodology includes one week immersion in the town of our Proof Of Concept partners. We know how much is important to see on spot the community and their dynamic to really understand it remotely. So we offer an unique experience to those who want to visit a Makerspace project which starts by including residency for M-Hackers from the beginning. The first open door week will be organized in Manzat (Fr) and we invite our network to join the future Makerspace including 6 residencies for m_hackers between the 3rd and 9th August 2020. (The next open door will be in 2021 in Casa Branca – Portugal) 1 week immersion in Manzat to experience in real condition REGISTRATION IS CLOSED (but you can contact us for the next open door) Weekly planning overview MorningS Working group & Workshops, we will discuss and share experience with each other. AfternoonS Depending our skills and knowledge we will work on renovation. Take your gloves and dirty clothes. EveningS Sightseeing in the region. Make sure to bring your swimsuit, tuba and sun glasses REGISTRATION IS CLOSED Computer Aided Design We will need to 3D model differents things. We plan to provide a couple of 3D printers on spot ! Your CAD skills will be helpful Renovation Laying a concrete slab, dealing with pipeline and electricity, cutting wood and metal … you should find something to put your strength on it here Communication & Translation We want to write and translate the project into several languages (to make it easier for anyone to understand). Having multilingual community on spot is an opportunity we don’t want to miss Meeting and sharing Importantly, we want this week to be a unique opportunity for local citizens and international M_Hackers to meet and share experience. REGISTRATION IS CLOSED Meet the local community This is the local community that start to grow and see here a representative panel of them Brice Lucile Axel Amandine Flo’ Christel Angel Valentine Corentin Michel Alex Emma Yves Marjorie Everyone new comers arriving anytime during the week will have a dedicated time with a local volunteer to visit the village, the future Makerspace & residencies + the room to stay. Meet international M_Hackers They already booked their week to come to Manzat and learn more about this local project supported by Vulca Experimenta Nicolas (Be) Aleksandra (Sr/Hr) Julien (Be) Rasmus (Dk) Emilie (Fr) Bartek (Pl) Marta & Franek (Pl) Delia and Micka (Esp) Alex (Fr) Stephane (Breton 🤘🏼) Paco (Esp) Joanna & Marcin (Pl) REGISTRATION IS CLOSED (but you can contact us for the next open door) Frequently asked questions How many days should I stay? You can stay from 1 to 7 days. As you wish we will welcome you in Manzat. Just make sure to arrive between 3rd and 9th August How much should I pay? Accomodation: We can host up to 20 people for free. Transport: You should pay your own travel expense (Since you arrive in Clermont-Ferrand, we will take care of you to bring you to Manzat for free). Meal: It will be a participative budget for financing meal for everyone. 2 to 3 times during the week we will all together go to the local market or buy food to local farmers. Then we will cook together. How to arrive in Manzat? Travel Manzat is located 30 min far from the city of Clermont-Ferrand (the biggest city of this region). Manage to reach this city and we will catch you up there Paris or Lyon have good connections have both good connection to Clermont-Ferrand. There are several ways to reach Clermont-Ferrand then even by bus, train or sharing cars. This plateform is a good start for you (Don’t hesitate to contact Alexandre Rousselet to help you)https://www.blablacar.fr/ What should I bring with me? You will be invited to help on renovation, so it would be great if you come with your own glows and dirty clothes. Also we will do some work office ! Don’t forget to take your laptop ! We will enjoy the countryside (lakes, rivers, forest, farms …) Please, take some good shoes, your swimsuit and sunglasses. MANZAT & AROUND TO SEE Chain of volcanoes that you can visit or even swim in their lakes, crossing giant viaducts on a sharing bike or explore the tons of small old Bridge from roman empire, enjoy all the Rivers and the national parc of the « Chaîne des Puys ». Don’t forget to visit the famous Michelin Museom or Vulcania ! Précédent Suivant MANZAT & French Specialities Cheese, Baguette, Snails, Wine ( … ) The French gastronomy is known all over the world for its quality and diversity. It is the fruit of a secular heritage and is also constantly evolving thanks to its professionals who continue to revisit their classics to always surprise and satisfy us. IIn Manzat, we will visit local productors, cheese farm and eat their daily product during the week To reach Manzat The main city is « Clermont-Ferrand – Auvergne ». Target this city and we will pick you up ! Otherwise the place is :14 rue des Ecoles 63410 ManzatAuvergne, France Contact: Alexandre Rousselet – Alex@vulca.eu REGISTRATION IS CLOSED (but you can contact us for the next open door)
Makers Mobility Pilot Project
What is a Pilot Project A pilot project is an actual implementation of the working system with real people, but on a limited scale. European Union with Erasmus or Creative Europe formed exchange program to encourage the mobility of citizens in Europe, but at this stage, the makers movement can only make it by hand, in small quantities. Some of the makerspaces are interested, but we need more makerspace-use to iron out the kinks, and justify the scaling-up of maker mobility programs in Europe. Vulca want europe to try and test the makers mobility in Europe since 2015. Also, we ask them to make a research on such a topic to see if it make sense to create a specific program of mobility dedicated for Makers and and hackers VULCA’s STRATEGY In order to reach the attention of European insitutions to take into consideration the Makers Mobility topic as potential key point for a new EU program we worked between 2015 and 2020 on #VulcaTour It allowed us to identified hundred existing makers mobility from the field. #VulcaSeminar It allowed us to bring hundred makers, hackers, policy makers and researchers to meet and discuss about Makers Mobility #VulcaResearchers It allowed us to better understand the maker movement and help us to be connected with other researchers papers. #VulcaPolicyMakers It allowed us to bring to MEPs all contents from the field for a presentation in front of the EC in October 2018. A bottum up approach In between 2015 and 2020 we made a bottom up lobbying for bringing this citizen idea to Policy Makers.While we were linking the makers and hackers movement around the concept of having a M_Hackers Movement exchange program we figured out the European Union with the DG Joint Research Center was also trying to better understand the Makers movement and wrote 2 main reports A FIRST STEP TOWARDS MAKERS MOBILITY PILOT PROJECT Creativity has had a crucial impact on today’s interconnected world. Co-creation and open sources have transformed today’s innovation and production processes. Innovation must be allowed through bottom-up processes. Are part of that all open creative hubs, hackerspace, maker-spaces, fab labs, biolabs, where volunteers, freelancers, makers, hackers, creative co-workers involve. The proliferation of Makerspace and similar structures have proven how these new models of co-creation have not only had an impact on production processes, but on society at large scale and the well being of people. High rates of youth unemployment in some European countries and regions have led to high popularity of such “3rd spaces”, which also have an important role to play in terms of social inclusion and integration. The crossovers between the cultural, creative and other sectors are of crucial importance. They are a mechanism of combining knowledge and skills specific to the cultural and creative sector together with those of other sectors in order to generate innovative and intelligent solutions for today’s societal challenges. The maker movement, and fablabs are at the center of these developments and are rapidly developing, but their development has not been paralleled by full interconnection between the centres concerned. Following 2 reports from the European Commission REPORT 1 Overview of the Maker Movement in the European Union DG JRC European Commission 2017 REPORT 2 Future of Work: Perspective from the Maker Movement DG JRC European Comission 2018 Vulca’s main objectives At the moment, Vulca’s main objective is to understand the impact of makers & hackers on mobility throughout Europe.To demonstrate this impact, we have inspired a research project about makers & hackers and their mobility via several networks, including Fab Labs, Biolabs, Makerspaces, Hackerspace, open fabfarms… the pilot project will focuses on the following areas: Mapping of existing and proposed initiatives Involvement of existing European networks A small-scale mobility scheme testing Assessing existing programs covering makers mobility Inclusion and skills development Policy Recommendations concerning a European Framework To know more RESULT The European Commission has signed a grant agreement with the following Consortium: know more European Creative Hubs Network (ECHN) (Coordinator) The ECHN is a peer-led network with a mission to enhance the creative, economic and social impact of hubs. know more Associação de Transferência de Tecnologia da Asprela (UPTEC) (Member) The UPDTEC supports the creation and development of business projects in the arts, sciences and technologies, through sharing knowledge between the university and the market know more Institut d’Arquitectura Avançada de Catalunya (IAAC) (Member), The IAAC aims to shape the future of cities, architecture & technology. know more Digital Art International (ART2M) (Member). The ART2M is a digital arts & creative tech agency The duration of the project shall be 18 months and will start in March 2020 PRESENTATION MAKERS MOBILITY PILOT PROJECT We invited the selected organisation to come to the Vulca Seminar 2020 to present the proposal of their consortium. Come in Zadar for the next Vulca Seminar and grab the chance to meet European Creative Hubs Network to know more about their ambition and discuscuss directly with them. More to know soon