A floating future-lab for the “European Capital of Culture”
With our "FlowGarden" project in the backyard of the townhall of Hanover 2019, we were able to demonstrate the beauty of creativity, the power of collaboration and the sustainability of holistic learning spaces through participatory Float projects. As the city of...
Flow-Garden, das schwimmende Klassenzimmer
Schwimmende Gärten für erlebnisorientierte BildungsarbeitDer FlowGarden wurde aus 5 modularen Open-Island Modulen auf dem Maschteich am hannoverschen Rathaus zusammengesetzt und von Mai bis Oktober 2019 mit einem vielfältigen Programm genutzt. 20 Schulklassen...
Lake-of-Change, Bengaluru
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 as a participatory process and...
Open-Island Varanasi, part 2
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 the first attempt. So we used the limited time of our maker-camp to...
hexafloat-manual release
(English version below) Nach der rasanten Entwicklung, dem Bau und der Wasserung auf dem m4h-Lab in Ferropolis sowie der öffentlichen Präsentation auf der MakerFaire Berlin wurde heute der Bauplan für die HexaFloat Schwimmmodule der Open-Island 2.0 open-source...
Open-Island 2.0 is ready to float.
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 haben wir mit wechselnden MakerTeams an...
Open-Island Varanasi, part 1
The #makers4humanity join efforts in the ancient city Varanasi (Banares) at the holy Ganga River to build an “Impact-Kiosk” prototype. This creatively extended Rickshaw…
Impact Kiosk Varanasi
After realizing Open-Islands in India, Thailand and Germany, the emerging "makers4humanity" collective now focuses on the next step to raise the impact of their projects. With the upcoming "Impact-Kiosk" project in Varanasi, they combine the creative prototyping...
DesignSprint: Open-Island, Hamburg
Insula Communis part II
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 next stage of the...