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...
Insula Communis part 1
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 Makers, together with refugees and other village neighbors... It´s...
First Open-Island in Thailand
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 of scrap. Joy Lohmann remembered an Interview at...
Open-Island Berlin – the movie
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 platforms: the Open-Island Berlin! (also including an Open Bar, the...