During this February I had the opportunity to participate in the Digital Ethnography Summer School organized by the professor Sarah Pink (also part of the d-future project) and other scholars from the Digital Ethnography Research Center of the RMIT, in Melbourne, Australia. I made an intense journey of ethnographical field work with a team of […]
It was Friday morning in the Akelarre Hostel, Bilbao. We were having breakfast waiting for the beginning of the Bilbao Maker Fair 2016. As the fair would start later in the afternoon, there was few of us at the hostel this morning. Yet, we were sitting at the table with another man (who turned out […]
To try and answer the questions resulting from our initial ethnographic experience, let’s first look at the practices of DIY biologists themselves, the typical workshops that occur in their spaces and, most importantly, the workshop we ourselves participated in. The tool we built is the spectrophotometer – an essential instrument for a biology lab, whose […]
