Cookery 25: workshop (friendly price) 19/09→21/09
One seat for one of our 3-days workshops (19/09 - 21/09).
Reduced price for students, teachers, citizens of Molenbeek, unemployed, 65+, Fablab members.
Cookery 25: And what if we cooked with batteries?
Vendredi 19 septembre 2025 10:00⚡
Batteries have become a ubiquitous method of storing energy. From TV remotes to smartphones to now even electric cars, batteries of different types and sizes and chemical compositions power many of the devices we interact with. In the last few years, they have also become an essential part of the transition towards a sustainable future. But really, is a battery-powered society really sustainable?In this workshop, we will discuss alternatives to current energy models, while trying to make energy more tangible through playful exercises and DIY prototypes that will remind us what a Watt is. We will collectively explore the history of batteries, discuss their challenges and shortcomings, make our own batteries, and who knows, we might even cook with them!
Cookery 25: Fermenting the earth, Wiring the mud
Vendredi 19 septembre 2025 10:00🌱
Using microbial fuel cells, participants will create a living installation where the natural activity of bacteria generates electricity. Starting with hands-on experiments, we will learn together how to generate electricity from soil, share imaginaries, and form groups around collective ideas. As small groups, you'll be invited to create an experimental installation powered or triggered by mud, combining creativity with bio-energy. What would you dream of that is powered by the bacteria living in mud? The goal is to let the energy of the mud bring our collective garden to life. Don’t be shy, feel free to contribute with your own artistic practice. And if you don’t have one, that’s perfect too! You can join by helping the cells move things through microcontrollers, motors, and other playful experiments.
Cookery 25: Light cinema | Sound matter
Vendredi 19 septembre 2025 10:00🔦
This workshop goes back to the simple experiments that marked the beginnings of photography (camera obscura) and cinema (magic lantern). Participants will be invited to play with light and everyday objects (flashlights, LEDs, lenses, mirrors, or reflective surfaces) to invent their own cinematic setups. The approach is intentionally low-tech and resourceful, aiming to rediscover the playful curiosity and sense of wonder that shaped the early days of moving images.In parallel, following a similar approach, the workshop explores the physicality of sound as a living wave that resonates, travels, and transforms through matter. Using speakers, piezo mics, resonators and ordinary objects such as pipes, domes, shells, or metal sheets, or any items participants wish to bring, they will play with echo, resonance, vibration, filtering, and propagation in playful, tangible ways.
Cookery 25: Junk Jam
Vendredi 19 septembre 2025 10:00
RE-USING ELECTRONICS AND CRAFTING CIRCUITS TO A MUSICAL JUNK JAMIn this workshop, we will forage electronic components from e-waste. Opening up discarded electronic circuits to find and extract useful components. Those components will then be used in the construction of a distortion effect circuit with a contact microphone as the input source. For the circuit, we will use an etching process to make our own printed circuit boards that are customizable to some degree. We will then populate the boards with the electronic components we salvaged, and explore the sounds that they produce and the changes in sound by use of different electronic components.
