{"id":1137,"date":"2014-10-06T00:01:21","date_gmt":"2014-10-05T16:01:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.www.innovationiseverywhere.com\/?p=1137"},"modified":"2014-10-06T00:01:21","modified_gmt":"2014-10-05T16:01:21","slug":"night-la-paillasse-europes-largest-biohacking-open-science-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/innovationiseverywhere.com\/fr\/night-la-paillasse-europes-largest-biohacking-open-science-space\/","title":{"rendered":"A night at La Paillasse, Europe's largest biohacking and open science space"},"content":{"rendered":"

Coming to Paris, I attended La Paillasse<\/a> inauguration night<\/strong>, organised as part of the Nuit Blanche, a yearly event mixing culture, arts and party, when many museums, labs and other creative places open their doors for a full night of demos, exhibitions and music.<\/p>\n

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La Paillasse is Europe\u2019s largest biohackerspace<\/strong>, although it has recently gone beyond just open biotech (also known as DIY bio), launching a series of labs<\/strong> and projects which all breed from the extremely interdisciplinary environment the team managed to create in a bit more than two years.<\/p>\n

The place perfectly embodies what open science<\/a><\/strong> is. More than just opening scientific culture, experiments and material to anyone willing to try something, the concept is claimed by a growing number of hacker and makerspaces around the world (see this US\/Canada tour of biohackerspaces by Aur\u00e9lien Daily and Quitterie Largeteau<\/a>, two members of La Paillasse). It mixes the best of the open-source philosophy in a field, science, reputed for its high barriers to entry, as well as the way scientific publications are run and valued.<\/p>\n