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Overview

  • 8 references 7 Confirmed & Positive
  • Fluent in French; learning English
  • 47, Male
  • Member since 2008
  • Maker and Fabmanager @Openfab brussels
  • No education listed
  • From Bruxelles
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About Me

CURRENT MISSION

Learning a lot, and level up myself

ABOUT ME

Ok, i'm from a family of 3 brothers and 3 sisters.
I start my learning path from Agronomic Science to Landscape Architecture and then became Infographist.
But i was feeling hungry of knowledge of all kind and i wanted to leave a little more my computer :)
So I start learning Aikido, Tai chi then Shiatsu and in summer 2010, i followed a permaculture course and BAM, I realized about how i don't know nothing and how I still need to learn.
Creating a space like a fablab is my way to answer to this need to learn and explore.
Beside all that, i'm a calm person, very curious about the nature of things.

PHILOSOPHY

Take care of the earth,
Take care of the people,
And Share.

And if I had to choose a religion, it could be the Kopimism. (A "Kopimist" or "Kopimist intellectual" is a person who has the philosophical belief that all information should be freely distributed and unrestricted. #wikipedia)

Why I’m on Couchsurfing

HOW I PARTICIPATE IN COUCHSURFING

I shared my couch a few time now but I couldn't anymore. I would like to move from my place and maybe find another space to do more of this hosting.
Always a good contact, all nice people :)
And today, I'm more in to traveling part through a project called Vulca (Vulca.eu)

COUCHSURFING EXPERIENCE

Very good

Interests

Well, I see myself as an explorer more than anything else, I had and still have the chance to do what I want and what I feel right. I love sci-fi, space… the last frontier and shit, I love the simplicity of our complex nature… but today, what is left to explore? Except if you have a shitload of money, I mean.
I think there is still very much to explore in humans capabilities, what we forgot about us and the small sparke of curiosity we, for most of us, have buried under a thick layer of adulthood.

  • environment
  • technology
  • cycling
  • science
  • sustainability
  • fablab
  • entrepeneurship
  • gamification

Teach, Learn, Share

Actually, I'm working to develop my fablab and the communty.
I want to share my tools, my humble knowledge of things and learn from others to make things and maybe a better place to live.
Using technology to understand and create accordingly with my environment. It's a way for me to connect with nature.

Countries I’ve Visited

Australia, Austria, Cabo Verde, France, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Switzerland, Thailand, United Kingdom

Countries I’ve Lived In

Belgium

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