French version: Accueil en résidence

The biohackerspace Kaouenn Noz is glad to offer you residency with free accommodation and no lease payment.

This offer is for :

• Bioartists
• Amateur biologists
• DIY Bio enthusiasts
• Biohackers
• Investigators (in the sense described in Exposing The Invisible)
• Researchers who recognize themselves in our approach
• Authors of Science Fiction
• Artists working on the themes of environment, life/living things, biology, fundamental rights,
• Artists working on criticism of science and technology
• People who contribute to public wikis under free license

We work for a good & pleasant welcome and access to the biohackerspace ~ 1 to 2 weeks per person, all year long. Regarding food, we try to draw a nice and affordable framework to any purse by talking together, with you.

Located in the city of Rennes, at 1 Square Léon Bourgeois (see map), in a green treed park

20 minutes walk, 5 minutes by bus, from the train station.

It is a 80 m² apartment located on the 2nd of 3 floors, close to the city center with many shops and amenities around (supermarket, pharmacy, bakery, craftsperson, doctors, etc.)

Your 11 m² bedroom has a window- not overlooked, and has a desk and 2 storage spaces (closet and small chest of drawers), electrical outlets.

The 80 m² apartment has 2 bedrooms, 1 lab (which can also be used as a spare bedroom), a living room / dining room, a fully equipped kitchen, toilet, bathroom. Big fridge, table in the living room, coffee table, table in the kitchen, work plan in the kitchen.

Parquet living room and bedrooms, tiles for kitchen and bathroom. Double glazing, quiet.

Dual aspect apartment, south/south-east and north/north-west facing.

Free high-speed wifi access.

Collective Bikes storage and a small individual garage if needed.

There are two main workspaces :

• The lab that is located in the apartment (~15 m² ) :
  • Wide angle desk
  • Computing
  • Microbiology
  • Micro-computing
  • Sofa
  • Wifi
    
• The furnished basement cellar :
  • Several lab benches
  • Electricity
  • Biology
  • Computing
  • Microbiology
  • etc.

The biohackerspace is open to everyone the 1st and 3rd Thursdays of every month (please see How to get to the biohackerspace)

The other rooms of the apartment can sometimes be used as workplaces as well. However we'd rather chill and rest in the common rooms than impose work “all the time, everywhere”.