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Making Waves sets up Radioboxes in France and around the world. This simple mobile radio helps everyone get his or her voice and ideas heard. Some projects span over several years. They are sometimes followed by media education workshops, radio creation workshops, meetings with journalists and radio professionals, and can lead to the production of podcast series, documentaries or audio dramas.

OUR TOOL : THE RADIOBOX

Radiobox is a simple, user-friendly, battery-operated, mobile radio for any user… to broadcast audio programs via streaming or FM, anywhere, under any circumstances.

ANYWHERE ANYONE NEEDS IT…

Radiobox is the brainchild of several collaborators from Radio France, designers from the École Nationale Supérieure de Création Industrielle and freelance sound engineers. It was designed to offer a space to communicate and share, to provide access to information, education and culture to people in dire circumstances, to minorities or outcasts, anywhere it is needed: in conflict zones, humanitarian crises, community centers, shelters for teenagers or refugee camps.

IN A FEW EASY STEPS : MAKING RADIO !

The Radiobox is the size of an A4 sheet of paper and weighs 6 pounds. Anyone can put it together and store it away in a few easy steps without any technical knowledge. There are only a few buttons at the top and at four outlets at the back for microphones, one for music, two for the headphones and two others for the loudspeakers. By connecting a Radiobox to your phone or laptop, you can broadcast or record on various apps such as Facebook, Twitch, WhatsApp or Telegram. You can broadcast on FM if you connect it to a radio transmitter.

  • EASY
    #Convenient

    Radioboxes have only a few control buttons and simple outputs.

  • ACCESSIBLE
    #Intuitif

    Anyone can use Radioboxes to make their radio stations without any technical skills, thanks to its intuitive setup, color coding and pictograms.

  • PORTABLE
    #Light

    The Radiobox is 8.6 in. x 11.8 in. and weighs 6 pounds. It is battery operated and fits in a backpack, along with its wires, microphones, loudspeakers and headphones.

  • STURDY
    #Resistant

    With its steel case, extremely robust materials, hand-welded components, the Radiobox is a highly resistant studio recording system that is shock/weather-proof.

MAKING POP-UP RADIO STATIONS

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Made for anyone and everyone, especially those who are in the most delicate, difficult situations, Radioboxes can be used anywhere a radio station can play a social, therapeutic, educational, cultural or pacifying role.

Creating a radio station is an opportunity for men, women, groups or communities facing social exclusion or a crisis to take part in a dynamic, innovative project that brings people together. Radio programs are a place to meet, interact, have constructive, peaceful discussions, and they encourage everyone to listen and share knowledge and skills. It spurs collective endeavors, promotes people’s skills and autonomy. Because it is a fun, social activity, it fosters effective, unusual methods of learning and sharing. In forging ties where they are possibly lacking, radio is a healing, empowering tool to solve conflicts.

Easy to use, a Radiobox is a tool for people to make their own radio station, their own programs, and their own podcasts. Without any technical hassle.

Making Waves helps people create their own radio station from beginning to end. We offer various workshops, tailored to the specific audiences and the projects they wish to carry out: how to speak into a microphone or write radio segments, how to moderate an interview or a debate, how to relay a podcast or build a radio schedule.

We want to ensure the continued existence of the Radioboxes we set up as a means for marginalized communities to be heard, for any group to come up with and build programs with their own words, experience and ideas, so that Radioboxes may make their own way in the world, be passed around so that people can meet, bond and be heard, for as long as possible.

The Radiobox project is the brainchild of Alexandre Plank, Mathieu Touren, Anthony Capelli, Roland Cahen, Xavier Hatot, Denis Cajazeux with the students of the École Nationale Supérieure de Création Industrielle.
Anthony Capelli created the current model for the Radiobox and Mathieu Touren designed it. Radioboxes are made by Anthony Capelli, Julian Fincham and Robert Kieffer in Bristol (UK) and Noisy-le-Sec (Paris region). Roadioboxes are made by Anthony Capelli, Julian Fincham and Robert Kieffer in Bristol (UK) and Noisy-le-Sec (Paris region).

SOME OF OUR PROJECTS

CHAD / THE RED CROSS
Setting up emergency studios with the Red Cross
Two Radioboxes have been installed in Chad by the Red Cross. They can be used to inform isolated populations in emergency or vulnerable situations, when the telephone and Internet networks are cut off.
PAKISTAN / UNESCO
Radioboxes installation in Pakistan with UNESCO
Two Radioboxes were built by Making Waves to be sent to Pakistan. They will enable journalists on the spot to continue their work and inform the inhabitants of the flooded regions.
UKRAINE / UNESCO
Radioboxes installation in Ukraine with UNESCO
Twelve Radioboxes and four FM transmitters were built by Making Waves and sent to various Ukrainian cities. They will be used to replace radio studios destroyed by the Russian army and to set up emergency radio stations in war-affected towns.
MOROCCO - LEBANON / IF
Radioboxes set up with the French Institute for civil society
Four Radioboxes have been acquired by the French Institutes in Morocco and Lebanon. These will be used in various cities and made available to journalists, schools, libraries and NGOs.
GUYANE / BSF
Installation of four Radioboxes in the Guyana forest
In 2023, four Radioboxes were installed in French Guiana with the NGO Bibliothèques Sans Frontières: in Camopi, Saint-Georges-de-l'Oyapock and Régina.
TADAM !
A Radiobox installed at the Ivry-sur-Seine emergency shelter
Tadam! is a radio practice and creation project conducted with newcomer children at the CHUM in Ivry-sur-Seine. This emergency shelter, which includes a school, is a pilot project involving the Paris and Créteil academies.
AL MAWJET
A travelling Radiobox in Tunisia
Radio Al Mawjet is an itinerant cultural radio imagined and created by the French Institute of Tunisia and animated by high school students from the 26 governorates of the country.
AFRICA THROUGH TALES
A Côte d'Ivoire project co-constructed with the AFD and the Livres pour tous association.
L'Afrique en conte is a program working to install, in Ivorian libraries and schools, Radioboxes for teachers, librarians and students.
THE BLUE BOX
A Radiobox for children at the Dutot Hospital
The Blue Box is a project initiated with the Dutot psychotherapeutic center, a day hospital for children from 4 to 16 years old with severe psychopathological disorders.
ROUGH RADIO
A radio station run by homeless people and created by the NGO La Cloche
In Paris, Nantes, Bordeaux and Marseille, four Radioboxes have been installed with the NGO La Cloche. So that homeless or exiled people can create Rough Radio and produce their own podcasts and programs.
A LOVELY SUMMER
A Radiobox in La Courneuve
Since 2020, a Radiobox has been circulating every summer among the buildings, parks, and apartments of the 'Cité des 4000', made available to residents so that they can meet, as they wish, around microphones and produce their own programs.
LA RADIO DES SAJE
A webradio created with the educational day-care center in the 20th arrondissement of Paris
The Educational Day Care Service of the 20th arrondissement of Paris welcomes children from 5 to 13 years old. They are admitted at the request of the Child Welfare Office when the question arises as to whether they should remain in a family that can no longer guarantee a framework of authority and education.

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