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.
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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.
Opening up the necessary spaces
The Radiobox was born of a meeting between Radio France collaborators, designers from the École Nationale Supérieure de Création Industrielle and sound engineers. It was created with the aim of providing spaces for dialogue and expression, as well as access to information, education and culture, to populations in difficulty, excluded or under-represented, wherever necessary: in conflict zones or in the heart of a humanitarian crisis, in a social center, a teenager’s home or a refugee camp.
In just a few steps, you can make radio!
The Radiobox is the size of an A4 sheet and weighs 1.2 kilos. It can be assembled and disassembled in a few simple steps, and can be used without the slightest technical knowledge. Just a few buttons on the front panel, and connections for microphones, music, headphones and speakers on the back. Connected to a telephone or computer, the Radiobox lets you broadcast or record via applications such as Facebook, WhatsApp or Telegram. Connected to a transmitter, it can be used for FM .
RADIO FOR EVERYONE
The Radiobox is so easy to use, everyone can create their own radio station, programs and podcasts. Without any technical hassle. Made in France at our Noisy-le-Sec facility, it is designed to make the creation and sharing of audio content accessible to all.
Radioboxes have only a few control buttons and simple outputs.
Anyone can use Radioboxes to make their radio stations without any technical skills, thanks to its intuitive setup, color coding and pictograms.
The Radiobox measures 22 x 30 cm and weighs 1.2 kilos. It is battery operated and fits in a backpack, along with its wires, microphones, loudspeakers and headphones.
With its steel case, extremely robust materials, hand-welded components, the Radiobox is a highly resistant studio recording system that is shock/weather-proof.
OUR RADIOBOXES AROUND THE WORLD
To date, over 90 Radioboxes have been installed worldwide. In emergency shelters, schools, hospitals, local missions, cultural structures, in France, Guinea, Chad, Lebanon, Morocco and Ukraine. They can be used for a variety of purposes, depending on the project and our partners.
A social, therapeutic, educational and cultural role
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 ephemeral but sustainable radio stations
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.
Assisting the birth of these radios
Making Waves helps people create their own radio station from beginning to end. By offering workshops tailored to different audiences and the projects they wish to carry out: learning how to express themselves at the microphone, how to conduct an interview, how to lead a debate or how to design an on-air schedule. Our intention is to make the Radioboxes we install sustainable. So that they become relays and megaphones, and so that they offer a group the possibility of inventing and structuring programs made with their words, their experiences and their ideas. And so that the Radiobox, without us, can continue on its way: may it be passed from hand to hand to enable, for as long as possible, encounters to take place and individuals to be heard.
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