Eniarof N°30 & N°31
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Eniarof is a pop-up DIY fun faire concept by Antonin Fourneau. Recycled toys, cardboard, wooden pallets and other materials serve as inspiration for attractions, which are built in a workshop. / CC BY Niklas Roy & Kati Hyyppä

In San Jose (Costa Rica) Eniarof took place at Amon Solar, a cool venue for music and alternative cultural activities. Here we're starting the workshop week. / CC BY Niklas Roy & Kati Hyyppä

In Eniarof the participants usually form teams, which quickly develop an idea for a game or an attraction. / CC BY Niklas Roy & Kati Hyyppä

The ideas are usually prototyped with cardboard. Here is a small model of a fish game by one of the teams. / CC BY Niklas Roy & Kati Hyyppä

This is the final game, where a fish shoots balls towards a human, who has to eat them as a punishment for all the plastic trash dumped in the oceans. / CC BY Niklas Roy & Kati Hyyppä

Another team created a reaction and memory game with big buttons that are being made here. / CC BY Niklas Roy & Kati Hyyppä

The player has to press a button sequence corresponding to a sequence of red, yellow and green lights. / CC BY Niklas Roy & Kati Hyyppä

Here is the final game called 'Crazy hands'. / CC BY Niklas Roy & Kati Hyyppä

Here a game with a DIY dance mat and a ball dropping mechanism is being built. / CC BY Niklas Roy & Kati Hyyppä

The final game was called 'Dance, dance battleships'. / CC BY Niklas Roy & Kati Hyyppä

One team built an elaborate cardboard structure with PC ventilators that blow on ping pong balls. The player has to prevent the balls from flying out. / CC BY Niklas Roy & Kati Hyyppä

The final game was called 'Atomic race'. / CC BY Niklas Roy & Kati Hyyppä

Usually we also have a bit of time to make some attractions of our own. Here Antonin and Lawrence are preparing a DIY mini-golf, a theme that was explored more in the next Eniarof in Mexico. / CC BY Niklas Roy & Kati Hyyppä

Guillaume modified a bicycle so that it can control music speed. / CC BY Niklas Roy & Kati Hyyppä

Niklas also made a music-themed game called 'Jazz gig'. The player has to escape notes dropping on a screen by moving a character with piano keys. / CC BY Niklas Roy & Kati Hyyppä

I made a game with small leftover toys such as this baby camera. / CC BY Niklas Roy & Kati Hyyppä

The camera became a game controller with buttons. The different buttons have pictures of animals. / CC BY Niklas Roy & Kati Hyyppä

The game was called 'Magical foto safari' and the player has to press as fast as possible a button corresponding to an animal that lights up in the rainforest. / CC BY Niklas Roy & Kati Hyyppä

Lawrence on a foto safari! / CC BY Niklas Roy & Kati Hyyppä

We had quite a few guests at the opening, including visitors from the French and German embassies. Here Antonin is giving a speech. / CC BY Niklas Roy & Kati Hyyppä

Since we had some old toys and other materials left, they were given out in the end in an exciting Tombolarof-lottery. / CC BY Niklas Roy & Kati Hyyppä

After Costa Rica we travelled to Guadalajara, Mexico. There another Eniarof with new recycled materials started. / CC BY Niklas Roy & Kati Hyyppä

The plan was to build an experimental mini-golf field in the central space of the local French Alliance. / CC BY Niklas Roy & Kati Hyyppä

It was important to indicate for each track rules like in which way the ball should go. / CC BY Niklas Roy & Kati Hyyppä

In the beginning of the race there were some colourful, more static tracks with which people could warm up. / CC BY Niklas Roy & Kati Hyyppä

Each visitor group received a form for filling in their Eniagolf points. / CC BY Niklas Roy & Kati Hyyppä

One of the tracks was a fortune teller. It was made by a local artist Lucano. / CC BY Niklas Roy & Kati Hyyppä

Another track involved screaming loud in a volume meter. / CC BY Niklas Roy & Kati Hyyppä

This track by Antonin and Lawrence works with a mega-dice, which dictates where the ball should go. / CC BY Niklas Roy & Kati Hyyppä

We also had Eniawuf, an uncanny hacked toy dog, roaming around between the tracks. / CC BY Niklas Roy & Kati Hyyppä

In Guillaume's 'Golf wobbler' the ball travels along a long LED-stripe. / CC BY Niklas Roy & Kati Hyyppä

Niklas made a two-storey track called 'Beam me up!' that contains a vacuum cleaner powered space elevator. / CC BY Niklas Roy & Kati Hyyppä

This track by one of the teams had a spinning mechanism in the middle, made of an old record player. There was also remote controlled car for moving the ball. / CC BY Niklas Roy & Kati Hyyppä

Im made a micro-golf track with an old German map from the local Goethe-Zentrum. The player has to travel from Guadalajara to Munich while avoiding hazardous obstacles on the Autobahn. In the middle there is a traffic jam where cards driven by a hidden magnet swirl unpredictably around. / CC BY Niklas Roy & Kati Hyyppä

'Zero waste' track was put together from the remaining trash, but I'm afraid that in the end Eniagolf was not entirely zero waste... There were also few more cool tracks, but unfortunately I do't have a good photo of them. / CC BY Niklas Roy & Kati Hyyppä

In the opening we also had lovely silk screen printing program and it was possible to get a cool Eniarof T-shirt. / CC BY Niklas Roy & Kati Hyyppä

Not sure who took this Eniarof family photo, but it turned out pretty good!