The self-assembly structure is one in a series from the WikiHouse open-source platform, which allows users to design, download and share templates that can then be printed using a CNC-mill or 3D printer.

The pieces then slot together without the need for bolts or screws.

If you fancy having a go and building this structure yourself, you can find the template here.

Hacked Lab program of workshops, talks and performances took place at La Rinascente from 17 to 22 April and included daily workshops and performances. See our earlier story about it here, or click here to watch our interview with curator Beatrice Galilee in our Wednesday TV show.

We also previously featured a set of open-source spectacle frames, which were made using the wooden offcuts of another WikiHouse project. See them here.

00:/ worked up the concept for WikiHouse at their offices in Shoreditch, where they were based for seven years before recently moving to a central London location.

Designed in Hackney is a Dezeen initiative to showcase world-class architecture and design created in the borough, which is one of the five host boroughs for the London 2012 Olympic Games as well as being home to Dezeen’s offices. We’ll publish buildings, interiors and objects that have been designed in Hackney each day until the games this summer.

More information and details of how to get involved can be found at www.designedinhackney.com.

Movie is by Alice Masters.

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Groups were each given a pack of electrical components and taught how to assemble and solder them together.

Once complete, each Lumiphone emits a variety of buzzing sounds that can be used for impromptu performances.

In other workshops, groups were shown how to build a sensor that responds to the needs of thirsty plants.

Hacked Lab took place at La Rinascente department store in Milan from 17 to 22 April. Click here to see all our stories about the events hosted there.

Technology Will Save Us manufacture all the kits for their workshops from their studio on Mare Street, Hackney.

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Designed in Hackney is a Dezeen initiative to showcase world-class architecture and design created in the borough, which is one of the five host boroughs for the London 2012 Olympic Games as well as being home to Dezeen’s offices. We’ll publish buildings, interiors and objects that have been designed in Hackney each day until the games this summer.

More information and details of how to get involved can be found at www.designedinhackney.com.

Movie is by Alice Masters.

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Wilcox constructed his clay model using just his hands, while the 3D printer, named Deep Pink, was a MakerBot operated by Italian organisation WeFab.

After 90 minutes, journalist and referee Joseph Grima declared Wilcox as the winner, although a rematch is scheduled to take place tomorrow evening at the V&A museum in London.

Hacked Lab took place at La Rinascente department store in Milan from 17 to 22 April. See our earlier story about it here, or click here to watch our interview with curator Beatrice Galilee in our Wednesday TV show.

Back in London, Dominic Wilcox has his studio on Wells Street in Hackney. See all our stories about him on Dezeen here.

Designed in Hackney map:

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Key:

Blue = designers
Red = architects
Yellow = brands

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Designed in Hackney is a Dezeen initiative to showcase world-class architecture and design created in the borough, which is one of the five host boroughs for the London 2012 Olympic Games as well as being home to Dezeen’s offices. We’ll publish buildings, interiors and objects that have been designed in Hackney each day until the games this summer.

More information and details of how to get involved can be found at www.designedinhackney.com.

Movie is by Alice Masters.

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Milan 2012: this week visitors to La Rinascente department store in Milan have been trading souvenirs from the moon, making plastic from plants and learning how to download a house, courtesy of Hacked Lab curated by Beatrice Galilee.

Architects Carmody Groarke have installed metal mesh cylinders to hack the colonnaded facade of the department store facing the Duomo cathedral, while the Hacked Lab performances, installations and workshops take place in the basement inside an expandable truck-shaped stage by EXYZT.

Promising "100 hours of rebellious imagination," the program for the next few days includes food performances by Honey & Bunny and Caroline Hobkinson, low-tech alternatives to high-tech manufacturing by Something & Son and designer Dominic Wilcox in competition with a 3D-printing machine to build a model of the Duomo.

See the full program here.

Watch an interview with curator Beatrice Galilee that we filmed at the exhibition in today's daily TV show from Dezeen Studio powered by Jambox at MOST.

The Salone Internazionale del Mobile takes place from 17 to 22 April. See all our stories about Milan 2012 here.

Here's some more information from Galilee:

la Rinascente welcomes rebellious imagination

'Hacked’, 100 hours of rebellious creativity, will be rampaging and rollicking its way through Rinascente during Milan Design Week. Hacking - the thrill of modification and customization – will be celebrated here in bombastic style.

To celebrate the world’s original design festival, Salone del Mobile, la Rinascente’s flagship store proudly presents ‘Hacked’. Over the course of 100 hours the store will be radically altered – inside and out – as it becomes an interactive experimental lab space.

By collaborating with the most exciting young talents in design, la Rinascente invites everyone to ‘Come, explore and hack’.

Following a contemporary concept of appropriation, alteration and transformation which goes through art, design, web and technology, “Hacked” is an experimental programme curated by Beatrice Galilee which includes live activities, events, installations, performances and workshops.

Amongst the site-specific works by artists, architects and designers is a vast hack of la Rinascente’s colonnaded facade by Carmody Groarke and a flexible, expandable 'Hacked Lab' stage driven to Milan from Paris by EXYZT. The Hacked Lab programmeis intended to provide a platform for young designers whose work exists outside of conventional exhibition object parameters and crosses various disciplines.

The events range from scientific workshops on how to make your own Large Hadron Collider to performances, downloadable buildings and astronauts selling moon dust.

A programme of fleeting, yet arresting design events will take place at least three times a day, offering visitors interactive, visceral, playful, futuristic, scientific, choreographic, and informative, but always designed, experiences.

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