We all use technology, but we should also understand it.

A project by Niki Göransson and Julia Peintner 

We made a machine for Worth pop-up shop, that produced manuals on how to build your own DIY machine, working as a starting point for other non-engineers who have the creative interest of mechanics, but not the confidence. These manuals were being sold at the shop, next to the demonstration of the drawing machine. 

This project was based on producing something to sell at the pop-up shop. We wanted early on to work with mechanical engineering, and to learn more about how modern technology works. Finally we decided that we wanted to make a working printer or machine that enables a person to interact with it to produce something. Having no previous experience in mechanical engineering, we plunged into the idea and went with it. Accepting the challenges and being aware of the technical obstacles that we would encounter, we let the technology and the obstacles lead us through the project. 

Even though the aim for the pop-up shop was to bring in money, and even though we were expected to work commercially, we didn't respect these aims. We looked at the project as a starting point for how we want to work in the future.