Repairing this cassette deck still fits into one bench session
Clean, lubricate, replace belts, adjust azimuth: the work can be fiddly, but the maintenance path remains legible and local.
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IRZ Craft archive, page 10.
This Thai naval foundry treats daylight as a production constraint
In a 2,300 m² foundry, daylight, ventilation, steel and assembly space are designed around the same constraints as furnaces and machinery.
In Mtwara, 110 homes put architecture to a three-year health test
In Tanzania, 110 houses turned airflow, screening, cooking, water and sleeping height into testable hypotheses about children's health.
Prusa launches a new generation without asking owners to discard the old one
The XL+, CORE One L+ and CORE One+ Gen 2 add new hardware, while Prusa is also preparing upgrade paths for people who already own the previous machines.
In Hannover, the machines wait for an audience before the show begins
A flower made from car hoods only spits fire when enough people gather. A five-metre metal bird also asks visitors to act. The machine becomes social.
A 2 mm sheet of aluminium answers one question: what day is it?
Ben Ferrick’s Day Display solves a tiny problem with a 2 mm sheet of milled and bent aluminium. At Stupid Engineering, the manufacturing constraint is the product language.
Parametric furniture has to learn the weaver’s language
Priyanka Narula’s studio uses digital tools to explore complex geometries, then adapts them to the material systems and hand processes of Indian wicker craft.
Lewis Prosser replaces the weight of power with woven willow
For Civic Ceremonial, Lewis Prosser applies basketry and heritage metalwork to the objects of public power. The symbols remain recognizable, but their material changes the authority they project.
Lucy Sparrow sewed a supermarket of 20,000 felt products
The Beginning of Convenience rebuilds an American 1980s and 1990s supermarket with more than 20,000 handmade felt objects.
Jennifer Latour grafts flowers with the same skills she used to build movie monsters
Bound Species is not a photomontage. Jennifer Latour pierces, joins and balances real stems using skills learned in special-effects makeup, then photographs the temporary species before they wilt.