Do-it-yourself movement is gaining ground. All over the world grow up workshops where young and old come together to invent and manufacture. DN has visited Stockholm Maker Space, where julpysslar, fixes and explore together.
At the Stockholm Maker Space writes 3d-print adjusters out cookie cutters. A robot in miniature diamantgraverar baubles and further into the large basement spreads the aroma of mulled wine and gingerbread.
It’s a few days before Christmas, but the 50-60 people who found their way here dedicated not only to the usual Christmas crafts. Here is the workshop day and year round.
- More and more people live small. With us you can spread out, says Andreas Lundqvist, Chairman of the Stockholm Maker Space and everyday engineer.
Andreas Lundqvist was co-founded the non-profit organization, which was formed through crowdfunding in 2012, and has seen it grow to today’s more than 450 members.
Maker Movement is a creation and do’s contemporary cousin of seventies punk movement. It is multi-faceted and blurred in outline, and just that is something that attracts many. Within the maker movement explores everything from physician to upper secondary students along the border between technology, art and crafts. Everything is based on open source and open hardware, and anyone who wants to can participate and share their knowledge.
- Some have stopped believing in the consumer society and will to mend old things or build new ones. Others come here because they simply want to explore different types of creation. Or to just hang out. The love of performance is what unites us, says Andreas Lundqvist.
Workspaces in the premises are many. Here are soldering irons and oscilloscope, metal lathe and milling machine, hand tools and overlock machines. Most of it is inherited from private individuals or companies, other purchased or built by members – not least of 3D printers. Materials takes with himself, but many leave residues that others can use. Each value what material is worth stopping money in a jar.
Adjacent to the cutting table in the textile hub, which currently looks more like an electronics workshop, is a Segway is made here. In other places, I see drones, radio-controlled aircraft, a smyckesask in curly birch, a candlestick in concrete and a number of 3D printed fittings.
It’s probably no coincidence that electronics corner is the person best equipped. Many of tonight’s visitors are technicians. But among the members are, for example, bakers, social workers, economists, architects and industrial designers.
Johanna Pihl is studying textile crafts at the Friends:
- I bought memberships to both me and my guy if we could do something together. He was more technically minded than I but now I have become aware of portable technology and fiber optics in fabric and sits on the board of Stockholm Maker Space.
At a table in the workshop meeting room sits Harriet Aurell and distributes the do-it-yourself kits. They become lambs whose eyes light up when you pet them. She is a trained luthier but are nowadays mostly to a studio collective in Liljeholmen.
- I have been a maker since 1981 and has waited a long time in a place like this. Now I’m courses in electronics, she says, handing over some material to Anders Lundgren, who works in the IT department at Skanska and will go home and get involved with their children.
Maybe you should see the maker movement’s emergence as a natural consequence of the times we live in. All the mass production Långtbortistan have alienated us from manufacturing and that in itself has created a new kind of desire to understand how things are constructed and to build them ourselves together with others. Open source solutions, 3D printers and other digital development has in just a few years made it much easier.
How fast digital developments are, and much it affects us, I get a clear example of when Andreas Lundqvist says:
- People like to learn to understand how things are made. They not only want to download an app or buy a finished product.
So would have expressed himself ten years ago.
While some see the combination of digitization and automation as a threat, speaks maker movement on digitization and manualised ring that hope.
Today Although Stockholm Maker Space difficult to make ends meet. But in the US takes maker movement very seriously, says Andreas Lundqvist. President Barack Obama belongs to those who see great potential in the energetic maker identity.
This summer, let Barack Obama exhibition event “Maker Faire” take place in the White House. In his 15-minute inaugural address he spoke of the new digital technology makes it easier and cheaper to manufacture things, and how digital technology and the maker movement contribute to the democratization of manufacturing processes. And actually makes manufacturing in the United States enabled again.
Production is currently facing an equally great revolution as that internet was facing 25-30 years ago, claiming Obama in his speech:
“Today’s do-it-yourself is tomorrow’s ‘Made in America’.”
Also in Sweden is the outsider who sees potential in the maker movement’s transnational ways of working. On the Swedish Institute’s Department of Intercultural Dialogue has begun a preliminary study on the maker movement. When the Swedish Institute in Paris in the autumn exhibited the more craft-based part of the exhibition “Fashion 2000-2015″, which originally appeared on Sven-Harry’s art gallery, attached to a series of workshops entitled “In The Making zone.”
Rotslöjdaren Gunnel Eriksson, gourd painter Anne Hjärp and textile designer Elin Ivre shared their expertise during one workshop. And while the French audience gourd decorated their shoes, ribbons baskets of birch root and knotted macrame was also linked bond between artisans and audience and between Sweden and France.
- The Swedish Institute has the task of creating networks and disseminating knowledge. Our job is to create an image of Sweden and it is included to illustrate important issues. As for craftsmanship, says project manager Jenny Bergström.
Asa Bjering manager for children and youth at the Swedish Institute, in the autumn conducted a pilot project in Serbia. The CRC turns 25 and “Children husband” had a focus on child rights issues.
In Serbia, the maker movement is not so developed yet. Asa Bjering put myself together a group of artists, programmers and 10-12 year old kids who got together to plan and create around the theme “Children’s right to culture.”
- With the simple software programs available today, the children learned to program in a few hours.
- Already after a few workshops, the group had created from interactive video games to a mat that plays music while dancing on it.
That as well Maker Movement create together is an alternative to traditional seminars where an audience listens to experts, says Åsa Bjering.
- I am doing as a method of learning and maker movement’s way of working as a global, shared opportunity. It is clear that there are interesting for Sweden to be involved in its development. Making is a way of thinking.
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