A supercentenarian sewing machine fitted with a wrong motor. A 5-axes milling machine that never hits its target. A welding machine for plastic pipes, too heavy in weight and energy consumption to use responsibly.
Join us on our mission to discover new uses for the forgotten, the obsolete, the overlooked, and the underappreciated machines in UdK’s Werkstätten. No matter the circumstances, we aim to never turn away a machine, getting to know their individual quirks, and do everything we can to bring out their potential suitable for their specific skillset.*

Our campus collision unfolds in three stages:
1. Giving a Machine up for adoption – we are currently identifying potential candidates across UdK’s workshops. Help us by reaching out to the technicians in your departments to suggest machines in need of a second chance.
2. Meet the Machines – we will do our best to match you with your perfect machine.
3. Adopt a Machine – you will work in groups with one machine over the course of three days to produce an artefact or a performance.

* We may have borrowed some wording from the Battersea Dogs & Cats Home website https://www.battersea.org.uk for the above description.