DIY Museum

Within the framework of the educational platform Museum Museum, the artist and maker Jens Evaldsson creates three different workshops at Moderna Museet in Stockholm in collaboration with the non-profit associations Makertjej, Stockholmsskolan, Stockholm Makerspace and Botkyrka Makerspace. During the 2000s a host of makerspaces have opened around the world. The term comes from American DIY (Do It Yourself) culture, which celebrates the sharing of resources and making things yourself rather than passively consuming. At a makerspace, makers meet to create together and share their inventions.

DIY Museum takes place while Moderna Museet shows the exhibition Reality Machines by Olafur Eliasson, and each workshop opens with an introduction by Jens Evaldsson to Eliasson's practice. As in the maker world, Eliasson's work carries a strong idea of participation, agency and hacking — in the sense that existing objects can be given a completely different use than originally intended. One example of this in Reality Machines is Olafur Eliasson's work Ventilator — a fan he turned into a mobile sculpture.

Workshops were held on various themes such as "Hacking and Modification – recycling, deconstruction and reconstruction", "Robots – the new friends arrive", and "Bio-Hacking – the integration of technology into our mental/physical body. Human+ and the upgrading of our abilities".