Situated Knowledges: Machines converts a technology workshop into an ethnography of human-machine relations by asking residents not what machines produce but what kinds of relationships they establish with them. The zine’s iconic move is to treat lathes, waterjets, CNC routers, printers, sewing machines, computers and even office furniture as actors that reorganise attention, imagination, skill, fear and bodily comportment. Haraway, Latour and more-than-human ethnography form the theoretical horizon, but the publication operates through short situated testimonies rather than abstract argument. Its methodological force lies in juxtaposition: affection, intimidation, frustration, software barriers, tacit skill, scaling and technological memory appear as empirical differences between practitioners. Machines are neither neutral tools nor autonomous agents; they become partners, constraints and interfaces through which practice is redistributed. The broader intellectual bridge is to STS, posthumanism and design research: technological capacity matters not only because it expands what can be fabricated, but because it changes what practitioners can imagine and how they understand their own agency.
URBANISM MEETS ART