“Adaptive Manufacturing” is a collaborative project by Sander Wassink and Olivier van Herpt which began in 2014. An essential part of their concept is to highlight the production process. Adaptive Manufacturing explores the question of how technological production has replaced the craftsman and thus removed all traces of human and local influence.

Sander Wassink (b. 1984, The Netherlands) is an artist and designer. Since 2009, his studio has been based in Sectie-C in Eindhoven, a creative workspace for a community of artists and designers. Wassink’s work focuses on the meaning of the creative process, rather than the actual design of products. In contrast, Olivier van Herpt (b. 1989, The Netherlands) pry apart the machine, expanding this unit for standardised production into a platform for creative exploration. Tinkering with digital fabrication technologies, the industrial design graduate of the Design Academy Eindhoven constructs methods and means of production that meld together seemingly divergent worlds.