Providence Wifi Router Box

Consumer technology often reinforces a disconnect between users and makers, leaving people unaware of how their devices function and feeling incapable of repairing, altering, or critiquing them. By incorporating traditional craft techniques into Wi-Fi router design, I aim to reconnect technology with a more holistic design framework—one that acknowledges its materiality and role in everyday life. Inspired by practices such as birch bark box making and greenwoodworking, these cases offer an alternative to the typical concealment of technology, embracing visible, tactile, and repairable forms—objects users could build themselves.