The building instructions for these Lego machines are found on patient forums on YouTube. They are DIY devices made to cheat the phone’s pedometer and thus get around requirements from insurance companies for shared health data and activity goals.

Lego Pedometer Cheating Machines were first shown in Insurgency of Life (2019) at e-flux, New York, and have subsequently been exhibited in Sick architecture (2022), CIVA, Brussels; Swedish Acquisitions: Matches (2022), Moderna museet, Stockholm; and Flare-Up (2025), Accelerator, Stockholm. The work was acquired by Moderna museet, Stockholm, in 2021.

Further reading:

Dunér Axelsson, Tobias. ”Det plågade ljudet av robotar som lurar din sjukförsäkring”, Arbetet, March 10, 2025.

Kuan Wood, Brian. ”Insurgency of Life”, e-flux journal issue 109, May 2020

Lind, Maria. ”What Is Wrong with My Nose: From Gogol and Freud to Goldin+Senneby (via Haraway)”, e-flux journal issue 108, April 2020

Sparapani, Grace. ”’Sick Architecture’ and the Sickness of the Individual”, The Avery Review, Issue #58, October 2022.