Repair culture is the growing mindset of choosing to fix what’s broken instead of immediately replacing it. It challenges a habit that has become almost automatic in modern life: when something stops working, we discard it. A new phone, a new appliance, a new chair, a new everything. Repair culture asks a quieter question: What […]
Repair Café - Fixing Together, Worldwide
Repair Café is a global initiative that promotes the culture of repair. Join us in fixing things together and contribute to a more sustainable future.
Caring for the Chips: Repair and Reuse as Permacomputing – Michelle Kaczmarek
Balancing “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” vs. “Release early and often”
Every organization faces a war between two schools of thought, with “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it” on one side and “release early and often” on the other. This blog post looks for a way for enterprise consumers to embrace fast-paced changes in the software industry.
Repair Wars: Cory Doctorow on the State of Right to Repair - Make:
They’ve stacked the decks against servicing your own purchases; The community is now resisting — and winning.
Culture x Capital: The end of forgetting
Comprehensive life logging, federated recall, and the promise (and peril) of remembering everything.
How I stopped worrying and learned to love the easy fix
On the balance between perfect solutions and pragmatic fixes in software engineering
Opinion | Let’s Get Excited About Maintenance! (Published 2017)
Innovation is overrated. When it comes to technology, we need to celebrate upkeep.
Technological parables and iconic illustrations: American technocracy and the rhetoric of the technological fix
This paper traces the role of American technocrats in popularizing the notion later dubbed the ‘technological fix’. Channeled by their long-term ‘chief’, Howard Scott, their claim was that technolo...
Louis Rossmann
Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology
A witty, often terrifying that chronicles our transform…
Home - Right to Repair Europe
We believe products should last longer and be easy to repair. We are asking for the right to repair in Europe. Join the movement!
How Open Protocols Are a Key Part of Regenerative Technology - Identity Woman
TLDR Infographic: What does it actually take for digital technology to be regenerative? The question matters because most of the digital tools being adopted right now in bioregional movements, community organizing, regenerative finance, and the broader systemic-change ecosystem are being chosen without anyone asking it carefully. The slide decks are beautiful. The intentions are sincere. […]
About — Every Object an Archive
We interview people about their experiences with technological objects that were once everywhere, but are now being replaced or redesigned. We are interested in the physical experience of living with these objects, their handfeel and relationships to our bodies. We are also interested in how they shaped our habits, relationships, and ways of being. Technologies are more than physical objects: whole worlds of infrastructure, process, policy and culture are built around them.
Sustainability is not enough: we need regenerative cultures
By Daniel C. Wahl
