The "right to repair" is supported in Austria, where you can get up to €200 to fix your computer, bike, phone or fridge
Fixing factories, remakeries, share-and-repairs… there’s a surging appetite to mend the broken devices in our lives - with new organisations to help us
4TH SECTOR, ENVIRONMENTALISTS, INDIVIDUAL, INGENUITY, LOCALISM, NEW ECONOMICS, REGEN ECONOMIES, TECHNOLOGYpat kanerepair, maintenance, makerspace, makers
“Fixers” know and see different things than “designers” or “users”. Shannon Mattern on the growing centrality of maintenance
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From the "Just Two Things" newsletter: the Chinese streets pioneer tiny electric cars, and we need a universal "right to repair"
The French are going to put "repairability" scores on consumer goods, in the fight against planned obsolescence. Should we do so here?
We deify "the innovators", but the pandemic has forced us to give equal respect to "the maintainers"