Repairing The Community: UT Califas And Convivial Tools Of The Commons
In this essay, I take up the tension between an always-present infrastructure of repair and maintenance and the opportunities for autonomy present when commodities break by proposing we engage in Read More »
Against Innovation: Compromised Institutional Agency And Acts Of Custodianship
In this essay we reflect on the historic crisis of the university and the public library as two modern institutions tasked with providing universal access to knowledge and education. This crisis, Read More »
Repair Practices In A Virtual Smartphone Community: Fostering More Sustainable Usage Through
In recent decades, consumer culture has turned the mobile phone into a marketplace icon. Despite consumers’ fondness for the functionalities of these devices, mobile phones come at a considerable Read More »
The Organization Is A Repair Shop
This paper looks at organization from the perspective of broken world thinking (Jackson, 2014: 221). This means to appreciate the way organizational processes, structures and behaviours are subject Read More »
Food Repair: An Analysis Of The Tensions Between Preventing Waste And Assuring Safety
Research into food waste has shown that around one third of the food that is produced for human consumption ends up going to waste. The reasons for this are many but in reports and campaigns the role Read More »