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 »
07/10/2019
• #Community Relations
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 »
07/19/2019
• #Education and Training
Repair practices in a virtual smartphone community: Fostering more sustainable usage through branding
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 »
07/10/2019
• #ESG
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 »
07/10/2019
• #Business Practices
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 »
07/10/2019
• #Environmental Impact
Repair’s diverse transformative geographies: Lessons from a repair community in Stuttgart
While repair appears antiquated in the 'disposable era' (Packard, 2011 [1960]: 55) – implying return and retrospection – its sympathizers celebrate repair's queering of capitalist growth
Read More »
07/10/2019
• #Social Impact
Repair Matters - ephemera: theory & politics in organization
This special issue of ephemera aims to investigate contemporary practices of repair as an emergent focus of recent organizing at the intersection of politics, ecology and economy (e.g. Bialski et
Read More »
07/10/2019
• #Political Initiative
ONLINE ENGAGEMENT IN THE AUTOMATED AND COLLABORATIVE GAMIFICATION TRENDS
The online engagement is one of the biggest challenges in the context of digitalization. Consumers, clients, and networks are looking for their services and applications for solving their problem in
Read More »
12/2016
• #Marketing Messaging