"We not only repair our devices, but also our relationship with them" : repair-led designing at the restart parties in Barcelona
Callén Moreu, Blanca (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)
Duque, Melisa (Monash University. Department of Design)

Imprint:	Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, cop. 2023
Description:	24 pàg.
Abstract:	E-waste is the fastest growing type of waste. In parallel, waste management and growth oriented narratives towards circular economies are increasing. However, informal responses resisting these dominating logics working to avoid e-waste are also proliferating. An example of the latter is The Restart Parties (RP), free public events where volunteers and participants repair their own appliances. To achieve large-scale validation, repair initiatives like the RP are pushed into demonstrating quantitative outcomes (e. g. no. of repaired appliances, Kg of avoided e-waste and Co2), often overlooking broader cultural values and achievements. Here we draw from design ethnographic fieldwork (2021) with the RP Barcelona, and share six analytical spheres (ecological, economic, design, epistemic, socio-communal, and wellbeing) to unpack qualitative expressions of repair-led designing and design-led repairing. In doing so we contribute to the generative intersection between brokenness, repair and design in advancing counter narratives with practical, political, theoretical and affective implications.
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Language:	Anglès
Document:	Capítol de llibre ; recerca ; Versió acceptada per publicar
Subject:	Repair ; Sustainable design ; E-waste ; Rrevaluing ; Reuse ; Care ; Co-design ; Design Ethnography
Published in:	Design/Repair : Place, Practice & Community, p. 91-120, ISBN 978-3-031-46861-2

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-46862-9_5

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