"We not only repair our devices, but also our relationship with them"
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...
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| Tipo de recurso: | capítulo de libro |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2023 |
| País: | España |
| Institución: | Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona |
| Repositorio: | Dipòsit Digital de Documents de la UAB |
| Idioma: | inglés |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ddd.uab.cat:324221 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://ddd.uab.cat/record/324221 https://dx.doi.org/urn:doi:10.1007/978-3-031-46862-9_5 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Repair Sustainable design E-waste Rrevaluing Reuse Care Co-design Design Ethnography |
| Sumario: | 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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