In the past few years, policymakers, funders and academics have shown an increasing
interest in discussing the potentials of Repair Cafes to contribute towards sustainability …

Extending the useful life of consumer products is a critical element in the circular economy.
Although commercial repair is an established part of the global economy, the repair is often …

Sustainability initiatives, such as Repair Cafes, are sites of niche innovations with the
potential to contribute to an urban sustainability transition. Using the multi-level perspective …

Repair cafés are community-centred repair workshops, where volunteer fixers help
members of the public to repair and therefore extend the lives of items that might otherwise …

Repair initiatives have attracted increasing attention as a potential source for addressing a
variety of sustainability challenges. Less evident are social scientific analysis about people …

In 2014 The Centre for Sustainable Design (CfSD) at the University for the Creative Arts
(UCA) in Farnham in the UK undertook the first global survey of volunteers at Repair Cafés …

The repair industry, consumer expenditure on repair and the number of repair businesses
have been steadily decreasing in many European countries over the last 20–40 years. Our …

Citizen-led repair initiatives that collectively create urban commons, questioning the
configuration of production, consumption, and discarding within neoliberal capitalism, have …

For some years now, a part of the population in Europe has been willing to moderate its
consumption and to enter into a sustainable waste reduction perspective. Repair is an …

Several authors have described contemporary purchasing and consumption behavior as
part of a “throwaway society.” Broader movements around environmental and consumer …