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 …

A new wave of grassroots organisations are emerging that provide space for people to
actively experiment with, modify, make and fix products in'community workshops', like …

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 …

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 …

Electronic and textile waste are challenging municipalities across the world (Degenstein et
al., 2021). Approaches to reducing these forms of waste include designing products that last …

Repair in the context of the circular economy. The growth in sales of household electrical
and electronic equipment in recent years, combined with faster product obsolescence, has …

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 …

This short report is a summary of the findings of research undertaken by Professor Martin
Charter and Scott Keiller of The Centre for Sustainable Design. Interim data were previously …

Repair practices are driven not only by consumers' internal motivation, but also by external
infrastructural, social including cultural, financial, and political factors. We explore these …

In the circular economy discourse it is stressed that products ought to be repairable and that
repair work is assumed to be growing. However, repair can be organised and performed in …