Sharing & Repairing

The Edinburgh Remakery

UK

With funding from Zero Waste Scotland, the Edinburgh Remakery works to create jobs, reduce waste, and limit people’s dependence on the consumer economy. They do so by fixing textiles, computers, mobile phones and furniture at low cost; by offering courses where people can learn to fix things themselves; and by cheaply selling and sometimes donating refurbished computers, furniture and more. They’re currently trying to create more Remakeries throughout the UK. To learn more, visit the Remakery’s website.

Photo courtesy by Edinburgh Remakery

http://www.edinburghremakery.org.uk/

The Restart Project

UK

The Restart Project is an electronics repair group based in London that focuses on putting people back in charge of their own interactions with technology. By organizing skill-building workshops and providing a do-it-yourself Restart Party Kit for people to organize their own repair-centric gatherings, the Restart Project both creates the social spaces necessary to counteract the alienating influence of digital technology, and resists the corporate-driven message that ‘new’ is always better. Learn more at therestartproject.org.

Photo by Fairphone (CC BY-NC 2.0)

https://therestartproject.org/