EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMS

University programs and Research Centers on the design of the future have already started to work on repair as a potential response to the problem of the environmental impact of waste, especially in the case of discarded electronics (e-waste).

Learning Repair

Design Futures Brisbane Hothouse, QCA
Australia, 2013

An intensive three-day workshop hosted by the of “Design Futures” Master program at Griffith University in Brisbane, to develop the foundations of a broader research project addressing issues of a repair culture of artifacts, through methods of informal learning. The workshop was held with design students, researchers, academics and design practitioners (architects, interior, industrial and urban designers. Colombia was chosen as an example of a society where a culture of repair still exists.
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