MANIFESTO
- LEARNING, MAKING AND INNOVATION
Forms of REPAIR can motivate learning and drive research. It can enhance innovation in our material thinking.
- CREATIVITY, IMAGINATION, AND DISCOVERY
REPAIR is an enabler of imagination and a tool to ushers’ creativity.
- BUILDING ACTIVISM
REPAIR can generate activism on social, political and environmental topics.
- EXPANDING LIFE
REPAIR gives the opportunity for extended or second life.
- DEVELOPING A COMMUNITY
REPAIR is able to promote economic and cultural vitality and the rebuilding of craft.
- THINKING ABOUT OUR ENVIRONMENT
REPAIR is about finding alternatives to waste problem and reduce the energy demand.
- RETHINKING ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGN
REPAIR allows and forces us to see things differently, to design our products and environment so that they can be repaired.
- DEVELOPING A NEW MINDSET
REPAIR adds potential and value so that beauty can be found in all things.
- CREATING ALTERNATIVES
REPAIR can create an alternative to consumption, the force to discard and buy new.
- VALUING HERITAGE
REPAIR allows us to see value in the layers built upon time.