“The Repair Workshops will bring together technically minded and creative people to explore innovative, hands-on ways to repair, re-purpose and re-imagine broken objects,” says project co-director Leyla Acaroglu, head of Eco Innovators. “It’s about thinking beyond our throwaway society, and coming up with inspiring re-inventions that challenge our ideas of value and waste. It’s also about having a lot of creative fun!”
“We want to spark public interest in how notions of ‘repair’ might help tackle some of the urgent environmental issues we face today,” says co-director Emma Grace, founder of sustainable fashion initiative The Treasury. “It was once common practice to repair old, worn or broken goods, but this is being lost in today’s throwaway culture.” The dire consequences show up in increasing levels of waste, resource loss and pollution1.
1 “Today’s consumption is undermining the environmental resource base. It is exacerbating inequalities. And the dynamics of the consumption-poverty-inequality-environment nexus are accelerating”- UN Human Development Report 1998: http://hdr.undp.org/reports/global/1998/en/pdf/hdr_1998_overview.pdf
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