Mobile Repair Cultures: from informal repair to silent innovation, the smartphone case
January 2017 to December 2018
"Mobile Repair Cultures: from informal repair to silent innovation" is a research project that address maintenance and repair of mobile technologies. In the current debate around the obsolescence of digital technologies, the emergence of repair and maintenance places, such as informal shops, hackerspaces and repair cafés, shows the importance of improving the condition of such products.
This project is situated at the crossroads of ethnography and design. Its purpose is to empirically investigate the various forms of repair cultures happening in such places, by focusing more specifically on smartphones.
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