Over three hundred volunteers from Repair Cafés around the world attended the fifth international Repair Café webinar on Friday 25 April. It was the most popular webinar to date. The event lasted two hours and was recorded in its entirety. You can watch it on YouTube. Below you can read about the topics that were discussed.
Introduction by Martine Postma and Martin Charter
Martine Postma (Repair Café International) and Martin Charter (Centre for Sustainable Design, UK) opened the webinar. Martine talked about developments that Repair Café International has noticed, such as growing interest in repair from public authorities and more projects to promote repair and reuse of products.
Repair Café International sees opportunities for repair activities in places such as shopping centres.
First hour on textile repair
The first hour focused on textile repair, with presentations by Sandy Black (Centre for Sustainable Fashion, UK), Suzie Fromer (Repair Café Hudson Valley, US) and Beth Quinton (University for the Creative Arts, UK).
Suzie Fromer talked about textile repair in the 67 Repair Cafés in the Hudson Valley in New York State, USA.
Second hour on research
The second hour was devoted to research on and around Repair Cafés. Martine Postma gave a short introduction. This was followed by presentations by Peter Counter (University for the Creative Arts, UK) and two groups of students from Dutch educational institutions: students from Leiden University talked about their research into involving more expats in Repair Cafés. Game technology students from Hanze University of Applied Sciences in Groningen talked about the Repair Café game they developed as their graduation project.
Students from Leiden University talked about their research into involving expats in Repair Cafés.
More information
- Watch the webinar on YouTube
- Read more about the programme on the website of the Centre for Sustainable Design
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