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The Disappearing Art of Maintenance
Restriction as Possibility; Lifestyle as Politics - MOLD :: Designing the Future of Food
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It was only two generations ago that appliances as humble as a toaster would be taken to repair shops. Even shoes and clothes were mended. Not only are such services inherently local, thus helping to invigorate local economies, but they also contribute to an attitude of caring toward our material things, and by extension toward materiality in gener
... See moreCharles Eisenstein • Sacred Economics: Money, Gift, and Society in the Age of Transition
The first tool has to do with repair.
Jenny Odell • How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy
... See moreMaintenance is what keeps everything going. It’s what keeps life going.
Every living thing spends a great deal of time and toil in maintaining its own life and the life of the systems it depends on. Plants tend the life of the soil they grow in. Beavers maintain their dams and thereby the pond that protects them. Humans maintain their bodies, their