Round 2

Last time was a great success! We managed to fix a bunch of things and we had a great time doing it. Pictures and descriptions are coming soon.

Now it's time to get back at it. The next mending workshop will be held on the 17 of February, 18:00 at Metargatan.

If you would like to attend, please give Anders a call on 0739975368.

Let's get this party started!

We are ready for our first mending workshop! Bring your broken stuff to Metargatan on the 20th of January at 18:00.

This is how it's going to work. Everyone can bring something broken. We put all the stuff on a table and collectively discuss how to fix it. Then we help each other out with the actual mending. Aside from being a great opportunity to learn about how to care for your stuff and to reduce the ecological strain of consumption I think it's going to be a fun social event.

Successful repairs will be documented and posted to the blog to help spread knowledge about how to fix things. Incidentally, this is also the reason why the blog is written in English even though we are based in Sweden. We want to make it possible for fixers all over the (English speaking) world to be able to contribute to and benefact from the future knowledge base on how to fix things here on the blog.

If you feel like attending, please let us know and we will provide further details.

An idea is as simple as it is brilliant...

During a recent trip to New York, that included a visit at the amazing Proteus Gowanus gallery, me and my girlfriend stumbled on to something fantastic: the Fixers Collective! Have a look at their flyer (image) for a bit more info about what they do.

The idea is as simple as it is brilliant. We (the people of late capitalist societies) produce and consume stuff at a rate that is threatening to impoverish the earth of it's natural resources. So let's stop doing that! Let's try to suppress our knee-jerk reaction to buy new stuff as soon as the old stuff breaks (at least until we have tried to fix it).

On our way home from NY, we discussed the Fixers Collective and decided to start a similar collaborative mending workshop in Stockholm. The seed to the Mending Maniacs was thus firmly planted in our minds.

Stay tuned for info about our first mending session.