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.
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