Being Care-Full
-By Leila Behjat and Sam Bennett We have been grappling with the role of repair and upkeep; with their perceived value and real financial cost within the built environment. It’s not news that we are in a climate crisis … More →
2022 Movement Fellowship
The Maintainers Movement Fellowship is a year-long fellowship to advance the movement for maintenance thinking and action. The fellowship brings together a group of individuals whose maintenance, repair, and care work has substantial connections to the environment. During the fellowship, fellows learn from and with their peers; communicate complex ideas in accessible ways for a broad audience, and advance the Maintainers’ vision for a more caring and well-maintained world.
Through The Maintainers Movement Fellowship program, The Maintainers aim to support work that advances equitable maintenance and repair policies; enable meaningful experiences for collaborative knowledge production; and develop a clear set of action priorities that will be published broadly and inform the future work of The Maintainers.
Blog posts
A Trip Down the Arroyo Seco – A Microcosm of Infrastructure, Nature, and Society Part I
– By Tonatiuh Rodriguez- Nikl Introduction The Arroyo Seco (Dry Stream in Spanish) meanders down the San Gabriel mountains, into Pasadena, and later joins the Los Angeles River near Downtown. Over the course of two blog posts, we’ll take … More →
Announcing Engineering for Long Term Solutions – A Maintainers Movement Fellow Event with Long Now Boston, led by Tona Rodriguez-Nikl
Engineering for Long Term Solutions – The Challenge of our Times A Joint Conversation Event by The Maintainers and Long Now Boston led by Maintainers Movement Fellow Tona Rodriguez-Nikl Monday, June 6 2022 | 7:30PM EDT | Zoom doors open … More →
Solidarity is the only hope we have for saving our crumbling world
– By Maximillian Alvarez “We have to destroy the f***ing feelings of [selfishness] and build a new society based on solidarity” – Matthieu Bolle-Reddat, French train operator and Secretary General of the General Confederation of Labor (CGT) Cheminots … More →
Announcing the Tropical Fungi Summit – A Maintainers Movement Fellow Event, led by Rheanna Chen
What can we learn from fungi for a more caring and regenerative society and planet? The hope of this event is to inspire many about the regenerative role of mushrooms in the Tropics and beyond. There is much … More →
Lessons of The Forest: Seeds of Belonging
– by Rheanna Chen After years, I’ve finally returned home to the island that raised me since I was a baby- Trinidad, the last island of the Caribbean archipelago. For my 30th birthday in January, I felt a … More →
Technology and the Engineer in a Post Growth World: A Guide for Inquiry
– By Tonatiuh Rodriguez-Nikl Through this blog post I’d like to introduce my interests as a Maintainers Fellow by laying out my driving question and an approach for arriving at an answer. The main question that has been with me … More →
“Can we fix this? A Year of Cobbling and Upkeep in the Built Environment”
– By Leila Behjat and Sam Bennett Hello! We (Leila and Sam) are thrilled to be part of the Maintainers Movement Fellowship and are looking forward to spending the year collaborating with our inspiring cohort – Max, Rheanna, and … More →
Events
Announcing Engineering for Long Term Solutions – A Maintainers Movement Fellow Event with Long Now Boston, led by Tona Rodriguez-Nikl
Engineering for Long Term Solutions – The Challenge of our Times A Joint Conversation Event by The Maintainers and Long Now Boston led by Maintainers Movement Fellow Tona Rodriguez-Nikl Monday, June 6 2022 | 7:30PM EDT | Zoom doors open … More →
Tropical Fungi Summit – A Maintainers Movement Fellow Event, led by Rheanna Chen
03/30/2022 1-2:30 PM PDT | 3-4:30 PM CDT | 4-5:30 PM EDT In this event, led by Maintainers Movement Fellow Rheanna Chen, we looked at mushrooms as regenerative teachers for care, repair, and maintenance through the lens of a forest … More →