Virtual Event April 7, 2023 at 3pm ET on Zoom Join The Maintainers network and friends for a 3-Part Event Series highlighting different spheres of maintenance, asking: “How do we maintain ourselves? Our communities? Our movement?”. Together we will explore questions … More →
12/16/2022 2 PM EDT Join The Maintainers Movement Fellows for an end-of-year celebration as they showcase their collaborative project, Embodying Degrowth. The 2022 Maintainers Movement Fellowship is a year-long fellowship to advance the movement for maintenance thinking and action. Learn … More →
View here: Embodying Degrowth As A Practice Of Care Dear Maintainers, We’re excited to announce the culminating project of 2022 the Maintainers Movement Fellowship. This project investigates practices related to degrowth, maintenance, and sustainability. Through interviews with practitioners, activists, and … More →
View here: 🎨 Coloring Book, Guest Blog Post & Developing A Maintenance Mindset Summary: We’ve got an exciting new offering we couldn’t keep quiet any longer! Drumroll please… 🥁 We are proud to announce to you The Maintainers Coloring Book! Text and … More →
A Polemical Letter on Maintenance and Profit and Mr. David Pye Written by Guest Author Lee David Engdahl ‘The art of design, which chooses that the things we use shall look as they do, has a very much wider … More →
Maintainers Spotlight: The Custodian Project, an interview with Evalynn Fae Taganna Romano By Madison Snider I first met Evalynn Fae Taganna Romano while recruiting participants for my dissertation research. I wanted to know how increasingly datafied built environments were impacting … More →
We are proud to announce to you The Maintainers Coloring Book! Text and illustrations in this coloring book are inspired by papers and presentations that were part of The Maintainers III: Policy, Practice, and Care conference program in 2019. The … More →
#MaintainersSpotlight In order to increase the visibility of maintenance efforts across all disciplines, we invite you to share your reflections and relationship to maintenance by submitting a blog post to spotlight a Maintainer or maintenance effort in your community. We … More →
06/06/2022 4:30 PM PDT | 6:30 PM CDT | 7:30 PM EDT Long Now Boston and The Maintainers have come together to proudly present a conversation melding our two key concepts: long-term thinking and maintenance. This event is led by … More →
05/04/2022 9 AM PDT | 11AM CDT | 12 PM EDT A conversation about the value of repair and maintenance from fixing bikes to building upkeep Does a tear in your shirt mean the end of its use? Can a … More →