View here: The First Ever Maintainers newsletter! Summary: These past months, we’ve been thinking about how to keep the folks in the Maintainers network updated with what is going on (within and beyond the network) in a sustained way. This … More →
View here: Read all about it! 🗞️ Blog Posts, #MaintainersSpotlight, Maintainers in the News & More Summary: We hope you are having a good summer! Summertime always brings about a new wave of energy, and we have been feeling … More →
View here: “Who Cares?” Circular City Week, Tropical Fungi Summit, and reflections from Maintainer’s Fellows Summary: We hope everyone is taking care, and having a great Spring! Thank you to all of you that have been joining us for our … More →
View here: Research Reports, Movement Fellows, and a New Opportunity! Summary: We are starting 2022 with a bang- we have so many wonderful Maintainers announcements to share! Firstly, we are excited to share our Summer fellows’ final reports. It has … More →
– by Sarah Sao Mai Habib December 2020. We are living in a medical aid camp, mostly made of tent structures and a few trailers. We are a collective staffing this small space near the so called US/Mexico … More →
– by Linda McIntyre Hello again! It’s hard to believe that my fellowship with The Maintainers is winding down already. What an unanticipated pleasure it has been to collaborate with this community and learn so much from them, and from … More →
– by Himadri Das and Purna Sarkar Please refer to Part 1 for the first part of this blog post. Salvaging parts for the sake of frugality or urban mining but not necessarily for the sake of circular economy. Salvaging … More →
Overview The Maintainers (themaintainers.org) is a global research network interested in the concepts of maintenance, infrastructure, repair, and the myriad forms of labor and expertise that sustain our human-built world. The Maintainers Movement Fellowship is a year-long fellowship that will … More →
– by Himadri Das and Purna Sarkar India is a repair country. This phrase encapsulates many different layers of meanings. It suggests that repair is ubiquitous in Indian cities and wrapped up deeply in frugal culture. It seems very important … More →
– by Sarah Sao Mai Habib Early in 2021, designers, architects, planners, educators, policymakers, and artists came together to reflect on the massive transitional time we live in: a year into the covid pandemic and a year after the most … More →