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BARRIERS AND OPPORTUNITIES TO REPAIR IN REPAIR CAFES

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 June 2023

Cédric Masclet ,
Jasmine Laura Mazudie  and
Jean-François Boujut
Cédric Masclet*
Affiliation:
Univ. Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, Grenoble INP, G-SCOP, 38000 Grenoble, France
Jasmine Laura Mazudie
Affiliation:
Univ. Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, Grenoble INP, G-SCOP, 38000 Grenoble, France
Jean-François Boujut
Affiliation:
Univ. Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, Grenoble INP, G-SCOP, 38000 Grenoble, France
*
Masclet, Cédric, Université Grenoble Alpes, France, cedric.masclet@g-scop.eu

Abstract

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For some years now, a part of the population in Europe has been willing to moderate its consumption and to enter into a sustainable waste reduction perspective. Repair is an important lever in the sustainability of products. It requires appropriate approaches depending on the actors involved, whether they are public, private or at the consumer level. Repair cafés are thus born of local citizen initiatives to act on the life cycle of everyday consumer products. We conducted a qualitative study based on a series of semi-structured interviews with the actors of repair cafés in the Grenoble area (France) and carried out an analysis of qualitative data. This analysis, according to three pre-defined fields, technology-competencies-motivations, reveals the perception of the actors on the current obstacles and opportunities for the development of the amateur repair practice. The results obtained support studies already carried out on the subject and show that design is still failing to match amateur reparation requirements. Besides, the social role of these third places takes precedence over the ecological and economic dimension of repair.

Keywords

SustainabilityCircular economyDesign for X (DfX)repairopen community
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Proceedings of the Design Society , Volume 3: ICED23 , July 2023 , pp. 727 - 736
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