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Designing for Repair: Infrastructure and Materialities of Breakdown
Category:
Type:
Author(s):
Daniela K. Rosner, Morgan G. Ames
Design Process Covered:
Analyze, Research
Tag:
Inclusive infrastructure
Country:
United States, Paraguay
Date:
April 18, 2017
Overview:
Over the past decade, repair-oriented design, engineering, and policy-making have begun to shift towards consumer repair. However, in IT production most consumer products are made with “planned obsolescence”, meaning that the product is built to last a few years rather than a lifetime. This is...
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