Droit à la réparation, science ouverte et tiers-lieux

What is ‘Right to repair’ from Engineering perspective?

Repair → European Commission ‘New Circular Economy’ action plan

CE from EU view:

“The circular economy is a model of production and consumption, which involves sharing, leasing, reusing, repairing, refurbishing and recycling existing materials and products as long as possible. In this way, the life cycle of products is extended.” (European Parliament, 2023).

 

Repair as CE strategies. Source: (Morseletto, 2020)

Repair practice as a complex system

Repair practice is part of a larger production and consumption system. Source: (Parajuly et al., 2023)

Techno–Economic

• Product design → Influence on the reparability.
• Business models: Ownership, and service models (ie. SAV )
• Infrastructure: Physical infrastructure (ie: tiers lieux?)

From “right to repair” to “willingness to repair”

Consumer Barriers to Repair. Source: (Roskladka et al., 2023)

Barriers to repair practice:

• Technical Inappropriate product architecture → Obsolescence”

• Convenience:

  • Affordable infrastructure
  • Intangible costs (i.e cost of ‘searching’, ‘waiting’, ‘frustation’)

• Willingness:

  • Repair culture built on consumers’ trust.
  • Emotional attachement
  • Beliefs on ‘repairability’

From “right to repair” to “willingness to repair”

Consumer Barriers to Repair. Source: (Roskladka et al., 2023)

Case study (Italy): Washing machine: (Roskladka et al., 2023)

Repair and the ‘Tiers-lieux et Espace du faire’?

Perspective of:

• Grassroot Innovations (Enarsson et al., 2024)
• Urban commons (Zapata Campos et al., 2020)

Communities of Practice that reinvent, appropriate, and foster urban sustainability transitions.

Espaces du faire: Source RRFLabs

Repair Cafes

Repair and the ‘Tiers-lieux et Espace du faire’?

Communities of Practice that reinvent, appropriate, and foster urban sustainability transitions.

Using citizen science research and Philosophy of Care, (Meißner, 2021)¹ to study of collaborative repair practices among the participants in repair cafes.

Repair and the Global South?

Repair and the Global South?

Source. Maria José Zapata.

Open Questions

• Repair from grassroot to mainstream?
• Design for R-Framework? → skills and competences
• Appropriate certification and auditing of repair services ?
• Repair as care for Object, each other, Community, environment?

Merci beaucoup !

References

Enarsson, D., Hinton, J.B., Borgström, S., 2024. Grassroots initiatives transforming cities toward post-growth futures: Insights from the collaborative economy movement in Gothenburg, Sweden. Journal of Cleaner Production 441, 140824. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2024.140824

Meißner, M., 2021. Repair is care? - Dimensions of care within collaborative practices in repair cafes. Journal of Cleaner Production 299, 126913. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2021.126913

Morseletto, P., 2020. Targets for a circular economy. Resources, Conservation and Recycling 153, 104553. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.resconrec.2019.104553

Parajuly, K., Green, J., Richter, J., Johnson, M., Rückschloss, J., Peeters, J., Kuehr, R., Fitzpatrick, C., 2023. Product repair in a circular economy: Exploring public repair behavior from a systems perspective. Journal of Industrial Ecology n/a. https://doi.org/10.1111/jiec.13451

Roskladka, N., Jaegler, A., Miragliotta, G., 2023. From “right to repair” to “willingness to repair”: Exploring consumer’s perspective to product lifecycle extension. Journal of Cleaner Production 432, 139705. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2023.139705

Zapata Campos, M.J., Zapata, P., Ordoñez, I., 2020. Urban commoning practices in the repair movement: Frontstaging the backstage. Environ Plan A 52, 1150–1170. https://doi.org/10.1177/0308518X19896800

Footnotes

1. Meissner, M., 2021. Repair is care? - Dimensions of care within collaborative practices in repair cafes. Journal of Cleaner Production 299, 126913. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2021.126913