Final Conference The Politics of Everyday Repair Opportunities The following text was written by Thomas Hoppenheit, PhD candidate in the REPAIR project, and […] By Thomas Hoppenheit, 19 October 2023
News Repair Work as Craft and Career: Insights from the Apprenticeship Journey in Classic Car Restoration The following text was written by Ödül Bozkurt, Professor of Work and Employment at the […] By 26 September 2023
News Maintaining Shoes/Feet The following text was written by Chris Hesselbein, Junior Assistant Professor at the Politecnico di […] By Guest Author, 8 June 2023
News Materializing reflections: the production of research zines as a tool in studying repair and maintenance The following text was written by Anaïs Bloch, researcher at the Geneva University of Art […] By Guest Author, 18 May 2023
News Iron Gates: A Study on Maintenance of the Hydro and Navigation System The following text was written by Tijana Rupcic, PhD candidate at the Central European University, […] By Guest Author, 3 May 2023
Final Conference Conference report: Repairing Technology – Fixing Society The following text was written by Aude Barthe-Monié, PhD candidate at the Institut d’Histoire, Université […] By Guest Author, 25 April 2023
News Tinkering and innovation in medicine: Ethnographic experiments for studying repair and maintenance The following text was written by Anna Harris, Associate Professor at Maastricht University, and reflects […] By Guest Author, 19 April 2023
News Repairing a “smart” infrastructure: Sustainability orientations in tension between infrastructuring publics The following text was written by Madison Snider, Research Fellow at Siegel Family Endowment, and […] By Guest Author, 7 February 2023
News Maintenance and Political Economy: Fixing Submarine Cables to Reinvent Transatlantic Capitalism The following text was written by Jacob Ward, Assistant Professor in the History of Information, […] By Guest Author, 7 December 2022
News Forum Z: Reparieren gestern und heute Auf diesem Forum Z erkunden wir Reparaturpraktiken gestern und heute. Von 10 bis 15 Uhr […] By Stefan Krebs, Thomas Hoppenheit, Rebecca Mossop, 24 November 2022
Final Conference Conference Program: Repairing Technology – Fixing Society? International conference “Repairing Technology – Fixing Society?”, 13-14 October 2022 Organised by Thomas Hoppenheit, Stefan […] By Rebecca Mossop, 6 September 2022
News Publication: REPAIR Fanzine No. 2 We are very happy to announce the publication of our REPAIR fanzine no. 2! You […] By Rebecca Mossop, 26 August 2022
Final Conference Call for Papers Repairing Technology – Fixing Society? International conference at the Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History (C²DH) 13-14 October 2022 Failures and breakdowns constitute an important element in the fundamental relationship between users and technology, […] By Stefan Krebs, Rebecca Mossop, Thomas Hoppenheit, 13 June 2022
News Between Old and New: Modernising, Maintaining and Repairing Pneumatic Tube Systems This is a guest article by Laura Meneghello, based on her presentation in our Histories […] By Guest Author, 4 May 2022
News Ghosts of iron and steel: Learning about loss in stories of industrial infrastructure un-maintenance This is a guest article by Amanda McMillan Lequieu, based on her presentation in our […] By Guest Author, 1 April 2022
News Spaces of Design & Repair in Twentieth Century Argentine Factories This is a guest article by Yovanna Pineda, based on her presentation in our Histories […] By Guest Author, 15 March 2022
Fixing the telephone REPAIR Fanzine No. 2 After presenting part of our project “Repairing Technology – Fixing Society?” in our REPAIR fanzine […] By Rebecca Mossop, 1 March 2022
Repair opportunities Publication: REPAIR Fanzine No. 1 We are very happy to announce the publication of our REPAIR fanzine no. 1! You […] By Thomas Hoppenheit, Guest Author, 28 February 2022
News Repairing Innovation This is a guest article by Sangwoon Yoo, based on his presentation in our Histories […] By Guest Author, 14 February 2022
News USI Workshop: Communication Maintenance in Longue Durée (24-25 Feb. 2022) Workshop organised by Gabriele Balbi and Roberto Leggero (USI) Communication and media studies have just […] By Stefan Krebs, 3 February 2022
News Publication: “Questioning the Decline of Repair” We (Thomas and Stefan) have published a paper “Questioning the Decline of Repair in the […] By Stefan Krebs, Thomas Hoppenheit, 17 January 2022
News Replacement and the History of Submarines This is a guest article by Nils Theinert, based on his presentation with the Driburger […] By Guest Author, 6 December 2021
News Between Replacement and Addition: Maternal-fetal Surgery for Spina Bifida This is a guest article by Sandra Gratwohl, based on her presentation with the Driburger […] By Guest Author, 1 December 2021
News Workshop Report: Histories of Maintenance and Repair (Day 1) Following recent calls for a “history of technology-in-use” (D. Edgerton), “broken-world thinking” (S. Jackson) and […] By Rebecca Mossop, Thomas Hoppenheit, 15 November 2021
News Workshop Report: Histories of Maintenance and Repair (Day 2) On the second day, five papers were presented in three panels. In the first panel […] By Rebecca Mossop, Thomas Hoppenheit, 15 November 2021
News Interview with Stefan Krebs on Delano Jeff Palms from Delano, an English speaking news website and magazine in Luxembourg, has interviewed […] By Stefan Krebs, 2 November 2021
News Publication: “The Persistence of Technology: Histories of Repair, Reuse and Disposal” “The Persistence of Technology: Histories of Repair, Reuse and Disposal”, co-edited by Stefan Krebs and […] By Stefan Krebs, 14 September 2021
News Join Us: Workshop “Histories of Maintenance and Repair” (2. – 3.9.2021) Over the past fifteen years, maintenance and repair practices have gained increasing academic attention, but […] By Stefan Krebs, Rebecca Mossop, Thomas Hoppenheit, 30 July 2021
News Extended Deadline! CfP: «Communication Maintenance in Longue Durée» Gabriele Balbi and Roberto Leggero are calling for abstracts for the workshop “Communication Maintenance in […] By Guest Author, 14 July 2021
Repair & Environment The Emergence of the Environmental Movement in Luxembourg and its Impact on Repair Practices Before the COVID-19 pandemic, the Luxembourg repair café scene organised regular events in several towns […] By Stefan Krebs, 30 September 2020
Repair opportunities The Development of Urban Repair Networks: Luxembourg City and Esch-sur-Alzette This sub-project traces change and continuity in urban repair opportunities in Luxembourg. From a comparative […] By Thomas Hoppenheit, 29 September 2020
News Repairing Radios: A Hands-on Approach to the History of Technology Earlier this year the REPAIR team invited fellow historians and friends to their first hands-on […] By Stefan Krebs, Rebecca Mossop, Thomas Hoppenheit, 18 May 2020
News Call for Papers: Workshop «Histories of Maintenance and Repair» We are calling for abstracts for our workshop on “Histories of Maintenance and Repair”, which […] By Stefan Krebs, Rebecca Mossop, Thomas Hoppenheit, 28 January 2020
Fixing the telephone Repairing and Maintaining a Large Technological System in Luxemburg One of the three REPAIR sub-projects examines the repair and maintenance of the Luxembourg telephone […] By Rebecca Mossop, 15 November 2019
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