Repair Cafes are part of a new brand of anticonsumerism. The cafes and other efforts try to offer an alternative to mass-produced, disposable goods that have dominated the economy for the last half-century.
Cuba has developed a rich, mature DIY culture after several generations of trade isolation by the US and the collapse of the USSR. With a very limited inflow of tech goods, they basically don’t throw away anything. People cobble together all kinds of machines from pieces of other machines, The maker culture is much more than a hobby, it’s the predominent way of thinking.
Cuba has developed a rich, mature DIY culture after several generations of trade isolation by the US and the collapse of the USSR. With a very limited inflow of tech goods, they basically don’t throw away anything. People cobble together all kinds of machines from pieces of other machines, The maker culture is much more than a hobby, it’s the predominent way of thinking.