A brief retrospective over the past 16 years of organized voluntary repair initiatives and a look at the breakthroughs for the right to repair movement

When Martine Postma organized her first Repair-Café in Amsterdam, would she have imagined the kind of traction that her initiative would gain worldwide? With rampant enshittification of services, but also products ("planned obsolescence") comes resistance from consumers and politics. I'll show a few blatant examples and outline the recent progress in EU legislation.

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