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Workshop HowTo: Repair City

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Summary

In this workshop we will deal with the repair. We draw and write Repair stories, introduce Repair Cafe at school through, design billboards for repair and replace them advertising posters for new purchases in the city.

Schedule / modules:

The workshop was developed and carried out in the context of “Palace of the projects – the ecological future city” in the Fichtelgebirge primary school Berlin. Documented is an implementation with 22 children between 6 and 9 years (1-3 grades) over 3 days, each with about 3.5 hours of working time for the children (8: 00-12: 00). The process is documented by days. Individual components can be detached and carried out separately.

(Documentation written down quickly without proofreading published)

preparation & Hints

The workshop consists of different sections, which may also be carried out individually.

On the second day of the workshop, we run a proper repair cafe at the school. For this you need someone with the appropriate skills. We found Erik in the Kreuzberg Repair-Cafe, who can repair electrical equipment and also Julia, who is good with the sewing needle.

In the Repair Cafe, we repair things that students find at home. Before the first workshop day, the teacher had to ask the students to bring such things

DAY 1: Repair Stories

As a greeting, everyone introduces themselves by name and a little repair story: When did you last break something? What happened? And what happened afterwards?

Then there is an introduction to the topic: What is the disposable society? Where do our products come from? Where you go? What is sustainability? And what does repair have to do with it? A DuckDuckGo image search helps find images of “garbage mountains,” “plastic pollution,” “resource mines,” and so on.

Then we take a look at the broken things brought by the children. Each child introduces his or her cause and tells what is broken and how it happened.

We have an appointment with the caretaker. He shows us his workshop and what he did at the school last time.

Then you draw. The children should draw their (or a) broken thing and write a sentence, which is broken. The drawings are presented. Then we make posters to promote our next-day school repair café. We study a few posters on the net and then go on to design our own mini-posters. The text for the poster is given:

“Repair Cafe at school. On Thursday. Bring something bad! “

At the end, we hang the posters together with our repair stories in the school building.

DAY 2: Repair Cafe

There are three of us that day: Julia can sew well, Erik can fix electrical and Lars will be responsible for the rest. We are building a repair cafe in the school building with 3 stations: Sewing table, electric table, leftovers table

Then we go to the repair. The students are involved as well as possible, at the sewing table and leftovers table works very well, but also on the electric table there is a lot to do for the children.

We manage to fix very many things on this short morning. The teachers jump on full. It is also being repaired, tidied up, sorted etc. In the classroom.

Selection of repaired:

A new lid from an old fruit box

The robot rocks again

Leg glued again

The two lights are lit again, the two four-in-a-row games are back, the picture frames hold again …

Our repair cafe takes about two hours. The children do not last longer. Some people are already starting to play with the repaired toys. Good &# 128578;

Then we clean up together. And lead a longer conversation with the children. Erik introduces some of his tools and tells of the repair cafe. We continue to focus on sustainability: we show the children online the documentation from the “Palace of Projects” and then go to the palace, where the students can see the actual results.

DAY 3: Repair advertising poster

We look at a selection of advertising posters with the children on the internet. In addition to composition, we also talk about advertising slogans. Which ones do you know? Which ones are funny and so on? Then the children develop their own advertising slogans for fixing in groups of two to three. There are very nice advertising slogans together.

We distribute paints, brushes and large sheets of paper (the backs of old OPENiT posters we still have in stock). The children paint their posters.

Then we put the posters on strips – for this we use a pre-use technique (bed rails and brackets, no Glue, no holes, no Screws or the like – Pre-Use halt.)

We go with our posters on the street. Our goal is – like City Hacker – advertising posters that promote the re-purchase of products to keep up with our advertising posters for repair. The children have a lot of fun and chant for repairing themselves (see video).

“What do you want with the new shit? Repair is hot! “

“Repair is good for nature”, “Repair is fun”

In the end the posters pull and drag our repaired things into the palace until further notice …

background

A project from the:

The workshop was developed and carried out in the context of “Palace of the projects – the ecological future city” in the Fichtelgebirge primary school Berlin.

Mifactori actors: Lars Zimmermann & Guests (see above)

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