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Acceleration or Resonance Through Repair?: Repair Cafés as Resonant Spaces
Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Science and Technology, Technology, Department of Civil and Industrial Engineering, Industrial Engineering and Management.ORCID iD: 0000-0001-6673-7935
Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Social Sciences, Department of Sociology.ORCID iD: 0000-0001-5247-5145
Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Humanities and Social Sciences, Faculty of Law, Department of Law.ORCID iD: 0000-0002-3028-6084
2025 (English)Conference paper, Oral presentation with published abstract (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

Although optimization and dematerialization through digitalization are regarded as key drivers of sustainable development, these practices often entail and rely on technological acceleration that produces rebound effects that may offset some of their sustainability-related benefits. In the EU and beyond, (circular economy) policies aim to mitigate environmental strain (waste, resource scarcity, energy consumption) from the production and consumption of technological devices by decoupling economic and technological growth from environmental harm. Several of these mention repair as a key practice. Drawing on Hartmut Rosa, we have in a previous publication concluded that while repair practices can function as a form of inertia (resistance to acceleration), contemporary policies that aim to promote repair for circular economy purposes rather assume and rely on technological acceleration. While such policies might promote more sustainable use of technological devices, they do not counteract the social side-effects of acceleration, namely alienation, understood as a distortion to our way of relating to the world, characterized by a feeling of being “out of sync.” Using Rosa’s concept of resonance, we developed a theoretical framework for understanding how repair can counteract alienation and produce resonant relations with other human beings and things. In this paper, we aim to utilize said framework to analyze empirical material gathered from interviews and participatory observation at Repair Cafés in Sweden to explore how such spaces can foster resonance amidst acceleration. The study focuses on the axes of resonance that emerge in such spaces, and how Repair Cafés can be designed to promote resonant relations.

Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
2025.
Keywords [en]
Repair, Resonance, Social Acceleration, Repair Café, Community Repair, Right to Repair
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Engineering and Technology Industrial engineering and management Sociology
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Engineering Science with specialization in industrial engineering and management
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URN: urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-559861OAI: oai:DiVA.org:uu-559861DiVA, id: diva2:1969853
Conference
7th Nordic STS Conference – STS in and out of the Laboratory. June 11-13, 2025, Stockholm, Sweden
Part of project
The digital right to repair: a study of legal ideals, public controversies and messy practices, Swedish Research CouncilAvailable from: 2025-06-16 Created: 2025-06-16 Last updated: 2025-06-16

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