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Repair by Josh LepawskyMar 2, 20203:00 pmOctober 31, 2020

Planet of Fixers?

Maintenance and repair are on the agenda. In October 2018, The Economist declared repair to be, “as important as innovation” and went so far as to proclaim, “in a disposable society, to repair is to […]

E-waste by Josh LepawskyJul 30, 20182:06 pmNovember 29, 2019
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Think you know e-waste?

Almost everything you know about e-waste is wrong Josh Lepawsky, Memorial University of Newfoundland Many of us think we know what electronic waste is because we wonder what to do with devices we no longer […]

Quotes by Josh LepawskyOct 28, 202011:07 amOctober 31, 2020

A World of Repair in 2030

A world of 2030 in which repair could be part of the scaffold that builds it is one based not on efficiency, but sufficiency. — Lepawsky (2020)

E-waste by Josh LepawskyOct 28, 202010:39 am
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Sources and streams of electronic waste

Within one or two decades, the mass of electronic devices discarded by consumers could exceed 100 million tons annually. Yet, far more pollution and waste arise “upstream” during the mining for and manufacturing of electronics. […]

E-waste by Josh LepawskyApr 23, 20208:32 amJanuary 17, 2021
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E-waste, Pollution, and a Sense of Scale

Usually when e-waste is discussed, the story defaults to a post-consumer view of the problem: e-waste is what happens when people (consumers) throwaway their devices. Of course, post-consumer discarding happens but this is actually the […]

Repair by Josh LepawskyApr 22, 20206:33 amOctober 31, 2020

Composing a planet of fixers

Talks by Josh LepawskyApr 18, 20209:11 pmApril 19, 2020

Reassembling Rubbish & Worlding Electronic Waste

A talk by invitation from VIVO Media Arts Centre and hosted at Simon Fraser University.

Quotes by Josh LepawskyApr 14, 20203:40 pmApril 17, 2020

When you want to know how things really work, study them when they're coming apart.

William Gibson, Zero History.
Repair by Josh LepawskyMar 2, 20203:08 pmApril 19, 2020

New paper: Planet of Fixers?

This paper explores the geographical distribution of independent and do‐it‐yourself information and communication technology maintenance and repair (INDIY ICT M&R) activity around the world. Josh Lepawsky, GEO: Geography & Environment

E-waste by Josh LepawskyMar 2, 20202:33 pm

“E-waste journalism that starts and ends in blighted foreign landscapes of dumps and scrap yards emphasizes the recycling trap…”. A short piece for MIT Press Reader.

E-waste by Josh LepawskyNov 7, 20196:49 amNovember 29, 2019
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Workshop | SAVVY Contemporary

SAVVY Contemporary in Berlin is hosting an online workshop in which participants examine what is knowable about distributions of toxicity when it comes to digital technologies. What do the possibilities and limits of that knowledge […]

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