The Right to Repair: Why We Should be Given the Information and Tools to Repair our Personal Electronics  – GC Digital Fellows

In this post from the Tagging the Tower blog, GC Digital Fellow Sam O’Hana discuss the importance of the right to repair, a growing international movement that advocates for more sustainable design and which compels manufacturers to provide documentation and parts that makes their devices easier to fix. Addressing the importance of knowing how to repair our digital gadgets, Sam writes “What you learn when you repair an object is that your intelligence shapes your experience of the object. Summoning the courage to dismantle, tinker with, and carefully maintain a complex object transforms your role from passive consumer to active co-producer of the technology at hand. The difference is precisely like that of becoming a writer after many years of being only an enthusiastic reader.” Sam discusses the environmental and ethical dimensions of creating products that easier to repair.

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