User:Vitrinekast/Proposal

Take the first 30 mins to write a sketch outline of no more than 300 words. Use this as a starting point:

I want to write about the current state of repairs? Where we as consumers no longer own devices (or "stuffs"), we also no longer feel obligated to maintain those devices. Not only that, we as consumers are discouraged to repair or modify the devices. Afraid of losing warranties, we lose repair skills instead. I consider the ability to repair something an important skill.

There is already written loads around this topic. There is the Right to Repair movement, more focussing on politics, repair cafe's, where knowledge is exchange (and maybe some things are repaired), online platforms such as ifixit or other repair wiki's. So i'm not sure yet what this thesis will add to it, but i guess it's an important topic to me.

If your vacuum breaks there are , in my understanding for the general public, a few things you could do. You can take your shitty vacuum to a repair cafe where an unpaid volunteer will fix it or you could buy a new shitty vacuum and throw the plastics in a recycling bin, where a small percentage of your shitty vacuum might turn into a fairphone, but since your shitty vacuum is probably created out of mixed plastic, it will most likely be burned.

However, there are a few methods/practices/ideas/proposals around the ecosystem of this shitty vacuum. And i'd like to write about that too. (Celebration of end of life products)

The three issues i want to explore are:

- Being discouraged to repair
- (Celebration of) end of life products
- Media archeology? What to do with devices that have no use in it's intended design? (Yes, pushing printers in there).

Mode of address is personal/from my perspective.

also, it will be in markdown, not in wikisyntax