Projet led by: Nicolas Nova, Profesor MA Media Design

Project Applicant : Nicolas Nova

Team: Nicolas Nova, Anaïs Bloch

Funding: Fonds national suisse de la recherche scientifique (FNS)

"Mobile Repair Cultures: from informal repair to silent innovation" is a research project that address maintenance and repair of mobile technologies. In the current debate around the obsolescence of digital technologies, the emergence of repair and maintenance places, such as informal shops, hackerspaces and repair cafés, shows the importance of improving the condition of such products.

This project is situated at the crossroads of ethnography and design. Its purpose is to empirically investigate the various forms of repair cultures happening in such places, by focusing more specifically on smartphones.
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