Platform21's new project

Platform21's Repair Manifestro
1. Make your products live longer!
Repairing means taking the oppotunity to give your product a second life. Dont ditch it, stitch it! Dont end it, mend it! Repairing is not anti-consumption. It is anti-needlessly throwing away.

2. Things shuold be designed so that they can be repaired.
Product designers: Make your products repairable. Share clear, understandable information about DIY repairs.
Consumers: Buy things you know can be repaired, or else find out why they dont exist. Be critical and inquisitive.

3. Repair is not replacement.
Replacement is throwing away the broken bit. This is NOT the kind of repair that we're talking about.

4. What doesnt kill it makes it stronger.
Every time we repair something, we add to its potential, its history, its soul and its inherent beauty.

5. Repairing is a creative challenge.
Making repairs is good for the imagination. Using new techniques, tools and materials ushers in possibility rather than dead ends.

6. Repair survives fashion.
Repair is not about styling or trends. There are no due-dates for repairable items.

7. To repair is to discover.
As you fix objects, you'll learn amazing things about how they actually work. Or dont work.

8. Repair - even in good times!
If you think this manifestro has to do with the recession, forget it. This isnt about money, it's about a mentality.

9. Repaired things are unique.
Even fakes become originals when you repair them.

10. Repairing is about independence.
Dont be a slave to technology - be its master. If it's broken, fix it and make it better. And if you're a master, empower others.

11. You can repair anything, even a plastic bag.
But we'd recommend getting a bag that will last longer, and then repairing it if necessary.

Stop Recycling. Start Repairing.
http://www.platform21.nl/



オランダのPlatform21というグループの新しいプロジェクト。
ナガオカケンメイの考え方に少し近いよ、と友だちが教えてくれた。
この手の「つくらない」「修理して使う」というのは今の時代、どうしても保守的なイメージがまとわりつく。ﾌﾟﾛﾀﾞｸﾄﾃﾞｻﾞｲﾅｰとしての職業が成り立たないじゃないか、とか、それを言い始めたら何もできない、とか。しかし彼らも言っている通り、けして反消費活動を訴えているわけではない。デザイナーの仕事って、その時代時代の問題解決に貢献していくことだったと思う。過去を見て未来を想像し、今をつくる。どこかのｷｬｯﾁｺﾋﾟｰみたいだけど。単に保守主義なのではなく、温故知新とでも言うのだろうか、古きをたずねて新しきを知る、みたいな。言うだけは簡単なんだけどね。