Repair zine

[Zac]

I’m wanting to start putting together a repair zine to have on hand at events which contain some common repairs with resources, general skills, cleaning and maintenance and whatever else people think could be relevant. I was thinking to make it as an editable InDesign file which can be added to or filtered for it’s desired purpose eg only electronics, or full repair cafe focus.

Reaching out to see if anyone has had similar ideas and started work on it or if anyone is interested in helping with content. I’ve been running a repair cafe for a year so have some ideas of common topics but I’m sure there are many more knowledgeable people who could add a lot.

Also keen to find someone who’d like to contribute on the illustration side of things. Very important to have good visuals!

[james]

What a great idea Zac!

At Fixfest in Brussels the other week, Linn from the German Repair Café network Anstiftung presented their repair zine called ‘Splitter’.

They’ve been running it for years now, and we first learned about it at Fixfest in 2019. Here are the notes Janet took back then:

@Janet

Anstiftung support approximatelly 800 repair communities. The zine documents the diversity of community repair groups across the countries. The name ‘SPLITTER’ refer to small particles that appear when something is broken. The magazine is published on the website and it can be easily printed. Each page of the magazine act on its own and so the group can choose to print one page and not other and produce posters. The document is in black and white so it can easily be printed in coloured paper. The magazine feature quizzes, reflective exercises and comics. The magazine also include stories reflecting upon global issues; the history of repair etc.

They publish editions on their site here, though obviously it’s in German:

SPLiTTER | Netzwerk Reparatur-Initiativen | Netzwerk Reparatur-Initiativen

Worth a look for some inspiration though