#Unbreak
Your
iPhone
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REMAKE is a free community-based repair project that holds Repair Parties at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology with a fun, collaborative spirit. We thrive on skill-sharing and collaborative learning to fix technology and our relationship with it!

E-waste is one of the fastest growing waste streams across the world.

We know the pace of our consumption has real social and environmental costs. And we know people are frustrated with the throwaway culture around them. But we can do something about it.

Repair

Has an immediate impact

Creates a safe learning environment

Helps in the fight for more sustainable products in the market

Participants

164

CO₂ Emissions Prevented

2434 KG

Waste Prevented

38 KG

Why Repair?

This idea stemmed from the notion that people in Hong Kong are, generally speaking, quite affable towards new technologies, but maybe too much so.

While most people are interested in the latest and greatest, and wish to implement these technologies in their everyday lives, most of them go on a yearly tech purchasing spree without it being a real necessity.

Overconsumption of consumer electronics is a widespread problem in Hong Kong

While society-wide action must be carried out to fix this problem, we can still do our little bit, starting with our own community. What REMAKE is trying to do is a minor action focused on the mid- to end-stage of consumer electronics’ lifecycle, but which has been shown to have major implications throughout this and other industries: repairing.

We believe that

A lack of understanding surrounding Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE)and its effects

The overtly unfriendly third-party repair policies of most of Silicon Valley’s companies, and

Hong Kong’s social context built around consumerism

― are largely to blame for the situation Hong Kong has seen itself in, not only in terms of WEEE, but in overall waste.

Yet, repairing, if done correctly and with the proper supervision, can be easy, fun, cheap and a great opportunity for the public to learn more about their own devices. As popularly promoted by iFixit, a wiki-based site that teaches people how to fix almost anything

Repair saves you money. It saves the environment. And it connects us to our things.
Repair is Noble from ifixit.org

Hours Volunteered

243

Total Events

13

We plan to change the landscape by

Repairing

Teaching

Learning

Have a dead iPhone lying in your bedside table?

Bring it over and we will help you fix it!

We are a free repair community, and that’s how we’re going to stay: Free. We will never charge you for our service, and we will try our best to cover the replaced part itself. Why not help us help you?:

💵 If you bring a friend to a Repair Party and they place an order with us, you get 30% off the replacement part.

👫 Your friend? They get 10% off - sweet deal.

💡 And if your friend brings another friend, the 10% becomes 30% and the new friend gets 10%. Spread the love.

Our team

Fernando García Albero

Now a final year social scientist, I have been fixing stuff since I was a teenager.

Strongly passionate about society, environment and technology and finding ways to produce impactful change in the world other than by going vegan.

Alvin Cheung

A Year 2 Dual-Degree Program student gifted with the power to wake up right before the bus reaches its stop.

I strongly embrace reducing consumption to save the environment (and my wallet).

I like to swim, work out, and snack.

Johnson Chong

Year 2 Computer Engineering local student and baseball addict.

I am enthusiastic about anything that makes the Earth a better place for everyone.

Go ahead and send me anything fixable other than phones, anything meaning anything. I’ll gladly fix it for you, if I can…

Jamie Wei

I am a Year 3 Computer Science student from Taiwan.

I am currently on exchange, but I’ll be back in no time to teach these guys how it’s done!