REMAKE is a free community-based repair project that holds Repair Parties at universities around the world with a fun, collaborative spirit. We thrive on skill-sharing and collaborative learning to fix technology and our relationship with it!
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.
This idea stemmed from the notion that most people 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.
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.
― are largely to blame for the situation most developed economies have seen themselves 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.
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? (Referral scheme only available at the HKUST Branch):
💵 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.
Founder
Now a public policy master's student, 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.
UCL Branch Coordinator
With ample work experience in consultancy, I have now deciced to learn more about NGO work in sustainability.
I am thrilled to see how much this community has achieved to date, and I am excited to be part of this journey
Find me around UCL anytime!
HKUST Branch Coordinator
Year 3 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…