ECOgeo2022

Organising a repair cafe in a city where repair services are round the corner and knowledge of repair skills are not regarded highly… Repair cafe Bangalore has a pop-up format. So volunteers travel long distances to organize just a 3 hour workshop. For the collaboration with Azim Premji University (APU) (Physics Lab) volunteers travelled from across the city. Some ended up spending almost 12- hours of the day. The volunteers are passionate about repair and they are willing to go. On their part, the APU team is mindful of this travel pain and organised transport through cabs.  On the occasion of International Repair Day, worldwide organisations like Restart Project, The Repair Cafe Foundation and others advocate for Right to Repair Campaigns. In India, the Right to Repair is not recognized as a statutory right but courts and antitrust agencies have tacitly recognized this right. On our part as citizens we continue to organize the pop-up workshops to propagate the idea of repairing and d