ACTIVITY

Repair Café – Part 2

Students plan and organize a Repair Café where they invite other students, teachers or the local community to repair broken or worn items instead of throwing them away. The Repair Café can focus on clothes, bikes and scooters, toys or other everyday products.

The intention is for students to experience how repairing can be an alternative to overconsumption and to gain experience in practical problem solving and collaboration.

Before:

This activity is part 2 out of 3. Click here for part 1: Repair Café – Part 1 and here for part 3: Repair Café – Part 3.

1

With the Interest Groups method, students select the group they want to work with.

2

The groups work and prepare and market the repair café. Some example tasks:

  • The marketing team can create flyers, posters, stickers and/or digital displays. They can additionally focus on inviting people with knowledge on repairing to help the students out. 
  • The repair group can watch videos to learn repair techniques and/or find some craft and design teachers to help them.
  • The logistics team can prepare tables, signs and other props to make it easy to
    find their way around the different repair categories. They can also create sign-in sheets so that the class can record what is being repaired.
  • The documentation team can prepare their documentation of the events and possibly also
    document the development process.

Didactic tips:

  • Let the students make an overview of how much was repaired and what wasn’t, and what the reason was (e.g. lack of time, lack of materials, lack of skills).
  • Following the repair café, students can evaluate the event, including: What worked well and
    what can be improved next time?
  • The repair café can be continued as a permanent feature at the school if some of the
    students are willing to run it.
  • If students struggle to divide roles evenly, then use the Prioritised voting method to assign students to groups.
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THEME:
Textile & fashion
TIME: 45 min.
AGE: 13-15 years

SUBJECTS:

  • Nature sciences
  • Social studies
  • Mathematics
  • Arts
  • Other

TOOLS / MATERIALS:

  • Tools and machines (e.g. sewing machines)
  • Materials
  • Tables and chairs
  • On-board signs
  • Computer / tablets
  • Cameras / phones (for photo / video)

METHODS:

RESOURCES: