We are GIG
Written by Kirstin Wiedow
Making, mending, music and a little chaos at Cape Town Central Library. Our first re:make Festival showed us what happens when people, skills and ideas come together. Cape Town | 12–17 October 2026 Who would have thought we’d have children rapping in the library, sewing machines humming, people making music from discarded objects and a … Continue reading “A Week for Things Worth Keeping — and Just the Beginning”
Written by Ricardo Ruiz
In August, Ugo Vallauri was visiting independent repairers in Kenya. One of them opens up the power supplies of Lenovo ThinkPads, the kind of thing nobody designed to be opened, and makes them repairable again. While they talked about Repair Day, he had an idea of his own: why not give all his customers a … Continue reading “Repair brings us together: notes from our Repair Day community call”
