This is a participant-guided workshop (i.e. the skill and makeup of the workshop’s participants will determine the overall shape of the workshop) that can take several modes. The ultimate takeaway is the same – encouraging both adoption and dissemination of repair and maintenance concepts and ethos. The first mode is a primarily talk-focused workshop aimed at increasing comfort with repair and maintenance concepts. This mode is focused on helping participants identify and find ways to incorporate repair ethics in their own lives. The second mode is a traditional “Take It Apart(y)” wherein uncomfortable and/or unskilled participants are encouraged simply to open up broken devices and look at the insides. This involves both documenting what the device does and what the components inside are for and how they work together, but also talking through how to move beyond observation to diagnosis and ultimately repair or re-use. The third mode is a repair together model where an identifiably broken device is disassembled, diagnosed, and brought to working condition as a group. This is the most hands-on and most challenging mode, but might be the right option for certain groups. All three options will be available to pursue, but the workshop will be flexible and entirely up to the participants attending.

About the Instructor:
libi rose striegl is a polydiscplinary artist, workshop facilitator, and research practitioner variously interested in collaborative engagement, performative chaos, archival impermanence and DIY defamiliarization. Pro complication, imperfection and visibility; dismantling the black box. Managing director at the Media Archaeology Lab. Avid maintainer of the obsolete.