Get Involved with Repair!

In Cyberspace

Volunteer to work in cyberspace to help further a global culture of repair!

(In-person volunteer opportunities in The East Bay, California, are HERE.)

The Culture of Repair Project supports teaching about repair in educational setting, bringing the mindset, technologies, thinking skills, systems understandings, and caring values, into K - 12 educational settings. The work turns around repairing physical, made objects, modeling taking repairing what’s broken into the world, at any scale.

We help educators see that repair is a powerful tool for teaching, and support them with what they need to get out of the gate.

“Educational settings” means classrooms, after-school programs, libraries, non-profits, and other educational settings. The gold-star, ultimate objective is integrating repair into core subject areas, fulfilling curricular standards, thereby enriching classroom instruction.

This initiative also maintains resource pages for people interested in various other dimensions of repair: technical how-to’s, scholarship and research, global repair initiatives, arts, mind, body and spirit, and others.

This work, with its global reach, takes place in cyberspace.

We are a scrappy outfit. Time and technical expertise are limited and many, many opportunities get by for lack of resources.

We could use a hand! Two or three would be grand.

We would particularly benefit from input and guidance from primary and secondary school educators.

Specific areas of need:

  • Finding and creating images for newsletters, the website and social media

  • Scouring the internet for materials to add to the Library

  • Scouring the world for candidates to contribute to Notes from the Field

  • Scouring the internet for materials to add to other resources pages (see above)

  • Scouting the internet for resource hubs to place links to the Project (e.g., The Global Goals Centre)

  • Keeping an eye on the website for typos, grammar issues and 404’s.

  • Turbocharging distributing educational materials (e.g., place links in educator resource hubs)

  • Networking (e.g., locate potential allies and collaborators, e.g., repair cafes and waste management agencies)

  • Reflecting with us about repair —> thinking big thoughts!

We particularly NEED help from educators to:

  • Evaluate resources in the Library

  • Think through strategies for accomplishing our work

  • Think through programming for accomplishing our work

  • Collaborate

  • Network (e.g., with climate / environmental literacy initiatives and STEM programs)

We want to give people who are enthusiastic about repair a space to deploy their strengths, and for the Project to cover more ground.

If you’d like to help out, take a look around the website.

Then email and tell us a little about yourself, including what work you’re interested in and what skills and experience you would bring to the work. The email address is “contact” at this domain.