Volume 90 (2023), Edition 2

The history of repair is usually told as a story of decline: the changing relation- ship between the purchase and repair costs of consumer goods meant that private consumers were increasingly disinclined to have items repaired and tended to directly...

The paper describes the home of western German families as a never-ending project of repairing in the Federal Republic of Germany since 1945. The main focus lays on gendered practices and appropriations of space. Repairing and maintaining were...

In academic and public discourses, practices of repurposing – like practices of repairing – are usually either interpreted as universal, timeless activities and thus deprived of their historical context, or reduced to a coping strategy in times...

Early micro computers of the so called 8 and 16 bit era (1975–1985) are important objects of hardware and software preservation for different reasons: today‘s hardware and software industries had been built on those machines (especially computer...