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  <title>Platform21 = Repairing</title>
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  <title type="html">Remarkable Repairs</title>
  <subtitle type="html">All the entries to the competition now online!</subtitle>
  <summary type="html">&#60;p&#62;We received over 60 entries from all over the world in our Most Remarkable Repair Contest. They are all listed here. Do find yourself inspired by these clever repairs and pick your favourite. &#60;br/&#62;
Sunday 30 August, during the last day of &#60;em&#62;Platform21 = Repairing&#60;/em&#62;, we announced who made the most remarkable repair according to our jury.&#60;/p&#62;

&#60;p&#62;The jury, consisting of amateur repairwoman and hotel owner Suzanne Oxenaar (Lloyd Hotel), tool tester and editor-in-chief Erwin van der Zande (Bright), and curator and inventor Arne Hendriks (Platform21), picked a winner and runner-up from ten nominees. Winner Siba Sahabi got to take home the special Repair Award created by artist Jan Vormann, and received an extensive Dremel toolkit. Also runner-up Capyso Schuijt was awarded a multifunctional Dremel. A shortlist of the best entries will be published in Bright magazine of October/ November.&#60;/p&#62;</summary>
  <content type="html">&#60;p&#62;&#60;strong&#62;WINNER&#60;/strong&#62;&#60;br/&#62;
&#60;span class=&#34;inline-image-wrapper&#34;&#62;&#60;a href=&#34;http://www.platform21.nl/id/5667&#34;&#62;&#60;img src=&#34;http://www.platform21.nl/image/028/5667-335-400.jpg&#34; height=&#34;400&#34; width=&#34;335&#34; alt=&#34;Repaired plastic bag, Siba Sahabi&#34; title=&#34;Repaired plastic bag, Siba Sahabi&#34; /&#62;&#60;/a&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;inline-caption&#34;&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;caption-title&#34;&#62;&#60;a title=&#34;Click to get a larger image - Repaired plastic bag, Siba Sahabi - Platform 21&#34; href=&#34;/page/5667/en&#34;&#62;Repaired plastic bag, Siba Sahabi&#60;/a&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;br/&#62;
What interests me most are small intimate situations in daily life, just because they are so ordinary. The point of my repairs is not to make a two day bag from a one day bag. My question is if there is still a space for these handicapped objects and their stories.&#60;br/&#62;
&#60;strong&#62;Siba Sahabi&#60;/strong&#62;&#60;/p&#62;

&#60;p&#62;&#60;strong&#62;RUNNER-UP&#60;/strong&#62;&#60;br/&#62;
&#60;span class=&#34;inline-image-wrapper&#34;&#62;&#60;a href=&#34;http://www.platform21.nl/id/5635&#34;&#62;&#60;img src=&#34;http://www.platform21.nl/image/661/5635-400-290.jpg&#34; height=&#34;290&#34; width=&#34;400&#34; alt=&#34;Shrunken sweater, Calypso Schuijt&#34; title=&#34;Shrunken sweater, Calypso Schuijt&#34; /&#62;&#60;/a&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;inline-caption&#34;&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;caption-title&#34;&#62;&#60;a title=&#34;Click to get a larger image - Shrunken sweater, Calypso Schuijt - Platform 21&#34; href=&#34;/page/5635/en&#34;&#62;Shrunken sweater, Calypso Schuijt&#60;/a&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;br/&#62;
I was looking for a way to repair my shrunken sweater, not by adding another layer of fabric but with the sweater in itself, to respect the original as much as possible.&#60;br/&#62;
How could it be enlarged again?&#60;br/&#62;
Cutting the fabric in a brick pattern made the shrunken sweater stretchable again and by putting it on, it adjusted into a wearable size automatically.&#60;br/&#62;
&#60;strong&#62;Calypso Schuijt, the Netherlands&#60;/strong&#62;&#60;/p&#62;

&#60;p&#62;&#60;strong&#62;NOMINEE&#60;/strong&#62;&#60;br/&#62;
&#60;span class=&#34;inline-image-wrapper&#34;&#62;&#60;a href=&#34;http://www.platform21.nl/id/5626&#34;&#62;&#60;img src=&#34;http://www.platform21.nl/image/189/5626-266-400.jpg&#34; height=&#34;400&#34; width=&#34;266&#34; alt=&#34;Repaired drainpipe, Jaap van der Feer&#34; title=&#34;Repaired drainpipe, Jaap van der Feer&#34; /&#62;&#60;/a&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;inline-caption&#34;&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;caption-title&#34;&#62;&#60;a title=&#34;Click to get a larger image - Repaired drainpipe, Jaap van der Feer - Platform 21&#34; href=&#34;/page/5626/en&#34;&#62;Repaired drainpipe, Jaap van der Feer&#60;/a&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;br/&#62;
There always are some boys playing football in our  nice street with houses from the 1930s. A few years ago the ball smashed the drainpipe. Afterwards it started to rain and I had to come up with a quick solution. A coke bottle proved to be a good solution that has been lasting for years and that provokes a lot of surprised responses. &#60;br/&#62;
&#60;strong&#62;Jaap van der Feer, the Netherlands&#60;/strong&#62;&#60;/p&#62;

&#60;p&#62;&#60;strong&#62;NOMINEE&#60;/strong&#62;&#60;br/&#62;
&#60;span class=&#34;inline-image-wrapper&#34;&#62;&#60;a href=&#34;http://www.platform21.nl/id/5656&#34;&#62;&#60;img src=&#34;http://www.platform21.nl/image/527/5656-400-273.png&#34; height=&#34;273&#34; width=&#34;400&#34; alt=&#34;Gerepareerde gramafoonspeler, Vince Vijsma&#34; title=&#34;Gerepareerde gramafoonspeler, Vince Vijsma&#34; /&#62;&#60;/a&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;inline-caption&#34;&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;caption-title&#34;&#62;&#60;a title=&#34;Click to get a larger image - Gerepareerde gramafoonspeler, Vince Vijsma - Platform 21&#34; href=&#34;/page/5656/en&#34;&#62;Gerepareerde gramafoonspeler, Vince Vijsma&#60;/a&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;br/&#62;
I repaired a gramophone from 1910:&#60;br/&#62;
Th mechanism was broken. Therefore I attached my Iphone to the horn with a soft foam connective piece over the Iphone’s loudspeaker. &#60;br/&#62;
This results in a wonderful sounds, especially horns sound amazing. &#60;br/&#62;
&#60;strong&#62;Vince Vijsma, Amsterdam, the Netherlands&#60;/strong&#62;&#60;/p&#62;

&#60;p&#62;&#60;strong&#62;NOMINEE&#60;/strong&#62;&#60;br/&#62;
&#60;span class=&#34;inline-image-wrapper&#34;&#62;&#60;a href=&#34;http://www.platform21.nl/id/5622&#34;&#62;&#60;img src=&#34;http://www.platform21.nl/image/974/5622-400-300.jpg&#34; height=&#34;300&#34; width=&#34;400&#34; alt=&#34;Staircase repair, Any-One&#34; title=&#34;Staircase repair, Any-One&#34; /&#62;&#60;/a&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;inline-caption&#34;&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;caption-title&#34;&#62;&#60;a title=&#34;Click to get a larger image - Staircase repair, Any-One - Platform 21&#34; href=&#34;/page/5622/en&#34;&#62;Staircase repair, Any-One&#60;/a&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;br/&#62;
Banister repair &#60;br/&#62;
&#60;strong&#62;Entry by Any-One&#60;/strong&#62;&#60;/p&#62;

&#60;p&#62;&#60;strong&#62;NOMINEE&#60;/strong&#62;&#60;br/&#62;
&#60;span class=&#34;inline-image-wrapper&#34;&#62;&#60;a href=&#34;http://www.platform21.nl/id/5664&#34;&#62;&#60;img src=&#34;http://www.platform21.nl/image/822/5664-400-302.png&#34; height=&#34;302&#34; width=&#34;400&#34; alt=&#34;Repaired microwave, Gerald Tros&#34; title=&#34;Repaired microwave, Gerald Tros&#34; /&#62;&#60;/a&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;inline-caption&#34;&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;caption-title&#34;&#62;&#60;a title=&#34;Click to get a larger image - Repaired microwave, Gerald Tros - Platform 21&#34; href=&#34;/page/5664/en&#34;&#62;Repaired microwave, Gerald Tros&#60;/a&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;br/&#62;
Ai, the microwave broke. At least, it doesn’t respond to some of the buttons. And that is very annoying, especially when the ‘On’ button doesn’t function or only sometimes. So I opened up the microwave and examined it. It appeared that the keyboard simply didn’t make the right connections at some buttons. With a strong lens cracks in the flat cable were visible. Maybe they were caused by year of vibration? When I enquired about a new keyboard I learned this would cost 170 guilders. Well, then I’d better make sure the keyboard was really causing this problem.  Do you know what? We will replicate the keyboard! So I did. First I found out which combinations of cables would result in which functions. Wooden slat, copper thread, nails, plastic… And then with ten wires, taken from an old telephone cable, at the bottom of the keyboard cable soldered to the print. And… It works! All ‘buttons’ are functioning again! Shall I buy the new keyboard now? Ah, why actually? Lets just attach this one to the front of the microwave, at its original spot. This has been working for nine years now. &#60;br/&#62;
When a friend experienced the same defect with a practically similar microwave I made her a classy version of this solution, which has been working for four years now. &#60;br/&#62;
&#60;strong&#62;Gerald Tros, Amsterdam, the Netherlands&#60;/strong&#62;&#60;/p&#62;

&#60;p&#62;&#60;strong&#62;NOMINEE&#60;/strong&#62;&#60;br/&#62;
&#60;span class=&#34;inline-image-wrapper&#34;&#62;&#60;a href=&#34;http://www.platform21.nl/id/5671&#34;&#62;&#60;img src=&#34;http://www.platform21.nl/image/837/5671-400-156.png&#34; height=&#34;156&#34; width=&#34;400&#34; alt=&#34;Repaired sheets, Marina van Goor&#34; title=&#34;Repaired sheets, Marina van Goor&#34; /&#62;&#60;/a&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;inline-caption&#34;&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;caption-title&#34;&#62;&#60;a title=&#34;Click to get a larger image - Repaired sheets, Marina van Goor - Platform 21&#34; href=&#34;/page/5671/en&#34;&#62;Repaired sheets, Marina van Goor&#60;/a&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;br/&#62;
I repaired my sheets with 1001 stitches of glow in the dark thread.&#60;br/&#62;
&#60;strong&#62;Marina van Goor&#60;/strong&#62;&#60;/p&#62;

&#60;p&#62;&#60;strong&#62;NOMINEE&#60;/strong&#62;&#60;br/&#62;
&#60;span class=&#34;inline-image-wrapper&#34;&#62;&#60;a href=&#34;http://www.platform21.nl/id/5677&#34;&#62;&#60;img src=&#34;http://www.platform21.nl/image/766/5677-400-350.png&#34; height=&#34;350&#34; width=&#34;400&#34; alt=&#34;Repaired tea-towel, Clara Vankerschaver&#34; title=&#34;Repaired tea-towel, Clara Vankerschaver&#34; /&#62;&#60;/a&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;inline-caption&#34;&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;caption-title&#34;&#62;&#60;a title=&#34;Click to get a larger image - Repaired tea-towel, Clara Vankerschaver - Platform 21&#34; href=&#34;/page/5677/en&#34;&#62;Repaired tea-towel, Clara Vankerschaver&#60;/a&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;br/&#62;
Ooit iets gerepareerd waar je super trots op bent? &#60;br/&#62;
Jazeker!&#60;br/&#62;
Ik vond een stuk stof in een opslag vol afgekeurd textiel. Ik gebruik het als theedoek, maar er zit een gat in. Voor de reparatie was ik geïnspireerd door de ouderwetse techniek gebruikt voor het stoppen van sokken. De theedoek heeft een pied-de-poule motief dat ik wilde behouden. Het was een tijdrovende en moeilijke klus en na een uur zag ik al een beetje scheel, maar het was zeker de moeite waard. Ik heb niet alleen een nieuwe techniek geleerd, maar ik ben ook opeens veel meer van deze gekke theedoek gaan houden als ik daarvoor deed. Ik verheug me al een beetje op het volgende gat.&#60;br/&#62;
&#60;strong&#62;Clara Vankerschaver&#60;/strong&#62;&#60;/p&#62;

&#60;p&#62;&#60;strong&#62;NOMINEE&#60;/strong&#62;&#60;br/&#62;
&#60;span class=&#34;inline-image-wrapper&#34;&#62;&#60;a href=&#34;http://www.platform21.nl/id/5680&#34;&#62;&#60;img src=&#34;http://www.platform21.nl/image/728/5680-400-174.png&#34; height=&#34;174&#34; width=&#34;400&#34; alt=&#34;Repaired, plant, Nienke van der Meulen&#34; title=&#34;Repaired, plant, Nienke van der Meulen&#34; /&#62;&#60;/a&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;inline-caption&#34;&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;caption-title&#34;&#62;&#60;a title=&#34;Click to get a larger image - Repaired, plant, Nienke van der Meulen - Platform 21&#34; href=&#34;/page/5680/en&#34;&#62;Repaired, plant, Nienke van der Meulen&#60;/a&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;br/&#62;
As a textiles designer I work with different structures and materials. That is also how I ended up working with plants. I perforated leafs of different plants. This may seem natural, but actually I took my inspiration from nature, from caterpillars for instance and the monstera delicousa (also knon as hole plant). When it turned out that the afterwards the plants keep developing and even made these interventions their own, I also started researched it the other way around: to repair injured leafs. For this design I replaced the deceased part of the leave with textile, instead of cutting the doomed leaf and throwing it away. &#60;br/&#62;
&#60;strong&#62;Nienke van der Meulen&#60;/strong&#62;&#60;/p&#62;

&#60;p&#62;&#60;strong&#62;NOMINEE&#60;/strong&#62;&#60;br/&#62;
&#60;img src=&#34;fig69&#34; alt=&#34;fig69&#34; /&#62;&#60;br/&#62;
Bison Kintsugi. I developed a new view of gluing porcelain based on kintsugi, an old Japanese technique in which porcelain is repaired with gold leaf. It’s an extremely time-consuming, expensive method. I found Bison glue to be the perfect Western variant for making beautiful yet simple repairs. Discover the beauty of messy mending!&#60;br/&#62;
&#60;strong&#62;Lotte Dekker, Amsterdam, the Netherlands&#60;/strong&#62;&#60;/p&#62;

&#60;p&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;inline-image-wrapper&#34;&#62;&#60;a href=&#34;http://www.platform21.nl/id/5623&#34;&#62;&#60;img src=&#34;http://www.platform21.nl/image/725/5623-372-400.png&#34; height=&#34;400&#34; width=&#34;372&#34; alt=&#34;Instinctive Design, Ana Lisa Alperovich&#34; title=&#34;Instinctive Design, Ana Lisa Alperovich&#34; /&#62;&#60;/a&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;inline-caption&#34;&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;caption-title&#34;&#62;&#60;a title=&#34;Click to get a larger image - Instinctive Design, Ana Lisa Alperovich - Platform 21&#34; href=&#34;/page/5623/en&#34;&#62;Instinctive Design, Ana Lisa Alperovich&#60;/a&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;br/&#62;
Instinctive Design is a free book that celebrates everyday creative problem solving and temporary solutions. With lists, quotes, photos and stories on methods that people use to find new uses for objects around them.&#60;br/&#62;
&#60;strong&#62;Ana Lisa Alperovich, London, UK&#60;/strong&#62;&#60;/p&#62;

&#60;p&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;inline-image-wrapper&#34;&#62;&#60;a href=&#34;http://www.platform21.nl/id/5625&#34;&#62;&#60;img src=&#34;http://www.platform21.nl/image/531/5625-400-110.png&#34; height=&#34;110&#34; width=&#34;400&#34; alt=&#34;Repaired Gamecube controller, Jake Tobak&#34; title=&#34;Repaired Gamecube controller, Jake Tobak&#34; /&#62;&#60;/a&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;inline-caption&#34;&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;caption-title&#34;&#62;&#60;a title=&#34;Click to get a larger image - Repaired Gamecube controller, Jake Tobak - Platform 21&#34; href=&#34;/page/5625/en&#34;&#62;Repaired Gamecube controller, Jake Tobak&#60;/a&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;br/&#62;
I repaired the thumbpad on a Gamecube controller joystick by coating the sharp stub in a plastic/rubber coating that made it comfortable to use again and also gives a good grip. There&#39;s nothing really ‘special’ about it, but I did feel pretty good when it was done and everything worked!&#60;br/&#62;
&#60;strong&#62;Jake Tobak, Rhode Island, USA&#60;/strong&#62;&#60;/p&#62;

&#60;p&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;inline-image-wrapper&#34;&#62;&#60;a href=&#34;http://www.platform21.nl/id/5627&#34;&#62;&#60;img src=&#34;http://www.platform21.nl/image/270/5627-400-145.png&#34; height=&#34;145&#34; width=&#34;400&#34; alt=&#34;Repaired wagonette, Jack Vreeke&#34; title=&#34;Repaired wagonette, Jack Vreeke&#34; /&#62;&#60;/a&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;inline-caption&#34;&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;caption-title&#34;&#62;&#60;a title=&#34;Click to get a larger image - Repaired wagonette, Jack Vreeke - Platform 21&#34; href=&#34;/page/5627/en&#34;&#62;Repaired wagonette, Jack Vreeke&#60;/a&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;br/&#62;
Looking for a steering wheel for a new Art car in the scrapheap I found a totally rotten and rusted wagonette. The steering and pedal drive were the only things still functioning. After a big transformation including removing wooden doors, seats and a lot of rust, lowering the steering wheel and moving the handbrake, it now drives perfectly!&#60;br/&#62;
&#60;strong&#62;Jack Vreeke, Weert, the Netherlands&#60;/strong&#62;&#60;/p&#62;

&#60;p&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;inline-image-wrapper&#34;&#62;&#60;a href=&#34;http://www.platform21.nl/id/5628&#34;&#62;&#60;img src=&#34;http://www.platform21.nl/image/584/5628-400-300.jpg&#34; height=&#34;300&#34; width=&#34;400&#34; alt=&#34;Repaired remote control, DJ Wiendels&#34; title=&#34;Repaired remote control, DJ Wiendels&#34; /&#62;&#60;/a&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;inline-caption&#34;&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;caption-title&#34;&#62;&#60;a title=&#34;Click to get a larger image - Repaired remote control, DJ Wiendels - Platform 21&#34; href=&#34;/page/5628/en&#34;&#62;Repaired remote control, DJ Wiendels&#60;/a&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;br/&#62;
After dropping the remote control there was a hole in the back so that the batteries wouldn’t be pressed against the metal contact points anymore. The surface was not strong enough to glue, so I put all sorts of rubbish I had lying around – a wire to close a plastic lunch bag with, a plug that I cut to size – in the hole. As the material of the plug springs a bit, you can now click the batteries in again so they touch the metal.&#60;br/&#62;
&#60;strong&#62;DJ Wiendels, the Netherlands&#60;/strong&#62;&#60;/p&#62;

&#60;p&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;inline-image-wrapper&#34;&#62;&#60;a href=&#34;http://www.platform21.nl/id/5629&#34;&#62;&#60;img src=&#34;http://www.platform21.nl/image/827/5629-400-300.jpg&#34; height=&#34;300&#34; width=&#34;400&#34; alt=&#34;Repaired hammer, Liaf Lijbers&#34; title=&#34;Repaired hammer, Liaf Lijbers&#34; /&#62;&#60;/a&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;inline-caption&#34;&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;caption-title&#34;&#62;&#60;a title=&#34;Click to get a larger image - Repaired hammer, Liaf Lijbers - Platform 21&#34; href=&#34;/page/5629/en&#34;&#62;Repaired hammer, Liaf Lijbers&#60;/a&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;br/&#62;
The hammer had lost its handle. With this new bit of wood I can use it again and I think it looks prettier and more robust now.&#60;br/&#62;
&#60;strong&#62;Liaf Lijbers, the Netherlands&#60;/strong&#62;&#60;/p&#62;

&#60;p&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;inline-image-wrapper&#34;&#62;&#60;a href=&#34;http://www.platform21.nl/id/5630&#34;&#62;&#60;img src=&#34;http://www.platform21.nl/image/230/5630-400-300.jpg&#34; height=&#34;300&#34; width=&#34;400&#34; alt=&#34;Repaired T-shirt, Sara Martin Mazorra&#34; title=&#34;Repaired T-shirt, Sara Martin Mazorra&#34; /&#62;&#60;/a&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;inline-caption&#34;&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;caption-title&#34;&#62;&#60;a title=&#34;Click to get a larger image - Repaired T-shirt, Sara Martin Mazorra - Platform 21&#34; href=&#34;/page/5630/en&#34;&#62;Repaired T-shirt, Sara Martin Mazorra&#60;/a&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;br/&#62;
Many of my most basic shirts are full of holes. I could sew them shut, but why pretend the gap was never there? &#60;br/&#62;
Inspired by a building, which usually has a concrete skeleton as a main supporting structure, I found that the seams of the shirts are like this structure. They hold the piece together and provide strong anchoring points.&#60;br/&#62;
Instead of covering up the holes I just took their width and length and cut it out in a square shape and re-attached it to the nearest seem. This created a new 3D shape. The hole not only becomes emphasized but it also becomes a guideline for a new form within the garment.&#60;br/&#62;
&#60;strong&#62;Sara Martin Mazorra, the Netherlands&#60;/strong&#62;&#60;/p&#62;

&#60;p&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;inline-image-wrapper&#34;&#62;&#60;a href=&#34;http://www.platform21.nl/id/5631&#34;&#62;&#60;img src=&#34;http://www.platform21.nl/image/933/5631-400-300.jpg&#34; height=&#34;300&#34; width=&#34;400&#34; alt=&#34;Repaired bottle, Esther Brakenhoff&#34; title=&#34;Repaired bottle, Esther Brakenhoff&#34; /&#62;&#60;/a&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;inline-caption&#34;&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;caption-title&#34;&#62;&#60;a title=&#34;Click to get a larger image - Repaired bottle, Esther Brakenhoff - Platform 21&#34; href=&#34;/page/5631/en&#34;&#62;Repaired bottle, Esther Brakenhoff&#60;/a&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;br/&#62;
I found this glass bottle on the beach and liked it because it is cut by the sea and the sand. I put the glass top of the bottle on the bottom of a plastic bottle so it could contain fluids again. Unfortunately the glass broke during my repair so I had to find a way in which to hold the pieces tidely together. I wrapped it as tight as I could in cotton thread. Now it also better suited for warm drinks, which stay warm longer now the bottle has a new coat. &#60;br/&#62;
&#60;strong&#62;Esther Brakenhoff, the Netherlands&#60;/strong&#62;&#60;/p&#62;

&#60;p&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;inline-image-wrapper&#34;&#62;&#60;a href=&#34;http://www.platform21.nl/id/5637&#34;&#62;&#60;img src=&#34;http://www.platform21.nl/image/998/5637-400-214.png&#34; height=&#34;214&#34; width=&#34;400&#34; alt=&#34;A rabbit proof patch, Sofie Linneberg&#34; title=&#34;A rabbit proof patch, Sofie Linneberg&#34; /&#62;&#60;/a&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;inline-caption&#34;&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;caption-title&#34;&#62;&#60;a title=&#34;Click to get a larger image - A rabbit proof patch, Sofie Linneberg - Platform 21&#34; href=&#34;/page/5637/en&#34;&#62;A rabbit proof patch, Sofie Linneberg&#60;/a&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;br/&#62;
A rabbitproof patch&#60;br/&#62;
&#60;strong&#62;Sofie Linneberg, Denmark&#60;/strong&#62;&#60;/p&#62;

&#60;p&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;inline-image-wrapper&#34;&#62;&#60;a href=&#34;http://www.platform21.nl/id/5632&#34;&#62;&#60;img src=&#34;http://www.platform21.nl/image/608/5632-400-300.jpg&#34; height=&#34;300&#34; width=&#34;400&#34; alt=&#34;Repaired handkerchief, Esther Brakenhoff&#34; title=&#34;Repaired handkerchief, Esther Brakenhoff&#34; /&#62;&#60;/a&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;inline-caption&#34;&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;caption-title&#34;&#62;&#60;a title=&#34;Click to get a larger image - Repaired handkerchief, Esther Brakenhoff - Platform 21&#34; href=&#34;/page/5632/en&#34;&#62;Repaired handkerchief, Esther Brakenhoff&#60;/a&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;br/&#62;
The handkerchief was all holed up after intensive use. I have tried to darn the holes in the way my grandmother would do it, so it can resist another big cold. &#60;br/&#62;
&#60;strong&#62;Esther Brakenhoff, the Netherlands&#60;/strong&#62;&#60;/p&#62;

&#60;p&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;inline-image-wrapper&#34;&#62;&#60;a href=&#34;http://www.platform21.nl/id/5633&#34;&#62;&#60;img src=&#34;http://www.platform21.nl/image/026/5633-400-308.png&#34; height=&#34;308&#34; width=&#34;400&#34; alt=&#34;House as Second Skin, Patricia Guarda&#34; title=&#34;House as Second Skin, Patricia Guarda&#34; /&#62;&#60;/a&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;inline-caption&#34;&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;caption-title&#34;&#62;&#60;a title=&#34;Click to get a larger image - House as Second Skin, Patricia Guarda - Platform 21&#34; href=&#34;/page/5633/en&#34;&#62;House as Second Skin, Patricia Guarda&#60;/a&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;br/&#62;
I made a book called ‘House as Second Skin’ and a repairing kit with some of the material I used.&#60;br/&#62;
I went to an old house and repaired its holes like we repair a garment. &#60;br/&#62;
The house reminded me of an old lady, with wrinkles that tell stories. I tried to keep the same atmosphere and used embroidery textiles, silicone and pearls for my repairs.&#60;br/&#62;
&#60;strong&#62;Patricia Guarda, the Netherlands&#60;/strong&#62;&#60;/p&#62;

&#60;p&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;inline-image-wrapper&#34;&#62;&#60;a href=&#34;http://www.platform21.nl/id/5634&#34;&#62;&#60;img src=&#34;http://www.platform21.nl/image/602/5634-400-300.jpg&#34; height=&#34;300&#34; width=&#34;400&#34; alt=&#34;Knitting glasses, Francien Degewij&#34; title=&#34;Knitting glasses, Francien Degewij&#34; /&#62;&#60;/a&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;inline-caption&#34;&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;caption-title&#34;&#62;&#60;a title=&#34;Click to get a larger image - Knitting glasses, Francien Degewij - Platform 21&#34; href=&#34;/page/5634/en&#34;&#62;Knitting glasses, Francien Degewij&#60;/a&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;br/&#62;
These glasses offer outward protection to hide behind. At the same time they also express the uniqueness of its wearer. Anonymity and uniqueness in one.&#60;br/&#62;
&#60;strong&#62;Francien Degewij, the Netherlands&#60;/strong&#62;&#60;/p&#62;

&#60;p&#62; &#60;span class=&#34;inline-image-wrapper&#34;&#62;&#60;a href=&#34;http://www.platform21.nl/id/5636&#34;&#62;&#60;img src=&#34;http://www.platform21.nl/image/580/5636-400-300.jpg&#34; height=&#34;300&#34; width=&#34;400&#34; alt=&#34;Jeans repair, Lea Kristensen&#34; title=&#34;Jeans repair, Lea Kristensen&#34; /&#62;&#60;/a&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;inline-caption&#34;&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;caption-title&#34;&#62;&#60;a title=&#34;Click to get a larger image - Jeans repair, Lea Kristensen - Platform 21&#34; href=&#34;/page/5636/en&#34;&#62;Jeans repair, Lea Kristensen&#60;/a&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;br/&#62;
I repaired my jeans, which were worn out between the legs. I used the sock darning technique, only used on socks, but I thought it would be nice on jeans too, and it sure is. &#60;br/&#62;
&#60;strong&#62;Lea Kristensen, Denmark&#60;/strong&#62;&#60;/p&#62;

&#60;p&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;inline-image-wrapper&#34;&#62;&#60;a href=&#34;http://www.platform21.nl/id/5638&#34;&#62;&#60;img src=&#34;http://www.platform21.nl/image/710/5638-400-300.jpg&#34; height=&#34;300&#34; width=&#34;400&#34; alt=&#34;Gerepareerde naaikoffer, Jentie Kramer&#34; title=&#34;Gerepareerde naaikoffer, Jentie Kramer&#34; /&#62;&#60;/a&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;inline-caption&#34;&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;caption-title&#34;&#62;&#60;a title=&#34;Click to get a larger image - Gerepareerde naaikoffer, Jentie Kramer - Platform 21&#34; href=&#34;/page/5638/en&#34;&#62;Gerepareerde naaikoffer, Jentie Kramer&#60;/a&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;br/&#62;
Because the lid was loose and there were several cracks in my sewing suitcase, I couldn’t use it anymore. I used old threads from the fifties for its repair which I crocheted and then used these thicker threads to sew the parts together. &#60;br/&#62;
Crocheting was the first thing I learnt that had to do with sewing. As a child I would see my mother making beautiful things and think: I want to be able to do that too. Later I also learnt how to knit and make clothes on the sewing machine. It felt good to go back to crocheting to repair this old suitcase. &#60;br/&#62;
&#60;strong&#62;Jentie Kraamer, the Netherlands&#60;/strong&#62;&#60;/p&#62;

&#60;p&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;inline-image-wrapper&#34;&#62;&#60;a href=&#34;http://www.platform21.nl/id/5639&#34;&#62;&#60;img src=&#34;http://www.platform21.nl/image/505/5639-400-203.png&#34; height=&#34;203&#34; width=&#34;400&#34; alt=&#34;Hexnut shoes, Lise Grosen&#34; title=&#34;Hexnut shoes, Lise Grosen&#34; /&#62;&#60;/a&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;inline-caption&#34;&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;caption-title&#34;&#62;&#60;a title=&#34;Click to get a larger image - Hexnut shoes, Lise Grosen - Platform 21&#34; href=&#34;/page/5639/en&#34;&#62;Hexnut shoes, Lise Grosen&#60;/a&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;br/&#62;
I chose to make new shoes from old shoes that I bought in a second hand shop. It was both a kind of repairing and styling. I chose to work with hex nuts, because I would like to give the hex nuts a new function instead of just seeing them as a building material used with screws. &#60;br/&#62;
The result is a shoe, which is very rough and masculine with all the metal and hex nuts, but on the same time it also is very feminine as the hex nuts catch the light and almost look like some shiny jewelry.&#60;br/&#62;
&#60;strong&#62;Lise Grosen, Krabbesholm, Denmark&#60;/strong&#62;&#60;/p&#62;

&#60;p&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;inline-image-wrapper&#34;&#62;&#60;a href=&#34;http://www.platform21.nl/id/5640&#34;&#62;&#60;img src=&#34;http://www.platform21.nl/image/420/5640-300-400.jpg&#34; height=&#34;400&#34; width=&#34;300&#34; alt=&#34;With your Chair in the Clouds, Nathalie Tappin&#34; title=&#34;With your Chair in the Clouds, Nathalie Tappin&#34; /&#62;&#60;/a&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;inline-caption&#34;&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;caption-title&#34;&#62;&#60;a title=&#34;Click to get a larger image - With your Chair in the Clouds, Nathalie Tappin - Platform 21&#34; href=&#34;/page/5640/en&#34;&#62;With your Chair in the Clouds, Nathalie Tappin&#60;/a&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;br/&#62;
The cover of the seat of the chair was damaged. There were small and big tears in the leather. As a pattern these tears looked quite attractive and I decided to use this quality. I started to fill these tears with white wool. Quickly I had the feeling something was growing out of the chair and that it was starting to live. &#60;br/&#62;
It is not a logical way of repairing, but when is something repaired? When is the repair finished and when is it beautiful? These things can be arguable. &#60;br/&#62;
When I felt like my repair was finished I had the feeling as if something was growing out of the chair, some sort of clouds. Therefore I named it ‘ With the Chair in the Clouds’. &#60;br/&#62;
&#60;strong&#62;Nathalie Tappin, the Netherlands&#60;/strong&#62;&#60;/p&#62;

&#60;p&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;inline-image-wrapper&#34;&#62;&#60;a href=&#34;http://www.platform21.nl/id/5641&#34;&#62;&#60;img src=&#34;http://www.platform21.nl/image/216/5641-400-271.png&#34; height=&#34;271&#34; width=&#34;400&#34; alt=&#34;Bright Light, Cindy Wouters&#34; title=&#34;Bright Light, Cindy Wouters&#34; /&#62;&#60;/a&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;inline-caption&#34;&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;caption-title&#34;&#62;&#60;a title=&#34;Click to get a larger image - Bright Light, Cindy Wouters - Platform 21&#34; href=&#34;/page/5641/en&#34;&#62;Bright Light, Cindy Wouters&#60;/a&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;br/&#62;
The paper of which this fragile lamp was made ripped. Luckily, because this accident made the standard lamp into something different. With the repair I exegerated its new unique character. The mysterious opening makes you curious, you get to peep at the light. &#60;br/&#62;
&#60;strong&#62;Cindy Wouters, the Netherlands&#60;/strong&#62;&#60;/p&#62;

&#60;p&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;inline-image-wrapper&#34;&#62;&#60;a href=&#34;http://www.platform21.nl/id/5642&#34;&#62;&#60;img src=&#34;http://www.platform21.nl/image/579/5642-400-152.png&#34; height=&#34;152&#34; width=&#34;400&#34; alt=&#34;Repaired Couch, Gretchen Rusnak&#34; title=&#34;Repaired Couch, Gretchen Rusnak&#34; /&#62;&#60;/a&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;inline-caption&#34;&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;caption-title&#34;&#62;&#60;a title=&#34;Click to get a larger image - Repaired Couch, Gretchen Rusnak - Platform 21&#34; href=&#34;/page/5642/en&#34;&#62;Repaired Couch, Gretchen Rusnak&#60;/a&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;br/&#62;
This couch has been in my family since before I was born, I am now 27 years old. It was already deeply ripped on the arms when my parents got it from my grandparents&#39; neighbours. It has been covered with a blanket for as long as I can remember. &#60;br/&#62;
We looked for other couches, but couldn&#39;t find anything as long and comfortable for a decent price. So, I decided this would be my project. I found a fabric close to the original, added new springs, replaced padding, and replaced the cushions. I kept the original buttons. &#60;br/&#62;
&#60;strong&#62;Gretchen Rusnak, Ohio, United States&#60;/strong&#62;&#60;/p&#62;

&#60;p&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;inline-image-wrapper&#34;&#62;&#60;a href=&#34;http://www.platform21.nl/id/5643&#34;&#62;&#60;img src=&#34;http://www.platform21.nl/image/169/5643-300-400.jpg&#34; height=&#34;400&#34; width=&#34;300&#34; alt=&#34;Repaired Porch, Jane ni Dhulchaointigh&#34; title=&#34;Repaired Porch, Jane ni Dhulchaointigh&#34; /&#62;&#60;/a&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;inline-caption&#34;&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;caption-title&#34;&#62;&#60;a title=&#34;Click to get a larger image - Repaired Porch, Jane ni Dhulchaointigh - Platform 21&#34; href=&#34;/page/5643/en&#34;&#62;Repaired Porch, Jane ni Dhulchaointigh&#60;/a&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;br/&#62;
I didn&#39;t do this repair, but I saw it and really liked it.&#60;br/&#62;
It is on the porch of a shop in London called Kokon To Zai on Golbourne Road. They repaired the beautiful old tiling with colored resin. Nice!&#60;br/&#62;
&#60;strong&#62;Jane ní Dhulchaointigh, London, United Kingdom&#60;/strong&#62;    &#60;/p&#62;

&#60;p&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;inline-image-wrapper&#34;&#62;&#60;a href=&#34;http://www.platform21.nl/id/5644&#34;&#62;&#60;img src=&#34;http://www.platform21.nl/image/083/5644-400-268.png&#34; height=&#34;268&#34; width=&#34;400&#34; alt=&#34;Selene&#38;#039;s Cast, Boris Wiasmitinow&#34; title=&#34;Selene&#38;#039;s Cast, Boris Wiasmitinow&#34; /&#62;&#60;/a&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;inline-caption&#34;&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;caption-title&#34;&#62;&#60;a title=&#34;Click to get a larger image - Selene&#39;s Cast, Boris Wiasmitinow - Platform 21&#34; href=&#34;/page/5644/en&#34;&#62;Selene&#39;s Cast, Boris Wiasmitinow&#60;/a&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;br/&#62;
Selene&#39;s Cast&#60;br/&#62;
&#60;strong&#62;Boris Wiasmitinow, Switzerland&#60;/strong&#62;&#60;/p&#62;

&#60;p&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;inline-image-wrapper&#34;&#62;&#60;a href=&#34;http://www.platform21.nl/id/5645&#34;&#62;&#60;img src=&#34;http://www.platform21.nl/image/272/5645-400-300.jpg&#34; height=&#34;300&#34; width=&#34;400&#34; alt=&#34;Gerepareerde kaasschaaf, Mies Langelaan&#34; title=&#34;Gerepareerde kaasschaaf, Mies Langelaan&#34; /&#62;&#60;/a&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;inline-caption&#34;&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;caption-title&#34;&#62;&#60;a title=&#34;Click to get a larger image - Gerepareerde kaasschaaf, Mies Langelaan - Platform 21&#34; href=&#34;/page/5645/en&#34;&#62;Gerepareerde kaasschaaf, Mies Langelaan&#60;/a&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;br/&#62;
I think it is a challenge to repair something, especially when I am attached to something. Like I am to this cheese cheeseslicer, which makes slices with exactly the right width, but of which the wooden handle split. This is already the second time I repaired a cheeseslicer in this way: with a garden hose clamp and a little bit of glue to keep it waterproof. It has already lasted for several years now; it only can’t go in the dishwasher!&#60;br/&#62;
I also repaired the glass lid to my favourite saucepan, of which the knob broke. At the hardware store I found a fitting door handle and with some extra rings it is solidly attached again!&#60;br/&#62;
&#60;strong&#62;Mies Langelaan-Scheepers, Emmen, the Netherlands&#60;/strong&#62;&#60;/p&#62;

&#60;p&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;inline-image-wrapper&#34;&#62;&#60;a href=&#34;http://www.platform21.nl/id/5647&#34;&#62;&#60;img src=&#34;http://www.platform21.nl/image/661/5647-300-400.jpg&#34; height=&#34;400&#34; width=&#34;300&#34; alt=&#34;Gerepareerde jas, Dineke Bos&#34; title=&#34;Gerepareerde jas, Dineke Bos&#34; /&#62;&#60;/a&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;inline-caption&#34;&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;caption-title&#34;&#62;&#60;a title=&#34;Click to get a larger image - Gerepareerde jas, Dineke Bos - Platform 21&#34; href=&#34;/page/5647/en&#34;&#62;Gerepareerde jas, Dineke Bos&#60;/a&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;br/&#62;
I repaired the winter coat of my husband, I think somewhere in the ‘90s. He smoked back then, but couldn’t finish a whole cigarette. He would stub it out and would put the butt in his pocket. You guess it; once it wasn’t stubbed out well and it burned a whole in his pocket. A waste of that beautiful coat. &#60;br/&#62;
At the time I was sewing a jeans jacket with a bright pink teddy lining. This fabric exactly matched the fabric of the coat and the colour difference only surprising. So I put a sampler in the hole and the coat is still around, we use it to work in the garden. &#60;br/&#62;
I have repaired things all my life, but I don’t think of myself as a miser, but do have a conscious.&#60;br/&#62;
&#60;strong&#62;Dineke Bos, the Netherlands&#60;/strong&#62;&#60;/p&#62;

&#60;p&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;inline-image-wrapper&#34;&#62;&#60;a href=&#34;http://www.platform21.nl/id/5648&#34;&#62;&#60;img src=&#34;http://www.platform21.nl/image/568/5648-354-400.png&#34; height=&#34;400&#34; width=&#34;354&#34; alt=&#34;Gerepareerde viool, Ronald de Jongh&#34; title=&#34;Gerepareerde viool, Ronald de Jongh&#34; /&#62;&#60;/a&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;inline-caption&#34;&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;caption-title&#34;&#62;&#60;a title=&#34;Click to get a larger image - Gerepareerde viool, Ronald de Jongh - Platform 21&#34; href=&#34;/page/5648/en&#34;&#62;Gerepareerde viool, Ronald de Jongh&#60;/a&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;br/&#62;
In 1984 I chose to study violin making in Italy, especially because the violin is a product that can be repaired over and over again. There are countless violins from the 17th century, also from Amsterdam, that are still played at a daily basis. &#60;br/&#62;
My entry is the repair of the violin Dutch artist Ellen ten Damme brought to me. During a hasty set change a roadie pushed the violin case shut while the violin was not placed in the correct way. This resulted in 23 long cracks in the top. With stage tape they carefully taped the pieces together.&#60;br/&#62;
After about three weeks, in which the cracks were glued one by one and were enforced on the inside by small diamantes – small pieces of wood – I could start retouching the lacquer. After another week the violin could be played again. The costs of such a repair are not so bad; only a fraction of what it would cost to buy a new comparable instrument. &#60;br/&#62;
&#60;strong&#62;Ronald de Jongh, Amsterdam, the Netherlands&#60;/strong&#62;&#60;/p&#62;

&#60;p&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;inline-image-wrapper&#34;&#62;&#60;a href=&#34;http://www.platform21.nl/id/5649&#34;&#62;&#60;img src=&#34;http://www.platform21.nl/image/189/5649-400-196.png&#34; height=&#34;196&#34; width=&#34;400&#34; alt=&#34;Gerepareerd mes, Joost van Boeschoten&#34; title=&#34;Gerepareerd mes, Joost van Boeschoten&#34; /&#62;&#60;/a&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;inline-caption&#34;&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;caption-title&#34;&#62;&#60;a title=&#34;Click to get a larger image - Gerepareerd mes, Joost van Boeschoten - Platform 21&#34; href=&#34;/page/5649/en&#34;&#62;Gerepareerd mes, Joost van Boeschoten&#60;/a&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;br/&#62;
This Japanese knife is phenomenal. The steel is exactly hard enough and still sharp after years of sharpening. The grip is very pleasant because of the balance, the shape and size of the handle. That is why I wanted to repair it when the knife started to show defaults: notable leeway in the connection between the handle and blade and visible cracks. &#60;br/&#62;
Twice I dislodged the handle from the blade, drilled the hole open and glued the parts back together, but this solution only lasted a few months each time and then loosened again. &#60;br/&#62;
Eventually I made a plaster cast of the whole knife, so I had a mould. Afterwards I again removed the handle and sanded the blade clean. Afterwards I put the blade in the mould and poored a new handle with resin. Voila: the original shape was kept, the balance is still perfect and the resin feels warmer and therefore more pleasant than the original plastic. &#60;br/&#62;
&#60;strong&#62;Joost van Boeschoten, the Netherlands&#60;/strong&#62;&#60;/p&#62;

&#60;p&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;inline-image-wrapper&#34;&#62;&#60;a href=&#34;http://www.platform21.nl/id/5650&#34;&#62;&#60;img src=&#34;http://www.platform21.nl/image/586/5650-300-400.jpg&#34; height=&#34;400&#34; width=&#34;300&#34; alt=&#34;Gerepareerde accordeon, JC Herman&#34; title=&#34;Gerepareerde accordeon, JC Herman&#34; /&#62;&#60;/a&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;inline-caption&#34;&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;caption-title&#34;&#62;&#60;a title=&#34;Click to get a larger image - Gerepareerde accordeon, JC Herman - Platform 21&#34; href=&#34;/page/5650/en&#34;&#62;Gerepareerde accordeon, JC Herman&#60;/a&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;br/&#62;
I repaired an accordion:&#60;br/&#62;
- There was a leak in the bellows, which I repaired with black and white tape&#60;br/&#62;
- There was no front for the mechanics, so I made one from Perspex&#60;br/&#62;
- The whole thing was varnished in an ugly shade of green. I sprayed it black, but on the white keys you still see the old varnish&#60;br/&#62;
- The mechanics on the inside were loose so I repaired that&#60;br/&#62;
- I replaced or shortened the leather straps to make them fit again. &#60;br/&#62;
Voila! I especially thought the Perspex turned out very well. Furthermore it functions again, although there is one black key missing. &#60;br/&#62;
&#60;strong&#62;Herman Verhagen, the Netherlands&#60;/strong&#62;&#60;/p&#62;

&#60;p&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;inline-image-wrapper&#34;&#62;&#60;a href=&#34;http://www.platform21.nl/id/5646&#34;&#62;&#60;img src=&#34;http://www.platform21.nl/image/570/5646-400-140.png&#34; height=&#34;140&#34; width=&#34;400&#34; alt=&#34;Renault 4, Anne-Marie Pronk&#34; title=&#34;Renault 4, Anne-Marie Pronk&#34; /&#62;&#60;/a&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;inline-caption&#34;&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;caption-title&#34;&#62;&#60;a title=&#34;Click to get a larger image - Renault 4, Anne-Marie Pronk - Platform 21&#34; href=&#34;/page/5646/en&#34;&#62;Renault 4, Anne-Marie Pronk&#60;/a&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;br/&#62;
Renault 4. We have had them in several sorts and sizes, an outstanding example of a repair it yourself car. The most legendary repair was the one on a white Renault 4 F6 when I drove a car on my own for the first time after passing my drivers’ test. &#60;br/&#62;
Courageously I loaded the trunk of my car full with glass: the student halls were cleaned up and in good spirits I drove to the bottle bank somewhere in the harbour at the other side of town. I wildly stepped on the accelerator and suddenly it ended up on the floor brought back to its essence: a steel plate on a string. At the time it made me go into a panic.&#60;br/&#62;
I looked for a telephone booth and called home. Very romantically my sweetheart raced over on his bike. The transfer from accelerator to motor was restored within 15 minutes with a paperclip he found in his pocket.&#60;br/&#62;
I am still impressed by it, by the paperclip and my sweetheart. He renovates the house, repairs old Vespas, espresso machines and the toys of our children. That paperclip and the Renault 4 F6 to me are still a symbol of his skills and inventiveness.&#60;br/&#62;
&#60;strong&#62;Anne-Marie Pronk, Arnhem, the Netherlands&#60;/strong&#62;&#60;/p&#62;

&#60;p&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;inline-image-wrapper&#34;&#62;&#60;a href=&#34;http://www.platform21.nl/id/5651&#34;&#62;&#60;img src=&#34;http://www.platform21.nl/image/427/5651-400-267.png&#34; height=&#34;267&#34; width=&#34;400&#34; alt=&#34;Times have changed, Boris Wiasmitinow&#34; title=&#34;Times have changed, Boris Wiasmitinow&#34; /&#62;&#60;/a&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;inline-caption&#34;&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;caption-title&#34;&#62;&#60;a title=&#34;Click to get a larger image - Times have changed, Boris Wiasmitinow - Platform 21&#34; href=&#34;/page/5651/en&#34;&#62;Times have changed, Boris Wiasmitinow&#60;/a&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;br/&#62;
Times have changed&#60;br/&#62;
&#60;strong&#62;Boris Wiasmitinow, Switzerland&#60;/strong&#62;&#60;/p&#62;

&#60;p&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;inline-image-wrapper&#34;&#62;&#60;a href=&#34;http://www.platform21.nl/id/5652&#34;&#62;&#60;img src=&#34;http://www.platform21.nl/image/631/5652-400-300.jpg&#34; height=&#34;300&#34; width=&#34;400&#34; alt=&#34;Sneaker repair, Cleo Grabijn&#34; title=&#34;Sneaker repair, Cleo Grabijn&#34; /&#62;&#60;/a&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;inline-caption&#34;&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;caption-title&#34;&#62;&#60;a title=&#34;Click to get a larger image - Sneaker repair, Cleo Grabijn - Platform 21&#34; href=&#34;/page/5652/en&#34;&#62;Sneaker repair, Cleo Grabijn&#60;/a&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;br/&#62;
A quick fix: All Star sneakers repaired with tape and the holes for the laces drawn on with a marker. &#60;br/&#62;
Cleo Grabijn, the Netherlands&#60;/p&#62;

&#60;p&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;inline-image-wrapper&#34;&#62;&#60;a href=&#34;http://www.platform21.nl/id/5653&#34;&#62;&#60;img src=&#34;http://www.platform21.nl/image/501/5653-400-261.png&#34; height=&#34;261&#34; width=&#34;400&#34; alt=&#34;Repair project, Edgar Mosa&#34; title=&#34;Repair project, Edgar Mosa&#34; /&#62;&#60;/a&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;inline-caption&#34;&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;caption-title&#34;&#62;&#60;a title=&#34;Click to get a larger image - Repair project, Edgar Mosa - Platform 21&#34; href=&#34;/page/5653/en&#34;&#62;Repair project, Edgar Mosa&#60;/a&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;br/&#62;
Last year I have developed a project on fixing that I have executed in Badhikel, a small village close by Kathmandu in Nepal.&#60;br/&#62;
Fascinated with the signs of age and history in objects found in people&#39;s homes, I, together with Sanjeev Maharjan, went around the small Village of Badhikel, in Nepal, collecting these artefacts in their state of halfway-usage.&#60;br/&#62;
Sanjeev and me started to repair broken pots, shoes, jars by means of thick thread and needles. The repairs highlighted and re-enforced the beauty of their time/usage damage.&#60;br/&#62;
At our first visit to the villagers, their curious eyes shown no more than surprise and uncertainty, but with our second visit, we had the pleasure of having the villagers themselves sitting and fixing objects together with us. The honor to have their company, creativity and dedication, was the highlight of our journey - a social and racial barrier that went from broken, into linked together. Our mission was accomplished.&#60;br/&#62;
&#60;strong&#62;Edgar Mosa, Amsterdam, the Netherlands&#60;/strong&#62;&#60;/p&#62;

&#60;p&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;inline-image-wrapper&#34;&#62;&#60;a href=&#34;http://www.platform21.nl/id/5654&#34;&#62;&#60;img src=&#34;http://www.platform21.nl/image/847/5654-400-153.png&#34; height=&#34;153&#34; width=&#34;400&#34; alt=&#34;Gerepareerd autoradio opbergdoosje, Judith van Meeuwen&#34; title=&#34;Gerepareerd autoradio opbergdoosje, Judith van Meeuwen&#34; /&#62;&#60;/a&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;inline-caption&#34;&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;caption-title&#34;&#62;&#60;a title=&#34;Click to get a larger image - Gerepareerd autoradio opbergdoosje, Judith van Meeuwen - Platform 21&#34; href=&#34;/page/5654/en&#34;&#62;Gerepareerd autoradio opbergdoosje, Judith van Meeuwen&#60;/a&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;br/&#62;
Broken: storage box for car radio&#60;br/&#62;
Repaired with: 2 parts of a piano hinge and rivet buttons&#60;br/&#62;
&#60;strong&#62;Marnix Kleefmann and Judith van Meeuwen, the Netherlands&#60;/strong&#62;&#60;/p&#62;

&#60;p&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;inline-image-wrapper&#34;&#62;&#60;a href=&#34;http://www.platform21.nl/id/5655&#34;&#62;&#60;img src=&#34;http://www.platform21.nl/image/264/5655-380-320.jpg&#34; height=&#34;320&#34; width=&#34;380&#34; alt=&#34;Topological jacket, Sergio Davilla&#34; title=&#34;Topological jacket, Sergio Davilla&#34; /&#62;&#60;/a&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;inline-caption&#34;&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;caption-title&#34;&#62;&#60;a title=&#34;Click to get a larger image - Topological jacket, Sergio Davilla - Platform 21&#34; href=&#34;/page/5655/en&#34;&#62;Topological jacket, Sergio Davilla&#60;/a&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;br/&#62;
During the last few weeks I’ve been trying to make a business plan with my girlfriend. However, things are not going very smoothly, we discover that our different education and national background increases the challenge to work together. There are some days that we can understand each other very well and some others that we end up fighting. This crack on our business collaboration is extending to our personal relationship and I thought that it was time to REPAIR it! Therefore I designed the topological jacket. &#60;br/&#62;
The term topology refers to the ability to transform the nature of the problem from one about logic to one about space. &#60;br/&#62;
Whenever my girlfriend and I start fighting about the same idea, we try the topological jacket on. It consists in two broken jackets stitched together by the right side and facing different directions. By wearing the jacket we realize that we are walking in the same direction but we have different perspective. The topological jacket repairs our relationship not only with symbolisms and semantics but also by creating a fun dynamic that transforms our bad mood and obnoxious stubbornness into a game where we end up laughing. &#60;br/&#62;
&#60;strong&#62;Sergio Davila, Amsterdam, the Netherlands&#60;/strong&#62;&#60;/p&#62;

&#60;p&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;inline-image-wrapper&#34;&#62;&#60;a href=&#34;http://www.platform21.nl/id/5658&#34;&#62;&#60;img src=&#34;http://www.platform21.nl/image/228/5658-400-189.png&#34; height=&#34;189&#34; width=&#34;400&#34; alt=&#34;Gerepareerde spijkerbroek, Margreet Beemsterboer&#34; title=&#34;Gerepareerde spijkerbroek, Margreet Beemsterboer&#34; /&#62;&#60;/a&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;inline-caption&#34;&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;caption-title&#34;&#62;&#60;a title=&#34;Click to get a larger image - Gerepareerde spijkerbroek, Margreet Beemsterboer - Platform 21&#34; href=&#34;/page/5658/en&#34;&#62;Gerepareerde spijkerbroek, Margreet Beemsterboer&#60;/a&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;br/&#62;
For the Most Remarkable Repair Contest, I&#39;d like to enter one of my mother&#39;s projects, as a surprise for her. &#60;br/&#62;
A short introduction: My mother, Margreet Beemsterboer, is a professional embroiderer and chief editor of the magazine &#39;Handwerken zonder Grenzen&#39;. To attract a younger public she thought of a way to repair a pair of jeans.&#60;br/&#62;
Jeans are bought &#39;worn&#39; and &#39;destroyed&#39; in the shops these days... But a heavily washed and &#39;damaged&#39; jeans, damages further even easier. To keep it from tearing and still respect the &#39;worn&#39; and &#39;vintage&#39; look, my mother repaired my jeans with authentic repair stitches and weaving techniques, as used to be done to repair clothes and socks by hand in the old days. By hand she&#39;s woven threads back into the torn fabric, so that the weft-threads (that were still there) were completed with new warp-threads to &#39;close&#39; and repair the fabric. To keep it looking authentic and &#39;denim&#39; she&#39;s used heavy cotton and linen yarns, and even added some decorative stitches to complete the jeans and make it even nicer. The end result is a very &#39;vintage&#39; looking pair of jeans, that&#39;s not easily torn any further, made very modern and refined by the beautifully handmade repair work.&#60;br/&#62;
All photos are taken by photographer Michel Mulder. &#60;br/&#62;
&#60;strong&#62;Marieke Beemsterboer, Amsterdam, the Netherlands&#60;/strong&#62;&#60;/p&#62;

&#60;p&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;inline-image-wrapper&#34;&#62;&#60;a href=&#34;http://www.platform21.nl/id/5662&#34;&#62;&#60;img src=&#34;http://www.platform21.nl/image/132/5662-400-300.jpg&#34; height=&#34;300&#34; width=&#34;400&#34; alt=&#34;Repaired umbrella, Stefan Malesevic&#34; title=&#34;Repaired umbrella, Stefan Malesevic&#34; /&#62;&#60;/a&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;inline-caption&#34;&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;caption-title&#34;&#62;&#60;a title=&#34;Click to get a larger image - Repaired umbrella, Stefan Malesevic - Platform 21&#34; href=&#34;/page/5662/en&#34;&#62;Repaired umbrella, Stefan Malesevic&#60;/a&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;br/&#62;
One day I bumped into an umbrella with no cloth on it, just the wires. For some reason I liked it, and started carrying it around all the time.&#60;br/&#62;
It was summertime, weather was hot, no rain, sun was shining. And I was carrying my umbrella all around. People thought I was weird.&#60;br/&#62;
After a while though, I was getting a bit tired of people asking me about it and it got fragile so now, for some time already, it hangs from my ceiling.&#60;br/&#62;
I decided to finally repair it, but not in a standard way. I used unneeded materials from my everyday life. &#60;br/&#62;
&#60;strong&#62;Stefan Malesevic, Serbia&#60;/strong&#62;&#60;/p&#62;

&#60;p&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;inline-image-wrapper&#34;&#62;&#60;a href=&#34;http://www.platform21.nl/id/5663&#34;&#62;&#60;img src=&#34;http://www.platform21.nl/image/924/5663-400-350.png&#34; height=&#34;350&#34; width=&#34;400&#34; alt=&#34;Patch up your ego!, Jorien Vlaar&#34; title=&#34;Patch up your ego!, Jorien Vlaar&#34; /&#62;&#60;/a&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;inline-caption&#34;&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;caption-title&#34;&#62;&#60;a title=&#34;Click to get a larger image - Patch up your ego!, Jorien Vlaar - Platform 21&#34; href=&#34;/page/5663/en&#34;&#62;Patch up your ego!, Jorien Vlaar&#60;/a&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;br/&#62;
Not enough cash to buy new gadgets or other luxury products? But you don’t want to be inferior to your friends and keep up with the times?&#60;br/&#62;
Patch up your ego! Literally!&#60;br/&#62;
Has your computer crashed, but you just don’t got the money right now to buy a new one? Patch it up…&#60;br/&#62;
…. and within minutes your laptop is brought back to its former glory. You don’t have to be ashamed with your friends not being able to keep track of the latest trends. &#60;br/&#62;
Has your store cupboard been looking like this for the past weeks: almost empty?&#60;br/&#62;
Patch it up…&#60;br/&#62;
…. and you can unashamedly invite your friends to your home (to order Chinese?)&#60;br/&#62;
The result can be surprisingly creative or realistic. It ironically shows the (least important) consequences of a ‘crisis’: it opens up the discussion about the importance of the superficial, making people see you how you want to be seen, and the diminishing of identity. And that in a time when everyone ought be brought back to hic basis. &#60;br/&#62;
&#60;strong&#62;Jorien Vlaar, the Netherlands&#60;/strong&#62;&#60;/p&#62;

&#60;p&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;inline-image-wrapper&#34;&#62;&#60;a href=&#34;http://www.platform21.nl/id/5665&#34;&#62;&#60;img src=&#34;http://www.platform21.nl/image/197/5665-400-300.jpg&#34; height=&#34;300&#34; width=&#34;400&#34; alt=&#34;Glasses for playing billiards, Gerlad Tros&#34; title=&#34;Glasses for playing billiards, Gerlad Tros&#34; /&#62;&#60;/a&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;inline-caption&#34;&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;caption-title&#34;&#62;&#60;a title=&#34;Click to get a larger image - Glasses for playing billiards, Gerlad Tros - Platform 21&#34; href=&#34;/page/5665/en&#34;&#62;Glasses for playing billiards, Gerlad Tros&#60;/a&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;br/&#62;
A friend gave me his old glasses and turns out that he has the same lenses as I do, but then left and right swapped. I got the idea to make myself some glasses to play billiards with. When you play billiards you hang low on the table and look through the top bit of the glass. But often the top of the glasses are to low for this purpose. When I turned the glasses upside down, there is much more glass on the top. All it took was to change the two springs and the nose support, which I took from some old glasses. &#60;br/&#62;
&#60;strong&#62;Gerald Tros, Amsterdam, the Netherlands&#60;/strong&#62;&#60;/p&#62;

&#60;p&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;inline-image-wrapper&#34;&#62;&#60;a href=&#34;http://www.platform21.nl/id/5666&#34;&#62;&#60;img src=&#34;http://www.platform21.nl/image/097/5666-400-194.png&#34; height=&#34;194&#34; width=&#34;400&#34; alt=&#34;Repaired shoes, Maria Katkova&#34; title=&#34;Repaired shoes, Maria Katkova&#34; /&#62;&#60;/a&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;inline-caption&#34;&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;caption-title&#34;&#62;&#60;a title=&#34;Click to get a larger image - Repaired shoes, Maria Katkova - Platform 21&#34; href=&#34;/page/5666/en&#34;&#62;Repaired shoes, Maria Katkova&#60;/a&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;br/&#62;
My favourite but rather well worn pair of shoes had unpleasant spots on the long toes. I found some copper wires from broken transformer and - new updated shoes!&#60;br/&#62;
&#60;strong&#62;Maria Katkova, Russia&#60;/strong&#62;&#60;/p&#62;

&#60;p&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;inline-image-wrapper&#34;&#62;&#60;a href=&#34;http://www.platform21.nl/id/5668&#34;&#62;&#60;img src=&#34;http://www.platform21.nl/image/408/5668-400-153.png&#34; height=&#34;153&#34; width=&#34;400&#34; alt=&#34;Repaired linen trousers, Hanny Couwenhoven&#34; title=&#34;Repaired linen trousers, Hanny Couwenhoven&#34; /&#62;&#60;/a&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;inline-caption&#34;&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;caption-title&#34;&#62;&#60;a title=&#34;Click to get a larger image - Repaired linen trousers, Hanny Couwenhoven - Platform 21&#34; href=&#34;/page/5668/en&#34;&#62;Repaired linen trousers, Hanny Couwenhoven&#60;/a&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;br/&#62;
There was a hole in my linen trousers. As I really like their colour I decided to repair the hole. &#60;br/&#62;
Firtst I stitched the hole within a rib to the inside. Afterwards, for theocratieën and camouflage, I made three ribs on the outsider. This made the trousers four centimeters shorter. Luckily it had wide cuffs. I took out the cuff, made another rib on the pleat and then finished the bottom with double stichting. I am wearing the trousers a lot again!&#60;br/&#62;
&#60;strong&#62;Hanny Couwenhoven&#60;/strong&#62;&#60;/p&#62;

&#60;p&#62;Repaired wheelchair&#60;br/&#62;
&#60;strong&#62;Frans Geus, Amsterdam, the Netherlands&#60;/strong&#62;&#60;/p&#62;

&#60;p&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;inline-image-wrapper&#34;&#62;&#60;a href=&#34;http://www.platform21.nl/id/5669&#34;&#62;&#60;img src=&#34;http://www.platform21.nl/image/281/5669-400-300.jpg&#34; height=&#34;300&#34; width=&#34;400&#34; alt=&#34;Repaired jeans, Marcel van der Drift&#34; title=&#34;Repaired jeans, Marcel van der Drift&#34; /&#62;&#60;/a&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;inline-caption&#34;&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;caption-title&#34;&#62;&#60;a title=&#34;Click to get a larger image - Repaired jeans, Marcel van der Drift - Platform 21&#34; href=&#34;/page/5669/en&#34;&#62;Repaired jeans, Marcel van der Drift&#60;/a&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;br/&#62;
I repaired a big hole in my jeans by adding a zipper. Zipper closed: I’m decent. Zipper open: I’m cool.&#60;br/&#62;
&#60;strong&#62;Marcel van der Drift, the Netherlands&#60;/strong&#62;&#60;/p&#62;

&#60;p&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;inline-image-wrapper&#34;&#62;&#60;a href=&#34;http://www.platform21.nl/id/5670&#34;&#62;&#60;img src=&#34;http://www.platform21.nl/image/243/5670-400-141.png&#34; height=&#34;141&#34; width=&#34;400&#34; alt=&#34;Repaired plastic gloves, Katelijn van der Heyden&#34; title=&#34;Repaired plastic gloves, Katelijn van der Heyden&#34; /&#62;&#60;/a&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;inline-caption&#34;&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;caption-title&#34;&#62;&#60;a title=&#34;Click to get a larger image - Repaired plastic gloves, Katelijn van der Heyden - Platform 21&#34; href=&#34;/page/5670/en&#34;&#62;Repaired plastic gloves, Katelijn van der Heyden&#60;/a&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;br/&#62;
I repaired the holes in my rubber gloves with patches to repair bicycle tires with. These are extremely strong!&#60;br/&#62;
&#60;strong&#62;lijn, Gent, Belgium&#60;/strong&#62;&#60;/p&#62;

&#60;p&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;inline-image-wrapper&#34;&#62;&#60;a href=&#34;http://www.platform21.nl/id/5672&#34;&#62;&#60;img src=&#34;http://www.platform21.nl/image/594/5672-400-300.png&#34; height=&#34;300&#34; width=&#34;400&#34; alt=&#34;Repaired clothes, Akiko Mukoyama&#34; title=&#34;Repaired clothes, Akiko Mukoyama&#34; /&#62;&#60;/a&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;inline-caption&#34;&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;caption-title&#34;&#62;&#60;a title=&#34;Click to get a larger image - Repaired clothes, Akiko Mukoyama - Platform 21&#34; href=&#34;/page/5672/en&#34;&#62;Repaired clothes, Akiko Mukoyama&#60;/a&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;br/&#62;
As for pants, &#60;br/&#62;
I have wore it many times, so the material become so thin.&#60;br/&#62;
Repaired!!&#60;br/&#62;
As for outerwear,&#60;br/&#62;
I dropped ink on it before.&#60;br/&#62;
Repaired!!&#60;br/&#62;
&#60;strong&#62;Akiko Mukoyama&#60;/strong&#62;&#60;/p&#62;

&#60;p&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;inline-image-wrapper&#34;&#62;&#60;a href=&#34;http://www.platform21.nl/id/5678&#34;&#62;&#60;img src=&#34;http://www.platform21.nl/image/539/5678-400-130.png&#34; height=&#34;130&#34; width=&#34;400&#34; alt=&#34;Repaired amulet, Eline&#34; title=&#34;Repaired amulet, Eline&#34; /&#62;&#60;/a&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;inline-caption&#34;&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;caption-title&#34;&#62;&#60;a title=&#34;Click to get a larger image - Repaired amulet, Eline - Platform 21&#34; href=&#34;/page/5678/en&#34;&#62;Repaired amulet, Eline&#60;/a&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;br/&#62;
My repair has become an amulet. &#60;br/&#62;
The amulet is made from a broken horseshoe of ceramics, glaced in a traditional way. &#60;br/&#62;
I repair a lot and often I use steelwire to do so. &#60;br/&#62;
It is easy to use and very strong…&#60;br/&#62;
&#60;strong&#62;Eline&#60;/strong&#62;&#60;/p&#62;

&#60;p&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;inline-image-wrapper&#34;&#62;&#60;a href=&#34;http://www.platform21.nl/id/5679&#34;&#62;&#60;img src=&#34;http://www.platform21.nl/image/362/5679-400-298.png&#34; height=&#34;298&#34; width=&#34;400&#34; alt=&#34;Repaired furniture, Carol Mandryk&#34; title=&#34;Repaired furniture, Carol Mandryk&#34; /&#62;&#60;/a&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;inline-caption&#34;&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;caption-title&#34;&#62;&#60;a title=&#34;Click to get a larger image - Repaired furniture, Carol Mandryk - Platform 21&#34; href=&#34;/page/5679/en&#34;&#62;Repaired furniture, Carol Mandryk&#60;/a&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;br/&#62;
Because its so expensive here, and expensive to ship things off island, people in Hawaii discard an inordinate amount of furniture and other items at the curbside for “bulky item pick-up”. I have been salvaging items and materials for the past four years. Some things need no repair, only cleaning; some need minor repair and a little spiffing up - maybe a coat of paint, or new foam and recovering of a chair seat. Some things beg for reinvention. If there are only parts of the item that are salvageable, I take those.&#60;br/&#62;
I divide my projects into repaired/refinished, re-imagined and created.&#60;br/&#62;
&#60;strong&#62;Carole Mandryk, Hawaii&#60;/strong&#62;&#60;/p&#62;

&#60;p&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;inline-image-wrapper&#34;&#62;&#60;a href=&#34;http://www.platform21.nl/id/5681&#34;&#62;&#60;img src=&#34;http://www.platform21.nl/image/049/5681-300-400.jpg&#34; height=&#34;400&#34; width=&#34;300&#34; alt=&#34;Repaired theapot, Paul Finnigan&#34; title=&#34;Repaired theapot, Paul Finnigan&#34; /&#62;&#60;/a&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;inline-caption&#34;&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;caption-title&#34;&#62;&#60;a title=&#34;Click to get a larger image - Repaired theapot, Paul Finnigan - Platform 21&#34; href=&#34;/page/5681/en&#34;&#62;Repaired theapot, Paul Finnigan&#60;/a&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;br/&#62;
Teapot repaired with Sugru. Check www.sugru.com&#60;br/&#62;
&#60;strong&#62;Paul Finnigan&#60;/strong&#62;&#60;/p&#62;

&#60;p&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;inline-image-wrapper&#34;&#62;&#60;a href=&#34;http://www.platform21.nl/id/5682&#34;&#62;&#60;img src=&#34;http://www.platform21.nl/image/251/5682-400-114.png&#34; height=&#34;114&#34; width=&#34;400&#34; alt=&#34;Repaired globe, Ruchama Hoed&#34; title=&#34;Repaired globe, Ruchama Hoed&#34; /&#62;&#60;/a&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;inline-caption&#34;&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;caption-title&#34;&#62;&#60;a title=&#34;Click to get a larger image - Repaired globe, Ruchama Hoed - Platform 21&#34; href=&#34;/page/5682/en&#34;&#62;Repaired globe, Ruchama Hoed&#60;/a&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;br/&#62;
‘Globalise Love’ - Meditations on ‘repair’ of a Globe &#60;br/&#62;
My questioning of how I can contribute to healing (=repairing) the globe has lead me to include this ‘old’ globe into daily meditations…&#60;br/&#62;
This project represents both this globe as an object as well as the earth that this globe represents.&#60;br/&#62;
The two red crystals placed in Amsterdam, Holland, and Caracas, Venezuela represent my personal repair. Someone I love is all the way across the globe and I wanted to ‘repair’ our connection visually.&#60;br/&#62;
&#60;strong&#62;Ruchama Hoed, Amsterdam, the Netherlands&#60;/strong&#62;&#60;/p&#62;</content>
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    <title type="html">Remarkable Repairs</title>
    <subtitle type="html">Alle inzendingen voor de wedstrijd nu online!</subtitle>
    <summary type="html">&#60;p&#62;We ontvingen meer dan 60 inzendingen van over de hele wereld voor de Most Remarkable Repair Contest. &#60;br/&#62;
Heb jij een reparatie ingestuurd? Check dan hier wat de concurrentie deed!&#60;br/&#62;
Zo niet, laat je dan inspireren door deze vernuftige reparaties en kies je favoriet.&#60;br/&#62;
Zondag 30 augustus, tijdens de laatste dag van &#60;em&#62;Platform21 = Repairing&#60;/em&#62;, werd bekend gemaakt wie volgens de jury de meest bijzondere reparatie maakte. &#60;/p&#62;

&#60;p&#62;De jury, bestaande uit amateurreparateur en hoteleigenaar Suzanne Oxenaar (Lloyd Hotel), tool tester en hoofdredacteur Erwin van der Zande (hoofdredactuer Bright) en curator en inventor Arne Hendriks (Platform21), kozen een winnaar en runner-up uit tien genomineerden. &#60;br/&#62;
Winnaar Siba Shabi ontving de speciale Repair Award, gemaakt door kunstenaar Jan Vormann, en nam een uitgebreide Dremel toolset mee naar huis. Ook runner-up Calypso Schuijt ontving zo&#39;n pakket. Een shortlist van de beste inzendingen zal gepubliceerd worden in de Bright van oktober/ november.&#60;/p&#62;</summary>
    <content type="html">&#60;p&#62;&#60;strong&#62;WINNAAR&#60;/strong&#62;&#60;br/&#62;
&#60;span class=&#34;inline-image-wrapper&#34;&#62;&#60;a href=&#34;http://www.platform21.nl/id/5667&#34;&#62;&#60;img src=&#34;http://www.platform21.nl/image/028/5667-335-400.jpg&#34; height=&#34;400&#34; width=&#34;335&#34; alt=&#34;Repaired plastic bag, Siba Sahabi&#34; title=&#34;Repaired plastic bag, Siba Sahabi&#34; /&#62;&#60;/a&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;inline-caption&#34;&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;caption-title&#34;&#62;&#60;a title=&#34;Click to get a larger image - Repaired plastic bag, Siba Sahabi - Platform 21&#34; href=&#34;/page/5667/en&#34;&#62;Repaired plastic bag, Siba Sahabi&#60;/a&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;br/&#62;
Wat me bijzonder interesseert zijn kleine, bijna intieme situaties in het dagelijkse leven, juist omdat ze zo gewoon zijn. Mijn project gaat niet over het maken van een tweedagstas uit een eendagstas. Het materiaal zou ook na de reparatie kwetsbaar blijven. Het gaat mij vooral om de vraag: Is er ruimte voor objecten met handicaps, eigengereidheden en verhalen?&#60;br/&#62;
&#60;strong&#62;Siba Sahabi&#60;/strong&#62;&#60;/p&#62;

&#60;p&#62;&#60;strong&#62;RUNNER-UP&#60;/strong&#62;&#60;br/&#62;
&#60;span class=&#34;inline-image-wrapper&#34;&#62;&#60;a href=&#34;http://www.platform21.nl/id/5635&#34;&#62;&#60;img src=&#34;http://www.platform21.nl/image/661/5635-400-290.jpg&#34; height=&#34;290&#34; width=&#34;400&#34; alt=&#34;Shrunken sweater, Calypso Schuijt&#34; title=&#34;Shrunken sweater, Calypso Schuijt&#34; /&#62;&#60;/a&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;inline-caption&#34;&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;caption-title&#34;&#62;&#60;a title=&#34;Click to get a larger image - Shrunken sweater, Calypso Schuijt - Platform 21&#34; href=&#34;/page/5635/en&#34;&#62;Shrunken sweater, Calypso Schuijt&#60;/a&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;br/&#62;
Ik was op zoek naar een manier om mijn gekrompen trui te repareren. Ik wilde geen nieuwe laag aanbrengen, maar zo dicht mogelijk bij het originele stuk blijven. Hoe kon ik de trui weer vergroten?&#60;br/&#62;
Door een baksteen patroon in de stof te knippen, kwam er weer stretch in de gekrompen stof waardoor de trui automatisch naar een draagbare maat rekte  toen ik ‘m aantrok. &#60;br/&#62;
&#60;strong&#62;Calypso Schuijt, Nederland&#60;/strong&#62;&#60;/p&#62;

&#60;p&#62;&#60;strong&#62;GENOMINEERD&#60;/strong&#62;&#60;br/&#62;
&#60;span class=&#34;inline-image-wrapper&#34;&#62;&#60;a href=&#34;http://www.platform21.nl/id/5626&#34;&#62;&#60;img src=&#34;http://www.platform21.nl/image/189/5626-266-400.jpg&#34; height=&#34;400&#34; width=&#34;266&#34; alt=&#34;Repaired drainpipe, Jaap van der Feer&#34; title=&#34;Repaired drainpipe, Jaap van der Feer&#34; /&#62;&#60;/a&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;inline-caption&#34;&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;caption-title&#34;&#62;&#60;a title=&#34;Click to get a larger image - Repaired drainpipe, Jaap van der Feer - Platform 21&#34; href=&#34;/page/5626/en&#34;&#62;Repaired drainpipe, Jaap van der Feer&#60;/a&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;br/&#62;
In onze sympathieke straat met jaren &#39;30 huizen zijn altijd wel een paar jongens aan het voetballen. Enkele jaren geleden ramde de bal onze regenpijp, het ontbrekende stuk lag aan gruzelementen, waarna natuurlijk niemand zich meldde. Daarna ging het regenen, ik had weinig tijd en moest snel een oplossing verzinnen. Een colafles bleek een jarenlange goede oplossing waar veel leuke reacties op komen.&#60;br/&#62;
&#60;strong&#62;Jaap van der Feer, Nederland&#60;/strong&#62;&#60;/p&#62;

&#60;p&#62;&#60;strong&#62;GENOMINEERD&#60;/strong&#62;&#60;br/&#62;
&#60;span class=&#34;inline-image-wrapper&#34;&#62;&#60;a href=&#34;http://www.platform21.nl/id/5656&#34;&#62;&#60;img src=&#34;http://www.platform21.nl/image/527/5656-400-273.png&#34; height=&#34;273&#34; width=&#34;400&#34; alt=&#34;Gerepareerde gramafoonspeler, Vince Vijsma&#34; title=&#34;Gerepareerde gramafoonspeler, Vince Vijsma&#34; /&#62;&#60;/a&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;inline-caption&#34;&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;caption-title&#34;&#62;&#60;a title=&#34;Click to get a larger image - Gerepareerde gramafoonspeler, Vince Vijsma - Platform 21&#34; href=&#34;/page/5656/en&#34;&#62;Gerepareerde gramafoonspeler, Vince Vijsma&#60;/a&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;br/&#62;
Ik repareerde een grammofoon uit 1910:&#60;br/&#62;
Het mechanisme was kapot. Daarom verbond ik mijn Iphone met de hoorn door middel van een zacht schuimrubberen verbindingsstuk over de luidspreker van de Iphone. Dit geeft een geweldig geluid, vooral bij blazers. &#60;br/&#62;
&#60;strong&#62;Vince Vijsma, Amsterdam, Nederland&#60;/strong&#62;&#60;/p&#62;

&#60;p&#62;&#60;strong&#62;GENOMINEERD&#60;/strong&#62;&#60;br/&#62;
&#60;span class=&#34;inline-image-wrapper&#34;&#62;&#60;a href=&#34;http://www.platform21.nl/id/5622&#34;&#62;&#60;img src=&#34;http://www.platform21.nl/image/974/5622-400-300.jpg&#34; height=&#34;300&#34; width=&#34;400&#34; alt=&#34;Staircase repair, Any-One&#34; title=&#34;Staircase repair, Any-One&#34; /&#62;&#60;/a&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;inline-caption&#34;&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;caption-title&#34;&#62;&#60;a title=&#34;Click to get a larger image - Staircase repair, Any-One - Platform 21&#34; href=&#34;/page/5622/en&#34;&#62;Staircase repair, Any-One&#60;/a&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;br/&#62;
Gerepareerde balustrade &#60;br/&#62;
&#60;strong&#62;Ingestuurd door Any-One&#60;/strong&#62;&#60;/p&#62;

&#60;p&#62;&#60;strong&#62;GENOMINEERD&#60;/strong&#62;&#60;br/&#62;
&#60;span class=&#34;inline-image-wrapper&#34;&#62;&#60;a href=&#34;http://www.platform21.nl/id/5664&#34;&#62;&#60;img src=&#34;http://www.platform21.nl/image/822/5664-400-302.png&#34; height=&#34;302&#34; width=&#34;400&#34; alt=&#34;Repaired microwave, Gerald Tros&#34; title=&#34;Repaired microwave, Gerald Tros&#34; /&#62;&#60;/a&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;inline-caption&#34;&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;caption-title&#34;&#62;&#60;a title=&#34;Click to get a larger image - Repaired microwave, Gerald Tros - Platform 21&#34; href=&#34;/page/5664/en&#34;&#62;Repaired microwave, Gerald Tros&#60;/a&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;br/&#62;
Ai, de magnetron is stuk. Althans, hij reageert niet meer op sommige toetsen. En dat is erg vervelend, vooral als de ‘Aan’ knop het niet doet, of het alleen soms doet...  De magnetron dus opengemaakt en onderzocht. Het leek erop dat het toetsenbord simpelweg geen verbinding maakte bij sommige toetsen. Met een sterke lens konden scheurtjes in de platte kabel gezien worden. Misschien zijn deze ontstaan door trilling in de loop der jaren?  Informeren naar een nieuw toetsenbord leerde dat deze 170 gulden moest kosten. Nou! Dan zouden we toch wel heel zeker willen weten dat het inderdaad echt aan het toetsenbord ligt.  Weet je wat? We bouwen het toetsenbord na! Zo gedacht, zo gedaan. Eerst uitgezocht welke combinaties van draden welke functies bewerkstelligen. Houten plankje, koperdraad, spijkers, plastic... En deze vervolgens met tien draadjes, gehaald uit een stuk oude telefoonkabel, aan de voet van de toetsenbordkabel op de print vast gesoldeerd.  Warempel. Het werkt! Alle ‘knoppen’ werken!  Nu dan maar een nieuw toetsenbord kopen?? Ahhh, waarom eigenlijk? Nu hebben we toch al dit test toetsenbord? Laten we deze gewoon vastzetten op de voorkant van de magnetron, op de plek van het oorspronkelijke.  En dat werkt nu al negen jaar lang :-)   Toen een vriendin met vrijwel dezelfde machine dezelfde storing kreeg is er voor haar een nette versie van gebouwd en die werkt nu ook al vier jaar.&#60;br/&#62;
&#60;strong&#62;Gerald Tros, Amsterdam, Nederland&#60;/strong&#62;&#60;/p&#62;

&#60;p&#62;&#60;strong&#62;GENOMINEERD&#60;/strong&#62;&#60;br/&#62;
&#60;span class=&#34;inline-image-wrapper&#34;&#62;&#60;a href=&#34;http://www.platform21.nl/id/5671&#34;&#62;&#60;img src=&#34;http://www.platform21.nl/image/837/5671-400-156.png&#34; height=&#34;156&#34; width=&#34;400&#34; alt=&#34;Repaired sheets, Marina van Goor&#34; title=&#34;Repaired sheets, Marina van Goor&#34; /&#62;&#60;/a&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;inline-caption&#34;&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;caption-title&#34;&#62;&#60;a title=&#34;Click to get a larger image - Repaired sheets, Marina van Goor - Platform 21&#34; href=&#34;/page/5671/en&#34;&#62;Repaired sheets, Marina van Goor&#60;/a&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;br/&#62;
Ik repareerde mijn beddengoed met 1001 steken ‘glow in the dark’- draad. &#60;br/&#62;
&#60;strong&#62;Marina van Goor&#60;/strong&#62;&#60;/p&#62;

&#60;p&#62;&#60;strong&#62;GENOMINEERD&#60;/strong&#62;&#60;br/&#62;
&#60;span class=&#34;inline-image-wrapper&#34;&#62;&#60;a href=&#34;http://www.platform21.nl/id/5677&#34;&#62;&#60;img src=&#34;http://www.platform21.nl/image/766/5677-400-350.png&#34; height=&#34;350&#34; width=&#34;400&#34; alt=&#34;Repaired tea-towel, Clara Vankerschaver&#34; title=&#34;Repaired tea-towel, Clara Vankerschaver&#34; /&#62;&#60;/a&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;inline-caption&#34;&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;caption-title&#34;&#62;&#60;a title=&#34;Click to get a larger image - Repaired tea-towel, Clara Vankerschaver - Platform 21&#34; href=&#34;/page/5677/en&#34;&#62;Repaired tea-towel, Clara Vankerschaver&#60;/a&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;br/&#62;
Ooit iets gerepareerd waar je super trots op bent? &#60;br/&#62;
Jazeker!&#60;br/&#62;
Ik vond een stuk stof in een opslag vol afgekeurd textiel. Ik gebruik het als theedoek, maar er zit een gat in. Voor de reparatie was ik geïnspireerd door de ouderwetse techniek gebruikt voor het stoppen van sokken. De theedoek heeft een pied-de-poule motief dat ik wilde behouden. Het was een tijdrovende en moeilijke klus en na een uur zag ik al een beetje scheel, maar het was zeker de moeite waard. Ik heb niet alleen een nieuwe techniek geleerd, maar ik ben ook opeens veel meer van deze gekke theedoek gaan houden als ik daarvoor deed. Ik verheug me al een beetje op het volgende gat.&#60;br/&#62;
&#60;strong&#62;Clara Vankerschaver&#60;/strong&#62;&#60;/p&#62;

&#60;p&#62;&#60;strong&#62;GENOMINEERD&#60;/strong&#62;&#60;br/&#62;
&#60;span class=&#34;inline-image-wrapper&#34;&#62;&#60;a href=&#34;http://www.platform21.nl/id/5680&#34;&#62;&#60;img src=&#34;http://www.platform21.nl/image/728/5680-400-174.png&#34; height=&#34;174&#34; width=&#34;400&#34; alt=&#34;Repaired, plant, Nienke van der Meulen&#34; title=&#34;Repaired, plant, Nienke van der Meulen&#34; /&#62;&#60;/a&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;inline-caption&#34;&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;caption-title&#34;&#62;&#60;a title=&#34;Click to get a larger image - Repaired, plant, Nienke van der Meulen - Platform 21&#34; href=&#34;/page/5680/en&#34;&#62;Repaired, plant, Nienke van der Meulen&#60;/a&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;br/&#62;
Als textielontwerpster werk ik met structuren en materialen. Op die manier ben ik ook terecht gekomen bij planten. Zo heb ik perforaties aangebracht in de balderen van verschillende planten. Ondanks dat het aanbrengen van deze patronen tegennatuurlijk lijkt, heb ik inspiratie hiervoor geput uit de natuur zelf: bij rupsen en de monstera delicousa (ook wel gatenplant). Toen bleek dat de planten zich verder ontwikkelden en zelfs deze ingrepen toeeigenden ben ik ook de andere kant gaan onderzoeken: door bladeren die gehavend zijn te repareren.  Zo heb ik ook voor dit ontwerp bij een Lepelplant het afgestorven deel van het blad vervangen door textiel, in plaats van het verdoemde blad af te knippen en weg te gooien.&#60;br/&#62;
&#60;strong&#62;Nienke van der Meulen&#60;/strong&#62;&#60;/p&#62;

&#60;p&#62;&#60;strong&#62;GENOMINEERD&#60;/strong&#62;&#60;br/&#62;
&#60;img src=&#34;fig69&#34; alt=&#34;fig69&#34; /&#62;&#60;br/&#62;
Bison Kintsugi. Ik ontwikkelde een andere kijk op het lijmen van porselein gebaseerd op Kintsugi, een oude Japanse techniek waarbij porselein wordt gerepareerd met bladgoud. Een zeer bewerkelijke en kostbare methode. In Bison lijm vond ik de perfecte Westerse variant voor prachtige maar simpele reparaties. De schoonheid van slordig repareren.&#60;br/&#62;
&#60;strong&#62;Lotte Dekker, Amsterdam, Nederland&#60;/strong&#62;&#60;/p&#62;

&#60;p&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;inline-image-wrapper&#34;&#62;&#60;a href=&#34;http://www.platform21.nl/id/5623&#34;&#62;&#60;img src=&#34;http://www.platform21.nl/image/725/5623-372-400.png&#34; height=&#34;400&#34; width=&#34;372&#34; alt=&#34;Instinctive Design, Ana Lisa Alperovich&#34; title=&#34;Instinctive Design, Ana Lisa Alperovich&#34; /&#62;&#60;/a&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;inline-caption&#34;&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;caption-title&#34;&#62;&#60;a title=&#34;Click to get a larger image - Instinctive Design, Ana Lisa Alperovich - Platform 21&#34; href=&#34;/page/5623/en&#34;&#62;Instinctive Design, Ana Lisa Alperovich&#60;/a&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;br/&#62;
Instinctive Design is een gratis boek dat creatieve oplossingen voor alledaagse problemen en tijdelijke oplossingen viert. Met lijstjes, quotes, foto’s en verhalen over hoe mensen nieuwe doeleinden vinden voor de spullen om hen heen. &#60;br/&#62;
&#60;strong&#62;Ana Lisa Alperovich, Londen, Verenigd Koninkrijk&#60;/strong&#62;&#60;/p&#62;

&#60;p&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;inline-image-wrapper&#34;&#62;&#60;a href=&#34;http://www.platform21.nl/id/5625&#34;&#62;&#60;img src=&#34;http://www.platform21.nl/image/531/5625-400-110.png&#34; height=&#34;110&#34; width=&#34;400&#34; alt=&#34;Repaired Gamecube controller, Jake Tobak&#34; title=&#34;Repaired Gamecube controller, Jake Tobak&#34; /&#62;&#60;/a&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;inline-caption&#34;&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;caption-title&#34;&#62;&#60;a title=&#34;Click to get a larger image - Repaired Gamecube controller, Jake Tobak - Platform 21&#34; href=&#34;/page/5625/en&#34;&#62;Repaired Gamecube controller, Jake Tobak&#60;/a&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;br/&#62;
Ik heb de duim-joystick op een Gamecube controller gerepareerd door de scherpe stick te omhullen in een rubber coating zodat deze weer comfortabel te gebruiken is en een goede grip heeft. Er is niks ‘speciaals’ aan, maar ik voelde me best goed toen het eenmaal klaar was en alles weer werkte!&#60;br/&#62;
&#60;strong&#62;Jake Tobak, Rhode Island, Verenigde Staten&#60;/strong&#62;&#60;br/&#62;
Bekijk de handleiding van Jake &#60;a href=&#34;http://www.instructables.com/id/Repairing_JoystickThumbpad_on_Gamecube_Controller/&#34;&#62;hier&#60;/a&#62;.&#60;/p&#62;

&#60;p&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;inline-image-wrapper&#34;&#62;&#60;a href=&#34;http://www.platform21.nl/id/5627&#34;&#62;&#60;img src=&#34;http://www.platform21.nl/image/270/5627-400-145.png&#34; height=&#34;145&#34; width=&#34;400&#34; alt=&#34;Repaired wagonette, Jack Vreeke&#34; title=&#34;Repaired wagonette, Jack Vreeke&#34; /&#62;&#60;/a&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;inline-caption&#34;&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;caption-title&#34;&#62;&#60;a title=&#34;Click to get a larger image - Repaired wagonette, Jack Vreeke - Platform 21&#34; href=&#34;/page/5627/en&#34;&#62;Repaired wagonette, Jack Vreeke&#60;/a&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;br/&#62;
Zoekend naar een stuurtje voor een nieuwe Art Car trof ik bij het oud ijzer een totaal verrotte en verroeste janplezier aan. Alleen de besturing en de pedaalaandrijving functioneerden nog. &#60;br/&#62;
Na een enorme transformatie die onder andere bestond uit het verwijderen van houten deuren, stoelen en heel veel roest, het laten zakken van het stuur en het verplaatsen van de handrem, rijdt hij nu weer als een tierelier!&#60;br/&#62;
&#60;strong&#62;Jack Vreeke, Weert, Nederland&#60;/strong&#62;&#60;/p&#62;

&#60;p&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;inline-image-wrapper&#34;&#62;&#60;a href=&#34;http://www.platform21.nl/id/5628&#34;&#62;&#60;img src=&#34;http://www.platform21.nl/image/584/5628-400-300.jpg&#34; height=&#34;300&#34; width=&#34;400&#34; alt=&#34;Repaired remote control, DJ Wiendels&#34; title=&#34;Repaired remote control, DJ Wiendels&#34; /&#62;&#60;/a&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;inline-caption&#34;&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;caption-title&#34;&#62;&#60;a title=&#34;Click to get a larger image - Repaired remote control, DJ Wiendels - Platform 21&#34; href=&#34;/page/5628/en&#34;&#62;Repaired remote control, DJ Wiendels&#60;/a&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;br/&#62;
Na een val zat er een gat in de behuizing van de afstandsbediening en klemden de batterijen niet meer tussen de metalen contactpunten. Het oppervlak was niet sterk genoeg om te lijmen, dus heb ik allerlei troepjes die voor handen waren – een boterhamzak afsluitbindertje, een stukje plug op maat geknipt – in het gat gestopt. Doordat het materiaal van de plug een beetje veert, kun je de batterijen er nu weer goed in klikken en maken ze contact met het metaal. &#60;br/&#62;
&#60;strong&#62;DJ Wiendels, Nederland&#60;/strong&#62;&#60;/p&#62;

&#60;p&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;inline-image-wrapper&#34;&#62;&#60;a href=&#34;http://www.platform21.nl/id/5629&#34;&#62;&#60;img src=&#34;http://www.platform21.nl/image/827/5629-400-300.jpg&#34; height=&#34;300&#34; width=&#34;400&#34; alt=&#34;Repaired hammer, Liaf Lijbers&#34; title=&#34;Repaired hammer, Liaf Lijbers&#34; /&#62;&#60;/a&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;inline-caption&#34;&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;caption-title&#34;&#62;&#60;a title=&#34;Click to get a larger image - Repaired hammer, Liaf Lijbers - Platform 21&#34; href=&#34;/page/5629/en&#34;&#62;Repaired hammer, Liaf Lijbers&#60;/a&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;br/&#62;
De hamer had geen handvat meer. Met dit nieuwe stuk hout is hij weer gewoon te gebruiken, maar ik vind dat hij er ook mooier en robuuster van is geworden. &#60;br/&#62;
&#60;strong&#62;Liaf Lijbers, Nederland&#60;/strong&#62;&#60;/p&#62;

&#60;p&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;inline-image-wrapper&#34;&#62;&#60;a href=&#34;http://www.platform21.nl/id/5630&#34;&#62;&#60;img src=&#34;http://www.platform21.nl/image/230/5630-400-300.jpg&#34; height=&#34;300&#34; width=&#34;400&#34; alt=&#34;Repaired T-shirt, Sara Martin Mazorra&#34; title=&#34;Repaired T-shirt, Sara Martin Mazorra&#34; /&#62;&#60;/a&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;inline-caption&#34;&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;caption-title&#34;&#62;&#60;a title=&#34;Click to get a larger image - Repaired T-shirt, Sara Martin Mazorra - Platform 21&#34; href=&#34;/page/5630/en&#34;&#62;Repaired T-shirt, Sara Martin Mazorra&#60;/a&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;br/&#62;
Veel van mijn basic t-shirts zitten vol met gaten. Ik zou ze dicht kunnen naaien, maar waarom zou ik doen alsof een gat er nooit is geweest?&#60;br/&#62;
Geïnspireerd door architectuur, ontdekte ik dat de naden van mijn shirts gezien kunnen worden als het betonnen skelet van een gebouw. Ze houden het geheel bij elkaar en zijn sterke bevestigingspunten.&#60;br/&#62;
Ik knipte de gaten in hun breedte en lengte uit, waardoor er een vierkant gat ontstond, en bevestigde dit weer aan de dichtstbijzijnde naad. Het gat wordt niet alleen benadrukt, maar het wordt ook een nieuwe richtlijn voor een nieuwe vorm in het kledingstuk.&#60;br/&#62;
&#60;strong&#62;Sara Martin Mazorra, Nederland&#60;/strong&#62;&#60;/p&#62;

&#60;p&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;inline-image-wrapper&#34;&#62;&#60;a href=&#34;http://www.platform21.nl/id/5631&#34;&#62;&#60;img src=&#34;http://www.platform21.nl/image/933/5631-400-300.jpg&#34; height=&#34;300&#34; width=&#34;400&#34; alt=&#34;Repaired bottle, Esther Brakenhoff&#34; title=&#34;Repaired bottle, Esther Brakenhoff&#34; /&#62;&#60;/a&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;inline-caption&#34;&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;caption-title&#34;&#62;&#60;a title=&#34;Click to get a larger image - Repaired bottle, Esther Brakenhoff - Platform 21&#34; href=&#34;/page/5631/en&#34;&#62;Repaired bottle, Esther Brakenhoff&#60;/a&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;br/&#62;
De glazen fles is gejut op het strand en is helemaal geslepen door de zee en het zand. Het glazen bovenstuk van de fles heb ik op de onderkant van een plastic fles gezet, zodat er weer vloeistoffen in kunnen. Helaas brak het glazen deel tijdens het repareren in stukken en moest ik op zoek naar een manier om de stukken stevig bij elkaar te houden. Dit werd een bol katoendraad die ik zo stevig mogelijk om de stukken heb gewikkeld. Hij is nu bovendien beter geschikt voor warme dranken – die blijven door zijn nieuwe jas langer warm.&#60;br/&#62;
&#60;strong&#62;Esther Brakenhoff, Nederland&#60;/strong&#62;&#60;/p&#62;

&#60;p&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;inline-image-wrapper&#34;&#62;&#60;a href=&#34;http://www.platform21.nl/id/5637&#34;&#62;&#60;img src=&#34;http://www.platform21.nl/image/998/5637-400-214.png&#34; height=&#34;214&#34; width=&#34;400&#34; alt=&#34;A rabbit proof patch, Sofie Linneberg&#34; title=&#34;A rabbit proof patch, Sofie Linneberg&#34; /&#62;&#60;/a&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;inline-caption&#34;&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;caption-title&#34;&#62;&#60;a title=&#34;Click to get a larger image - A rabbit proof patch, Sofie Linneberg - Platform 21&#34; href=&#34;/page/5637/en&#34;&#62;A rabbit proof patch, Sofie Linneberg&#60;/a&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;br/&#62;
Een konijnbestendige patch&#60;br/&#62;
&#60;strong&#62;Sofie Linneberg, Denemarken&#60;/strong&#62;&#60;/p&#62;

&#60;p&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;inline-image-wrapper&#34;&#62;&#60;a href=&#34;http://www.platform21.nl/id/5632&#34;&#62;&#60;img src=&#34;http://www.platform21.nl/image/608/5632-400-300.jpg&#34; height=&#34;300&#34; width=&#34;400&#34; alt=&#34;Repaired handkerchief, Esther Brakenhoff&#34; title=&#34;Repaired handkerchief, Esther Brakenhoff&#34; /&#62;&#60;/a&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;inline-caption&#34;&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;caption-title&#34;&#62;&#60;a title=&#34;Click to get a larger image - Repaired handkerchief, Esther Brakenhoff - Platform 21&#34; href=&#34;/page/5632/en&#34;&#62;Repaired handkerchief, Esther Brakenhoff&#60;/a&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;br/&#62;
De zakdoek was na veelvuldig gebruik zo versleten dat er gaten in vielen. Ik heb geprobeerd om de gaten te stoppen op oma’s wijze, zodat hij er weer tegen kan bij een flinke verkoudheid.&#60;br/&#62;
&#60;strong&#62;Esther Brakenhoff, Nederland&#60;/strong&#62;&#60;/p&#62;

&#60;p&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;inline-image-wrapper&#34;&#62;&#60;a href=&#34;http://www.platform21.nl/id/5633&#34;&#62;&#60;img src=&#34;http://www.platform21.nl/image/026/5633-400-308.png&#34; height=&#34;308&#34; width=&#34;400&#34; alt=&#34;House as Second Skin, Patricia Guarda&#34; title=&#34;House as Second Skin, Patricia Guarda&#34; /&#62;&#60;/a&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;inline-caption&#34;&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;caption-title&#34;&#62;&#60;a title=&#34;Click to get a larger image - House as Second Skin, Patricia Guarda - Platform 21&#34; href=&#34;/page/5633/en&#34;&#62;House as Second Skin, Patricia Guarda&#60;/a&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;br/&#62;
Ik heb een boek gemaakt met de titel ‘Huis als een Tweede Huid’ en een reparatiekit met de materialen die ik heb gebruikt.&#60;br/&#62;
Ik heb een oud huis bezocht en de gaten in het huis gerepareerd zoals je een kledingstuk zou repareren. &#60;br/&#62;
Het huis deed me denken aan een oud vrouwtje met rimpels die een verhaal vertellen. Ik heb het huis in die sfeer geprobeerd te repareren en heb gebruik gemaakt van geborduurde stoffen, siliconen en parels.&#60;br/&#62;
&#60;strong&#62;Patricia Guarda, Nederland&#60;/strong&#62;&#60;/p&#62;

&#60;p&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;inline-image-wrapper&#34;&#62;&#60;a href=&#34;http://www.platform21.nl/id/5634&#34;&#62;&#60;img src=&#34;http://www.platform21.nl/image/602/5634-400-300.jpg&#34; height=&#34;300&#34; width=&#34;400&#34; alt=&#34;Knitting glasses, Francien Degewij&#34; title=&#34;Knitting glasses, Francien Degewij&#34; /&#62;&#60;/a&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;inline-caption&#34;&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;caption-title&#34;&#62;&#60;a title=&#34;Click to get a larger image - Knitting glasses, Francien Degewij - Platform 21&#34; href=&#34;/page/5634/en&#34;&#62;Knitting glasses, Francien Degewij&#60;/a&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;br/&#62;
Deze bril biedt uiterlijke bescherming om achter te schuilen. En tegelijkertijd drukt het de uniciteit van de drager uit. Anonimiteit en uniciteit in een.&#60;br/&#62;
&#60;strong&#62;Francien Degewij, Nederland&#60;/strong&#62;&#60;/p&#62;

&#60;p&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;inline-image-wrapper&#34;&#62;&#60;a href=&#34;http://www.platform21.nl/id/5636&#34;&#62;&#60;img src=&#34;http://www.platform21.nl/image/580/5636-400-300.jpg&#34; height=&#34;300&#34; width=&#34;400&#34; alt=&#34;Jeans repair, Lea Kristensen&#34; title=&#34;Jeans repair, Lea Kristensen&#34; /&#62;&#60;/a&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;inline-caption&#34;&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;caption-title&#34;&#62;&#60;a title=&#34;Click to get a larger image - Jeans repair, Lea Kristensen - Platform 21&#34; href=&#34;/page/5636/en&#34;&#62;Jeans repair, Lea Kristensen&#60;/a&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;br/&#62;
Ik heb mijn spijkerbroek gerepareerd die versleten was tussen de benen. Ik heb de techniek gebruikt die normaal alleen gebruikt wordt om sokken te stoppen, maar ik dacht dat het op jeans ook goed kon werken. En dat ik zeker het geval!&#60;br/&#62;
&#60;strong&#62;Lea Kristensen, Denemarken&#60;/strong&#62;&#60;/p&#62;

&#60;p&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;inline-image-wrapper&#34;&#62;&#60;a href=&#34;http://www.platform21.nl/id/5638&#34;&#62;&#60;img src=&#34;http://www.platform21.nl/image/710/5638-400-300.jpg&#34; height=&#34;300&#34; width=&#34;400&#34; alt=&#34;Gerepareerde naaikoffer, Jentie Kramer&#34; title=&#34;Gerepareerde naaikoffer, Jentie Kramer&#34; /&#62;&#60;/a&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;inline-caption&#34;&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;caption-title&#34;&#62;&#60;a title=&#34;Click to get a larger image - Gerepareerde naaikoffer, Jentie Kramer - Platform 21&#34; href=&#34;/page/5638/en&#34;&#62;Gerepareerde naaikoffer, Jentie Kramer&#60;/a&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;br/&#62;
Door het losse deksel en een aantal scheuren in mijn naaikoffer was deze onbruikbaar geworden. Voor de reparatie heb ik oude draden uit de jaren 50 gevingerhaakt en hiermee de koffer weer in elkaar genaaid. &#60;br/&#62;
Vingerhaken is het eerste wat ik leerde dat met naaien te maken heeft. Als kind zag ik mijn moeder allerlei mooie dingen maken en dacht: dat wil ik ook. Later leerde ik ook breien, op de naaimachine kleren maken etc. Het voelde dan ook goed om terug te gaan naar het vingerhaken om deze oude koffer te repareren. &#60;br/&#62;
&#60;strong&#62;Jentie Kraamer, Nederland&#60;/strong&#62;&#60;/p&#62;

&#60;p&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;inline-image-wrapper&#34;&#62;&#60;a href=&#34;http://www.platform21.nl/id/5639&#34;&#62;&#60;img src=&#34;http://www.platform21.nl/image/505/5639-400-203.png&#34; height=&#34;203&#34; width=&#34;400&#34; alt=&#34;Hexnut shoes, Lise Grosen&#34; title=&#34;Hexnut shoes, Lise Grosen&#34; /&#62;&#60;/a&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;inline-caption&#34;&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;caption-title&#34;&#62;&#60;a title=&#34;Click to get a larger image - Hexnut shoes, Lise Grosen - Platform 21&#34; href=&#34;/page/5639/en&#34;&#62;Hexnut shoes, Lise Grosen&#60;/a&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;br/&#62;
Ik besloot nieuwe schoenen te maken van oude schoenen die ik in een tweedehands winkel kocht. Het is repareren, maar ook styling. Ik heb gekozen voor bouten, omdat ik ze eens een andere functie wilde geven dan als bouwmateriaal in combinatie met schroeven. &#60;br/&#62;
Het resultaat is een schoen die er aan de ene kant heel ruig en mannelijk uitziet, maar ook heel vrouwelijk is wanneer het licht op de bouten valt ze er bijna uitzien als glinsterende juwelen. &#60;br/&#62;
&#60;strong&#62;Lise Grosen, Krabbesholm, Denemarken&#60;/strong&#62;&#60;/p&#62;

&#60;p&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;inline-image-wrapper&#34;&#62;&#60;a href=&#34;http://www.platform21.nl/id/5640&#34;&#62;&#60;img src=&#34;http://www.platform21.nl/image/420/5640-300-400.jpg&#34; height=&#34;400&#34; width=&#34;300&#34; alt=&#34;With your Chair in the Clouds, Nathalie Tappin&#34; title=&#34;With your Chair in the Clouds, Nathalie Tappin&#34; /&#62;&#60;/a&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;inline-caption&#34;&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;caption-title&#34;&#62;&#60;a title=&#34;Click to get a larger image - With your Chair in the Clouds, Nathalie Tappin - Platform 21&#34; href=&#34;/page/5640/en&#34;&#62;With your Chair in the Clouds, Nathalie Tappin&#60;/a&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;br/&#62;
De bekleding van de zitting van de stoel was beschadigd. Er zate kleine en grote inkepingen in de leren bekleding.&#60;br/&#62;
Als patroon zagen deze er al erg mooi uit en  daar wilde ik iets mee te doen.&#60;br/&#62;
Ik ben de inkepingen gaan vullen met wit wol en kreeg al snel het idee dat de stoel begon te leven. &#60;br/&#62;
Het is geen logische manier van repareren, maar wanneer is iets gerepareerd? Wanneer is het af en waneer is iets mooi af? Daar kunnen vele discussies over ontstaan. &#60;br/&#62;
Toen de stoel voor mij af was kreeg ik het gevoel dat er iets uitgroeide, een soort van wolken. Vandaar dat ik ‘m de naam heb gegeven ‘Met de stoel in de Wolken’. &#60;br/&#62;
&#60;strong&#62;Nathalie Tappin, Nederland&#60;/strong&#62;&#60;/p&#62;

&#60;p&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;inline-image-wrapper&#34;&#62;&#60;a href=&#34;http://www.platform21.nl/id/5641&#34;&#62;&#60;img src=&#34;http://www.platform21.nl/image/216/5641-400-271.png&#34; height=&#34;271&#34; width=&#34;400&#34; alt=&#34;Bright Light, Cindy Wouters&#34; title=&#34;Bright Light, Cindy Wouters&#34; /&#62;&#60;/a&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;inline-caption&#34;&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;caption-title&#34;&#62;&#60;a title=&#34;Click to get a larger image - Bright Light, Cindy Wouters - Platform 21&#34; href=&#34;/page/5641/en&#34;&#62;Bright Light, Cindy Wouters&#60;/a&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;br/&#62;
Het papier van deze fragiele lamp was gescheurd. Gelukkig, want door dit ongeluk is de standaard lamp veranderd. Met mijn reparatie heb ik dit nieuwe unieke karakter benadrukt. De mysterieuze opening maakt je nieuwsgierig; je spiekt naar het licht.&#60;br/&#62;
&#60;strong&#62;Cindy Wouters, Nederland&#60;/strong&#62;&#60;/p&#62;

&#60;p&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;inline-image-wrapper&#34;&#62;&#60;a href=&#34;http://www.platform21.nl/id/5642&#34;&#62;&#60;img src=&#34;http://www.platform21.nl/image/579/5642-400-152.png&#34; height=&#34;152&#34; width=&#34;400&#34; alt=&#34;Repaired Couch, Gretchen Rusnak&#34; title=&#34;Repaired Couch, Gretchen Rusnak&#34; /&#62;&#60;/a&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;inline-caption&#34;&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;caption-title&#34;&#62;&#60;a title=&#34;Click to get a larger image - Repaired Couch, Gretchen Rusnak - Platform 21&#34; href=&#34;/page/5642/en&#34;&#62;Repaired Couch, Gretchen Rusnak&#60;/a&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;br/&#62;
Deze bank is al in de familie sinds voor mijn geboorte, ik ben nu 27 jaar oud. De  grote, diepe scheuren in de armleuningen zaten er al in toen mijn ouders de bank kregen van de buren van mijn opa en oma. De bank was verstopt onder een kleed voor zolang ik me kan herinneren. &#60;br/&#62;
We hebben naar andere banken gezocht, maar konden er geen vinden die betaalbaar was en zo lang en comfortabel als onze oude vertrouwde bank. Dus besloot ik dat dit mijn project werd. Ik vond een stuk stof dat leek op het origineel, verving de veren, vernieuwde de vulling en verving de kussens. De originele knopen heb ik gehouden. &#60;br/&#62;
&#60;strong&#62;Gretchen Rusnak, Ohio, Verenigde Staten&#60;/strong&#62;&#60;/p&#62;

&#60;p&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;inline-image-wrapper&#34;&#62;&#60;a href=&#34;http://www.platform21.nl/id/5643&#34;&#62;&#60;img src=&#34;http://www.platform21.nl/image/169/5643-300-400.jpg&#34; height=&#34;400&#34; width=&#34;300&#34; alt=&#34;Repaired Porch, Jane ni Dhulchaointigh&#34; title=&#34;Repaired Porch, Jane ni Dhulchaointigh&#34; /&#62;&#60;/a&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;inline-caption&#34;&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;caption-title&#34;&#62;&#60;a title=&#34;Click to get a larger image - Repaired Porch, Jane ni Dhulchaointigh - Platform 21&#34; href=&#34;/page/5643/en&#34;&#62;Repaired Porch, Jane ni Dhulchaointigh&#60;/a&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;br/&#62;
Deze reparatie heb ik niet zelf gedaan, maar ik zag het en vond ‘m erg mooi. Het is in het portiek van de Londense winkel Kokon To Zai in Golbourne Street. Ze hebben de prachtige oude tegelvloer gerepareerd met gekleurd hars. Mooi!&#60;br/&#62;
&#60;strong&#62;Jane ní Dhulchaointigh, Londen, Verenigd Koninkrijk&#60;/strong&#62;&#60;/p&#62;

&#60;p&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;inline-image-wrapper&#34;&#62;&#60;a href=&#34;http://www.platform21.nl/id/5644&#34;&#62;&#60;img src=&#34;http://www.platform21.nl/image/083/5644-400-268.png&#34; height=&#34;268&#34; width=&#34;400&#34; alt=&#34;Selene&#38;#039;s Cast, Boris Wiasmitinow&#34; title=&#34;Selene&#38;#039;s Cast, Boris Wiasmitinow&#34; /&#62;&#60;/a&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;inline-caption&#34;&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;caption-title&#34;&#62;&#60;a title=&#34;Click to get a larger image - Selene&#39;s Cast, Boris Wiasmitinow - Platform 21&#34; href=&#34;/page/5644/en&#34;&#62;Selene&#39;s Cast, Boris Wiasmitinow&#60;/a&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;br/&#62;
Selene&#39;s Gips&#60;br/&#62;
&#60;strong&#62;Boris Wiasmitinow, Zwitserland&#60;/strong&#62;&#60;/p&#62;

&#60;p&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;inline-image-wrapper&#34;&#62;&#60;a href=&#34;http://www.platform21.nl/id/5645&#34;&#62;&#60;img src=&#34;http://www.platform21.nl/image/272/5645-400-300.jpg&#34; height=&#34;300&#34; width=&#34;400&#34; alt=&#34;Gerepareerde kaasschaaf, Mies Langelaan&#34; title=&#34;Gerepareerde kaasschaaf, Mies Langelaan&#34; /&#62;&#60;/a&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;inline-caption&#34;&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;caption-title&#34;&#62;&#60;a title=&#34;Click to get a larger image - Gerepareerde kaasschaaf, Mies Langelaan - Platform 21&#34; href=&#34;/page/5645/en&#34;&#62;Gerepareerde kaasschaaf, Mies Langelaan&#60;/a&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;br/&#62;
Ik vind het vaak een uitdaging iets te repareren, vooral als ik aan het ding was gehecht.&#60;br/&#62;
Zoals aan de kaasschaaf, die precies de goede plakjes maakt, maar waarvan het houten handvat spleet. Dit is al de tweede kaasschaaf die ik zo repareerde: met een kleine tuinslangenklem (gekocht bij de Wibra) en een beetje kit om hem waterdicht te houden.&#60;br/&#62;
Gaat al weer enige jaren mee, mag alleen niet in de afwasmachine!&#60;br/&#62;
En het glazen deksel van mijn favoriete steelpannetje, waarvan de knop afbrak. Ik vond bij de Gamma op de afdeling keukenkastjes een passend deurknopje, zit met wat extra ringetjes weer muurvast! &#60;br/&#62;
&#60;strong&#62;Mies Langelaan-Scheepers, Emmen, Nederland&#60;/strong&#62;&#60;/p&#62;

&#60;p&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;inline-image-wrapper&#34;&#62;&#60;a href=&#34;http://www.platform21.nl/id/5647&#34;&#62;&#60;img src=&#34;http://www.platform21.nl/image/661/5647-300-400.jpg&#34; height=&#34;400&#34; width=&#34;300&#34; alt=&#34;Gerepareerde jas, Dineke Bos&#34; title=&#34;Gerepareerde jas, Dineke Bos&#34; /&#62;&#60;/a&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;inline-caption&#34;&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;caption-title&#34;&#62;&#60;a title=&#34;Click to get a larger image - Gerepareerde jas, Dineke Bos - Platform 21&#34; href=&#34;/page/5647/en&#34;&#62;Gerepareerde jas, Dineke Bos&#60;/a&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;br/&#62;
Ik repareerde de winterjas van mijn man, ik denk ergens in de jaren ‘90. Hij rookte toen, maar kon een sigaret niet helemaal oproken. Hij maakte hem uit en deed de peuk in de jaszak. En je raadt het al, niet goed uit en een gat in de zak. Zonde van die mooie jas.&#60;br/&#62;
Ik was bezig een jas te naaien van spijkerstof met een prachtige felroze teddy voering. Deze stof paste precies bij de stof van de jas. En een andere kleur was alleen maar verrassend. Dus er kwam een stoplap in en de jas is er nog steeds en wordt gebruikt in de tuin.&#60;br/&#62;
Ik heb altijd gerepareerd, maar vind mezelf geen vrek of een consuminderaar, wel bewust.&#60;br/&#62;
&#60;strong&#62;Dineke Bos, Nederland&#60;/strong&#62;&#60;/p&#62;

&#60;p&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;inline-image-wrapper&#34;&#62;&#60;a href=&#34;http://www.platform21.nl/id/5648&#34;&#62;&#60;img src=&#34;http://www.platform21.nl/image/568/5648-354-400.png&#34; height=&#34;400&#34; width=&#34;354&#34; alt=&#34;Gerepareerde viool, Ronald de Jongh&#34; title=&#34;Gerepareerde viool, Ronald de Jongh&#34; /&#62;&#60;/a&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;inline-caption&#34;&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;caption-title&#34;&#62;&#60;a title=&#34;Click to get a larger image - Gerepareerde viool, Ronald de Jongh - Platform 21&#34; href=&#34;/page/5648/en&#34;&#62;Gerepareerde viool, Ronald de Jongh&#60;/a&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;br/&#62;
Ik koos in 1984 om vioolbouw te gaan studeren in Italië, mede omdat de viool een product is dat tot in de eeuwen hersteld kan worden. Talloze instrumenten komen uit de 17 de eeuw, ook uit Amsterdam, en worden nog dagelijks bespeelt.&#60;br/&#62;
De reparatie die ik heb ingestuurd is van de viool die Ellen ten Damme bij me bracht. Bij een haastige setwisseling had een roadie de vioolkist dichtgedrukt terwijl de viool er niet goed in lag: 23 lange scheuren in het bovenblad. Met podiumtape hadden ze de splinters nog liefdevol bijeen weten te plakken.&#60;br/&#62;
Na ongeveer drie weken, waarin de barsten weer één voor één worden gelijmd en aan de binnenkant worden verstevigd met &#39;diamantjes&#39; -kleine stukjes hout - kon de retouche van de lak beginnen. Na nog een week was de viool weer speelklaar. De kosten van zo’n reparatie vallen mee; een fractie van een nieuw te kopen, vergelijkbaar instrument.&#60;br/&#62;
&#60;strong&#62;Ronald de Jongh, Amsterdam, Nederland&#60;/strong&#62;&#60;/p&#62;

&#60;p&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;inline-image-wrapper&#34;&#62;&#60;a href=&#34;http://www.platform21.nl/id/5649&#34;&#62;&#60;img src=&#34;http://www.platform21.nl/image/189/5649-400-196.png&#34; height=&#34;196&#34; width=&#34;400&#34; alt=&#34;Gerepareerd mes, Joost van Boeschoten&#34; title=&#34;Gerepareerd mes, Joost van Boeschoten&#34; /&#62;&#60;/a&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;inline-caption&#34;&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;caption-title&#34;&#62;&#60;a title=&#34;Click to get a larger image - Gerepareerd mes, Joost van Boeschoten - Platform 21&#34; href=&#34;/page/5649/en&#34;&#62;Gerepareerd mes, Joost van Boeschoten&#60;/a&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;br/&#62;
Dit Japanse mes is fenomenaal. Het staal is precies hard genoeg, en na jarenlang regelmatig slijpen nog goed scherp. Ook is ligging in de hand heel erg prettig door de balans, maat en vorm van het heft. Daarom wilde ik het repareren toen bleek dat het mes problemen kreeg: voelbare speling in de verbinding tussen lemmet en heft en zichtbare scheurtjes. Tot twee keer toe heb ik het heft losgewrikt, het gat open geboord en daarna het lemmet opnieuw vastgelijmd, maar die oplossing hielt telkens een paar maanden en liet toen weer los.   Uiteindelijk heb ik toen een gipsen afgietsel van het hele mes gemaakt, zodat ik een mal had. Daarna heb ik opnieuw het heft verwijderd en lemmet schoon geschuurd. Vervolgens het lemmet in de mal gelegd en er met kunsthars een nieuw heft aan vast gegoten. Voilá: de originele vorm is behouden, de gewichtsverdeling is goed, en bovendien voelt de kunsthars warmer en daarmee prettiger aan dan het oorspronkelijke plastic.&#60;br/&#62;
&#60;strong&#62;Joost van Boeschoten, Nederland&#60;/strong&#62;&#60;/p&#62;

&#60;p&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;inline-image-wrapper&#34;&#62;&#60;a href=&#34;http://www.platform21.nl/id/5650&#34;&#62;&#60;img src=&#34;http://www.platform21.nl/image/586/5650-300-400.jpg&#34; height=&#34;400&#34; width=&#34;300&#34; alt=&#34;Gerepareerde accordeon, JC Herman&#34; title=&#34;Gerepareerde accordeon, JC Herman&#34; /&#62;&#60;/a&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;inline-caption&#34;&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;caption-title&#34;&#62;&#60;a title=&#34;Click to get a larger image - Gerepareerde accordeon, JC Herman - Platform 21&#34; href=&#34;/page/5650/en&#34;&#62;Gerepareerde accordeon, JC Herman&#60;/a&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;br/&#62;
Ik heb een accordeon gerepareerd:  &#60;br/&#62;
-De balg was lek, daarop heb ik zwart en wit tape geplakt&#60;br/&#62;
-Er was geen frontje meer voor het mechaniek, dus ik heb er een plexiglazen kap op gezet&#60;br/&#62;
-Het hele ding was lelijk gemêleerd groenig gelakt. Ik heb &#39;m overgespoten in zwart, maar bij de witte kleine toetsjes zie je de oude lak nog &#60;br/&#62;
-Het mechaniek was los aan de binnenkant, die heb ik hersteld&#60;br/&#62;
-De leren banden heb ik vervangen of ingekort zodat ze weer pasten.&#60;br/&#62;
Voilà! Vooral het plexiglas vond ik geslaagd. Bovendien speelt hij weer, er mist alleen 1 zwarte toets.&#60;br/&#62;
&#60;strong&#62;Herman Verhagen, Nederland&#60;/strong&#62;&#60;/p&#62;

&#60;p&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;inline-image-wrapper&#34;&#62;&#60;a href=&#34;http://www.platform21.nl/id/5646&#34;&#62;&#60;img src=&#34;http://www.platform21.nl/image/570/5646-400-140.png&#34; height=&#34;140&#34; width=&#34;400&#34; alt=&#34;Renault 4, Anne-Marie Pronk&#34; title=&#34;Renault 4, Anne-Marie Pronk&#34; /&#62;&#60;/a&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;inline-caption&#34;&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;caption-title&#34;&#62;&#60;a title=&#34;Click to get a larger image - Renault 4, Anne-Marie Pronk - Platform 21&#34; href=&#34;/page/5646/en&#34;&#62;Renault 4, Anne-Marie Pronk&#60;/a&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;br/&#62;
Renault 4. We hebben ze in diverse soorten en maten gehad, dé repair it yourself auto bij uitstek. Het meest legendarisch was de reparatie aan de witte Renault 4 F6 toen ik voor het eerst alleen in een auto reed na het behalen van mijn rijexamen. Dapper laadde ik de hele auto vol; het studentenhuis werd uitgemest en vol goede moed reed ik met een laadbak vol glas naar de glasbak, ergens diep in Amsterdam West bij de haven. Wild trapte ik het gaspedaal in en opeens lag op de laadvloer het pedaal teruggebracht naar haar essentie: een plaatje staal aan een touwtje, zielig als een dood vogeltje. Daar raakte ik destijds aardig van in paniek. &#60;br/&#62;
Een telefooncel gezocht en naar huis gebeld. Ultraromantisch: op de fiets kwam lief aangesjeesd. De overbrenging van het gaspedaal naar de motor werd binnen een kwartiertje in ere hersteld met een in zijn broekzak gevonden paperclip. Daar ben ik nog steeds van onder de indruk, van Renault 4 én lief. Hij verbouwt ons huis, repareert oude Vespa’s, espressomachines en al het speelgoed van onze twee kinderen. Symbool voor die handigheid en vindingrijkheid staat voor mij nog steeds DE paperclip &#38;amp; de Renault 4 F6.&#60;br/&#62;
&#60;strong&#62;Anne-Marie Pronk, Arnhem, Nederland&#60;/strong&#62;&#60;/p&#62;

&#60;p&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;inline-image-wrapper&#34;&#62;&#60;a href=&#34;http://www.platform21.nl/id/5651&#34;&#62;&#60;img src=&#34;http://www.platform21.nl/image/427/5651-400-267.png&#34; height=&#34;267&#34; width=&#34;400&#34; alt=&#34;Times have changed, Boris Wiasmitinow&#34; title=&#34;Times have changed, Boris Wiasmitinow&#34; /&#62;&#60;/a&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;inline-caption&#34;&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;caption-title&#34;&#62;&#60;a title=&#34;Click to get a larger image - Times have changed, Boris Wiasmitinow - Platform 21&#34; href=&#34;/page/5651/en&#34;&#62;Times have changed, Boris Wiasmitinow&#60;/a&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;br/&#62;
Times have changed&#60;br/&#62;
&#60;strong&#62;Boris Wiasmitinow, Zwitserland&#60;/strong&#62;&#60;/p&#62;

&#60;p&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;inline-image-wrapper&#34;&#62;&#60;a href=&#34;http://www.platform21.nl/id/5652&#34;&#62;&#60;img src=&#34;http://www.platform21.nl/image/631/5652-400-300.jpg&#34; height=&#34;300&#34; width=&#34;400&#34; alt=&#34;Sneaker repair, Cleo Grabijn&#34; title=&#34;Sneaker repair, Cleo Grabijn&#34; /&#62;&#60;/a&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;inline-caption&#34;&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;caption-title&#34;&#62;&#60;a title=&#34;Click to get a larger image - Sneaker repair, Cleo Grabijn - Platform 21&#34; href=&#34;/page/5652/en&#34;&#62;Sneaker repair, Cleo Grabijn&#60;/a&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;br/&#62;
Een quick fix: All Star gympen gerepareerd met tape en daarna de vetergaatjes bijgetekend met stift.&#60;br/&#62;
&#60;strong&#62;Cleo Grabijn, Nederland&#60;/strong&#62;&#60;/p&#62;

&#60;p&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;inline-image-wrapper&#34;&#62;&#60;a href=&#34;http://www.platform21.nl/id/5653&#34;&#62;&#60;img src=&#34;http://www.platform21.nl/image/501/5653-400-261.png&#34; height=&#34;261&#34; width=&#34;400&#34; alt=&#34;Repair project, Edgar Mosa&#34; title=&#34;Repair project, Edgar Mosa&#34; /&#62;&#60;/a&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;inline-caption&#34;&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;caption-title&#34;&#62;&#60;a title=&#34;Click to get a larger image - Repair project, Edgar Mosa - Platform 21&#34; href=&#34;/page/5653/en&#34;&#62;Repair project, Edgar Mosa&#60;/a&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;br/&#62;
Vorig jaar heb ik een project over repareren ontwikkeld en uitgevoerd in Badhikel, een klein dorp vlakbij Kathmandu in Nepal.&#60;br/&#62;
Gefascineerd door de tekenen van ouderdom en historie in objecten bij mensen thuis, ben ik samen met Sanjeev Maharjan het dorp Badhikel rond gegaan om deze voorwerpen in vervallen staat te verzamelen.&#60;br/&#62;
Sanjeev en ik repareerde gebroken pannen, schoenen en potten met dik draad en naalden. De reparaties benadrukten en versterkten de schoonheid van de gebruikssporen. &#60;br/&#62;
Tijdens ons eerste bezoek aan het dorp, werden we nieuwsgierig aanschouwd door verrasde bewoners, maar bij ons tweede bezoek kwamen ze bij ons zitten om samen met ons te repareren. Het was een eer om samen met ze te werken en hun creativiteit en toewijding te ervaren en het werd het hoogtepunt van onze reis. Een sociale barriere werd verbroken en veranderde in een gevoel van verbondenheid: onze missie was volbracht.  &#60;br/&#62;
&#60;strong&#62;Edgar Mosa, Amsterdam, Nederland&#60;/strong&#62;&#60;/p&#62;

&#60;p&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;inline-image-wrapper&#34;&#62;&#60;a href=&#34;http://www.platform21.nl/id/5654&#34;&#62;&#60;img src=&#34;http://www.platform21.nl/image/847/5654-400-153.png&#34; height=&#34;153&#34; width=&#34;400&#34; alt=&#34;Gerepareerd autoradio opbergdoosje, Judith van Meeuwen&#34; title=&#34;Gerepareerd autoradio opbergdoosje, Judith van Meeuwen&#34; /&#62;&#60;/a&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;inline-caption&#34;&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;caption-title&#34;&#62;&#60;a title=&#34;Click to get a larger image - Gerepareerd autoradio opbergdoosje, Judith van Meeuwen - Platform 21&#34; href=&#34;/page/5654/en&#34;&#62;Gerepareerd autoradio opbergdoosje, Judith van Meeuwen&#60;/a&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;br/&#62;
Stuk: autoradio-opbergdoosje&#60;br/&#62;
Gerepareerd met: 2 stukjes pianoscharnier en popnagels&#60;br/&#62;
&#60;strong&#62;Marnix Kleefmann en Judith van Meeuwen, Nederland&#60;/strong&#62;&#60;/p&#62;

&#60;p&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;inline-image-wrapper&#34;&#62;&#60;a href=&#34;http://www.platform21.nl/id/5655&#34;&#62;&#60;img src=&#34;http://www.platform21.nl/image/264/5655-380-320.jpg&#34; height=&#34;320&#34; width=&#34;380&#34; alt=&#34;Topological jacket, Sergio Davilla&#34; title=&#34;Topological jacket, Sergio Davilla&#34; /&#62;&#60;/a&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;inline-caption&#34;&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;caption-title&#34;&#62;&#60;a title=&#34;Click to get a larger image - Topological jacket, Sergio Davilla - Platform 21&#34; href=&#34;/page/5655/en&#34;&#62;Topological jacket, Sergio Davilla&#60;/a&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;br/&#62;
Gedurende de laatste weken probeer ik een ondernemingsplan te schrijven met mijn vriendin, maar de zaken staan er niet zo goed voor. We ontdekken dat onze verschillende opleidingen en nationale achtergronden botsen wanneer we proberen samen te werken. Er zijn dagen dat we elkaar precies begrijpen, en dagen die uitlopen in een grote ruzie. Deze scheuren in onze zakelijke relatie breiden zich uit naar onze liefdesrelatie en dus vond ik het tijd om deze te repareren! Daarom ontwierp ik het topologische jack. &#60;br/&#62;
De term topologie verwijst naar het vermogen om de aard van een probleem te transformeren van logisch naar ruimtelijk. &#60;br/&#62;
Wanneer mijn vriendin en ik nu ruzie hebben over hetzelfde idee trekken we het jack aan dat gemaakt is van twee kapotte jassen met de rechterzijdes aan elkaar genaaid maar ieder in een andere richting. Zo realiseren we ons dat we beide dezelfde kant op gaan maar dingen anders zien. Het is niet alleen een symbolische reparatie, maar ook een die onze koppige en boze stemming doet verdwijnen wanneer we klungelig dezelfde kant op proberen te lopen en heel hard moeten lachen!&#60;br/&#62;
&#60;strong&#62;Sergio Davila, Amsterdam, Nederland&#60;/strong&#62;&#60;/p&#62;

&#60;p&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;inline-image-wrapper&#34;&#62;&#60;a href=&#34;http://www.platform21.nl/id/5658&#34;&#62;&#60;img src=&#34;http://www.platform21.nl/image/228/5658-400-189.png&#34; height=&#34;189&#34; width=&#34;400&#34; alt=&#34;Gerepareerde spijkerbroek, Margreet Beemsterboer&#34; title=&#34;Gerepareerde spijkerbroek, Margreet Beemsterboer&#34; /&#62;&#60;/a&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;inline-caption&#34;&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;caption-title&#34;&#62;&#60;a title=&#34;Click to get a larger image - Gerepareerde spijkerbroek, Margreet Beemsterboer - Platform 21&#34; href=&#34;/page/5658/en&#34;&#62;Gerepareerde spijkerbroek, Margreet Beemsterboer&#60;/a&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;br/&#62;
Voor de Most Remarkable Repair Contest stuur ik graag het werk van mijn moeder in, als verrassing. &#60;br/&#62;
Mijn moeder, Margreet Beemsterboer, is professioneel borduurster en hoofdredactrice van het vakblad Handwerk zonder Grenzen. Om een jonger publiek aan te spreken met het blad, bedacht ze een mooie manier om een spijkerbroek te repareren. &#60;br/&#62;
Versleten jeans zijn hip en aan een gedragen look geven we veel geld uit. Maar beschadigde jeans scheurt makkelijk verder door. Om de broek hiervoor te beschermen, maar de vintage look wel te behouden, repareerde mijn moeder mijn spijkerbroek met authentieke reparatiesteken en weeftechnieken, zoals vroeger kledingstukken en sokken werden gerepareerd. Met de hand weefde ze nieuwe scherende draden door de inslag (die er nog wel was). Ze gebruikte dikke katoenen draad om de jeans look te behouden en maakte zelfs decoratieve steken, zodat de broek alleen maar mooier werd. Het eindresultaat is een broek die er erg vintage uitziet, maar niet snel verder doorscheurd, maar ook modern en verfijnd is door het prachtige handwerk. &#60;br/&#62;
Alle fotografie door Michel Mulder.&#60;br/&#62;
&#60;strong&#62;Marieke Beemsterboer, Amsterdam, Nederland&#60;/strong&#62;&#60;/p&#62;

&#60;p&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;inline-image-wrapper&#34;&#62;&#60;a href=&#34;http://www.platform21.nl/id/5662&#34;&#62;&#60;img src=&#34;http://www.platform21.nl/image/132/5662-400-300.jpg&#34; height=&#34;300&#34; width=&#34;400&#34; alt=&#34;Repaired umbrella, Stefan Malesevic&#34; title=&#34;Repaired umbrella, Stefan Malesevic&#34; /&#62;&#60;/a&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;inline-caption&#34;&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;caption-title&#34;&#62;&#60;a title=&#34;Click to get a larger image - Repaired umbrella, Stefan Malesevic - Platform 21&#34; href=&#34;/page/5662/en&#34;&#62;Repaired umbrella, Stefan Malesevic&#60;/a&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;br/&#62;
Op een dag vond ik deze paraplu zonder stof. Voor een reden die ik niet kan benoemen, vond ik ‘m erg mooi en nam ‘m overal mee naar toe. Het was zomer, het was heet, geen regen en de zon scheen. En ik liep rond met een paraplu; mensen vonden me een beetje vreemd. &#60;br/&#62;
Na een tijdje was ik het zat dat mensen er naar bleven vragen en de paraplu werd gammel en nu hangt ‘ie alweer een tijdje aan het plafond. Ik besloot ‘m eindelijk te repareren, maar niet op een standaard manier. Ik heb onnodige dingen uit mijn dagelijks leven gebruikt, maar wel dingen die en speciale betekenis voor mij hebben. &#60;br/&#62;
&#60;strong&#62;Stefan Malesevic, Servië&#60;/strong&#62;&#60;/p&#62;

&#60;p&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;inline-image-wrapper&#34;&#62;&#60;a href=&#34;http://www.platform21.nl/id/5663&#34;&#62;&#60;img src=&#34;http://www.platform21.nl/image/924/5663-400-350.png&#34; height=&#34;350&#34; width=&#34;400&#34; alt=&#34;Patch up your ego!, Jorien Vlaar&#34; title=&#34;Patch up your ego!, Jorien Vlaar&#34; /&#62;&#60;/a&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;inline-caption&#34;&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;caption-title&#34;&#62;&#60;a title=&#34;Click to get a larger image - Patch up your ego!, Jorien Vlaar - Platform 21&#34; href=&#34;/page/5663/en&#34;&#62;Patch up your ego!, Jorien Vlaar&#60;/a&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;br/&#62;
Geen geld voor nieuwe ‘gadgets’ of andere luxe producten? Maar je wilt ook niet onderdoen voor je vrienden en bijblijven met de tijd?&#60;br/&#62;
Lap je ego op! Letterlijk!  &#60;br/&#62;
Je computer gecrashed en je hebt nu nét even geen geld om een nieuwe te kopen?&#60;br/&#62;
Lap ‘m op….&#60;br/&#62;
… en in een mum van tijd is je laptop weer als vanouds! Je hoeft je niet meer te schamen tegenover je vrienden omdat je niet mee kunt met de laatste trends. &#60;br/&#62;
Ziet jouw voorraadkast er de laatste weken ook zo uit: bijna leeg?&#60;br/&#62;
Lap ‘m op…..&#60;br/&#62;
… en je kunt weer ongegeneerd je vrienden thuis uitnodigen (hmmm, om Chinees te bestellen?!)&#60;br/&#62;
Het resultaat kan verassend creatief óf realistisch zijn. Het laat op een ironische manier de (minst belangrijke) gevolgen van een ‘crisis’ zien: het opent een discussie over de mate van belangrijkheid van het uiterlijk, het voordoen van hoe je graag zou zijn, het wegvagen van identiteit. En dat in een tijd dat iedereen juist terug naar zijn basis geworpen zou (moeten) worden. &#60;br/&#62;
&#60;strong&#62;Jorien Vlaar, Nederland&#60;/strong&#62;&#60;/p&#62;

&#60;p&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;inline-image-wrapper&#34;&#62;&#60;a href=&#34;http://www.platform21.nl/id/5665&#34;&#62;&#60;img src=&#34;http://www.platform21.nl/image/197/5665-400-300.jpg&#34; height=&#34;300&#34; width=&#34;400&#34; alt=&#34;Glasses for playing billiards, Gerlad Tros&#34; title=&#34;Glasses for playing billiards, Gerlad Tros&#34; /&#62;&#60;/a&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;inline-caption&#34;&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;caption-title&#34;&#62;&#60;a title=&#34;Click to get a larger image - Glasses for playing billiards, Gerlad Tros - Platform 21&#34; href=&#34;/page/5665/en&#34;&#62;Glasses for playing billiards, Gerlad Tros&#60;/a&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;br/&#62;
Een vriend van me gaf me zijn oude bril voor verzien en wat bleek? Zijn lenzen hadden dezelfde sterkte als mijn eigen bril maar links-rechts verwisseld. Ik kwam op het idee om een snookerbril voor mijzelf te maken. Namelijk, bij het snookeren hang je laag over de tafel en kijk je hoog door de glazen. In de regel is de bovenrand van de glazen te laag voor dit doel. Maar als ik nou een bril omdraai, dan komt er veel meer glas bovenin. Het was slechts nodig om de twee veren om te zetten en een neussteuntje van een andere oude bril te monteren. Dit laatste gedaan met drie dicht binders van plastic lunchzakjes.&#60;br/&#62;
&#60;strong&#62;Gerald Tros, Amsterdam, Nederland&#60;/strong&#62;&#60;/p&#62;

&#60;p&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;inline-image-wrapper&#34;&#62;&#60;a href=&#34;http://www.platform21.nl/id/5666&#34;&#62;&#60;img src=&#34;http://www.platform21.nl/image/097/5666-400-194.png&#34; height=&#34;194&#34; width=&#34;400&#34; alt=&#34;Repaired shoes, Maria Katkova&#34; title=&#34;Repaired shoes, Maria Katkova&#34; /&#62;&#60;/a&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;inline-caption&#34;&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;caption-title&#34;&#62;&#60;a title=&#34;Click to get a larger image - Repaired shoes, Maria Katkova - Platform 21&#34; href=&#34;/page/5666/en&#34;&#62;Repaired shoes, Maria Katkova&#60;/a&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;br/&#62;
Mijn vaak gedragen lievelingsschoenen hadden oncomfortabele slijtplekken onder de lange tenen. Ik vond wat oud koperdraad uit een oude transformator en: nieuwe ge-update schoenen!&#60;br/&#62;
&#60;strong&#62;Maria Katkova, Rusland&#60;/strong&#62;&#60;/p&#62;

&#60;p&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;inline-image-wrapper&#34;&#62;&#60;a href=&#34;http://www.platform21.nl/id/5668&#34;&#62;&#60;img src=&#34;http://www.platform21.nl/image/408/5668-400-153.png&#34; height=&#34;153&#34; width=&#34;400&#34; alt=&#34;Repaired linen trousers, Hanny Couwenhoven&#34; title=&#34;Repaired linen trousers, Hanny Couwenhoven&#34; /&#62;&#60;/a&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;inline-caption&#34;&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;caption-title&#34;&#62;&#60;a title=&#34;Click to get a larger image - Repaired linen trousers, Hanny Couwenhoven - Platform 21&#34; href=&#34;/page/5668/en&#34;&#62;Repaired linen trousers, Hanny Couwenhoven&#60;/a&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;br/&#62;
In mijn linnen broek zat een glee (gat). Daar hij een fijne kleur heeft  besloot ik hem te repareren.&#60;br/&#62;
Eerst de glee in een ribbel naar binnen genaaid en daarna als versiering en camouflage drie richels naar de buitenkant gemaakt. De broek was hierdoor vier centimeter korter geworden. Gelukkig zat er een brede zoom in. De zoom eruit gehaald en op de vouw een richel gemaakt en de onderkant met een dubbel stiksel afgewerkt.&#60;br/&#62;
De broek wordt weer volop gedragen!&#60;br/&#62;
&#60;strong&#62;Hanny Couwenhoven&#60;/strong&#62;&#60;/p&#62;

&#60;p&#62;Gerepareerde rolstoel &#60;br/&#62;
&#60;strong&#62;Frans Geus, Amsterdam, Nederland&#60;/strong&#62;&#60;/p&#62;

&#60;p&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;inline-image-wrapper&#34;&#62;&#60;a href=&#34;http://www.platform21.nl/id/5669&#34;&#62;&#60;img src=&#34;http://www.platform21.nl/image/281/5669-400-300.jpg&#34; height=&#34;300&#34; width=&#34;400&#34; alt=&#34;Repaired jeans, Marcel van der Drift&#34; title=&#34;Repaired jeans, Marcel van der Drift&#34; /&#62;&#60;/a&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;inline-caption&#34;&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;caption-title&#34;&#62;&#60;a title=&#34;Click to get a larger image - Repaired jeans, Marcel van der Drift - Platform 21&#34; href=&#34;/page/5669/en&#34;&#62;Repaired jeans, Marcel van der Drift&#60;/a&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;br/&#62;
Ik heb een groot gat in mijn spijkerbroek gerepareerd. Rits dicht: ik ben netjes. Rits open: ik ben cool. &#60;br/&#62;
&#60;strong&#62;Marcel van der Drift, Nederland&#60;/strong&#62;&#60;/p&#62;

&#60;p&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;inline-image-wrapper&#34;&#62;&#60;a href=&#34;http://www.platform21.nl/id/5670&#34;&#62;&#60;img src=&#34;http://www.platform21.nl/image/243/5670-400-141.png&#34; height=&#34;141&#34; width=&#34;400&#34; alt=&#34;Repaired plastic gloves, Katelijn van der Heyden&#34; title=&#34;Repaired plastic gloves, Katelijn van der Heyden&#34; /&#62;&#60;/a&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;inline-caption&#34;&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;caption-title&#34;&#62;&#60;a title=&#34;Click to get a larger image - Repaired plastic gloves, Katelijn van der Heyden - Platform 21&#34; href=&#34;/page/5670/en&#34;&#62;Repaired plastic gloves, Katelijn van der Heyden&#60;/a&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;br/&#62;
Ik repareerde de gaatjes in mijn rubberen handschoenen met fietsbandreparatie klevers. Deze zijn bijzonder sterk!&#60;br/&#62;
&#60;strong&#62;lijn, Gent, België&#60;/strong&#62;&#60;/p&#62;

&#60;p&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;inline-image-wrapper&#34;&#62;&#60;a href=&#34;http://www.platform21.nl/id/5672&#34;&#62;&#60;img src=&#34;http://www.platform21.nl/image/594/5672-400-300.png&#34; height=&#34;300&#34; width=&#34;400&#34; alt=&#34;Repaired clothes, Akiko Mukoyama&#34; title=&#34;Repaired clothes, Akiko Mukoyama&#34; /&#62;&#60;/a&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;inline-caption&#34;&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;caption-title&#34;&#62;&#60;a title=&#34;Click to get a larger image - Repaired clothes, Akiko Mukoyama - Platform 21&#34; href=&#34;/page/5672/en&#34;&#62;Repaired clothes, Akiko Mukoyama&#60;/a&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;br/&#62;
De broek heb ik zo vaak gedragen dat de stof heel dun was geworden. Gerepareerd!&#60;br/&#62;
Op het shirt heb ik inkt gemorst. &#60;br/&#62;
Gerepareerd!&#60;br/&#62;
&#60;strong&#62;Akiko Mukoyama&#60;/strong&#62;&#60;/p&#62;

&#60;p&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;inline-image-wrapper&#34;&#62;&#60;a href=&#34;http://www.platform21.nl/id/5678&#34;&#62;&#60;img src=&#34;http://www.platform21.nl/image/539/5678-400-130.png&#34; height=&#34;130&#34; width=&#34;400&#34; alt=&#34;Repaired amulet, Eline&#34; title=&#34;Repaired amulet, Eline&#34; /&#62;&#60;/a&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;inline-caption&#34;&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;caption-title&#34;&#62;&#60;a title=&#34;Click to get a larger image - Repaired amulet, Eline - Platform 21&#34; href=&#34;/page/5678/en&#34;&#62;Repaired amulet, Eline&#60;/a&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;br/&#62;
Mijn reparatie is een amulet geworden.&#60;br/&#62;
Het amulet is gemaakt van een kapot hoefijzertje van keramiek, op traditionele wijze geglazuurd.&#60;br/&#62;
Ik repareer eigenlijk veel, en vaak met ijzerdraad.&#60;br/&#62;
Dat werkt lekker en is sterk..&#60;br/&#62;
&#60;strong&#62;Eline&#60;/strong&#62;&#60;/p&#62;

&#60;p&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;inline-image-wrapper&#34;&#62;&#60;a href=&#34;http://www.platform21.nl/id/5679&#34;&#62;&#60;img src=&#34;http://www.platform21.nl/image/362/5679-400-298.png&#34; height=&#34;298&#34; width=&#34;400&#34; alt=&#34;Repaired furniture, Carol Mandryk&#34; title=&#34;Repaired furniture, Carol Mandryk&#34; /&#62;&#60;/a&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;inline-caption&#34;&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;caption-title&#34;&#62;&#60;a title=&#34;Click to get a larger image - Repaired furniture, Carol Mandryk - Platform 21&#34; href=&#34;/page/5679/en&#34;&#62;Repaired furniture, Carol Mandryk&#60;/a&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;br/&#62;
Omdat het hier heel duur is om spullen van het eiland te laten verschepen, zetten inwoners van Hawaii belachelijk veel meubels en andere objecten langs de kant van de straat voor “bulky item pick-up”. Ik verzamel al vier jaar lang dit soort meubels en materialen. Sommige dingen hebben helemaal geen reparatie nodig en moeten alleen wat schoongemaakt worden, andere hebben wat reparatie en een opfrisser nodig: een nieuw likje verf, nieuw schuimrubber of een nieuwe zitting.  Sommige dingen vragen erom opnieuw uitgevonden te worden. Als er enkel nog wat onderdelen bruikbaar zijn, neem ik die ook mee. Ik verdeel mijn projecten in gerepareerd, geherinterpreteerd en gecreëerd. &#60;br/&#62;
&#60;strong&#62;Carole Mandryk, Hawaii&#60;/strong&#62;&#60;/p&#62;

&#60;p&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;inline-image-wrapper&#34;&#62;&#60;a href=&#34;http://www.platform21.nl/id/5681&#34;&#62;&#60;img src=&#34;http://www.platform21.nl/image/049/5681-300-400.jpg&#34; height=&#34;400&#34; width=&#34;300&#34; alt=&#34;Repaired theapot, Paul Finnigan&#34; title=&#34;Repaired theapot, Paul Finnigan&#34; /&#62;&#60;/a&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;inline-caption&#34;&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;caption-title&#34;&#62;&#60;a title=&#34;Click to get a larger image - Repaired theapot, Paul Finnigan - Platform 21&#34; href=&#34;/page/5681/en&#34;&#62;Repaired theapot, Paul Finnigan&#60;/a&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;br/&#62;
Theepot gerepareerd met Sugru. Zie www.sugru.com&#60;br/&#62;
&#60;strong&#62;Paul Finnigan&#60;/strong&#62;&#60;/p&#62;

&#60;p&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;inline-image-wrapper&#34;&#62;&#60;a href=&#34;http://www.platform21.nl/id/5682&#34;&#62;&#60;img src=&#34;http://www.platform21.nl/image/251/5682-400-114.png&#34; height=&#34;114&#34; width=&#34;400&#34; alt=&#34;Repaired globe, Ruchama Hoed&#34; title=&#34;Repaired globe, Ruchama Hoed&#34; /&#62;&#60;/a&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;inline-caption&#34;&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;caption-title&#34;&#62;&#60;a title=&#34;Click to get a larger image - Repaired globe, Ruchama Hoed - Platform 21&#34; href=&#34;/page/5682/en&#34;&#62;Repaired globe, Ruchama Hoed&#60;/a&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;br/&#62;
Globalise Love&#60;br/&#62;
Mijn zoektocht naar hoe ik kan bijdragen aan het Helen (=repareren) van deze globe, heeft me ertoe geleid deze oude globe in mijn dagelijkse meditaties mee te nemen.&#60;br/&#62;
Dit project representeert de globe als object en de aarde die de globe representeert. &#60;br/&#62;
De twee rode kristallen di eik plaatste in Amsterdam, Nederland, en Caracas, Venezuela, representeren mijn persoonlijke reparatie. Iemand waarvan ik houd woont helemaal aan de andere kant van de wereld en ik wilde onze connectie visueel ‘repareren’.&#60;br/&#62;
&#60;strong&#62;Ruchama Hoed, Amsterdam, Nederland&#60;/strong&#62;&#60;/p&#62;</content>
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  <link rel="http://purl.org/dc/terms/description" title="You can repair anything" href="http://www.platform21.nl/id/4929" anymeta:symbolic_name="ABOUT" anymeta:predicate_title="about" />
  <link rel="http://purl.org/dc/terms/description" title="You can repair anything" href="http://www.platform21.nl/id/4394" anymeta:symbolic_name="ABOUT" anymeta:predicate_title="about" />
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  <link rel="http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/img" title="Repaired furniture, Carol Mandryk" href="http://www.platform21.nl/id/5679" anymeta:symbolic_name="FIGURE" anymeta:predicate_title="" />
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  <link rel="http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/img" title="Repaired theapot, Paul Finnigan" href="http://www.platform21.nl/id/5681" anymeta:symbolic_name="FIGURE" anymeta:predicate_title="" />
  <link rel="http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/img" title="Repaired globe, Ruchama Hoed" href="http://www.platform21.nl/id/5682" anymeta:symbolic_name="FIGURE" anymeta:predicate_title="" />
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  <id>http://www.platform21.nl/id/4360</id>
  <updated>2009-11-02T16:16:57+01:00</updated>
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  <title type="html">Downloaded over one million times!</title>
  <summary type="html">&#60;p&#62;Platform21’s Repair Manifesto opposes throwaway culture and celebrates repair as the new recycling. The last few months the Manifesto has been downloaded, blogged about and adopted all over the world.&#60;/p&#62;

&#60;p&#62;The Repair Manifesto is part of the project &#60;a href=&#34;http://www.platform21.nl/page/4315/nl?lang=en&#34;&#62;&#60;em&#62;Platform21 = Repairing&#60;/em&#62;&#60;/a&#62; for which we sought to make repairing cool again – over a period of five months. &#60;br/&#62;
Both with the help of designers and visitors, new repair techniques were developed and many ingenious repairs were carried out in Platform21. &#60;/p&#62;

&#60;p&#62;Although the project has now ended in Platform21, it doesn&#39;t mean we are dropping the repair mentality. &#60;em&#62;Platform21 = Repairing&#60;/em&#62; will soon travel to New York, and we hope the manifesto will keep inspiring people to STOP RECYCLING and START REPAIRING!&#60;/p&#62;

&#60;p&#62;So rediscover the joy of fixing things and share your repair knowledge. Together we can keep this movement going, one that isn’t new per se but has been forgotten.&#60;/p&#62;

&#60;p&#62;Click on the right top corner of the manifesto to enlarge.&#60;/p&#62;</summary>
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    <title type="html">Meer dan een miljoen keer gedownload!</title>
    <summary type="html">&#60;p&#62;Het Repair Manifesto van Platform21 zet zich af tegen de wegwerpmaatschappij en viert repareren als het nieuwe recyclen. De afgelopen maanden is het manifest ontelbare keren gedownload, is er heel vaak over geblogd en zijn de elf punten geadopteerd door mensen wereldwijd.&#60;/p&#62;

&#60;p&#62;Het Repair Manifesto is onderdeel van het project  &#60;a href=&#34;http://www.platform21.nl/page/4315/nl&#34;&#62;&#60;em&#62;Platform21 = Repairing&#60;/em&#62;&#60;/a&#62; waarmee we vijf maanden lang probeerden het repareren in ere herstellen. Met de hulp van ontwerpers en publiek zijn er nieuwe reparatietechnieken ontwikkeld en talloze ingenieuze reparaties uitgevoerd in Platform21.&#60;/p&#62;

&#60;p&#62;Dat het project in Platform21 afgelopen is, betekent niet dat we het repareren laten voor wat het is. &#60;em&#62;Platform21 = Repairing&#60;/em&#62; gaat naar New York, en we hopen dat het manifesto mensen blijft inspireren: STOP RECYCLING, START REPAIRING! &#60;/p&#62;

&#60;p&#62;Dus herontdek het plezier van dingen fixen en deel je reparatie kennis! Samen kunnen we deze beweging in gang houden, die niet persé nieuw, maar wel vergeten was.&#60;/p&#62;

&#60;p&#62;Wil je het manifest in het Nederlands lezen? Klik &#60;a href=&#34;http://www.platform21.nl/page/4376&#34;&#62;hier&#60;/a&#62;.&#60;/p&#62;

&#60;p&#62;Klik op de rechter bovenhoek van het manifest om deze te vergroten.&#60;/p&#62;</summary>
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  <link rel="http://purl.org/dc/terms/description" title="You can repair anything" href="http://www.platform21.nl/id/4394" anymeta:symbolic_name="ABOUT" anymeta:predicate_title="about" />
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  <id>http://www.platform21.nl/id/5733</id>
  <updated>2009-10-19T15:52:29+02:00</updated>
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  <title type="html">And the winner is...</title>
  <subtitle type="html">Siba Sahabi with her one-day bags</subtitle>
  <summary type="html">&#60;p&#62;Sahabi repaired a simple plastic bag that got caught between the spokes of her bicycle, and decorated it with an embroidered reference to the action that damaged the bag. In this manner she made a series of five fragile bags that all carry a special memory. They are not just pretty, Siba Sahabi’s entry questions if there is space for imperfection: objects with a handicap, oddity or story. Because, to be honest, even after repair the bags are not very robust.&#60;/p&#62;</summary>
  <content type="html">&#60;p&#62;The jury praised the way in which Sahabi transformed a plastic bag, symbol to the throwaway society, from something worthless into something valuable. Something breaking down or ripping is no longer seen as negative, but as a motive to be creative and an opportunity to tell a new story. Sahabi literally does that by giving the bag a diary function. &#60;/p&#62;

&#60;p&#62;During the award ceremony on Sunday 30 August Sahabi received the one and only Repair Award created by artist Jan Vormann. She also took home an extensive tool set that Dremel awarded her with.&#60;/p&#62;

&#60;p&#62;Next to a winner, the jury, consisting of amateur repairwoman and hotel owner of the Lloyd Hotel Suzanne Oxenaar, tool tester and editor-in-chief Erwin van der Zande of Bright, and curator and inventor Arne Hendriks of Platform21, also selected a runner-up. &#60;/p&#62;

&#60;p&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;inline-image-wrapper&#34;&#62;&#60;a href=&#34;http://www.platform21.nl/id/5635&#34;&#62;&#60;img src=&#34;http://www.platform21.nl/image/661/5635-400-290.jpg&#34; height=&#34;290&#34; width=&#34;400&#34; alt=&#34;Shrunken sweater, Calypso Schuijt&#34; title=&#34;Shrunken sweater, Calypso Schuijt&#34; /&#62;&#60;/a&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;inline-caption&#34;&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;caption-title&#34;&#62;&#60;a title=&#34;Click to get a larger image - Shrunken sweater, Calypso Schuijt - Platform 21&#34; href=&#34;/page/5635/en&#34;&#62;Shrunken sweater, Calypso Schuijt&#60;/a&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;br/&#62;
The problem of Calypso Schuijt was a familiar one: in laundry her wool sweater had shrunk.  Not wanting to give up on her favourite sweater she looked for a way in which to enlarge it again. By cutting a brick pattern in the fabric, it regained its stretch and so the sweater stretched to a wearable size again when she put it on. &#60;br/&#62;
The jury admired the way in which Schuijt repaired the sweater by damaging it even more: by cutting holes in it. This contrast promotes a new way of thinking. &#60;br/&#62;
Dremel also congratuled Calypso with a Dremel toolset.&#60;/p&#62;</content>
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    <title type="html">And the winner is...</title>
    <subtitle type="html">Siba Sahabi met haar gerepareerde eendagstassen</subtitle>
    <summary type="html">&#60;p&#62;Siba Sahabi repareerde een simpele witte plastic tas die tussen de spaken van haar fiets kwam, en decoreerde deze met een geborduurde verwijzing naar hoe de tas beschadigd raakte. Zo maakte ze een serie van vijf fragiele tasjes, die ieder een bepaalde herinnering meekregen. Het zijn niet zomaar mooie tasjes geworden, Siba Sahabi wil met haar inzending de vraag oproepen of er ruimte is voor imperfectie: objecten met een handicap, eigenaardigheid of verhaal. Want, eerlijk is eerlijk, echt stevig is de tas ook na reparatie niet.&#60;/p&#62;</summary>
    <content type="html">&#60;p&#62;De jury prees de manier waarop Sahabi een platsic tasje, symbool voor de wegwerpmaatschappij, met haar reparatie omzet van iets waardeloos in iets waardevols. Het kapot gaan van een ding is zo niet negatief, maar juist een aanleiding om creatief te zijn en een mogelijkheid een nieuw verhaal te vertellen. Sahabi doet dat letterlijk door een soort dagboekfunctie aan het tasje mee te geven. &#60;/p&#62;

&#60;p&#62;Tijdens de prijsuitreiking op zondag 30 augustus nam Sahabi de enige echte Repair Award gemaakt door kunstenaar Jan Vormann in ontvangst. Ook nam ze een uitgebreide toolset mee naar huis die Dremel overhandigde.&#60;/p&#62;

&#60;p&#62;Naast een winnaar koos de jury, bestaande uit amateur-reparateur en hoteleigenaar Suzanne Oxenaar van het Lloyd Hotel, tool tester en hoofdredacteur Erwin van der Zande van Bright en creative producer en inventor Arne Hendriks van Platform21, ook een runner-up. &#60;/p&#62;

&#60;p&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;inline-image-wrapper&#34;&#62;&#60;a href=&#34;http://www.platform21.nl/id/5635&#34;&#62;&#60;img src=&#34;http://www.platform21.nl/image/661/5635-400-290.jpg&#34; height=&#34;290&#34; width=&#34;400&#34; alt=&#34;Shrunken sweater, Calypso Schuijt&#34; title=&#34;Shrunken sweater, Calypso Schuijt&#34; /&#62;&#60;/a&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;inline-caption&#34;&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;caption-title&#34;&#62;&#60;a title=&#34;Click to get a larger image - Shrunken sweater, Calypso Schuijt - Platform 21&#34; href=&#34;/page/5635/en&#34;&#62;Shrunken sweater, Calypso Schuijt&#60;/a&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;br/&#62;
Het probleem van Calypso Schuijt was een bekende: haar wollen trui kromp in de was. Maar ze wilde haar lievelingstrui niet opgeven en bedacht een manier om deze weer te vergroten. Door een baksteenpatroon in de stof te knippen kreeg deze weer stretch, en rekte de trui weer naar een draagbare maat. De jury bewonderde hoe Schuijt de trui repareerde door deze juist kapot te maken, namelijk door er gaten in te knippen. Deze tegenstelling promoot een hele nieuwe manier van denken.&#60;/p&#62;</content>
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  <link rel="http://purl.org/dc/terms/description" title="Remarkable Repairs" href="http://www.platform21.nl/id/5621" anymeta:symbolic_name="ABOUT" anymeta:predicate_title="about" />
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  <link rel="http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/img" title="The winner and runner-up: Siba Sahabi and Calypso Schuijt with their prizes, photography Leo Veger" href="http://www.platform21.nl/id/5734" anymeta:symbolic_name="FIGURE" anymeta:predicate_title="" />
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  <id>http://www.platform21.nl/id/5943</id>
  <updated>2009-10-20T12:31:15+02:00</updated>
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  <title type="html">Wool filler wins incentive prize</title>
  <summary type="html">&#60;p&#62;With her Wool Filler technique, Heleen Klopper has won the incentive prize of €5000,- in the running for DOEN | Materiaalprijs 2009 (DOEN | Materials Prize).&#60;/p&#62;

&#60;p&#62;The jury report states: &#38;quot;Klopper&#39;s design is brilliant in its simplicity. Using the natural characteristics of wool - the scales tangle together - she created a Do It Yourself kit with which everyone can mend holes in their clothing, carpets, curtains or other textile products in a simple but original manner. &#60;br/&#62;
Repairing garments and other textile products is a sustainable activity, because jumpers, cardigans or carpets gain a longer life. You can see Wool Filler as a solution from Grandma&#39;s time but with new style. It is funny, decorative, effective and has an original result. Furthermore it is very entertaining to do: the members of the jury really enjoyed trying Wool Filler for themselves.&#38;quot;&#60;/p&#62;</summary>
  <content type="html">&#60;p&#62;The award, jointly organised by the Materiaalfonds and Stichting DOEN, seeks to promote sustainable design and the innovative use of materials in the visual art and design disciplines.&#60;/p&#62;

&#60;p&#62;The DOEN | Materiaalprijs 2009 challenged fine artists and designers to come up with sustainable design projects that combine innovative materials with stylishness, beauty and functionality.&#60;br/&#62;
High quality and cutting-edge materials, recycling and upcycling, sustainable design, ecodesign, cradle to cradle and biomimicry can all help to create a better environment.&#60;/p&#62;

&#60;p&#62;The prize of €15.000,- went to Chris Kabel and his Seam Chair and Seam Bench. The fifteen best submissions are presented during Dutch Design Week 2009 from 17 to 25 October 2009 in Eindhoven and can be found on on &#60;a href=&#34;http://www.doen-materiaalprijs.nl.&#34;&#62;www.doen-materiaalprijs.nl.&#60;/a&#62;&#60;/p&#62;</content>
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    <title type="html">Wolplamuur wint aanmoedigingsprijs</title>
    <summary type="html">&#60;p&#62;Heleen Klopper wint met haar Wolplamuur de DOEN | Materiaalprijs 2009 aanmoedigingsprijs van €5000,-&#60;/p&#62;

&#60;p&#62;Het juryrapport leest: &#38;quot;Klopper&#39;s ontwerp is briljant in zijn eenvoud. Door gebruik te maken van de bijzondere eigenschappen van wol - de weerhaakjes hechten vast - heeft zij een doe-het-zelf pakket ontwikkeld waarmee iedereen op eenvoudige en originele wijze de gaatjes in zijn of haar wollen kleding, tapijten, gordijnen of andere textielproducten kan repareren. Ook mensen met twee linkerhanden. &#60;br/&#62;
Het repareren van kledingstukken en andere producten van stof is een duurzame activiteit, omdat truien, vesten of tapijten op deze manier een langer leven beschoren is. Wolplamuur kun je zien als &#39;Oma&#39;s oplossing nieuwe stijl&#39;. Het is grappig, decoratief, doeltreffend en geeft een origineel resultaat. Bovendien is het bijzonder leuk om te doen: de juryleden hebben de Wolplamuur met veel plezier zelf uitgeprobeerd.&#38;quot;&#60;/p&#62;</summary>
    <content type="html">&#60;p&#62;De DOEN | Materiaalprijs, een initiatief van het Materiaalfonds voor Beeldende Kunst en Vormgeving en Stichting DOEN, stimuleert duurzame vormgeving en innovatief materiaalgebruik in kunst en design.&#60;br/&#62;
Beeldend kunstenaars en vormgevers werden uitgedaagd duurzame design projecten te presenteren waarbij innovatief gebruik van materiaal samengaat met schoonheid en bruikbaarheid. Hoogwaardig materiaal, recycling en upcycling, duurzaam design, ecodesign, cradle to cradle en biomimicry kunnen allemaal bijdragen aan een beter milieu. &#60;/p&#62;

&#60;p&#62;De prijs van €15.000,- ging naar Chris Kabel met zijn Seam Chair en Seam Bench. Bekijk dit ontwerp en alle genomineerden op &#60;a href=&#34;http://www.doen-materiaalprijs.nl.&#34;&#62;www.doen-materiaalprijs.nl.&#60;/a&#62;&#60;/p&#62;</content>
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  <link rel="http://purl.org/dc/terms/description" title="Stop Recycling. Start Repairing." href="http://www.platform21.nl/id/4356" anymeta:symbolic_name="ABOUT" anymeta:predicate_title="about" />
  <link rel="http://purl.org/dc/terms/description" title="Pioneers of Change" href="http://www.platform21.nl/id/5757" anymeta:symbolic_name="ABOUT" anymeta:predicate_title="about" />
  <link rel="http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/img" title="Jumper repaired with Wool Filler, photography Mandy Pieper" href="http://www.platform21.nl/id/5944" anymeta:symbolic_name="FIGURE" anymeta:predicate_title="" />
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  <id>http://www.platform21.nl/id/4604</id>
  <updated>2010-01-22T12:24:27+01:00</updated>
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  <title type="html">Comments on the Repair Manifesto</title>
  <summary type="html">&#60;p&#62;Stop recycling, start repairing proves a statement many people agree with or want to comment on. Big international blogs are writing about the Repair Manifesto and many readers share their opinions in the comments section. &#60;br/&#62;
Frustrations, personal repair success stories, additions and suggestions how things can be done better; below you read a selection of comments we found on the internet.&#60;/p&#62;

&#60;p&#62;Want to share your thoughts? Send an e-mail to info@platform21.com&#60;/p&#62;</summary>
  <content type="html">&#60;p&#62;Posted by Joachim Baan on Anothersomthing.org&#60;br/&#62;
An interesting manifesto by Amsterdam based Platform21 on repairing. It is interesting, but I think we need to ask ourselves one question at first. If we can buy something which is cheaper than the high quality products, are we still willing to repair it? And is it worth repairing when it is more expensive than buy a new one?&#60;br/&#62;
So the basic question is, are we, especially in times of crisis, going to spend more €’s on high quality, and then, after years of intens usage, going to repair it; or are we keep buying the cheap stuff and replace it every time it breaks? I’d rather prefer the first option…&#60;br/&#62;
&#60;a href=&#34;http://www.anothersomething.org/2009/04/repair/&#34;&#62;www.anothersomething.org/2009/04/repair/&#60;/a&#62;&#60;/p&#62;

&#60;p&#62;Western businesses and governments have staked everything on innovation, the antithesis of repair. It&#39;s the rationale behind sending everyone to university and encouraging the creative economy.&#60;br/&#62;
&#60;a href=&#34;http://positiveparty.blogspot.com/2009/03/repair-manifesto.html&#34;&#62;positiveparty.blogspot.com/2009/03/repair-manifesto.html&#60;/a&#62;&#60;/p&#62;

&#60;p&#62;One thing that, while implied, I don&#39;t think was explicitly stated in the Manifesto - repair other peoples&#39; stuff too.&#60;br/&#62;
&#60;a href=&#34;http://densaer.livejournal.com/833679.html&#34;&#62;densaer.livejournal.com/833679.html&#60;/a&#62;&#60;/p&#62;

&#60;p&#62;Part of their idea is to buy things you know you will be able to repair. Which reminds me of how easy it was to work on that 1965 Ford pickup I used to drive when I was in high school. Sure the lack of power steering gave me arms like Wolverine but under the hood was this playschool-like engine with big exposed parts that made sense.&#60;/p&#62;

&#60;p&#62;If you’re new to repairing, it’s probably a little intimidating to tear things apart. But remember this: if you’re throwing it away anyway, it won’t hurt to take it apart, will it?&#60;br/&#62;
&#60;a href=&#34;http://tamethebear.tv/ticker/2009/03/diy-repair-vs-throwing-away-and-buying-new/&#34;&#62;tamethebear.tv/ticker/2009/03/diy-repair-vs-throwing-away-and-buying-new/&#60;/a&#62;&#60;/p&#62;

&#60;p&#62;I think it is especially during this economic times that product designers should be looking at making products that are not only affordable, but also &#39;repairable&#39;. Because it is interesting to note that as the pace of technological developments quickens, the consumers can&#39;t help but feel the pressure of replacing their outdated products more often out of a sheer need for being up-to-date, rather than out of necessity.&#60;br/&#62;
&#60;a href=&#34;http://designerunlimited.blogspot.com/2009/03/repair-manifesto.html&#34;&#62;designerunlimited.blogspot.com/2009/03/repair-manifesto.html&#60;/a&#62;&#60;/p&#62;

&#60;p&#62;Posted by SILKOX on BOING BOING&#60;br/&#62;
A couple of years ago I was trying to figure out how to fix an old stand-up floor lamp. For fun, I looked up one of the patent numbers and was surprised to learn that its irreparability was the subject of the patent! The thing was designed not to be field-disassemblable. I looked around a bit more, and found that that &#38;quot;feature&#38;quot; was a common subject of patents. The patent I started with was from the &#39;40s, I think.&#60;br/&#62;
&#60;a href=&#34;http://www.boingboing.net/2009/03/03/repair-manifesto.html&#34;&#62;www.boingboing.net/2009/03/03/repair-manifesto.html&#60;/a&#62;&#60;/p&#62;

&#60;p&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;inline-image-wrapper&#34;&#62;&#60;a href=&#34;http://www.platform21.nl/id/4605&#34;&#62;&#60;img src=&#34;http://www.platform21.nl/image/487/4605-295-400.jpg&#34; height=&#34;400&#34; width=&#34;295&#34; alt=&#34;Boiler repair kit&#34; title=&#34;Boiler repair kit&#34; /&#62;&#60;/a&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;inline-caption&#34;&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;caption-title&#34;&#62;&#60;a title=&#34;Click to get a larger image - Boiler repair kit - Platform 21&#34; href=&#34;/page/4605/en&#34;&#62;Boiler repair kit&#60;/a&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;/p&#62;

&#60;p&#62;Posted by Ronald on www.leefinaandacht.nl&#60;br/&#62;
Mooi hè? Ik zou er nog wel 1 punt aan toe willen voegen: &#60;br/&#62;
Repareren is oefenen. &#60;br/&#62;
Dingen gaan vaak onverwacht kapot. Kun je de tijd nemen om ze te repareren? Misschien kost een nieuwe kopen minder tijd en kun je sneller verder gaan met je drukke leven. Probeer het eens te zien als een oefening in accepteren, flexibiliteit en creativiteit, en niet als een tegenslag (of erger nog: als complot...).&#60;/p&#62;

&#60;p&#62;Posted by BRAINSPORE on BOING BOING&#60;br/&#62;
The obvious problem is that there is no financial motivation for most manufacturers to make their products repairable. It often costs more to make something that can come apart, and the &#38;quot;payoff&#38;quot; is that they get to sell fewer products.&#60;br/&#62;
&#60;a href=&#34;http://www.boingboing.net/2009/03/03/repair-manifesto.html&#34;&#62;www.boingboing.net/2009/03/03/repair-manifesto.html&#60;/a&#62;&#60;/p&#62;

&#60;p&#62;Posted by BEELZEBUDDY on BOING BOING&#60;br/&#62;
This design philosophy is entirely at odds with the current greenie movement, whose general pitch is &#38;quot;everything you use or own kills the earth and eats puppies. Trash it and buy new stuff with friendly green stickers.&#38;quot; Apple would not approve of this manifesto.&#60;br/&#62;
&#60;a href=&#34;http://www.boingboing.net/2009/03/03/repair-manifesto.html&#34;&#62;www.boingboing.net/2009/03/03/repair-manifesto.html&#60;/a&#62;&#60;/p&#62;

&#60;p&#62;Posted by ITO KAGEHISA on BOING BOING&#60;br/&#62;
The table saw buzzed briefly and lazy curls of smoke began to rise from the large exposed motor. The blade did not turn. I toggled it off again and yanked the plug from the wall as fast as I could.&#60;br/&#62;
I was flying about, fixing things for people with money, and when I had moments I tried to look up a replacement motor... and I could not find one. Anywhere!&#60;br/&#62;
I found a scan of the manual, though, from 1965 when the saw was built.&#60;br/&#62;
The manual showed that the motor was not considered to be a part. The armature, the brushes, the bolts, and other pieces of the motor were all parts. The motor was not.&#60;br/&#62;
Apparently in 1959, when the motor was designed, a table saw motor was intended to be repaired - rewound, if necessary, but not ever replaced. The motor design was so successful they were still using it throughout the 1960s.&#60;br/&#62;
So I took the motor apart late one night. Mud dauber wasps had flown into the ventilation slots, and in a matter of a week or so had filled all the empty spaces in the motor with mud, wasp grubs, and paralyzed spiders.&#60;br/&#62;
I gave the spiders and grubs to little fish in the stream behind the house, and carefully washed out the mud, and reassembled the motor. The saw works fine now.&#60;br/&#62;
&#60;a href=&#34;http://www.boingboing.net/2009/03/03/repair-manifesto.html&#34;&#62;www.boingboing.net/2009/03/03/repair-manifesto.html&#60;/a&#62;&#60;/p&#62;

&#60;p&#62;Posted by THEMARK on BOING BOING&#60;br/&#62;
Line #2 puts the onus on product designers to make things come apart. Well, that would be just great if that were our decision. Huge corporations don&#39;t usually give us that much control. We&#39;re usually designing with whatever specs they give us.&#60;br/&#62;
&#60;a href=&#34;http://ww.boingboing.net/2009/03/03/repair-manifesto.html&#34;&#62;ww.boingboing.net/2009/03/03/repair-manifesto.html&#60;/a&#62;&#60;/p&#62;

&#60;p&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;inline-image-wrapper&#34;&#62;&#60;a href=&#34;http://www.platform21.nl/id/4606&#34;&#62;&#60;img src=&#34;http://www.platform21.nl/image/821/4606-348-400.jpg&#34; height=&#34;400&#34; width=&#34;348&#34; alt=&#34;Book repair kit&#34; title=&#34;Book repair kit&#34; /&#62;&#60;/a&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;inline-caption&#34;&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;caption-title&#34;&#62;&#60;a title=&#34;Click to get a larger image - Book repair kit - Platform 21&#34; href=&#34;/page/4606/en&#34;&#62;Book repair kit&#60;/a&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;/p&#62;

&#60;p&#62;Posted by PIERS W&#60;br/&#62;
Maybe I&#39;m a bit obtuse today but why not throw away the broken bit? What else am I supposed to do with it?&#60;/p&#62;

&#60;p&#62;Posted by ORNITH on BOING BOING&#60;br/&#62;
Here&#39;s an idea: learn to do basic sewing. By which I mean hem a pair of pants, mend a ripped seam, and sew on a button or a patch. Takes nothing but a spool of thread, a needle, and a small pair of scissors, maybe a little scrap of fabric or a button, and you can learn all that in and hour or two.&#60;br/&#62;
Clothing is already made repairable- it comes with spare buttons all the time. And unlike many of these other things people are talking about, it doesn&#39;t take a workshop or tons of skill to do the repair. I don&#39;t care if a lamp is repairable if it takes an electrician&#39;s certificate and a soldering tool and a ventilated workshop space to do the repair - it might as well be one solid piece to me and most other people, too.&#60;br/&#62;
&#60;a href=&#34;http://www.boingboing.net/2009/03/03/repair-manifesto.html&#34;&#62;www.boingboing.net/2009/03/03/repair-manifesto.html&#60;/a&#62;&#60;/p&#62;

&#60;p&#62;Posted by MARK_P_S_2 on BOING BOING&#60;br/&#62;
RE:&#38;quot;Manufacturers wouldn&#39;t make junk if so many people didn&#39;t buy it.&#38;quot;&#60;br/&#62;
When the first TV, first VCR, first DVD players came out they were expensive. If they broke, they were fixed. Today with mass production they are cheap to buy and made as cheap as possible.&#60;br/&#62;
It&#39;s junk because the manufacturer needs to makes as much profit as possible.&#60;br/&#62;
A lot of this &#38;quot;green&#38;quot; movement is a form of planned obsolences. Buy a new fridge to save energy! Buy a new washer-dryer to save energy!  The new has just as much planned obsolences as the old.&#60;br/&#62;
&#60;a href=&#34;http://www.boingboing.net/2009/03/03/repair-manifesto.html&#34;&#62;www.boingboing.net/2009/03/03/repair-manifesto.html&#60;/a&#62;&#60;/p&#62;

&#60;p&#62;Posted by HADLOCK on BOING BOING&#60;br/&#62;
Most items - yes even the cheap ones - are usually user-repairable. Plastic is difficult to repair, since it&#39;s brittle and doesn&#39;t paint or glue easily, but with epoxy and properly clamped you can at least make an item usable again until you can find a suitable replacement. The problem with user repairable items is that typically you need to find a version that is made of metal or wood, or both - repairable and paintable materials. These tend to cost 10x as much and aren&#39;t easily found at walmart.&#60;br/&#62;
&#60;a href=&#34;http://www.boingboing.net/2009/03/03/repair-manifesto.html&#34;&#62;www.boingboing.net/2009/03/03/repair-manifesto.html&#60;/a&#62;&#60;/p&#62;

&#60;p&#62;Posted by ICELANDER on Treehugger&#60;br/&#62;
The problem with repairing many electronics is that if you have amateurs digging around inside the guts of a machine, you have to make everything in there more rugged. One stray electrical discharge or bump of a hand can render a circuit board dead.&#60;br/&#62;
So while this might make sense for things like clothes or shoes, it&#39;s going to be a huge step back for electronics. If my iPhone were repairable it would be the size of a desktop computer.&#60;br/&#62;
&#60;a href=&#34;http://www.treehugger.com/files/2009/03/repair-manifesto.php&#34;&#62;www.treehugger.com/files/2009/03/repair-manifesto.php&#60;/a&#62;&#60;/p&#62;

&#60;p&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;inline-image-wrapper&#34;&#62;&#60;a href=&#34;http://www.platform21.nl/id/4607&#34;&#62;&#60;img src=&#34;http://www.platform21.nl/image/831/4607-400-273.png&#34; height=&#34;273&#34; width=&#34;400&#34; alt=&#34;Snow repair kit&#34; title=&#34;Snow repair kit&#34; /&#62;&#60;/a&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;inline-caption&#34;&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;caption-title&#34;&#62;&#60;a title=&#34;Click to get a larger image - Snow repair kit - Platform 21&#34; href=&#34;/page/4607/en&#34;&#62;Snow repair kit&#60;/a&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;/p&#62;

&#60;p&#62;Posted by Aaron Dalton on Treehugger&#60;br/&#62;
Of course, the challenge for manufacturers who have built their business models around planned obscolesence is how to make money if people start repairing things.... Maybe one way is to keep products complex but sell repair services for less than the cost of a new product and make it clear that the repair service will also upgrade the product into something cooler and better than before?&#60;br/&#62;
It&#39;s an interesting challenge, but there is certainly a demand for high-quality products that last.&#60;br/&#62;
&#60;a href=&#34;http://www.treehugger.com/files/2009/03/repair-manifesto.php&#34;&#62;www.treehugger.com/files/2009/03/repair-manifesto.php&#60;/a&#62;&#60;/p&#62;

&#60;p&#62;Posted on Fizzogblog&#60;br/&#62;
In a country like Ghana, repair shops abound.&#60;br/&#62;
But not here in the UK. It&#39;s not &#39;cool&#39; to repair things here. It&#39;s almost a sign of &#39;making do&#39;. It seems as if a hallmark of our wealth and our superiority is the ability to throw away and to replace.&#60;br/&#62;
For Platform21&#39;s set of ideas to work in the present retail environment, it may require the consumer to spend more in the first instance, in order to avoid built-in obsolescence. Or to expend time and energy in learning how to fix things. Or it needs a sub-culture to develop, in which, if you can&#39;t fix something, you know someone who can. And that requires at least three things... time, vision and community.&#60;br/&#62;
... We need to learn to share and support each other better in local communities, so that know-how can be transmitted from one person to another.&#60;br/&#62;
&#60;a href=&#34;http://fizzogblog.typepad.com/fizzogblog/page/2/&#34;&#62;fizzogblog.typepad.com/fizzogblog/page/2/&#60;/a&#62;&#60;/p&#62;

&#60;p&#62;Posted by JAKLUMEN on jaklumen.vox.com&#60;br/&#62;
Ok, so I guess I&#39;m handy? Following the Repair Manifesto, I wanted to share a little success story repairing something.&#60;br/&#62;
Our hand mixer stopped working. It was a hand-me-down from my side of the family, and Cimmorene loved it because she had another set of beaters (I think it they were for a cheap hand mixer that fell apart) that she liked and that fit. Well I mentioned it to my mother, since I thought I was going to have to throw it out, and she mentioned that my paternal grandfather had taken apart her Sunbeam Mixmaster when it stopped working, blew out the dust, put it back together, and it worked again. So I thought, &#38;quot;I bet I could do the same thing with this hand mixer&#38;quot; and today I did just that.&#60;br/&#62;
It&#39;s an old General Electric in an awful shade of green that apparently was popular after WWII, but when I took it apart, I could see that it was good, solid construction. I figured the gears turning the beaters were the problem, and so I sprayed it with a little lubricant. I finally decided to take the gear assembly apart, and as I popped out the gears, I could see there was peanut butter in them, mostly underneath the gear shaft. So after I got all that gunk cleared out and put it back together again, it worked perfectly.&#60;br/&#62;
&#60;a href=&#34;http://jaklumen.vox.com/&#34;&#62;jaklumen.vox.com/&#60;/a&#62;&#60;/p&#62;

&#60;p&#62;Posted by Dave Gustafson on Unpressable Buttons&#60;br/&#62;
Ah, so true. Designers would love to package everything neatly for the consumer and keep all the magic hidden inside the &#38;quot;black box.&#38;quot; But it&#39;s hubristic to think that your design is perfect or that your product will never break. Designing to allow repair can give the product a longer life with the user, and the positive experience of an easy repair may overshadow any negative experience of the damage that required it. Happier users, less waste - something to think about!&#60;br/&#62;
&#60;a href=&#34;http://www.unpressablebuttons.com/2009/03/repair-ready-design.html&#34;&#62;www.unpressablebuttons.com/2009/03/repair-ready-design.html&#60;/a&#62;&#60;/p&#62;

&#60;p&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;inline-image-wrapper&#34;&#62;&#60;a href=&#34;http://www.platform21.nl/id/4608&#34;&#62;&#60;img src=&#34;http://www.platform21.nl/image/835/4608-317-400.jpg&#34; height=&#34;400&#34; width=&#34;317&#34; alt=&#34;Flute repair kit&#34; title=&#34;Flute repair kit&#34; /&#62;&#60;/a&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;inline-caption&#34;&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;caption-title&#34;&#62;&#60;a title=&#34;Click to get a larger image - Flute repair kit - Platform 21&#34; href=&#34;/page/4608/en&#34;&#62;Flute repair kit&#60;/a&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;/p&#62;

&#60;p&#62;Posted by drumz on the Huffington post&#60;br/&#62;
Sometimes it costs more to repair something than it is to buy a new one. I&#39;m a Mr Fixit and things have slowly moved to the point where somethings they can&#39;t be fixed or it&#39;s too expensive to fix it. I hate cheap crap and spend more so that I get good quality because I always stand by the old adage that you get what you pay for.&#60;br/&#62;
&#60;a href=&#34;http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/03/04/repair-manifesto-discoura_n_171714.html&#34;&#62;www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/03/04/repair-manifesto-discoura_n_171714.html&#60;/a&#62;&#60;/p&#62;

&#60;p&#62;Posted by Aaron Britt for DWELL&#60;br/&#62;
Designers talk a lot about extending product lifecycles, but most often in terms of creating new objects with exceptional longevity. Extending the lifecycle of existing objects is a different proposition—it requires a proactive user. But it&#39;s absolutely possible to give tired goods a new lease on life, and Dutch design collective Platform 21 believes it&#39;s an imperative.&#60;br/&#62;
&#60;a href=&#34;http://www.dwell.com/blogs/platform-21-repair-manifesto.html&#34;&#62;www.dwell.com/blogs/platform-21-repair-manifesto.html&#60;/a&#62;&#60;/p&#62;

&#60;p&#62;Posted by Jennifer Hattam for Treehugger&#60;br/&#62;
... One of the things I love about Turkey is how readily, and cheaply, it seems you can get almost anything repaired. But just as Americans and Europeans are starting to (re-)warm to the idea of fixing things up, the spread of throwaway culture to Turkey is threatening repairmen&#39;s livelihoods.&#60;br/&#62;
The Dutch design group Platform 21 recently issued a &#38;quot;Repair Manifesto&#38;quot; … &#38;quot;a mentality, culture and practice that not so long ago was completely integrated in life and the way we designed it.&#38;quot; Though that mentality has largely faded into the past in the United States (and, presumably, in the Netherlands), the small streets of Istanbul are full of people who can fix the busted toe of your boot, mend a thrashed messenger bag, and tinker your electronics and appliances back to health.&#60;br/&#62;
But the local newspaper Today&#39;s Zaman reports that small repair shops are closing down, warning that the &#38;quot;revered Turkish profession of repair work... is about to disappear.&#38;quot; The culprits are the same as they are anywhere else: ever-cheaper products on the market and a mentality that favors replacement over repair.&#60;br/&#62;
An organization of Turkish radio and television repairmen that has seen its numbers drop by 75 percent is trying to encourage members to learn to fix newer technologies like alarm-security systems, but with little success. They may have the same fatalistic feeling as İsmail Boran, a shoe repairman interviewed for the article who says he expects his business to dry up completely. &#39;When people buy shoes for TL 10 [about $6], they really don’t feel the need to repair them,&#38;quot; he told the paper. &#38;quot;They just spend a little bit more and actually get a new pair.&#38;quot;&#60;br/&#62;
&#60;a href=&#34;http://www.treehugger.com/files/2009/03/twilight-of-the-turkish-repairman.php&#34;&#62;www.treehugger.com/files/2009/03/twilight-of-the-turkish-repairman.php&#60;/a&#62;&#60;/p&#62;

&#60;p&#62;Posted by Matthew Rochte,  Sustainability Consultant&#60;br/&#62;
Some of the best innovation comes from the process of repairing products. When I ran a manufacturing line, the process of repairing led to insights in product design, usefulness, and improvement. We discovered where the real wear and tear in the system was thus allowing us to upgrade future generations of the product. In some cases this allowed us to reduce our costs in subsequent generations as we learned what could be trimmed and what needed reinforcing.&#60;br/&#62;
&#60;a href=&#34;http://www.opportunitysustainability.com/&#34;&#62;www.opportunitysustainability.com/&#60;/a&#62;&#60;/p&#62;

&#60;p&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;inline-image-wrapper&#34;&#62;&#60;a href=&#34;http://www.platform21.nl/id/4610&#34;&#62;&#60;img src=&#34;http://www.platform21.nl/image/651/4610-382-400.gif&#34; height=&#34;400&#34; width=&#34;382&#34; alt=&#34;Leather repair kit&#34; title=&#34;Leather repair kit&#34; /&#62;&#60;/a&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;inline-caption&#34;&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;caption-title&#34;&#62;&#60;a title=&#34;Click to get a larger image - Leather repair kit - Platform 21&#34; href=&#34;/page/4610/en&#34;&#62;Leather repair kit&#60;/a&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;/p&#62;

&#60;p&#62;Posted by Elizabeth&#60;br/&#62;
I love fixing things. Yesterday I patched a pair of pants that now has 8 patches (including a patch over a patch) and soon will be in need of more. Granted, they’re only going to be work clothes, but now they have personality and I don’t have to downgrade a nicer pair of jeans. Apparently I’m right in step with this awesome Repair Manifesto.&#60;br/&#62;
&#60;a href=&#34;http://www.queercents.com/2009/03/07/queercents-weekly-roundup-daylight-&#34;&#62;www.queercents.com/2009/03/07/queercents-weekly-roundup-daylight-&#60;/a&#62; saving-tomorrow/&#60;/p&#62;

&#60;p&#62;Posted by The succulent wife.com&#60;br/&#62;
Hooray for the Repair Manifesto!&#60;br/&#62;
Remember when our parents used to bring the television or the toaster to the repair shop? Wow, that’s ancient history.&#60;br/&#62;
This Repair Manifesto is particularly charming because it will be evolving with the feedback, ideas and comments of contributors (like you &#38;amp; me). Mine is “Repair is about cherishing”.&#60;br/&#62;
&#60;a href=&#34;http://www.thesucculentwife.com/get-it-fixed-hooray-for-the-repair-manifesto/&#34;&#62;www.thesucculentwife.com/get-it-fixed-hooray-for-the-repair-manifesto/&#60;/a&#62;&#60;/p&#62;</content>
  <anymeta:alternate xml:lang='nl'>
    <title type="html">Reacties op het Repair Manifesto</title>
    <summary type="html">&#60;p&#62;Stop recycling, start repairing bewijst een statement te zijn waar veel mensen zich in kunnen vinden. Grote internationale weblogs schrijven over het manifest en menig lezer laat zijn of haar mening achter. Frustraties, eigen reparatiesuccessen, toevoegingen en suggesties hoe het beter kan; hieronder lees je een selectie van reacties op het manifest die we vonden op het internet.&#60;/p&#62;

&#60;p&#62;Ook reageren? Stuur een email naar info@platform21.com&#60;/p&#62;</summary>
    <content type="html">&#60;p&#62;Posted by Joachim Baan on Anothersomething.org&#60;br/&#62;
An interesting manifesto by Amsterdam based Platform21 on repairing. It is interesting, but I think we need to ask ourselves one question at first. If we can buy something which is cheaper than the high quality products, are we still willing to repair it? And is it worth repairing when it is more expensive than buy a new one?&#60;br/&#62;
So the basic question is, are we, especially in times of crisis, going to spend more €’s on high quality, and then, after years of intens usage, going to repair it; or are we keep buying the cheap stuff and replace it every time it breaks? I’d rather prefer the first option…&#60;br/&#62;
&#60;a href=&#34;http://www.anothersomething.org/2009/04/repair/&#34;&#62;www.anothersomething.org/2009/04/repair/&#60;/a&#62;&#60;/p&#62;

&#60;p&#62;Western businesses and governments have staked everything on innovation, the antithesis of repair. It&#39;s the rationale behind sending everyone to university and encouraging the creative economy.&#60;br/&#62;
&#60;a href=&#34;http://positiveparty.blogspot.com/2009/03/repair-manifesto.html&#34;&#62;positiveparty.blogspot.com/2009/03/repair-manifesto.html&#60;/a&#62;&#60;/p&#62;

&#60;p&#62;One thing that, while implied, I don&#39;t think was explicitly stated in the Manifesto - repair other peoples&#39; stuff too. &#60;br/&#62;
&#60;a href=&#34;http://densaer.livejournal.com/833679.html&#34;&#62;densaer.livejournal.com/833679.html&#60;/a&#62;&#60;/p&#62;

&#60;p&#62;Part of their idea is to buy things you know you will be able to repair. Which reminds me of how easy it was to work on that 1965 Ford pickup I used to drive when I was in high school. Sure the lack of power steering gave me arms like Wolverine but under the hood was this playschool-like engine with big exposed parts that made sense.&#60;/p&#62;

&#60;p&#62;If you’re new to repairing, it’s probably a little intimidating to tear things apart. But remember this: if you’re throwing it away anyway, it won’t hurt to take it apart, will it?&#60;br/&#62;
&#60;a href=&#34;http://tamethebear.tv/ticker/2009/03/diy-repair-vs-throwing-away-and-buying-new/&#34;&#62;tamethebear.tv/ticker/2009/03/diy-repair-vs-throwing-away-and-buying-new/&#60;/a&#62;&#60;/p&#62;

&#60;p&#62;I think it is especially during this economic times that product designers should be looking at making products that are not only affordable, but also &#39;repairable&#39;. Because it is interesting to note that as the pace of technological developments quickens, the consumers can&#39;t help but feel the pressure of replacing their outdated products more often out of a sheer need for being up-to-date, rather than out of necessity.&#60;br/&#62;
&#60;a href=&#34;http://designerunlimited.blogspot.com/2009/03/repair-manifesto.html&#34;&#62;designerunlimited.blogspot.com/2009/03/repair-manifesto.html&#60;/a&#62;&#60;/p&#62;

&#60;p&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;inline-image-wrapper&#34;&#62;&#60;a href=&#34;http://www.platform21.nl/id/4605&#34;&#62;&#60;img src=&#34;http://www.platform21.nl/image/487/4605-295-400.jpg&#34; height=&#34;400&#34; width=&#34;295&#34; alt=&#34;Boiler repair kit&#34; title=&#34;Boiler repair kit&#34; /&#62;&#60;/a&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;inline-caption&#34;&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;caption-title&#34;&#62;&#60;a title=&#34;Click to get a larger image - Boiler repair kit - Platform 21&#34; href=&#34;/page/4605/en&#34;&#62;Boiler repair kit&#60;/a&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;/p&#62;

&#60;p&#62;Posted by  SILKOX on BOING BOING&#60;br/&#62;
A couple of years ago I was trying to figure out how to fix an old stand-up floor lamp. For fun, I looked up one of the patent numbers and was surprised to learn that its irreparability was the subject of the patent! The thing was designed not to be field-disassemblable. I looked around a bit more, and found that that &#38;quot;feature&#38;quot; was a common subject of patents. The patent I started with was from the &#39;40s, I think.&#60;br/&#62;
&#60;a href=&#34;http://www.boingboing.net/2009/03/03/repair-manifesto.html&#34;&#62;www.boingboing.net/2009/03/03/repair-manifesto.html&#60;/a&#62;&#60;/p&#62;

&#60;p&#62;Posted by Ronald on www.leefinaandacht.nl&#60;br/&#62;
Mooi hè? Ik zou er nog wel 1 punt aan toe willen voegen: &#60;br/&#62;
Repareren is oefenen. &#60;br/&#62;
Dingen gaan vaak onverwacht kapot. Kun je de tijd nemen om ze te repareren? Misschien kost een nieuwe kopen minder tijd en kun je sneller verder gaan met je drukke leven. Probeer het eens te zien als een oefening in accepteren, flexibiliteit en creativiteit, en niet als een tegenslag (of erger nog: als complot...).&#60;/p&#62;

&#60;p&#62;Posted by BRAINSPORE on BOING BOING&#60;br/&#62;
The obvious problem is that there is no financial motivation for most manufacturers to make their products repairable. It often costs more to make something that can come apart, and the &#38;quot;payoff&#38;quot; is that they get to sell fewer products.&#60;br/&#62;
&#60;a href=&#34;http://www.boingboing.net/2009/03/03/repair-manifesto.html&#34;&#62;www.boingboing.net/2009/03/03/repair-manifesto.html&#60;/a&#62;&#60;/p&#62;

&#60;p&#62;Posted by BEELZEBUDDY on BOING BOING&#60;br/&#62;
This design philosophy is entirely at odds with the current greenie movement, whose general pitch is &#38;quot;everything you use or own kills the earth and eats puppies. Trash it and buy new stuff with friendly green stickers.&#38;quot; Apple would not approve of this manifesto. &#60;br/&#62;
&#60;a href=&#34;http://www.boingboing.net/2009/03/03/repair-manifesto.html&#34;&#62;www.boingboing.net/2009/03/03/repair-manifesto.html&#60;/a&#62;&#60;/p&#62;

&#60;p&#62;Posted by ITO KAGEHISA on BOING BOING&#60;br/&#62;
The table saw buzzed briefly and lazy curls of smoke began to rise from the large exposed motor. The blade did not turn. I toggled it off again and yanked the plug from the wall as fast as I could.&#60;br/&#62;
I was flying about, fixing things for people with money, and when I had moments I tried to look up a replacement motor... and I could not find one. Anywhere!&#60;br/&#62;
I found a scan of the manual, though, from 1965 when the saw was built.&#60;br/&#62;
The manual showed that the motor was not considered to be a part. The armature, the brushes, the bolts, and other pieces of the motor were all parts. The motor was not.&#60;br/&#62;
Apparently in 1959, when the motor was designed, a table saw motor was intended to be repaired - rewound, if necessary, but not ever replaced. The motor design was so successful they were still using it throughout the 1960s.&#60;br/&#62;
So I took the motor apart late one night. Mud dauber wasps had flown into the ventilation slots, and in a matter of a week or so had filled all the empty spaces in the motor with mud, wasp grubs, and paralyzed spiders.&#60;br/&#62;
I gave the spiders and grubs to little fish in the stream behind the house, and carefully washed out the mud, and reassembled the motor. The saw works fine now.&#60;br/&#62;
www.boingboing.net/2009/03/03/repair-manifesto.html&#60;/p&#62;

&#60;p&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;inline-image-wrapper&#34;&#62;&#60;a href=&#34;http://www.platform21.nl/id/4606&#34;&#62;&#60;img src=&#34;http://www.platform21.nl/image/821/4606-348-400.jpg&#34; height=&#34;400&#34; width=&#34;348&#34; alt=&#34;Book repair kit&#34; title=&#34;Book repair kit&#34; /&#62;&#60;/a&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;inline-caption&#34;&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;caption-title&#34;&#62;&#60;a title=&#34;Click to get a larger image - Book repair kit - Platform 21&#34; href=&#34;/page/4606/en&#34;&#62;Book repair kit&#60;/a&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;/p&#62;

&#60;p&#62;Posted by THEMARK  on BOING BOING&#60;br/&#62;
Line #2 puts the onus on product designers to make things come apart. Well, that would be just great if that were our decision. Huge corporations don&#39;t usually give us that much control. We&#39;re usually designing with whatever specs they give us.&#60;br/&#62;
&#60;a href=&#34;http://www.boingboing.net/2009/03/03/repair-manifesto.html&#34;&#62;www.boingboing.net/2009/03/03/repair-manifesto.html&#60;/a&#62;&#60;/p&#62;

&#60;p&#62;Posted by PIERS W &#60;br/&#62;
Maybe I&#39;m a bit obtuse today but why not throw away the broken bit? What else am I supposed to do with it?&#60;/p&#62;

&#60;p&#62;Posted by ORNITH on BOING BOING&#60;br/&#62;
Here&#39;s an idea: learn to do basic sewing. By which I mean hem a pair of pants, mend a ripped seam, and sew on a button or a patch. Takes nothing but a spool of thread, a needle, and a small pair of scissors, maybe a little scrap of fabric or a button, and you can learn all that in and hour or two.&#60;br/&#62;
Clothing is already made repairable- it comes with spare buttons all the time. And unlike many of these other things people are talking about, it doesn&#39;t take a workshop or tons of skill to do the repair. I don&#39;t care if a lamp is repairable if it takes an electrician&#39;s certificate and a soldering tool and a ventilated workshop space to do the repair - it might as well be one solid piece to me and most other people, too.&#60;br/&#62;
www.boingboing.net/2009/03/03/repair-manifesto.html&#60;/p&#62;

&#60;p&#62;Posted by MARK_P_S_2 on BOING BOING&#60;br/&#62;
RE:&#38;quot;Manufacturers wouldn&#39;t make junk if so many people didn&#39;t buy it.&#38;quot;&#60;br/&#62;
When the first TV, first VCR, first DVD players came out they were expensive. If they broke, they were fixed. Today with mass production they are cheap to buy and made as cheap as possible.&#60;br/&#62;
It&#39;s junk because the manufacturer needs to makes as much profit as possible.&#60;br/&#62;
A lot of this &#38;quot;green&#38;quot; movement is a form of planned obsolences. Buy a new fridge to save energy! Buy a new washer-dryer to save energy!  The new has just as much planned obsolences as the old. &#60;br/&#62;
&#60;a href=&#34;http://www.boingboing.net/2009/03/03/repair-manifesto.html&#34;&#62;www.boingboing.net/2009/03/03/repair-manifesto.html&#60;/a&#62;&#60;/p&#62;

&#60;p&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;inline-image-wrapper&#34;&#62;&#60;a href=&#34;http://www.platform21.nl/id/4607&#34;&#62;&#60;img src=&#34;http://www.platform21.nl/image/831/4607-400-273.png&#34; height=&#34;273&#34; width=&#34;400&#34; alt=&#34;Snow repair kit&#34; title=&#34;Snow repair kit&#34; /&#62;&#60;/a&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;inline-caption&#34;&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;caption-title&#34;&#62;&#60;a title=&#34;Click to get a larger image - Snow repair kit - Platform 21&#34; href=&#34;/page/4607/en&#34;&#62;Snow repair kit&#60;/a&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;/p&#62;

&#60;p&#62;Posted by HADLOCK on BOING BOING&#60;br/&#62;
Most items - yes even the cheap ones - are usually user-repairable. Plastic is difficult to repair, since it&#39;s brittle and doesn&#39;t paint or glue easily, but with epoxy and properly clamped you can at least make an item usable again until you can find a suitable replacement. The problem with user repairable items is that typically you need to find a version that is made of metal or wood, or both - repairable and paintable materials. These tend to cost 10x as much and aren&#39;t easily found at walmart.&#60;br/&#62;
&#60;a href=&#34;http://www.boingboing.net/2009/03/03/repair-manifesto.html&#34;&#62;www.boingboing.net/2009/03/03/repair-manifesto.html&#60;/a&#62;&#60;/p&#62;

&#60;p&#62;Posted by ICELANDER on Treehugger&#60;br/&#62;
The problem with repairing many electronics is that if you have amateurs digging around inside the guts of a machine, you have to make everything in there more rugged. One stray electrical discharge or bump of a hand can render a circuit board dead.&#60;br/&#62;
So while this might make sense for things like clothes or shoes, it&#39;s going to be a huge step back for electronics. If my iPhone were repairable it would be the size of a desktop computer.&#60;br/&#62;
&#60;a href=&#34;http://www.treehugger.com/files/2009/03/repair-manifesto.php&#34;&#62;www.treehugger.com/files/2009/03/repair-manifesto.php&#60;/a&#62;&#60;/p&#62;

&#60;p&#62;Posted by Aaron Dalton on Treehugger&#60;br/&#62;
Of course, the challenge for manufacturers who have built their business models around planned obscolesence is how to make money if people start repairing things.... Maybe one way is to keep products complex but sell repair services for less than the cost of a new product and make it clear that the repair service will also upgrade the product into something cooler and better than before?&#60;br/&#62;
It&#39;s an interesting challenge, but there is certainly a demand for high-quality products that last.&#60;br/&#62;
&#60;a href=&#34;http://www.treehugger.com/files/2009/03/repair-manifesto.php&#34;&#62;www.treehugger.com/files/2009/03/repair-manifesto.php&#60;/a&#62;&#60;/p&#62;

&#60;p&#62;Posted on Fizzogblog&#60;br/&#62;
In a country like Ghana, repair shops abound.&#60;br/&#62;
But not here in the UK. It&#39;s not &#39;cool&#39; to repair things here. It&#39;s almost a sign of &#39;making do&#39;. It seems as if a hallmark of our wealth and our superiority is the ability to throw away and to replace.&#60;br/&#62;
For Platform21&#39;s set of ideas to work in the present retail environment, it may require the consumer to spend more in the first instance, in order to avoid built-in obsolescence. Or to expend time and energy in learning how to fix things. Or it needs a sub-culture to develop, in which, if you can&#39;t fix something, you know someone who can. And that requires at least three things... time, vision and community.&#60;br/&#62;
... We need to learn to share and support each other better in local communities, so that know-how can be transmitted from one person to another.&#60;br/&#62;
&#60;a href=&#34;http://fizzogblog.typepad.com/fizzogblog/page/2/&#34;&#62;fizzogblog.typepad.com/fizzogblog/page/2/&#60;/a&#62;&#60;/p&#62;

&#60;p&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;inline-image-wrapper&#34;&#62;&#60;a href=&#34;http://www.platform21.nl/id/4608&#34;&#62;&#60;img src=&#34;http://www.platform21.nl/image/835/4608-317-400.jpg&#34; height=&#34;400&#34; width=&#34;317&#34; alt=&#34;Flute repair kit&#34; title=&#34;Flute repair kit&#34; /&#62;&#60;/a&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;inline-caption&#34;&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;caption-title&#34;&#62;&#60;a title=&#34;Click to get a larger image - Flute repair kit - Platform 21&#34; href=&#34;/page/4608/en&#34;&#62;Flute repair kit&#60;/a&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;/p&#62;

&#60;p&#62;Posted by JAKLUMEN on jaklumen.vox.com&#60;br/&#62;
Ok, so I guess I&#39;m handy? Following the Repair Manifesto, I wanted to share a little success story repairing something.&#60;br/&#62;
Our hand mixer stopped working.  It was a hand-me-down from my side of the family, and Cimmorene loved it because she had another set of beaters (I think it they were for a cheap hand mixer that fell apart) that she liked and that fit.  Well I mentioned it to my mother, since I thought I was going to have to throw it out, and she mentioned that my paternal grandfather had taken apart her Sunbeam Mixmaster when it stopped working, blew out the dust, put it back together, and it worked again.  So I thought, &#38;quot;I bet I could do the same thing with this hand mixer&#38;quot; and today I did just that.&#60;br/&#62;
It&#39;s an old General Electric in an awful shade of green that apparently was popular after WWII, but when I took it apart, I could see that it was good, solid construction.  I figured the gears turning the beaters were the problem, and so I sprayed it with a little lubricant.  I finally decided to take the gear assembly apart, and as I popped out the gears, I could see there was peanut butter in them, mostly underneath the gear shaft.  So after I got all that gunk cleared out and put it back together again, it worked perfectly.&#60;br/&#62;
&#60;a href=&#34;http://jaklumen.vox.com/&#34;&#62;jaklumen.vox.com/&#60;/a&#62;&#60;/p&#62;

&#60;p&#62;Posted by Dave Gustafson on Unpressable Buttons&#60;br/&#62;
Ah, so true. Designers would love to package everything neatly for the consumer and keep all the magic hidden inside the &#38;quot;black box.&#38;quot; But it&#39;s hubristic to think that your design is perfect or that your product will never break. Designing to allow repair can give the product a longer life with the user, and the positive experience of an easy repair may overshadow any negative experience of the damage that required it. Happier users, less waste - something to think about!&#60;br/&#62;
&#60;a href=&#34;http://www.unpressablebuttons.com/2009/03/repair-ready-design.html&#34;&#62;www.unpressablebuttons.com/2009/03/repair-ready-design.html&#60;/a&#62;&#60;/p&#62;

&#60;p&#62;Posted by drumz on the Huffington post&#60;br/&#62;
Sometimes it costs more to repair something than it is to buy a new one. I&#39;m a Mr Fixit and things have slowly moved to the point where somethings they can&#39;t be fixed or it&#39;s too expensive to fix it. I hate cheap crap and spend more so that I get good quality because I always stand by the old adage that you get what you pay for.&#60;br/&#62;
&#60;a href=&#34;http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/03/04/repair-manifesto-discoura_n_171714.html&#34;&#62;www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/03/04/repair-manifesto-discoura_n_171714.html&#60;/a&#62;&#60;/p&#62;

&#60;p&#62;Posted by Aaron Britt for DWELL&#60;br/&#62;
Designers talk a lot about extending product lifecycles, but most often in terms of creating new objects with exceptional longevity. Extending the lifecycle of existing objects is a different proposition—it requires a proactive user. But it&#39;s absolutely possible to give tired goods a new lease on life, and Dutch design collective Platform 21 believes it&#39;s an imperative.&#60;br/&#62;
&#60;a href=&#34;http://www.dwell.com/blogs/platform-21-repair-manifesto.html&#34;&#62;www.dwell.com/blogs/platform-21-repair-manifesto.html&#60;/a&#62;&#60;/p&#62;

&#60;p&#62;Posted by Jennifer Hattam for Treehugger&#60;br/&#62;
... One of the things I love about Turkey is how readily, and cheaply, it seems you can get almost anything repaired. But just as Americans and Europeans are starting to (re-)warm to the idea of fixing things up, the spread of throwaway culture to Turkey is threatening repairmen&#39;s livelihoods.&#60;br/&#62;
The Dutch design group Platform 21 recently issued a &#38;quot;Repair Manifesto&#38;quot; … &#38;quot;a mentality, culture and practice that not so long ago was completely integrated in life and the way we designed it.&#38;quot; Though that mentality has largely faded into the past in the United States (and, presumably, in the Netherlands), the small streets of Istanbul are full of people who can fix the busted toe of your boot, mend a thrashed messenger bag, and tinker your electronics and appliances back to health.&#60;br/&#62;
But the local newspaper Today&#39;s Zaman reports that small repair shops are closing down, warning that the &#38;quot;revered Turkish profession of repair work... is about to disappear.&#38;quot; The culprits are the same as they are anywhere else: ever-cheaper products on the market and a mentality that favors replacement over repair.&#60;br/&#62;
An organization of Turkish radio and television repairmen that has seen its numbers drop by 75 percent is trying to encourage members to learn to fix newer technologies like alarm-security systems, but with little success. They may have the same fatalistic feeling as İsmail Boran, a shoe repairman interviewed for the article who says he expects his business to dry up completely. &#39;When people buy shoes for TL 10 [about $6], they really don’t feel the need to repair them,&#38;quot; he told the paper. &#38;quot;They just spend a little bit more and actually get a new pair.&#38;quot;&#60;br/&#62;
www.treehugger.com/files/2009/03/twilight-of-the-turkish-repairman.php&#60;/p&#62;

&#60;p&#62;Posted by Matthew Rochte,  Sustainability Consultant&#60;br/&#62;
Some of the best innovation comes from the process of repairing products.  When I ran a manufacturing line, the process of repairing led to insights in product design, usefulness, and improvement.   We discovered where the real wear and tear in the system was thus allowing us to upgrade future generations of the product.  In some cases this allowed us to reduce our costs in subsequent generations as we learned what could be trimmed and what needed reinforcing.&#60;br/&#62;
&#60;a href=&#34;http://www.opportunitysustainability.com/&#34;&#62;www.opportunitysustainability.com/&#60;/a&#62;&#60;/p&#62;

&#60;p&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;inline-image-wrapper&#34;&#62;&#60;a href=&#34;http://www.platform21.nl/id/4610&#34;&#62;&#60;img src=&#34;http://www.platform21.nl/image/651/4610-382-400.gif&#34; height=&#34;400&#34; width=&#34;382&#34; alt=&#34;Leather repair kit&#34; title=&#34;Leather repair kit&#34; /&#62;&#60;/a&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;inline-caption&#34;&#62;&#60;span class=&#34;caption-title&#34;&#62;&#60;a title=&#34;Click to get a larger image - Leather repair kit - Platform 21&#34; href=&#34;/page/4610/en&#34;&#62;Leather repair kit&#60;/a&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;/span&#62;&#60;/p&#62;

&#60;p&#62;Posted by Elizabeth&#60;br/&#62;
I love fixing things. Yesterday I patched a pair of pants that now has 8 patches (including a patch over a patch) and soon will be in need of more. Granted, they’re only going to be work clothes, but now they have personality and I don’t have to downgrade a nicer pair of jeans. Apparently I’m right in step with this awesome Repair Manifesto.&#60;br/&#62;
www.queercents.com/2009/03/07/queercents-weekly-roundup-daylight- saving-tomorrow/&#60;/p&#62;

&#60;p&#62;Posted by The succulent wife.com&#60;br/&#62;
Hooray for the Repair Manifesto!&#60;br/&#62;
Remember when our parents used to bring the television or the toaster to the repair shop? Wow, that’s ancient history. &#60;br/&#62;
This Repair Manifesto is particularly charming because it will be evolving with the feedback, ideas and comments of contributors (like you &#38;amp; me). Mine is “Repair is about cherishing”.&#60;br/&#62;
&#60;a href=&#34;http://www.thesucculentwife.com/get-it-fixed-hooray-for-the-repair-manifesto/&#34;&#62;www.thesucculentwife.com/get-it-fixed-hooray-for-the-repair-manifesto/&#60;/a&#62;&#60;/p&#62;</content>
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  <updated>2009-10-28T17:13:02+01:00</updated>
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  <title type="html">Sugru</title>
  <subtitle type="html">A new multifunctional repairing tool</subtitle>
  <summary type="html">&#60;p&#62;During our research for Platform21 = Repairing we came across a new product for fixing things called Sugru. Sugru is a durable, mouldable silicone rubber that can be used for repairing different kinds of objects but for surfaces as well.&#60;br/&#62;
We had a conversation with the inventor of Sugru, Jane ni Dhulchaoingtigh about the story and future of Sugru.&#60;/p&#62;</summary>
  <content type="html">&#60;p&#62;&#38;quot;Originally I worked as a sculptor in Ireland but moved to London to study product design at the RCA London in 2002. When I was there I quickly realised that I did not want to design new things - I love old things, things with stories and scars and a history.&#60;/p&#62;

&#60;p&#62;At the same time I was exploring materials to find new visual languages. These two ideas came together in the idea for Sugru: a new tool that people use freely to repair, adapt, hack and customise. The colours and tactile quality of the material mean that they are proud of their repairs - they celebrate them rather than  hide them. My dream is for this to grow into a mainstream attitude that can offer a practical alternative to the throwaway mindset.&#60;/p&#62;

&#60;p&#62;Since the beginning, five years ago, I have built a business by collaborating with a number of scientists and business partners. We have developed and patented a new class of silicone materials, which you can mould by hand, stick to things and which cure at room temperature.&#60;/p&#62;

&#60;p&#62;Right now we are building a small production line at our unit in east London and we will start selling online in Autumn of this year.&#60;br/&#62;
To be continued...&#38;quot;&#60;/p&#62;

&#60;p&#62;Last August Jane ni Dhulchaoingtigh organized a repairing and customising event in Madrid. You can see some of the results &#60;a href=&#34;http://www.flickr.com/photos/studiobanana/&#34;&#62;here&#60;/a&#62;.&#60;/p&#62;

&#60;p&#62;More info: &#60;a href=&#34;http://www.sugru.com&#34;&#62;www.sugru.com&#60;/a&#62;&#60;br/&#62;
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    <summary type="html">&#60;p&#62;Tijdens onze research voor Platform21 = Repairing ontdekten we een nieuw product om objecten te repareren, genaamd Sugru.&#60;br/&#62;
Sugru is een duurzaam en kneedbaar siliconen rubber dat gebruikt kan worden voor de reparaties van verschillende soorten objecten, maar ook voor oppervlaktes. We spraken met Jane ni Dhulchaoingtigh, de uitvindster van Sugru, over het verhaal en de toekomst van dit nieuwe wondermiddel.&#60;/p&#62;</summary>
    <content type="html">&#60;p&#62;&#38;quot;Oorspronkelijk werkte ik als beeldhouwer in Ierland, maar ben in 2002 naar Londen verhuisd om aan de Royal College of Arts te studeren. Toen ik daar begon, realiseerde ik me al snel dat ik geen nieuwe producten wilde ontwerpen - ik hou van oude dingen; met een verhaal, littekens en een geschiedenis.&#60;/p&#62;

&#60;p&#62;In diezelfde periode onderzocht ik ook nieuwe materialen om nieuwe visuele verhalen te vertellen. Door deze twee gedachten ontstond het idee voor Sugru - een nieuwe tool om te repareren, aanpassingen te maken, hacken en customisen. Met de kleuren en het tactiele karakter van het materiaal kunnen de gebruikers hun reparaties benadrukken en laten zien dat ze  er trots op zijn. Oftewel het vieren van reparaties in plaats van deze te verbergen. Mijn droom is dat deze gedachtegang wordt overgenomen door het grote publiek en een alternatief wordt voor de wegwerpgedachte.&#60;/p&#62;

&#60;p&#62;De ontwikkeling van Sugru kwam vijf jaar geleden tot stand, in samenwerking  met een aantal wetenschappers en business partners. &#60;br/&#62;
Samen hebben we een nieuw soort silicone materiaal ontwikkeld voor handzaam gebruik, dat je overal op kunt bevestigen en dat hard wordt op kamertemperatuur.&#60;/p&#62;

&#60;p&#62;Op het moment zijn we bezig met een kleinschalige productie in onze studio in oost Londen. Sugru is vanaf deze herfst online verkrijgbaar.&#60;br/&#62;
Wordt vervolgd dus...&#38;quot;&#60;/p&#62;

&#60;p&#62;Jane ni Dhulchaoingtigh organiseerde afgelopen  augustus een reparatie- en hackingevenement met Sugru in Madrid. Kijk &#60;a href=&#34;http://www.flickr.com/photos/studiobanana/&#34;&#62;hier&#60;/a&#62; voor een aantal van de resultaten.&#60;/p&#62;

&#60;p&#62;Meer informatie:    &#60;br/&#62;
&#60;a href=&#34;http://www.sugru.com&#34;&#62;www.sugru.com&#60;/a&#62; &#60;br/&#62;
&#60;a href=&#34;http://www.formerol.com&#34;&#62;www.formerol.com&#60;/a&#62;&#60;/p&#62;</content>
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  <updated>2009-12-10T12:37:41+01:00</updated>
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  <title type="html">Repair it Yourself</title>
  <subtitle type="html">Bring your broken things</subtitle>
  <summary type="html">&#60;p&#62;Besides a lot of inspiration and information &#60;em&#62;Platform21 = Repairing&#60;/em&#62; also offers several repair units where you can Repair It Yourself.&#60;/p&#62;</summary>
  <content type="html">&#60;p&#62;As for this Friday, Saturday and Sunday you can mend the holes in your sweater in a beautiful way with the wool filler of Heleen Klopper and  darn socks with the help of Nienke Sybrandy and Eva Heisterkamp&#39;s instructions. Give your ceramic or plastic doll new limbs as inspired by the work of Jan Vormann, or try out one of the improvisation repair kits by buro buurvrouw. Just using duct tape for your repair is also possible; we have a rainbow of colours in stock. In the DREMEL repair station you will find the right tools for a lot of different repairs. Dremel is a multifunctional tool that makes repairing child&#39;s play: grinding, drilling, polishing and sanding are done in a trice.&#60;/p&#62;

&#60;p&#62;The Adobe clay wallpaper station in the middle of the space is a new addition. The station consists of two walls made of loam. Because the loam keeps cracking, the walls are in constant need of repair. We invite you to repair one of the cracks during your visit and document the ingredients you use well. We are curious to see if new and beautiful techniques will result from this experiment.  &#60;/p&#62;

&#60;p&#62;Platform21 now offers a solution for broken china: the new repair technique Bison kintsugi.&#60;br/&#62;
Designer Lotte Dekker developed a new view of gluing porcelain based on kintsugi, an old Japanese technique in which porcelain is repaired with gold leaf. It’s an extremely time-consuming, expensive method. Dekker found Bison glue to be the perfect Western variant for making beautiful yet simple repairs. Discover the beauty of messy mending. Bring some broken china and try it out yourself!&#60;/p&#62;</content>
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    <title type="html">Repareer-het-Zelf</title>
    <subtitle type="html">Neem je kapotte spullen mee</subtitle>
    <summary type="html">&#60;p&#62;Naast veel inspiratie en informatie biedt &#60;em&#62;Platform21 = Repairing&#60;/em&#62; ook verschillende reparatie units waar je zelf aan de slag kunt.&#60;/p&#62;</summary>
    <content type="html">&#60;p&#62;Deze vrijdag, zaterdag en zondag kun je op prachtige wijze gaten in je wollen trui dichten met de wolplamuur van Heleen Klopper, of sokken stoppen  aan de hand van de instructies van Nienke Sybrandy en Eva Heisterkamp.&#60;/p&#62;

&#60;p&#62;In het DREMEL station kun je terecht voor reparaties voor van alles en nog wat. Een Dremel is een multifunctioneel gereedschap dat repareren een fluitje van een cent maakt: slijpen, boren, polijsten en schuren doe je in een handomdraai. Er is een heel assortiment aanwezig, dus experimenteer  naar hartenlust met dit apparaatje. Ook biedt dit station uitkomst voor kapotte poppen, robots en kleine beeldjes die je herstelt door ze nieuwe ledematen te geven. Deze zitten in de &#39;body part bags&#39; geïnspireerd op het werk van beeldend kunstenaar Jan Vormann. Met een collectie gereedschap waaronder naast de Dremels, klei, LEGO, bladgoud, zeeschelpen en allerlei spatels en raspen kun je direct aan de slag.&#60;/p&#62;

&#60;p&#62;Toch de juiste techniek niet gevonden? Dan biedt een van de improvisatie repair kits van buro buurvrouw wellicht een oplossing. Gewoon duct tape gebruiken voor je reparatie kan uiteraard ook; we hebben een regenboog aan kleuren op voorraad.&#60;br/&#62;
Verder leer je handige trucs uit de skatescene om schoenen te repareren en is er een station waar we experimenteren met reparaties aan ruiten. &#60;/p&#62;

&#60;p&#62;Nieuw is het Adobe kleibehang station in het midden van de ruimte. Hier staan twee muurtjes van leem. Doordat er barsten ontstaan in de klei, moeten de muren telkens gerepareerd worden. En daar houden wij van. We nodigen je uit tijdens je bezoek een barst te repareren en goed bij te houden welke ingrediënten je hiervoor gebruikt. We zijn vooral benieuwd of er nieuwe mooie technieken ontstaan.&#60;/p&#62;

&#60;p&#62;Platform21 biedt nu ook een oplossing voor gebroken servies met nieuwe reparatietechniek Bison Kintsugi.&#60;br/&#62;
Ontwerper Lotte Dekker ontwikkelde een andere kijk op het lijmen van porselein gebaseerd op Kintsugi, een oude Japanse techniek waarbij porselein wordt gerepareerd met bladgoud. Een zeer bewerkelijke en kostbare methode. In Bison lijm ontdekte zij de perfecte Westerse variant voor prachtige maar simpele reparaties. De schoonheid van slordig repareren.&#60;br/&#62;
Neem kapot servies mee om het zelf te proberen!&#60;/p&#62;</content>
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  <link rel="http://purl.org/dc/terms/description" title="The Repair HUB" href="http://www.platform21.nl/id/4404" anymeta:symbolic_name="ABOUT" anymeta:predicate_title="about" />
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  <link rel="http://purl.org/dc/terms/description" title="You can repair anything" href="http://www.platform21.nl/id/4394" anymeta:symbolic_name="ABOUT" anymeta:predicate_title="about" />
  <link rel="http://purl.org/dc/terms/description" title="Most Remarkable Repair Contest" href="http://www.platform21.nl/id/4509" anymeta:symbolic_name="ABOUT" anymeta:predicate_title="about" />
  <link rel="http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/img" title="Bison Kintsugi, Lotte Dekker" href="http://www.platform21.nl/id/5690" anymeta:symbolic_name="FIGURE" anymeta:predicate_title="" />
  <link rel="http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/img" title="Wool filler by Heleen Klopper - Photography by Leo Veger" href="http://www.platform21.nl/id/4568" anymeta:symbolic_name="FIGURE" anymeta:predicate_title="" />
  <link rel="http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/img" title="Toy repair" href="http://www.platform21.nl/id/4528" anymeta:symbolic_name="FIGURE" anymeta:predicate_title="" />
  <link rel="http://purl.org/net/biblio#presentedAt" title="Platform21" href="http://www.platform21.nl/id/3" anymeta:symbolic_name="PRESENTED_AT" anymeta:predicate_title="presented at" anymeta:date_start="2009-08-28T00:00:00+02:00" anymeta:date_start_acc="d" anymeta:date_end="2009-08-30T23:59:59+02:00" anymeta:date_end_acc="d" />
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  <id>http://www.platform21.nl/id/5659</id>
  <updated>2009-08-20T13:45:48+02:00</updated>
  <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.platform21.nl/page/5659/en"/>
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  <title type="html">The challenge</title>
  <subtitle type="html">from rustbucket to ratstyle rod</subtitle>
  <summary type="html">&#60;p&#62;In the spring, Platform21 adopted this sweet little microcar. Completely rusty, the car was stalled-out on our driveway and wouldn&#39;t drive again. Who would take pity on this little one?&#60;br/&#62;
Car mechanic Jesper van Koningsbruggen was up for it and together we decided to make it into a challenge: to turn this rustbucket into a rough-riding RAT-STYLE ROD!&#60;br/&#62;
Rat style is a car-customising subculture that uses original parts only and strictly forbids showy touches. It’s all about function over fashion, and it’s perfect for Platform21=Repairing.&#60;br/&#62;
Together with visitors we went to work with grinders, Dremels, filler and spray-paint. Watch this stop motion movie made by Sergio Davila to see if we succeeded.&#60;/p&#62;</summary>
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    <title type="html">De uitdaging</title>
    <subtitle type="html">van roestbak tot ratstyle rod</subtitle>
    <summary type="html">&#60;p&#62;Platform21 adopteerde in het voorjaar een kleine, schattige brommobiel. Totaal verroest stond het kneusje stil op de oprit, want rijden deed hij ook niet meer. &#60;br/&#62;
Wie wilde zich over het autootje ontfermen?&#60;br/&#62;
Automonteur Jesper van Koningsbruggen wist er wel raad mee en samen besloten we er een uitdaging van te maken: om het microwagentje in twee dagen om te toveren van roestbak tot ruige, rijdende RATSTYLE ROD!&#60;br/&#62;
Ratstyle is een subcultuur in de auto-opknap-wereld waarbij alleen oorspronkelijke onderdelen worden gebruikt en protserige tierelantijnen niet zijn toegestaan. Function over Fashion dus, en geknipt voor Platform21=Repairing.&#60;br/&#62;
Samen met publiek gingen we aan de slag met slijptollen, Dremels, plamuur en spuitbussen. Of het ons gelukt is zie je in dit stopmotion filmpje gemaakt door Sergio Davila.&#60;/p&#62;</summary>
    <content type="html">&#60;p&#62;&#60;!--[embed youtube vPQtXmpprFI]--&#62;&#60;object width=&#34;407&#34; height=&#34;306&#34;&#62;&#60;param name=&#34;movie&#34; value=&#34;http://www.youtube.com/v/vPQtXmpprFI&#38;amp;fs=1&#34;&#62;&#60;/param&#62;&#60;param name=&#34;wmode&#34; value=&#34;transparent&#34;&#62;&#60;param name=&#34;allowFullScreen&#34; value=&#34;true&#34;&#62;&#60;embed src=&#34;http://www.youtube.com/v/vPQtXmpprFI&#38;amp;fs=1&#34; type=&#34;application/x-shockwave-flash&#34; allowfullscreen=&#34;true&#34; wmode=&#34;transparent&#34; width=&#34;407&#34; height=&#34;306&#34;&#62;&#60;/embed&#62;&#60;/object&#62;&#60;!--[/embed]--&#62;&#60;/p&#62;</content>
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  <link rel="http://purl.org/dc/terms/description" title="Save a microcar!" href="http://www.platform21.nl/id/5475" anymeta:symbolic_name="ABOUT" anymeta:predicate_title="about" />
  <link rel="http://purl.org/dc/terms/description" title="A night about car repair" href="http://www.platform21.nl/id/4512" anymeta:symbolic_name="ABOUT" anymeta:predicate_title="about" />
  <link rel="http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/img" title="The Little Brat &#39;BEFORE&#39;" href="http://www.platform21.nl/id/5660" anymeta:symbolic_name="FIGURE" anymeta:predicate_title="" />
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  <id>http://www.platform21.nl/id/5164</id>
  <updated>2009-06-23T18:04:36+02:00</updated>
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  <title type="html">LEGO fix for distressed walls</title>
  <subtitle type="html">Amsterdam repaired with plastic bricks</subtitle>
  <summary type="html">&#60;p&#62;For artist Jan Vormann, holes in old walls aren’t eyesores but opportunities to add colour to the city. Why should you have to repair a building using the material it was made out of?&#60;/p&#62;</summary>
  <content type="html">&#60;p&#62;Vormann found Lego to be the perfect solution for fixing cracks, holes and crumbling corners. He fills them with the plastic bricks, calling the practice Dispatchwork. Vormann had already left a colourful trail of repairs in Berlin; Bocchignano, Italy; and Tel Aviv, when Platform21 decided to invite him to patch up some Amsterdam walls during a Dispatchwork workshop in collaboration with Amsterdam&#39;s Centre for Architecture &#60;a href=&#34;http://www.arcam.nl&#34;&#62;Arcam&#60;/a&#62;.&#60;/p&#62;

&#60;p&#62;On Firday 19 June 2009 we headed into town with an enthusiastic group of participants and a load of LEGO. And while Amsterdam walls are remarkably hole-free, we did find that doorposts and walls in the Peperstraat, a playground in the Binnen Bantammerstraat and de Waag on the Nieuwmarkt were in need of some playful repair. &#60;br/&#62;
It brought back memories from childhood: digging through your LEGO looking for the right stone to fit the hole perfectly, and the street turning into a playground again. &#60;br/&#62;
Our LEGO fun didn&#39;t stay unnoticed and soon passers-by joined in with our repair mission. &#60;/p&#62;

&#60;p&#62;Below you see the results. Amsterdam TV channel AT5 made a short report, which you watch on the &#60;a href=&#34;http://www.at5.nl/tv/kort-amsterdams/aflevering/3518&#34;&#62;website&#60;/a&#62;. &#60;/p&#62;

&#60;p&#62;More information on Jan Vormann on &#60;a href=&#34;http://www.janvormann.com&#34;&#62;www.janvormann.com&#60;/a&#62;&#60;/p&#62;</content>
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    <title type="html">LEGO-fix voor toegetakelde muren</title>
    <subtitle type="html">Amsterdam gerepareerd met plastic steentjes</subtitle>
    <summary type="html">&#60;p&#62;Gaten in oude muren zijn voor kunstenaar Jan Vormann geen doorn in het oog, maar juist een kans de stad meer kleur te geven. En waarom zou je een gebouw alleen kunnen repareren met het materiaal waarvan het gemaakt is?&#60;/p&#62;</summary>
    <content type="html">&#60;p&#62;Vormann vond in Lego de perfecte oplossing voor scheuren, gaten en afgebrokkelde hoeken. Hij vult ze op met de plastic steentjes, wat hij Dispatchwork noemt. Jan Vormann liet al een kleurrijk spoor van reparaties achter in Berlijn, Bocchignano in Italië en Tel Aviv.&#60;br/&#62;
Platform21 nodigde hem uit om Amsterdamse muren een Dispatch opknapbeurt te geven tijdens een workshop in samenwerking met &#60;a href=&#34;http://www.arcam.nl&#34;&#62;Arcam&#60;/a&#62;. &#60;/p&#62;

&#60;p&#62;Op vrijdag 19 juni 2009 trokken we met een enthousiaste groep deelnemers en een hele hoop LEGO de stad in. En hoewel muren in Amsterdam in verbazingwekkend goede staat verkeren, vonden we dat de deurposten en muren in de Peperstraat, een speeltuin in de Binnen Bantammerstraat en de Waag op de Nieuwmarkt wel wat kleurrijke reparatie konden gebruiken. Het voelde een beetje als vroeger: door de LEGO graven op zoek naar dat ene steentje om precies de goede vorm mee te maken en de straat werd weer een speelplaats. Ons LEGO-plezier bleef niet onopgemerkt en al snel sloten voorbijgangers zich aan bij onze reparatie-missie. &#60;/p&#62;

&#60;p&#62;Hieronder zie je de resultaten. AT5 maakte een korte reportage, die je bekijkt op de &#60;a href=&#34;http://www.at5.nl/tv/kort-amsterdams/aflevering/3518&#34;&#62;site&#60;/a&#62;.&#60;/p&#62;

&#60;p&#62;Meer over Jan Vormann op &#60;a href=&#34;http://www.janvormann.com/&#34;&#62;www.janvormann.com&#60;/a&#62;.&#60;/p&#62;</content>
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  <link rel="http://purl.org/dc/terms/description" title="Rebuilding The World One Lego At A Time" href="http://www.platform21.nl/id/5280" anymeta:symbolic_name="ABOUT" anymeta:predicate_title="about" />
  <link rel="http://purl.org/dc/terms/description" title="Platform21 = Repairing" href="http://www.platform21.nl/id/4315" anymeta:symbolic_name="ABOUT" anymeta:predicate_title="about" />
  <link rel="http://purl.org/dc/terms/description" title="Most Remarkable Repair Contest" href="http://www.platform21.nl/id/4509" anymeta:symbolic_name="ABOUT" anymeta:predicate_title="about" />
  <link rel="http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/img" title="Jan Vormann at work, Dispatchwork Amsterdam - Photography Johannes Abeling" href="http://www.platform21.nl/id/5355" anymeta:symbolic_name="FIGURE" anymeta:predicate_title="" />
  <link rel="http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/img" title="Dispatchwork Amsterdam - Photography Johannes Abeling" href="http://www.platform21.nl/id/5364" anymeta:symbolic_name="FIGURE" anymeta:predicate_title="" />
  <link rel="http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/img" title="Dispatchwork Amsterdam - Photography Johannes Abeling" href="http://www.platform21.nl/id/5361" anymeta:symbolic_name="FIGURE" anymeta:predicate_title="" />
  <link rel="http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/img" title="Dispatchwork Amsterdam - Fotografie Franziska Platz" href="http://www.platform21.nl/id/5366" anymeta:symbolic_name="FIGURE" anymeta:predicate_title="" />
  <link rel="http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/img" title="Dispatchwork Amsterdam - Photography Franziska Platz" href="http://www.platform21.nl/id/5368" anymeta:symbolic_name="FIGURE" anymeta:predicate_title="" />
  <link rel="http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/img" title="Dispatchwork Amsterdam - Photography Franziska Platz" href="http://www.platform21.nl/id/5357" anymeta:symbolic_name="FIGURE" anymeta:predicate_title="" />
  <link rel="http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/img" title="Dispatchwork Amsterdam - Photography Johannes Abeling and Franziska Platz" href="http://www.platform21.nl/id/5359" anymeta:symbolic_name="FIGURE" anymeta:predicate_title="" />
  <link rel="http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/img" title="Dispatchwork Amsterdam - Photography Johannes Abeling" href="http://www.platform21.nl/id/5369" anymeta:symbolic_name="FIGURE" anymeta:predicate_title="" />
  <link rel="http://xmlns.com/foaf/0.1/img" title="Dispatchwork Amsterdam - Photography Franziska Platz" href="http://www.platform21.nl/id/5363" anymeta:symbolic_name="FIGURE" anymeta:predicate_title="" />
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  <id>http://www.platform21.nl/id/4404</id>
  <updated>2009-10-16T17:27:28+02:00</updated>
  <link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://www.platform21.nl/page/4404/en"/>
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  <title type="html">The Repair HUB</title>
  <subtitle type="html">Share a secret address</subtitle>
  <summary type="html">&#60;p&#62;We usually jealously guard the phone numbers of skilled Mr and Ms Fix-Its who still know the tricks of their trades. The Repair HUB, by contrast, requires to share hard information like names and addresses as well as positive personal experiences. &#60;br/&#62;
The Repair HUB is a database of information on these repairpersons and will grow into an on-site and online map of the extensive repair knowledge still available around us today. &#60;br/&#62;
Please share your secret knowledge on good repair addresses in the Netherlands and abroad.&#60;/p&#62;</summary>
  <content type="html">&#60;p&#62;The Repair HUB is an on-site and online database. When you visit Platform21 you can fill out an address card and file it in the HUB. We will publish your repair tips online as well, at the right side of this page. &#60;/p&#62;

&#60;p&#62;You can also contribute your repair recommendations by sending us an e-mail. Within a few days, your favourite addresses will be featured on our website and in the on-site Repair HUB. &#60;br/&#62;
Please send the following information to &#60;a href=&#34;mailto:&#38;#105;&#38;#110;&#38;#102;&#38;#111;&#38;#64;&#38;#112;&#38;#108;&#38;#97;&#38;#116;&#38;#102;&#38;#111;&#38;#114;&#38;#109;&#38;#50;&#38;#49;&#38;#46;&#38;#99;&#38;#111;&#38;#109;&#34;&#62;&#38;#105;&#38;#110;&#38;#102;&#38;#111;&#38;#32;&#38;#91;&#38;#97;&#38;#116;&#38;#93;&#38;#32;&#38;#112;&#38;#108;&#38;#97;&#38;#116;&#38;#102;&#38;#111;&#38;#114;&#38;#109;&#38;#50;&#38;#49;&#38;#46;&#38;#99;&#38;#111;&#38;#109;&#60;/a&#62;&#60;/p&#62;

&#60;p&#62;Name of repairperson or repairshop:&#60;/p&#62;

&#60;p&#62;He or she repairs:&#60;/p&#62;

&#60;p&#62;Address, phone number, website:&#60;/p&#62;

&#60;p&#62;Good repair address, because:&#60;/p&#62;

&#60;p&#62;Your name:&#60;/p&#62;

&#60;p&#62;If your favourite repairperson is already part of our database, but you would like to add a comment or a positive experience, please send an email as well. &#60;/p&#62;

&#60;p&#62;Looking for a repairperson with a special skill, but can&#39;t find him or her in the HUB? When you send us an email, we will get the word out!&#60;/p&#62;</content>
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    <title type="html">De Repair HUB</title>
    <subtitle type="html">Deel een geheim adres</subtitle>
    <summary type="html">&#60;p&#62;Kennen we niet allemaal een mannetje dat van alles kan maken? En weet niet iedereen een adresje waar prachtige reparaties worden uitgevoerd door mensen die nog weten hoe het moet? &#60;br/&#62;
Vaak houden we onze goede reparatieadresjes angstvallig voor onszelf. De HUB daarentegen vereist dat we harde informatie als namen en adressen, evenals positieve persoonlijke ervaringen delen. &#60;br/&#62;
De Repair HUB is de database waar informatie over al deze reparateurs wordt verzameld en brengt zo de rijkdom aan reparatiekennis die nog in onze moderne wereld aanwezig is in kaart.&#60;br/&#62;
Deel hier je geheime kennis van goede reparatieadressen in Nederland of daarbuiten!&#60;/p&#62;</summary>
    <content type="html">&#60;p&#62;De Repair HUB is niet enkel een online database. Wanneer je Platform21 bezoekt, kun je een adreskaartje invullen en deze archiveren in de kaartenbak van de Repair HUB. Wij zorgen ervoor dat jouw tips ook online te zien zullen zijn, aan de rechterzijde van deze pagina. &#60;/p&#62;

&#60;p&#62;Maar je kan ook reparatieaanbevelingen doen door een e-mail te sturen naar &#60;a href=&#34;mailto:&#38;#105;&#38;#110;&#38;#102;&#38;#111;&#38;#64;&#38;#112;&#38;#108;&#38;#97;&#38;#116;&#38;#102;&#38;#111;&#38;#114;&#38;#109;&#38;#50;&#38;#49;&#38;#46;&#38;#99;&#38;#111;&#38;#109;&#34;&#62;&#38;#105;&#38;#110;&#38;#102;&#38;#111;&#38;#32;&#38;#91;&#38;#97;&#38;#116;&#38;#93;&#38;#32;&#38;#112;&#38;#108;&#38;#97;&#38;#116;&#38;#102;&#38;#111;&#38;#114;&#38;#109;&#38;#50;&#38;#49;&#38;#46;&#38;#99;&#38;#111;&#38;#109;&#60;/a&#62;. Binnen een paar dagen staan jouw favoriete adressen op de website en in de kaartenbak. &#60;br/&#62;
We willen het volgende weten:&#60;/p&#62;

&#60;p&#62;Naam van de reparateur of reparatieshop:&#60;/p&#62;

&#60;p&#62;Deze man/ vrouw repareert:&#60;/p&#62;

&#60;p&#62;Adres, telefoonnummer, website:&#60;/p&#62;

&#60;p&#62;Goed reparatieadres, omdat:&#60;/p&#62;

&#60;p&#62;Jouw naam:&#60;/p&#62;

&#60;p&#62;Wanneer jouw favoriete reparateur al in de database staat, maar je een opmerking of positieve ervaring wilt toevoegen, stuur ons dan ook een mail. &#60;/p&#62;

&#60;p&#62;En wie de juiste reparateur nog steeds niet kan vinden, stuurt een oproep per mail, wij zeggen het voort en gaan op zoek.&#60;/p&#62;</content>
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