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Time to do something about the throw-away society that we are living in. Way too often we go for the easy solution of buying something new instead of trying to repair it. Let’s change that!
Come to our Repair Café to get those broken items fixed! On November 6th, The UAntwerp Climate team and Green Office UAntwerp are hosting a Repair Café at CST, building K, from 1pm until 4pm.
With this repair event we want to contribute to the right to repair by making it accessible and affordable to get your broken item fixed. During our Repair Café you can get your broken items repaired for solely the price of the used materials! Additionally it’s a great way to learn from the repairers and get some insight in what goes into bringing your item back to life.
Both students and staff can bring their broken items from home. Together with the specialists they start making their repairs in the Repair Café . It’s an ongoing learning process. If you have nothing to repair, you can enjoy a cup of tea or coffee. Or you can lend a hand with someone else’s repair job. You can also get inspired at the reading table – by leafing through books on repairs and DIY. Because we want to make sure we can help everyone who comes to our repair event we ask you to fill in this registration form (one form per item that needs fixing).
Handy and interested in sitting on the other side of the table? Become one of our repairers and help celebrate a more sustainable way of thinking. Register by filling in this form.
The circular party doesn’t end there! For bikes that need fixing you can come to us from 9am until noon. The experts from Werkmaat will make sure you will get on the road save again! Need a better brake adjustment, some extra oil or tyre blowing? They'll do it for free! If material is needed to repair the defect, you only pay these material costs (e.g. brake cables, front light, etc.).
Think circular and give your broken item a second life! Hope to see there!