[Themaintainers] checking in about the Information Maintainers Group

Sat Jun 18 08:34:00 EDT 2022

Hi all. So happy to learn about all these wonderful projects and events.
I am also curious about the status of the  Information Maintainers Group. I
haven't seen a meeting alert from the group in a while and have been trying
to figure out if it's a setting problem on my part or the meetings have
been (understandably :) on hold.

Best,
Angela

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>    1. Call for Papers: Repairing Technology ? Fixing Society?
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>    2. Re: New Blog Posts by our Maintainers Movement    Fellows
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> Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2022 22:05:31 +0200
> From: Stefan Krebs <stefan.krebs at rwth-aachen.de>
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> Subject: [Themaintainers] Call for Papers: Repairing Technology ?
>         Fixing Society?
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> *Repairing Technology ? Fixing Society?*
>
> International conference at the Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and
> Digital History (C?DH)
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> 13-14 October 2022
>
> Failures and breakdowns constitute an important element in the
> fundamental relationship between users and technology, and maintenance
> and repair are fundamental practices in everyday life. Stephen Graham
> and Nigel Thrift (2007) highlighted that ?repair and maintenance are not
> incidental activities. In many ways, they are the engine room of modern
> economies and societies?. However, we still know very little about the
> actual developments of repair practices in the past and today. In his
> essay ?Rethinking repair?, Steven Jackson (2014) therefore called for
> what he coined ?broken world thinking?. He argues that we should take
> ?erosion, breakdown, and decay, rather than novelty, growth, and
> progress, as our starting points? when we want to study consumption and
> use. Broken world thinking is an exercise in ?infrastructural
> inversion?, a reversal of fore- and background to better understand the
> hidden, but fundamental practices of repair that keep our modern
> technical world running. Despite the prevailing master narrative that
> the advent of the consumer society caused a decline in repair, it has
> not become obsolete in modern consumer societies but has remained
> integral to their economic functioning.
>
> Current repair advocates emphasise the sustainability of repair. We are
> interested in historical and contemporary discourses and critical
> reflections about the assumed relationship between maintenance, repair
> and (more) sustainable consumption. By discussing the epistemology,
> sociology, politics, economics, and histories of maintenance and
> repair,we would like to contribute to the growing field of repair
> studies.We are interested in repair in all its forms: from small objects
> to large technical systems, from the global North to the global South.
> The conference is open to various interdisciplinary approaches.
>
> Possible topics include:
>
> ? the epistemology, sociology, and politics of repair
>
> ? innovation through maintenance and repair practices
>
> ? the relationship between repair and sustainability
>
> ? the environmental impact of consumer societies
>
> ? experimental approaches in studying repair and maintenance
>
> ? maintenance and repair practices as forms of resistance
>
> ? the social construction of repairability and/or obsolescence
>
> ? philosophical, ethnographical, and historical approaches
>
> ? the history of manuals and the transfer of repair knowledge in general
>
> ? historical, economic, and sociological perspectives on ?lifespans? of
> objects
>
> The conference is part of our FNR-funded REPAIR project that
> investigates the maintenance practices of the Luxembourg telephone
> network, continuity and change in local repair opportunities for
> consumer objects, and the role and influence of do-it-yourself cultures
> on repair practices. For more information,visit our REPAIR blog:
> https://repair.uni.lu <https://repair.uni.lu/>
>
> The C?DH will cover the travel and accommodation costs of invited
> participants. Please send abstracts (400-500 words) and a short CV to
> repair at uni.lu; the deadline is 31 July 2022. Confirmation of
> participation by August 15. Invited workshop participants will be
> expected to submit extended abstracts (1,500 words) by 30 September 2022.
>
> Organisers: Stefan Krebs, Rebecca Mossop and Thomas Hoppenheit
> (Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History, C?DH)
>
> --
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> A-Prof. Dr. Stefan Krebs
> Head of Public History Unit
> Luxembourg Centre for Contemporary and Digital History
> University of Luxembourg
> Maison des Sciences Humaines
> 11, Porte des Sciences
> L-4366 Esch-Belval
> Email: stefan.krebs at uni.lu
> Web: www.c2dh.uni.lu/people/stefan-krebs
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> Message: 2
> Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2022 21:32:18 -0400
> From: Chris Stone <cstone3 at swarthmore.edu>
> To: Lauren Dapena Fraiz <laurendf at themaintainers.org>
> Cc: themaintainers at lists.stevens.edu
> Subject: Re: [Themaintainers] New Blog Posts by our Maintainers
>         Movement        Fellows
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> This is so sweet. I'm personally looking for entry level opportunity at an
> integrated engineering and architecture firm that's genuinely committed to
> good land relations and sustainable building reuse, so they first one is so
> good for me to get my eye on what's out there led by BIPOC (it's a struggle
> to search for).
>
> My partner and I really appreciated following the adventure of the second
> blog and discussing how it related to the places we consider home (here in
> the US and by heritage).
>
> As always, enjoying what the Maintainers puts out there!
>
>
> Chris (Pixel) Stone, LEED Green Associate
> He/They | Class of 2023
> B.S. Engineering and B.A. Environmental Studies
> Solar Protocol Steward
> pixouls.xyz
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> On Jun 16, 2022, at 8:30 AM, Lauren Dapena Fraiz <
> laurendf at themaintainers.org> wrote:
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> ?
> Hello everyone, happy almost-summer! Reaching out here to share the
> fantastic new blog posts by our fellows, hot off the press!
>
> Being Care-Full, By Leila Behjat and Sam Bennett. ?We (as the collective
> global whole) must shift our priorities by embracing the existing ? caring
> for what we already have created, while celebrating its beauty as it ages
> and evolves." Leila and Sam create an insightful synthesis of the
> discussion held during the ?Who Cares? event (part of Circular Cities), an
> event that brought together several protagonists in the spheres of design,
> upkeep, maintenance and repair.
> A Trip Down the Arroyo Seco ? A Microcosm of Infrastructure, Nature, and
> Society Part I. By Tonatiuh Rodriguez- Nikl. How we relate to our
> environment should not be  ?through a lens of control but one of continuous
> cycles of understanding, adaptation, and monitoring with a sensitivity to
> the many physical and social influences involved as well as the wide range
> of human needs that are served.". Our fellow Tona Rodriguez-Nikl brings us
> on a compelling journey through the coexisting nature and infrastructure of
> the Arroyo Seco.
>
> Enjoy, and feel free to share any thoughts or comments.
>
> Lauren
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