[Themaintainers] Talk: Jordan Young "A Practice Based Typology of Repairing and Sharing Initiatives" (Maintenance and Philosophy of Technology SIG, Thursday 12th Feb 18-1915 UTC+1)

[mark young]

Dear all,

We’re pleased to announce the first talk for 2026 in our Maintenance and
Philosophy of Technology special interest group. In this session, we’re
excited to welcome Jordan Young (Wageningen University) who will be sharing
research that he co-authored with his colleagues Mary Greene, Sanneke
Kloppenburg and Job van der Linden, which examines maintenance practices in
European household with a view towards developing a typology of repair
practices. If you'd like a link for the talk, send me a quick email at
mark at markthomasyoung.net

Best,
Mark

*A Practice Based Typology of Repairing and Sharing Initiatives*

Jordan Young (Wageningen University)

Thursday 12th Feb 18-1915 UTC+1)

*Abstract:* The circular economy is a key paradigm to shift towards
lifestyles complying with planetary boundaries. Repairing and sharing
household consumer goods have been identified as leverage points to
increase circularity and decrease virgin resource extraction. In recent
years an array of initiatives has emerged throughout Europe that facilitate
repairing and sharing practices in diverse ways and in diverse local
contexts. This paper aims to unravel the role of diverse repairing and
sharing initiatives for stimulating and shaping the uptake of sharing and
repairing by households. Building on a combined perspective of social
practices and the concept of scaling, originated in transition management,
we put forward a practice-based typology that allows to distinguish 1)
different repairing and sharing practices and their embeddedness into
people’s daily lives and 2) strategies of sharing and repairing initiatives
to scale sharing and repairing practices, broadly categorised into *scaling
out, scaling up, scaling deep *and *scaling down*. 37 semi-structured
interviews with a diverse sample of sharing and repairing initiatives in
the Netherlands have been performed to develop this typology. The novelty
of the typology lies in its focus on the socio-material context in which
circular consumption practices arise and how sharing and repairing
initiatives navigate and utilise these contextual factors in advocating the
uptake of sharing and repairing. Preliminary findings indicate that certain
types of initiatives strive for *scaling deep *by challenging dominant
norms around consumption, while other initiatives aim to *scale out*, by
making sharing and repairing more accessible to new groups of users. The
typology can help policymakers in mapping landscapes of initiatives to
better inform policy interventions while practitioners may find it useful
to reflect on their own strategy towards making repairing and sharing more
accessible in people’s daily lives.

(In order to avoid confusion regarding the timing of the talks - the
following table clarifies when the talks begin in different locations)

New York:         12:00

San Francisco: 09:00

London:            17:00

Amsterdam:     18:00

Mark Thomas Young
Postdoctoral Fellow
University of Oslo
https://uio.academia.edu/MarkThomasYoung
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