[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)

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Purna

On Mon, 9 Feb, 2026, 7:26 pm mark young, <youngm54001 at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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