January 23, 2014, 7:00 p.m. – February 21, 2014, 6:00 p.m.
February 12, 2014, 6:00 p.m. – February 12, 2014, 10:00 p.m.
Everyone is invited to bring broken items to be repaired together with Hannes Waldschütz. Neither the type of object nor the type of repair required plays a role. Visitors and artists can thus practice a form of civil disobedience together, with the aim of opposing the principle of predetermined breaking points and planned obsolescence with their own actions.
The sessions are free of charge.
Neue Straße 2, 26122 Oldenburg | Opening hours: Tue – Sat, 11.00 – 18.00 h
Civil disobedience: REPAIR
12.02.2014, 18.00 h
Location: ATTENTION: CHANGE OF LOCATION !!! Due to the large number of registrations, we have moved the event to the lecture hall of the Kulturzentrum PFL for space reasons.
Cultural Center PFL
Peterstraße 3
Prof. Dr. Niko Paech, University of Oldenburg
“From the repair revolution to the post-growth economy” Climate change, debt crises, the scarcity of resources on whose cost-effective availability the industrial prosperity model has been based to date, as well as findings from happiness research, show that the growth party is over. Consequently, the possibilities of a post-growth economy must be explored. This calls for a concise dismantling of money-based supply systems. Sufficiency, modern subsistence and shorter supply chains will then be important design options. In addition, the post-growth economy is characterized by sedentariness, i.e. happiness without kerosene.
Niko Paech has been an adjunct professor at the Chair of Production and Environment at the University of Oldenburg since 2008. His research interests include environmental economics, institutional economics, sustainability research, climate protection and post-growth economics. Since 2006, he has been head of the BMBF-funded research project GEKKO (Buildings, Climate Protection and Communication). He is involved in project and association work in various sustainability-related institutions: BUND, NABU, GFFW, Ökobank, project group “Waste avoidance and resource protection for consumer goods”, KoBE (Competence Center for Building and Energy).
Daniel Wessolek, artist, Weimar
“In the short or long term” – on reparability Daniel Wessolek is an artist, designer and researcher. He studied Media Art & Design at the Bauhaus University Weimar and Art Theory at the University of Shanghai. His research interests include animation, light, DIY / collaborative technologies, open source hardware and software, sustainability strategies and design research. At the Bauhaus University Weimar, he taught product design with a focus on the perception of technologies and their inherent principles, the use of open-source design, hardware hacking and repair and reuse strategies.