Museum für Gestaltung Zürich inspires a ‘Repair Revolution!’ | Almas Sadique News

The practice of discarding objects instead of repairing and reusing them has taken a stronghold today. As a child—a period of time only two decades hitherto—witnessing my mother sew close patchy slits on clothing and watching my father carry a mangled pair of shoes to the nearby cobbler was not an unusual sight. Electronic items in the house and kitchen paraphernalia, too, could be fixed with ease, either at home or in local repair shops that were not hidden behind glossy branding boards. Whether it was the onslaught of consumerism that limited this simple and sustainable practice or the evolved dominance of capitalist systems in our everyday lives, is a matter worthy of assessment. This culture of acquiring the newest and latest object is perhaps the contribution of both the aforementioned phenomena. However, in light of the…