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How to promote the „Culture of Repair“? How to promote the „Culture of Repair“ in a Museum? ECSITE 2016 Graz Jutta Schlögl

How to promote the „Culture of Repair“? Deutsches Museum – Facts and Figures • Founded in 1903 by Oskar von Miller • Exhibitions 73. 000 m² / 100. 000 objects Museumsinsel (50. 000 m²) Verkehrszentrum Flugwerft Museum in Bonn • Library: 950. 000 volumes • Archives: 4. 500 m of shelves • 1. 4 million visitors per year

How to promote the „Culture of Repair“? Who am I? • Engineer in Physics and Technician in Precision Engineering • Profession experience in research & development • Since 2007 member of scientific staff of the Deutsches Museum, working in the project team for the new exhibition for Chemistry • Project Manager Experimentier-Werkstatt - Tinkering & Hands-on Space, opened 6. 5. 2016

How to promote the „Culture of Repair“? Prof. Dr. Wolfgang M. Heckl and the „Culture of Repair“ • 1993 -2009 Professor of Experimental Physics at LMU, Munich • Since 2004 Director General of the Deutsches Museum • 2009 appointed to the Oskar von Miller Chair of Science Communication at the TUM School of Education • Passion: Culture of Repair, Fab. Labs, Maker. Movement

How to promote the „Culture of Repair“? Activities, Experiences, Projects • Special Exhibitions Anthropocene – The Earth in our Hands energie. wenden (2017) • Repair Workshops for bikes • Repair Cafés • Collaboration with Fab. Labs and Open. Labs • Supporting the network of repair initiatives • Tinkering and Hands-on Space: some ideas to promote the DIY- and repair culture

How to promote the „Culture of Repair“? Bike Workshops Maintenance and repair • Workshop for kids aged 6 to 12 • About 250 kids per year • Partly working on their own bikes or „museum‘s bikes“ • Special events for adults Which bike suits me? Workshop for adults on special days

How to promote the „Culture of Repair“? Repair Cafés in the Deutsches Museum Verkehrszentrum • Collaboration with the Haus der Eigenarbeit (HEI): a win-situation for both institutions • 55 to 75 visitors, twice a year in the museum in a room accessible from the outside • 10 to 15 repair experts (mixed: HEI and museum) • Quote of repair 50 to 65% • Reasons for failure: objects not designed for repair, lack of spare parts, missing circuit diagrams

How to promote the „Culture of Repair“? Supporting the Networking of Repair Initiatives • • • First meeting of the German Repair Initiatives Deutsches Museum: venue and co-organiser 120 participants Networking, exchange, resolution Panel discussion

How to promote the „Culture of Repair“? NEW! Tinkering & Hands-on Space

How to promote the „Culture of Repair“? Tinkering & Hands-on Space: Some ideas to promote the DIY- and repair culture 1. No Black Boxes – Work with simple equipment! Example: Analysing light with a spectrometer A standard spectrometer: an expensive black box Our selfmade spectrometer in an old wine box: simple and cheap

How to promote the „Culture of Repair“? Tinkering & Hands-on Space: Some ideas to promote the DIY- and repair culture 2. Raising awareness for technical components • Take apart, work with own hands and gather own experiences! • Analyse the components and their functions! 1 7 4 3 2 6 • Think about improvements for the components! • Work with tools and make crafts! 5

How to promote the „Culture of Repair“? Tinkering & Hands-on Space: Some ideas to promote the DIY- and repair culture 3. Workshop projects preventing the waste of material Which fractions of the material could we cut out? It‘s too expensive to buy cheap products! Sensitising for quality „Warum alles kaputt geht“ C. Mattheck Lightweight construction Pens with broken clips … Wrong material? Wrong design? Notches? Be creative! Upcycling: jewelry out of coffee capsules

How to promote the „Culture of Repair“? http: //www. deutsches-museum. de/experimentier-werkstatt/ Thank you for your attention!