Our goal is to increase material literacy in our community by fostering an ethic of creative caring toward the objects in our lives.
The Fixers’ Collective seeks to displace cultural patterns that alienate us from our things, by collectively learning the skills and patience necessary to care for them. Intentionally aligning itself with forces generated in reaction to the current economic crisis, the Fixers’ Collective promotes a counter-ethos that values functionality, simplicity, and ingenuity and that respects age, persistence and adequacy.
The Fixers Collective also encourages participants to take liberties with designated forms and purposes, resulting in mended objects that may exist both as art and within a more limited, utilitarian context.
We seek to build community through the metaphors of building and fixing. We seek to give people another option other than to throw something away and buy a replacement. We seek to bring repair into a brighter spotlight of sustainability.
We would like to expand our concept and reach of our Fixing Sessions into Manhattan, Queens, the Bronx, and Staten Island.
We need to identify people and groups wiling to host Fixing Sessions.
We will host trial sessions to gauge attendance and perceived education value.
We will offer feedback to enable people to host their own Fixing Sessions without or with the core members of the Fixers Collective.
We’re passionate about the Fixers Collective because we’re extremely versatile and feel very comfortable in many contexts: