Repair Cafe

Create a repair café at fixme - maybe once a month or something

Repair Cafés are free meeting places and they’re all about repairing things (together). In the place where a Repair Café is located, you’ll find tools and materials to help you make any repairs you need. On clothes, furniture, electrical appliances, bicycles, crockery, appliances, toys, et cetera. You will also find repair specialists such as electricians, seamstresses, carpenters and bicycle mechanics. Visitors bring their broken items from home. Together with the specialists they start making their repairs in the Repair Café. It’s an ongoing learning process. If you have nothing to repair, you can enjoy a cup of tea or coffee. Or you can lend a hand with someone else’s repair job. You can also get inspired at the reading table – by leafing through books on repairs and DIY.

There are already some repair cafés in Switzerland http://repaircafe.org/switzerland/

• In Lausanne the FRC has one but there is no info http://repaircafe.org/fr/emplacements/repair-cafe-frc/
• In Geneva it appears that there was only one event and they got publicity from it https://www.facebook.com/repaircafegeneve
  • http://www.ge-repare.ch/