The Right to Repair Regulations, introduced into the UK in June 2021, focussed on increasing the responsibility of manufacturers to design products in a more sustainable fashion by allowing electronic products to be easily repaired. However, whilst this ensures that the product can be repaired easily by the manufacturer, it hasn’t necessarily allowed the average consumer to perform the maintenance themselves, due to a lack of knowledge, equipment, time, and—in many cases—a willingness to repair.

This project will aim to identify where the negative stigmatisms are within a repair environment, centring on an analysis of repair attitudes within different social-economic backgrounds, and to recognise ways of encouraging people from all circumstances to collaborate with a more sustainable repair culture, helping to move away from the throw-away society that we have become.