丢弃破损物品从未如此轻松。有些物品的价格从未如此低廉；而另一些物品则因为瞬息万变而迅速过时，让你总有理由升级换代，仿佛你还需要什么理由似的。维修的可能性能否开始改变消费者的习惯？
今年六月，纽约市的快闪维修店进行了一项为期一个月的实验，旨在“打破物品使用后即丢弃的循环”。这是由巴纳德学院的舞台和服装设计师兼戏剧教授桑德拉·戈德马克（Sandra Goldmark）牵头，对该问题进行更广泛探索的第一步。桑德拉和她的丈夫迈克尔·班塔（Michael Banta，巴纳德学院的戏剧制作经理）利用在IndieGoGo上发起的众筹活动筹集的资金创办了这家维修店，该活动共筹集了超过9000美元。
大约一年半前，除了遭遇烤箱和打印机故障的挫折之外，戏剧也为这家商店提供了一些灵感。
“为了打造一个奇幻世界，我们每次都会制作和丢弃一些东西，如此反复，这不断提醒我们，现实世界也在经历同样的循环，”桑德拉说。
顺便一提，她的父亲是毕生致力于环境保护的彼得·戈德马克，曾任洛克菲勒基金会主席和环境保卫基金会执行董事。
戏剧也为维修工作提供了理想的技能。“我们在这里所做的一切，都是从戏剧中学到的，”迈克尔补充道。店里许多“维修高手”也都来自戏剧界。
顾客数量远远超出桑德拉和迈克尔的预期。超过190位顾客带来了360多件需要维修的物品。其中一位顾客就带来了14件。前25位顾客可以随意付费，以便了解人们的支付意愿，然后再为常用物品制定固定价格。
了解人们愿意支付的价格是实验的一部分。椅子、灯具、风扇、其他小型电子产品（包括iPhone）以及毛绒玩具都很受欢迎。大多数顾客来自纽约的因伍德社区，这家店就位于百老汇大街上一间租来的小型旧药房里。
作为体验的一部分，顾客需要回答一系列问题，例如：“您送来修理是因为它有纪念意义、为了避免更换新机的高昂费用，还是为了保护环境？”以及“如果用1到10分来衡量，1分代表完全不环保，10分代表非常环保，您认为自己有多环保？”巴纳德学院提供了一项研究经费，用于支持数据收集、分析以及根据此次店铺体验创作的“戏剧回应”。
桑德拉说，结果发现，“很多来店里的人都自认为是环保主义者，但他们很少说自己是为此来的。他们只是想修好自己的东西。我觉得，从某种程度上来说，他们低估了自己。”
美国最大的环保行动组织之一——自然资源保护委员会（ NRDC）的高级资源专家达比·胡佛就阻碍维修的激励措施以及改变消费者习惯的可能性发表了看法。NRDC曾与录音学院合作，致力于减少格莱美奖对环境的影响。
达比说：“过去二十年左右发生的一个显著变化是，新技术的发展速度如此之快，以至于当某些东西坏掉的时候，它已经过时了。人们没有动力去修理它。总会有更新更好的东西出现。”
情况并非完全没有希望。“我们也建立了更好的联系渠道，这样就有了更多选择，可以把坏掉的东西和懂得修理的人联系起来，或者找到别人教你修理的视频，”达比说。“我认为我们真正需要做的是让信息与心态相匹配。我们需要提醒自己，修理是有价值的，尽量避免把东西扔进垃圾填埋场也是有价值的。”
达比提到了她所在的湾区的一些营利性公司，这些公司旨在减少垃圾填埋场的负担，其中包括 1980 年在伯克利成立的Urban Ore ，以及旧金山的一家员工持股公司Recology ，该公司运营着20 个旨在提高回收利用率和再利用率的项目。
扣除零件订购、租金、水电费以及支付给维修师傅的报酬后，这家流动维修店最终还是亏损了。“我们认为目前这种模式下没有任何办法能收取足够的费用来真正实现财务自由，”桑德拉说道。
她依然保持乐观。“我认为我们国家对物品的态度可能会开始朝着与食品运动类似的方向发展，”桑德拉说。“纽约第一个农贸市场在20世纪70年代中期开业，所以这场食品运动已经酝酿了很长时间，而且坦白说，与主流相比，它仍然规模很小。就物品而言，至少在因伍德社区，我觉得人们已经准备好做出类似的习惯改变，只要我们能为他们提供途径。”
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I remember many years ago, listening to Paul Newman and his wife Joanne Woodward being interviewed. They were asked how they were able to stay married and keep their love alive in the "Hollywood" environment. Paul went on to say that we live in a throw away world, a toaster, washing machine, basically anything that breaks is tossed and a new one replaces it. He then went onto say that when he and Joanne were deciding to marry,money also decided that if their marriage started to break, they would repair it, and that divorce was not an option. This made a strong impression on me, and I have retold this story many times. My husband and I just celebrated our 44th anniversary and even though we have had some rough patches, we fixed what was broken. We also try to fix "stuff" when it is broken, and wish we had a place like Pop-Up Repair close to where we live.
Wonderful old idea, renewed. I remember the village repair shops, the familial attitude of save, repair, repurpose which is nonexistent now. Too bad the flip flopped. Honorable try, though. Awareness of our waste is becoming more "popular," so repairing may too. We donate our castoffs to charities like Salvation Army and St. Vincent de Paul to recycle and help others rather than the backyard trashcan.
Nature is a perfect example why we should recycle, repair, and reuse. In the sanvanna, no carcass is left unclean to the bone. A forest having humus make from leaves from the cold weather and the bacteria and insects speed the process.Then nutrients go back into the soil for the tree in the forest. When a person gets a cut, the person's body goes into action into repair itself with a scab. The point is that nature do it and why can we. With right planing, this ideology or ideas can be p
kudos to you for pop up repair. My Uncle Mike is an absolute wizard at repairing just about anything. His garage is a treasure trove of bits and pieces of things most folks would toss out with garbage, he uses odds & ends to repair everything from his 25 year old mini van to creating a a zip line from an old elevator cable. thank you for pointing out possibilities! HUG
Good try pop up repairers I empathize with intent and commiserate with the financial doldrums . However if a full cost analysis was done on the fast tech (toys, tools, forced necessities and dependencies) fast food (Faux food) , fast fashion (waste pushers) that race to the bottom wage distortion, depletionary pattern that is creating ever more scarcity and fear in trying to out run it! However if we accept responsibility instead of justifying the evil with good crap (you know that one right?) an entirely new human narrative emerges. The new story understands that our health costs hinge to enviro contamination, which hinges to our patent and privatization methodology (GMOs, twisted incentives) the whole idea of hierarchy, more, as -all of this was made up to satisfy an ideology that no longer rings true. Once past the hurdle of what we are taught to believe, we find an open field of more possibility, more connections, more interactive relationships and this is where we will start to really heal. Evolution? -could be,as those leaps are not accounted for, and as they parallel the QP and creative leaping I would say why not experiment at that level of paradigm change? I am working on one new story, i hope there are others, for this round we have to learn the relationship skills that will help us max all of our exciting, unique potentials and we can only do this-together (has to do with reflection, feedback, 2 heads better, this and more) Imagine the possibilities!
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