REVIEW: "The new life of old things" - the anti-crisis Manifesto
Do It Yourself Books / / December 19, 2019
We have almost forgotten how to work with your hands and restore broken or old things. Word handmade denote amusing trinkets, buy a one-off, do not know which side to take up tools. It's time to think about what we are doing wrong.
To be honest, I expected to see in the book a collection of tips, "How to build a submarine from broken rattles." But the author writes about the other. The whole book - a man manifest sincerely enthusiastic repair.
Wolfgang Heckl
Professor, Biophysics, Director of the German Technical University in Munich.
We have become accustomed to throw everything broke down, and immediately run for the new. What to dissemble, we buy new things when the old and well-run. But they have become obsolete - and sent to a landfill.
From gadgets, usually no other way: sometimes we really need to get the thing working faster, better. However, such a scheme applies generally to all that surrounds us.
There is not unfounded suspicion that the product life accurately calculated. We are seeing the planned obsolescence given by the manufacturer and sometimes even desired by the client (such as a mobile phone, which you do not want to use more than one year).
Wolfgang Heckl offers a bit of thought before you send something in the trash can. It is possible that the thing has a chance to get a second life.
The question is, why do we agonize over the repair, if you can order almost anything delivered to your door?
Reasons more than it seems. Repairs are cheaper. Repair makes you think and act. Repair saves the planet from the garbage in the end (we have it unpopular idea, but shy away from her stupid).
Repair - a circulation analysis, strategy, implementation, and successful experiences.
The author tells countless stories of repair of their lives. Can you imagine what quest you need to go to repair the pump or an old sewing machine? A barrier will break through any person who has decided to repair the MacBook?
Salvation history of the failed equipment or furniture to become a good shooter. It is clear why the author is ready to devote his spare time repairing. It turns out that the restoration of a broken - this is gambling activity.
Each repair - check the strength of their ingenuity and perseverance. Here is how this test to pass, and write a book.
Why this book
At least then, to believe in themselves. In the book there is a step by step guide for those who dare to take the first time into the hands of a screwdriver or a needle. The main thing - do not be afraid of anything. After all, the thing is already broken, so nothing to lose.
Man, once his own to do some thing just does not want to change it because of the defect, and try to restore. Repair is not always beneficial, but there's every man for himself determines the profitability, as there are more and emotional than economic reasons.
Repair - it is certainly useful. Conserves resources, saves the environment, protects them from falling into the financial pit. Even opposed consumer society. But the repair - it is also fun. Believe Wolfgang Heckl: you, too, want to remake the world in their own hands.
"New life of old things," Wolfgang Heckl
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