BARRIERS AND OPPORTUNITIES TO REPAIR IN REPAIR CAFES

Abstract For some years now, a part of the population in Europe has been willing to moderate its consumption and enter into sustainable waste reduction perspective. Repair is an important lever sustainability products. It requires appropriate approaches depending on actors involved, whether they are public, private or at consumer level. cafés thus born local citizen initiatives act life cycle everyday We conducted qualitative study based series semi-structured interviews with repair Grenoble area (France) carried out analysis data. This analysis, according three pre-defined fields, technology-competencies-motivations, reveals perception current obstacles opportunities for development amateur practice. The results obtained support studies already subject show that design still failing match reparation requirements. Besides, social role these third places takes precedence over ecological economic dimension repair.