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...work. A repair café might be perfect for the craft mender, but not very appealing to the delegating mender or someone who’s never picked up a needle. So what do we do? Stitching together a solution To build a mending mindset across society, we need to bring together lots of threads. Here are just a few ideas: Bring back sewing in schools, so future generations grow up...

...work – when product usability, particularly of consumer products, could be improved. Of course usability is just one of the many factors that designers need to be aware of. Products need to be manufacturable, they need to use materials that are suitable, they need to be sustainable and they need to be available to consumers at a certain price. Nevertheless, this course...

...work of an escalating number of people and resources over many years. A major component of this cost has been the attrition rate of medicines that reach the development stage but then fail as the result of adverse toxicity or only limited effectiveness against the target disease. In recent years much greater attention has been paid to addressing the problems of attrition...