Several authors have described contemporary purchasing and consumption behavior as part of a “throwaway society.” Broader movements around environmental and consumer issues try to offset this process. Among these movements, Repair Cafés—places where volunteers help people repair their household items for free—are an interesting vantage point to study how a different relationship to objects can be transmitted by practicing repair. By conducting qualitative field observations, semi-structured interviews and quantitative questionnaires in three French Repair Cafés, I show that these organizations, which are intended to be places of learning, aimed at empowering individuals to deal with their household goods by teaching them repair techniques, cannot help but drift toward a logic of service, where audiences play the role of consumers rather than learners. But I argue that this service relationship has the advantage of attracting many individuals who are not familiar with the issue of product durability, and of socializing them, through concrete practice, to a new reflex of repair.

一些作者将当代的购买和消费行为描述为“抛弃型社会”的一部分。围绕环境和消费者问题的广泛运动试图抵消这一过程。在这些运动中，“修理咖啡厅”是志愿者免费帮助人们修理其家居用品的地方，这是研究如何通过练习修理如何传递与物体的不同关系的一个有趣的优势。通过在三个法国维修咖啡厅中进行定性的现场观察，半结构化访谈和定量问卷调查，我表明，这些组织旨在成为学习的场所，旨在通过教他们修理技术来赋予个人处理家庭用品的能力，忍不住转向服务逻辑，受众在其中扮演着消费者而不是学习者的角色。但是我认为这种服务关系的优势在于可以吸引许多不熟悉产品耐用性问题的个人，并通过具体实践使他们社交化，以进行新的维修。