Participatory Research and Design for Repair of customers’ IKEA furniture: Prolonging the life of IKEA furniture through Creative Repair

Valuable resources are discarded on a daily basis, in the form of home furniture. Tonnes of prematurely disposed, functional and repairable furniture is often destined for landfill or incineration, with small proportions recycled. The emergent sustainability needs of the planet, and changing policies for repair of consumer products, drives the...