ABSTRACT
The chapter takes a closer look at post-growth production practices in open worklabs. I focus here on very down-to-earth practices such as tinkering, repairing and experimenting with everyday materials that take place at specific places within peer networks. They combine crafts, tool-sharing, open communication and community building into something that has local and also more general effects. I will ask how the users of open worklabs develop their particular attitudes towards work within a favourable context provided by their peers, and how they position themselves within the socio-material context they are part of. The chapter concludes by pointing toward the emancipatory potential involved in open worklabs. Actors serve on the one hand as local pathfinders who inspire their peers and neighbours to take initiative on changed economic actions. On the other hand they explore individual and collective ways of acquiring ownership of working-producing-repairing that might show the way to post-growth practices.
