Repairables are open-source components designed to be easily customisable, easily and quickly produced by the end user through 3D printing to enable them to repair different objects. They are elements designed for temporary and precautionary repair, clearly visible, easy to apply but also easy to remove with the possibility of leaving no trace of their use. 

The breakage of an object is an event that may occur in a unique and unrepeatable way or circumstance. On the contrary, it may be common and repeatable to the breakage of many other similar objects owned and used by as many people. Consequently, it is interesting to consider the combination of the general openness of the design process for repair with the customisation requirements of each repair.

Considering that repair is in fact one of the four “R’s” of the circular economy, it is therefore interesting to explore and verify the existence of a design opportunity space that can unite open and distributed design and repair by hypothesising on solutions that can stimulate the development of distributed repairing or distributed repairing forms.