Image of a sculptures created by artist Scott Hocking. The first he created on the 6th floor of the Detroit railway station, in a form he elsewhere referred to as a "cauldron." The second is a ziggurat of wooden blocks scavenged from the flooring of an old Detroit factory.

The "repair-ware" school of industrial design is intended to unite the best of disposability / recyclability with repairability. Repair-ware products effectively commercialize the marginal DIY culture epitomized by websites like iFixIt and magazines like MAKE through an Apple-like devotion to conceptual simplicity and minimalism. Repaire-ware products strip out the excessive and the unnecessary to create modular products with a singular purpose. One catches a glimpse of a consumer future free of Wal-Marts and 10,000KM distribution chains when the repair-ware approach to industrial design is coupled with desktop / personal fabrication in the home that is affordable on a consumer scale. Conceivably, the personal fabricator makes it possible for the end-user to download the 3D CAD plans for a broken component in a repair-ware product, print the (plastic) component in three dimensions, and then repair the device with the new component.