Donations for the project will support the Nang Loeng community and Repair Community Thailand to creating a space to fix broken items & promote responsible consumption.620person
Period of time
Dec 18, 2025 - May 31, 2026Location
SDG Goals
Beneficiary groups of the project
Repair Café at Bangkok 1899
The Repair Café at Bangkok 1899 is designed as a monthly, open gathering where local repairers from the Nang Loeng community work alongside members of Thailand’s wider repair movement. Together, they create a welcoming space for neighbors to repair broken household items, share knowledge and reconnect with practices that extend the life of everyday objects.
This initiative supports the Nang Loeng community by:
- Providing paid opportunities for local repairers, recognizing their skills as valuable cultural and economic contributions.
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Strengthening intergenerational knowledge exchange, ensuring repair skills are shared rather than lost.
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Reducing household waste, offering an accessible alternative to replacement and disposal.
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Creating a regular community space for learning, collaboration, and mutual support.
The funds raised through this campaign will help us fairly compensate repairers, coordinate and communicate the program, and purchase shared tools and materials that will be used across sessions. These resources will remain within the community, supporting the long-term sustainability of the Repair Café.
By supporting this campaign, you’re not only helping to fix objects, you’re helping to sustain local knowledge, reduce waste and strengthen community care in Nang Loeng.
Social issues
The Problem
Everyday objects are increasingly designed to be replaced rather than repaired, contributing to growing waste, environmental harm and the loss of practical repair skills. In neighborhoods like Nang Loeng, these skills are often undervalued or pushed aside by throwaway culture and rising costs of living.
Approaches to addressing issues
The Proposed Solution The Repair Café at Bangkok 1899 offers a monthly, community-led response to this challenge. By bringing together local Nang Loeng repairers and members of Thailand’s repair community, the program creates an accessible space to fix broken items, share knowledge and promote responsible consumption. Through fair compensation, shared tools and open learning, the Repair Café helps keep repair skills alive, reduce waste and strengthen community connections one repaired object at a time.
Operational Plan
Program Coordination & Scheduling Establish a monthly Repair Café schedule, coordinate participating repairers from the Nang Loeng neighborhood and the wider repair community and confirm activity areas (sewing, bicycles, electronics, etc.).
Community Outreach & Registration Promote each session through local networks, neighborhood outreach and online channels, manage sign-ups or walk-in flow to ensure a smooth and inclusive experience.
Repair Café Session Delivery Host the Repair Café, facilitating repairs, knowledge-sharing and safe tool use while supporting interaction between repairers and participants.
Documentation & Communication Document each session through photos and brief reports, share outcomes with the community and acknowledge repairers and supporters.
Evaluation & Continuity Gather feedback from participants and repairers, review needs for tools or improvements and refine the program to ensure long-term sustainability.
Budget Plan
| Item | Quantity | Amount (THB) |
|---|---|---|
| Program Coordination | 1year | 10,000.00 |
| Tools and Materials | 1year | 5,000.00 |
| Fees of Repairers | 1year | 30,000.00 |
| Documentation & Communication | 1year | 5,000.00 |
| Total Amount | 50,000.00 | |
| Taejai support fee (10%) | 5,000.00 | |
Project manager
Creative Migration is a women-of-color-led, international arts organization based in Los Angeles and Bangkok. Our mission is to bring together cultural and climate diplomacy, focusing on collaborative community building through intersectional practices. Creative Migration was founded in 2005 by our Executive Director, Susannah Tantemsapya, in California. She expanded operations to Thailand in 2018 to open our largest project to date, Bangkok 1899, through seed funding from The Rockefeller Foundation and Ford Philanthropy. Bangkok 1899 is a place where vibrant exhibitions and performances come to life, cultivated through our signature International Artist Residency program and community-led projects. We gratefully acknowledge major support from the ECCA Family Foundation and Ford Philanthropy in 2025.
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