All through October 2026, anyone in North Rhine-Westphalia can log something they repaired. The goal is 4,000 repairs. It’s an initiative of Circular Week 2026, organised by CSCP. The site came out of the partner project FAB Region Bergisches Städtedreieck and was built at Gut Einern e.V. in Wuppertal. I did the concept, the design and the programming, and the graphics for social media.

Logging a repair takes about two minutes and needs no account: a category, a few details, a photo if you like. Printed stands with a QR code lead straight to the form. The photo is redrawn in the browser before it’s uploaded, so its location data never leaves the phone. The location itself is shifted by up to a kilometre before it’s sent.

The hardest part was moderation. Every repair is checked by a person before it counts, and over a month that can mean thousands. The quick review shows one submission at a time: arrow right approves, left rejects, down puts it back, and on a phone you swipe. Whoever opens a submission holds it, so two people never check the same one. When the photo’s location, the shared location and the chosen district disagree, all three are shown and the moderator decides.

The live page is made for a projector in a foyer and runs for the whole month: the count, a map with a dot for each repair, a ranking of districts and what gets repaired most. It loads everything once and after that only what’s new.

All of these numbers are open, without a key. On top of that I built a small display for workshops and shop windows: an ESP32 fetches the count and shows it in binary on two strips of eight LEDs, one bit per LED. It’s set up from a phone through its own wifi portal and keeps the last number through a power cut.

The campaign runs until 30 October. Whether it gets to 4,000 is still open.