How necessary is the repair of consumer goods in these times of economic crisis? And what are its limits? Experts including designers Piet Hein Eek and Satyendra Pakhalé engaged in lively debate at this year’s Premsela Design Forum in Milan. > Global interest in ideas related to sustainability is high, but repairing remains a neglected creative, cultural and economic force. Platform21 hopes to change that with Platform21 = Repairing , a multifaceted programme devoted to revaluing the act of mending that runs through Sunday 30 August.   > Fashion has long been obsessed with novelty, but the industry is rediscovering old-fashioned values. Designers and industry professionals came together on 20 June during the Arnhem Mode Biënnale to discuss responses to the economic crisis. >

Mend a product and give it a second life. Platform21 fights the disposable culture and celebrates repairing as the new recycling. The exhibition of classic 20th-century Dutch graphic design is on view at the Moravian Gallery in Brno, Czech Republic. The top graduating fashion designers present their work to the industry and press in a catwalk show at Amsterdam's Westergasfabriek. Premsela coproduces a symposium on art and fashion in conjunction with the exhibition at Rotterdam’s Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen.