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In this throwaway society of ours, there is now a movement afoot in which people are fighting back against short-lived consumer goods. In fact, there are many different groups, all over the world, organizing events where people can bring in broken items to have volunteers take a stab at repairing them. Last Saturday there was one such event in Windisch.
A full list of the upcoming Repair Cafes all over Switzerland can be found here:
https://www.konsumentenschutz.ch/repaircafe/schweizer-repair-cafes/
The concept was formalized in the Netherlands in 2010. You can read about it on Wikipedia, among other places.
Have you ever visited a Repair Cafe?
A new bus terminal will show up here eventually.
No campus would be complete without bicycles. Here they are, parked at the train station. The buildings in the back belong to the Neumarkt 2 shopping center in Brugg.
There is also another institute in the general Brugg-Windisch area that the FHNW is located. This is the Berufs- und Weiterbildungszentrum (BWZ) which seems to be similar to what in the US might be a vocational-technical school. A quick look at their courses revealed programs in forestry, multimedia electronics, business studies, and so on.
I'm guessing this was used to weigh the produce from the fields when the farmer's cooperative was still running a shop here. I could be totally wrong.
Agrola is the fuel company run by the farmer's collective.
Nice cigarette dispenser on the wall back there.
At the edge of the campus, there are still some really old buildings that were used by the farmer's collective. This *cough* vibrant green color is new though, and this insurance group serving farmers also appears to be newly housed here, but I could be wrong.
The grey building on the left might be part of the microelectronics department.
Yesterday's building, looking up its snout.
Weekends are pretty deserted times on the two university campuses I have been to in Switzerland. When I first heard that libraries didn't have regular hours on the weekends, my US-trained brain couldn't wrap itself around that. I mean, how sad is it that they don't have the same experience tucking into cozy carrels on Sunday nights, preparing for the week ahead.
I haven't written about it, but one of the major things to happen in this region was the expansion of the Fachhochschule Nordwestschweiz's (University of Applied Sciences and Arts) campus in Windisch -- the town just next to Brugg.
According to the Wikipedia entry:
It's an institution that was formed when several colleges in several cantons merged together. The different campuses have different specialties. In Windisch, there's optometry, microelectronics, and automation among other areas of study. Overall, there are more than 8500 students enrolled in the different campuses.
The photo here is of one of the older buildings. This past weekend we walked around the campus for the first time, and I took some pictures to share with you over the course of the week.
