WHO WE ARE
We are a circular technology collective grounded in the belief that technology consumption is an environmental justice issue. We are a group of artists, designers, and community organisers who refuse to accept the extractive, disposable technology paradigm that our lives depend on. We are committed to nurturing something different.
HOW WE THINK
We believe that the way we live with technology is not inevitable; it is designed. Devices are engineered to break. Waste is exported to communities that did not generate it. Data is extracted from people who never consented to becoming a product. These are our current circuits, the consequences of a system that prioritises profit over people and the planet.
We have a vision for a world where technology serves both. Where devices are repaired rather than discarded. Where communities govern the infrastructures they depend on. Where the circuits we live within are defined not by corporate logics but by collective desire.
We move toward that world slowly and deliberately by radically rehearsing the relationships we want. By slowing down, we will be able to the connections involved in our current circuits and begin to repair them into the circuits we desire.
WHAT WE DO
We partner with community-based organisations to establish libraries of refurbished technology where residents can rent, repair, and recycle their devices in one place. Alongside our libraries, we develop community education on technology relationality, repair, reuse, electronic waste, and digital infrastructure. We work at neighbourhood scale, co-designing circular technology commons that centre repair and collective ownership.
HOW WE WORK
Technology has a long history of arriving in neighborhoods with little consultation, often carrying embedded assumptions about value, efficiency, and progress. We aim to work against this pattern by taking a desire-led approach, co-designing alongside community members based on existing knowledge and desires.
OUR FOCUS
We work at the intersection of ecological accountability, collective ownership, and community-led design, developing alternative technology infrastructures that are circular, local, and grounded in the desires of the communities we work with.
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CHAT & COLLABORATE
SLOW CIRCUITS LIBRARY
We are always looking to collaborate & build out our community. Whether you want to join our collective or have a community space that wants to develop a Slow Circuits Library, please reach out :)
Contact details:
e: slow.circuits@proton.me
ig: @slow.circuits
COMMUNITY WORKSHOPS
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DESIRED CIRCUITS
SLOW CIRCUITS LIBRARY @ FIX IT WITH PIGGY
OUR APPROACH
Slow Circuits Library is a library of refurbished technology built within community-based organisations. To localise our impact away from global supply chains, our libraries create a circular model for the tech lifecycle, so you can rent, repair & recycle your tech all in one place. Through device borrowing, we create access, abundance and communal interdependence while reducing e-waste.
In April 2026, we opened the first Slow Circuits Library at Fix it with Piggy in the Bronx, a full-service tech repair shop and learning center founded by Ashonda Culcleasure. In a borough most impacted by the digital divide, the library serves as a tech commons, where residents can rent, repair and recycle their devices in their own neighbourhood. Our library has a total of 30 devices ready for free checkout, including laptops, projectors, tablets, Kindles & speakers.
Alongside Fix it with Piggy, we partnered with WALTER, a Brownsville-based recycling business, to divert devices that would otherwise be sent to the landfill, repair them, and bring them into our library.
Technology has a long history of arriving in neighbourhoods with little consultation. Libraries are co-designed from inventory to check-out process to build new relationships with technology that centre needs and desires. Residents are not end users but collaborators, shaping which devices are stocked, what repair workshops are offered, and how the library adapts to local needs.
By promoting repair and reuse over replacement, the first Slow Circuits Library has saved over 5.4 tonnes of CO₂e and created a financial impact of $130,000 in a borough most impacted by the digital divide.
WEAVING WORKSHOP
WEAVING WORKSHOP
A participatory workshop that pairs the collective weaving of ethernet cables with a facilitated discussion of the fraught entanglement of technology, ecology, labor, and care. Through the embodied practice of weaving, we confront our technology’s ties to global extractive supply chains and subsequent ecological degradation, and in doing so cultivate a more conscious consumption of technology.
Why we weave? From the Jacquard loom to Navajo women’s involvement in NASA’s Apollo mission, weaving has played a formative role in modern computing. Yet the historically male-coded world of technology has made this feminised labour invisible. We seek to recognise this relationship, and to prefigure what our relationships could look like.
This tactile engagement with the remnants of our digital lives allows participants to slow down and contemplate what a world that prioritizes mutual care and reciprocity between humans and the natural world might look like. Using desire as a guiding force, questions such as what kind of technology do we want? and what kind of technology would actually serve us? can be explored, enabling a collective re-imagination of our relationship with technology, nature, and one another.