<p>Hacking Maintenance with Care is a research about the everyday struggles experienced within the practice of collectively running and maintaining independent digital infrastructures in the cultural field. A series of conversations and collective evaluations called "Boiler inspections" has being conducted. Spreadsheets, questionnaires, forms and other bureaucratic amenities are used as props to trigger boiling questions conversations.</p>
<p> Through the boiler inspections, maintenance is explored as a conflicting practice in which administrative principles and strategies are experimented, in the attempt of conciliating the need for a gentle survival and the
urgency of a more unapologetic exercise of care.</p>
