This article traces bricolage in the city of Lomé, Togo, as it is given meaning, practised and resisted by the ‘makers’ involved in the city’s makerspaces. While the Lévi-Straussian definition of bricolage as ‘making do’ given limited resources is heralded as an innovative practice in the Euro-American Maker Movement, Lomé’s makers appear to distance themselves from the concept due to its perceived stigmatization in both Lomé and Francophone Africa as a devalued survival practice through improvisation. Through their identification as ‘makers but not bricoleurs’, and their expression ‘we deserve new things’, I unpack the ambiguous relationship Lomé’s makers have with bricolage, and how their disavowal of the concept reveals more about the global infrastructural inequalities that surround it. By foregrounding the critical self-awareness of Lomé’s makers, I explore how ethnography allows for the de-centring and decolonization of foundational concepts and ideologies, as the makers challenge and reclaim bricolage to arrive at a future where it is no longer a necessity but a choice.

本文追溯了多哥洛美市的拼贴，因为它被城市创客空间中的“创客”赋予意义、实践和抵制。虽然列维-斯特劳斯对拼凑的定义是在资源有限的情况下“凑合”，这被认为是欧美创客运动中的一种创新实践，但洛美的创客们似乎与这一概念保持距离，因为它在洛美和非洲法语区都被视为耻辱。作为一种通过即兴创作而贬值的生存实践。通过他们对“制造者而不是组装者”的认同，以及他们“我们值得新事物”的表达，我揭示了洛美的制造者与组装之间的模糊关系，以及他们对这一概念的否认如何更多地揭示了围绕它的全球基础设施不平等。通过突出洛美制造者批判性的自我意识，我探讨了民族志如何允许基本概念和意识形态的去中心化和去殖民化，因为制造者挑战并回收拼凑以达到一个不再是必需品而是一种未来的未来。选择。