The first ever Fixfest will celebrate a surge of interest in community repair groups across the globe
Makers, tinkerers and anyone interested in making ‘stuff’ more sustainable are invited to attend a new festival in London in October.
Fixfest – thought to be the first international gathering for the community repair movement – runs from 6-8 October and will bring together fixers from Argentina to Norway, as well as across the UK.
Organisers The Restart Project hope the event will help “galvanise an emerging community repair movement” and promote a more sustainable consumer economy.“Fixing requires skill, teamwork, ingenuity, perseverance. It is also a hands-on way to learn how our throwaway economy fails people and the planet,” said The Restart Project co-founder Ugo Vallauri. “The most exciting thing about Fixfest is connecting with other groups from around the world with a similar experience.”
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The Restart Project is a London-based charity which works to help people learn to extend the life of their electronic gadgets and prevent ‘unnecessary e-waste’ through practical community repair events. The three-day festival marks…
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