Originally published at: Announcing Fixfest 2025! - The Restart Project
We are absolutely thrilled to announce the return of Fixfest, which will take place in London (UK) from 5-6 September, 2025.
Fixfest is a global gathering of repairers and tinkerers, activists, policy-makers, thinkers, educators and companies from all over the world. We come together every few years.
Organised by The Restart Project, Fixfest 2025 promises to be a unique chance to meet and learn from people involved in every aspect of community repair and those pushing for making repair available to all across the globe. We’re excited to share the first two confirmed sponsors of Fixfest 2025: iFixit and Softwire. We’ll announce additional sponsors as they are finalised.
What topics will Fixfest 2025 cover?
We’ve come a long way since the very first Fixfest back in 2017. At the time, community repair groups were few and generally understood as a nice hobby. Most attendees heard the term Right to Repair there for the first time. Today there are thousands of repair cafés around the world, the repair movement has strong demands for policymakers at both national and global levels, and plenty of companies are trying to build a new repair and reuse economy.
Yet, there’s plenty still to address: from the slow progress in pro-repair legislation to the ever-rising tide of throwaway products coming to market, from software obsolescence to marketing campaigns asking us to recycle and upgrade rather than to repair and slow down production and consumption of new products.
As we bring the community together once again, we’ll focus on three key themes:
- Building repair solutions on the ground: how do we make a range of community-based repair options available for local people? How do we grow our collective impact as repair groups and strengthen our networks? What’s working and what are the challenges?
- Making the business case for repair: what role can independent repair businesses play and how can we support their development? How do we build an economy that works for people and the planet, creating repair jobs and reducing unnecessary waste?
- Fixing the system: what progress is being made towards the Right to Repair at a policy level, what are the challenges and how can we overcome them? How do we tackle overproduction? How do we make repair affordable? How do we prioritise reuse over recycling?
How to get involved
Fixfest will include panels, presentations, hands-on sessions and talks. It’s designed around topics and expertise shared by all participants, so if you’d like to be involved we recommend submitting a session proposal or suggestion for a topic you’d like to be covered in the programme.
Ultimately Fixfest is about bringing together an incredibly inspiring group of people making a difference in their own communities in every corner of the world. So we’ll have plenty of opportunities for participants to mingle and get to know each other, spark spontaneous conversations and come up with new collaborations to take the repair movement to the next level.
Propose a session for Fixfest 2025
We will publish more details about Fixfest 2025 and start releasing tickets soon!
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