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The Restart Project Podcast — 244 episodes
Restart Podcast Ep. 107: Maintenance: the unsung hero, with Jérôme Denis
Restart Podcast Ep. 106: Tracing repair vouchers from Vienna to London
Restart Podcast Ep. 105: Fixing Factories are transforming London’s high streets
Restart Podcast Ep. 104: We’re ready for a repair boom at UK music festivals
Restart Podcast Ep. 103: Resurrecting our low-tech and sustainable past, with Cédric Carles from Atelier 21
Restart Podcast Ep. 102: We’re saying no to Microsoft’s wasteful end of Windows 10
Restart Podcast Ep. 101: Engineering our repairable future, with Mark Miodownik
Restart Radio: London gets a new Fixing Factory and repair vouchers
Restart Podcast Ep. 100: Trailblazers of repair
Restart Podcast Ep. 99: EKO! is changing lives with low-tech solutions
Restart Podcast Ep. 98: It’s official, the UK needs more reuse options
Restart Podcast Ep. 97: Beyond the repair manual, with Shannon Mattern
Restart Podcast Ep. 96: It’s time for a Student Repair Revolution
Restart Podcast Ep. 95: There’s hope yet for UK waste and repair policy, with Green Alliance
Restart Podcast Ep. 94: How to talk about avoiding waste, with Keep Britain Tidy
Restart Podcast Ep. 93: A 2023 Restart Retrospective
Restart Podcast Ep. 92: Taking repair on the road
Restart Podcast Ep. 91: Voices of Fixfest UK 2023
Restart Podcast Ep. 90: Meet TV’s Retro Electro Workshop ‘super fixers’, Rob Howard and Matt Marchant
Restart Podcast Ep. 89: What happens to your waste? with Oliver Franklin-Wallis
Restart Podcast Ep. 88: Saving reusable products from the shredder, with West London Waste Authority
Restart Podcast Ep. 87: Exploring Brighton’s repair and reuse ecosystem
Restart Podcast Ep. 86: Why repairers need hope, not guilt, with Katie Treggiden
Restart Podcast Ep. 85: The local businesses giving your stuff a ‘second life’
Restart Podcast Ep. 84: Repairmongers, remakeries, and repair hubs
Restart Podcast Ep. 83: Meet the students Fixing Things for the Future
Restart Podcast Ep. 82: No need for new toys, we have Team Repair
Restart Podcast Ep. 81: Launching the new Fixing Factory
Restart Podcast Ep. 80: Voices of Fixfest 2022
Restart Podcast Ep. 79: eSpares wants you to clean your filters
Restart Podcast Ep. 78: Meet our new(ish) Co-Director, Fiona Dear
Restart Podcast Ep. 77: Reflecting on our first 10 years
Restart Podcast Ep. 76: Funky phones and durable design, with Ben Wood
Restart Radio: Introducing Fixing Factories
Restart Podcast Ep. 75: The law and repair: it’s complicated, with Aaron Perzanowski
Restart Podcast Ep. 74: Why digital access is a right, with Ready Tech Go
Restart Podcast Ep. 73: Repair Café Aotearoa New Zealand
Restart Podcast Ep. 72: Maintaining your bike and your community, with Jenni Gwiazdowski
Restart Podcast Ep. 71: Fixing at Rhino Camp Refugee Settlement
Restart Radio: Reflecting on a challenging but successful 2021
Restart Podcast Ep. 70: An epic journey through climate history with Alice Bell
Restart Podcast Ep. 69: Exploring our consumption emissions with Professor John Barrett
Restart Radio Republished: Mark Phillips photographs ‘essential’ repair
Restart Podcast Ep. 68: Inequalities in UK craft and making, with Dr Karen Patel
Restart Podcast Ep. 67: Reflecting on repair during the pandemic
Restart Radio: A small ask
Restart Podcast Ep. 66: Ancient cob building, part of a low-tech future
Restart Radio: Our 2021 Summer Reading List
Restart Podcast Ep. 65: Saving memories and exposing ‘branded’ repair with Jessa Jones
Restart Radio: Borrowing boom at Library of Things
Restart Podcast Ep. 64: Regenerative farming and rural tinkering with Farmerama
Restart Radio Republished: When “intellectual property” is lethal
Restart Podcast Ep. 63: Badvertising – when ads promote fossil fuels and overconsumption
Restart Radio Republished: Greenland’s election and Kvanefjeld mine
Restart Podcast Ep. 62: How 3D printing can help us repair
Restart Radio: Reusing laptops for digital inclusion with Mer-IT and Hackney Fixers
Restart Podcast Ep. 61: Introducing the French Repairability Index
Restart Radio: How manufacturers game the system through voluntary agreements
Restart Podcast Ep. 60: Helping electronics workers improve conditions
Restart Radio: What is true digital inclusion?
Restart Podcast Ep. 59: Lasers lighting up the sky, with Seb Lee-Delisle
Restart Radio: Lamps at the end of the tunnel — a new lighting refurbishment business
Restart Podcast Ep. 58: You say you want a Repair Revolution
Restart Radio: The dangers of serialisation in smartphones with Rico Cerva
Restart Podcast Ep. 57: “Heroes of Repair” European video series
Restart Radio Republished: Ada Lovelace Day and the stories of women in STEM
Restart Podcast Ep. 56: A smartphone OS that respects user data privacy, with Gaël Duval
Restart Radio: Hackney Fixers’ laptop repair and reuse project
Restart Podcast Ep. 55: Why we need climate education, with Teach the Future
Restart Radio: Our 2020 Summer Reading List
Restart Podcast Ep. 54: Shoes and urgent system change with Tansy Hoskins
Restart Radio: The urgent need for diversity in tech, and how repair can help
Restart Podcast Ep. 53: Our low-tech future with Kris De Decker
Restart Radio: Apple’s T2 Chip and ownership rights after the first owner
Restart Podcast Ep. 52: Combining nostalgia with the new at Armstrong Audio
Restart Radio: Reuse and repair with two frontline medical professionals
Restart Podcast Ep. 51: Copyright law, ownership and crisis with Aaron Perzanowski
Restart Radio: Global supply chains and The Virus
Restart Podcast Ep. 50: Why we must win the right to repair our smartphones
Restart Radio: Being smarter about connected devices and security
Restart Podcast Ep. 49: Tinker travelling with Mend It, Australia
Restart Podcast Ep. 48: Henrik versus Goliath Corporation
Restart Podcast Ep. 47: Secondhand around the world with Adam Minter
Restart Podcast Ep. 46: Stories from our repair data
Restart Podcast Ep. 45: “No TV left behind” – the quiet importance of television standards
Restart Radio: Stories from Fixfest Italia
Restart Podcast Ep. 44: Community infrastructure with Broadband for the Rural North (B4RN)
Restart Radio: The second lives of computers
Restart Podcast Ep. 43: A life in art, activism and electronic waste with Ravi Agarwal
Restart Radio: Climate anxiety and deep adaptation
Restart Podcast Ep. 42: A computer clinic for (and by) the community
Restart Radio: The overlooked but fascinating world of standards
Restart Podcast Ep. 41 Exploring waste in space
Restart Radio: The Iridium anomaly, your mobile and the dinosaurs
Restart Podcast Ep. 40: When solar lamps break down
Restart Radio: Growing indoors for Brexit survival
Restart Podcast Ep. 39: Repair and autonomy in a networked world
Restart Radio: New Right to Repair rules, broken down by a pro
Restart Podcast Ep. 38: Inspiring repair with Jane, inventor and founder of Sugru
Restart Radio: Popular, planet-saving right to repair
Restart Radio: Greening the internet with Greenpeace
Restart Podcast Ep. 37: Voices of UK fixers
Restart Radio: Photographing repair culture
Restart Podcast Ep. 36: Fixing the impossible with Rico Cerva
Restart Radio: Celebrating community repair and announcing #RepairDay
Restart Podcast Ep. 35: Exploring the critical materials in our electronics
Restart Radio: Welcoming a new Repair Cafe in Glasgow
Restart Radio Takeover: ‘Smart’ homes – the hype and worries about IoT
Restart Podcast Ep. 34: Improvisation and collective spirit in Brazilian repair culture
Restart Radio: Cameras, the eternal and disposable – analog, digital, mobile and GoPros
Restart Radio: Books on our summer reading list
Restart Radio: Strong links between thrift and innovation, past and present
Restart Podcast Ep 33: The lives of products during our lifetime, with Tim Cooper
Restart Radio: Right to Repair in the United States
Restart Radio: Community repair events as sites of social research
Restart Radio: Right to repair and product standards beyond Brexit
Restart Radio Takeover: “Repair on the edge”
Restart Podcast Ep 32: Amateur (ham) radio with Alvin Hardy
Restart Radio: Materials we use to hack and fix
Restart Radio: 3D printing medical devices in Gaza
Restart Radio: Protecting our personal data in an age of connected devices
Restart Radio Takeover: “It’s MY device!”
Restart Podcast Ep 31: Software obsolescence with Ross Anderson
Restart Radio: Wildlife conservation and the role of open, repairable technology
Restart Radio: Ada Lovelace Day and the stories of women in STEM
Restart Radio Takeover: Why we replace our phones
Restart Podcast Ep 30: Afrotech Fest and Afrofuturism
Restart Radio: Repairing in school and Apple’s “zero waste”
Restart Radio: Elinor Ostrom and the commons
Restart Radio: Rare-earth minerals in Greenland with Lise Autogena and Josh Portway
Restart Radio Takeover: Why we repair in the community
Restart Radio: World Radio Day and electronics in the wake of Brexit
Restart Podcast Ep 29: Tracing global flows of electronic ‘discards’ with Josh Lepawsky
Restart Radio: Medical technology in/on the body
Restart Radio: How repair informs design with Beeline
Restart Podcast Ep. 28: Disruptive design and unlocking wonderment with Leyla Acaroglu
Restart Radio: Flatpack electronics plus battery and CPU failures
Restart Radio: What does Bitcoin mining mean for the environment?
Restart Radio: Voice-controlled Assistants and “Smart Speakers”
Restart Radio: Exploring personal data at the Glass Room
Restart Podcast Ep. 27: How to Restart the World with Lewis Dartnell
Restart Radio: Breaking the world record for community repair
Restart Radio: Glitch art by refurbisher RDKL Inc
Restart Radio: Robot pets
Restart Radio: Open-sourcing the Internet of Things
Restart Podcast Ep. 26: Fixers united at the first Fixfest
Restart Radio: Tech repair myths
Restart Radio: Community repair, neurodiversity and mental health
Restart Podcast Ep. 25: Goodbye iSlave (Pt.2)
Restart Podcast Ep. 24: Goodbye iSlave (Pt 1)
Restart Radio: Camping Gadgets
Restart Radio: Lovefone’s vision for thriving commercial repair
Restart Podcast Ep. 23: 5th Birthday Special
Restart Radio: repairing across generations
Restart Radio: Can a circular economy be driven by cities?
Restart Radio: Repair in the U.S. with Fixit Clinic
Restart Podcast Ep. 22: Greening the internet
Restart Radio: A second wave of “wearables” for consumers?
Restart Radio: Keyboards and the durability of interfaces
Restart Radio: Designing consumer rights and trust
Restart Radio: 3D sound, hardware and software
Restart Podcast Ep. 21: Tim Hunkin and the Secret Life of Machines
Restart Radio: DIY radiation monitoring with Safecast and ransomware attacks
Restart Radio: Digital archaeology with Jim Boulton
Restart Radio: TFix and ‘better than new’ repairs
Restart Radio: The parallel worlds of the tinkerer and the grower
Restart Podcast Ep. 20: Maker culture in Shenzhen and sustainable design
Restart Radio: Sensing gadget failures and frustrations in Belgium
Restart Radio: The Past and Future of London’s Computer Fairs
The Restart Podcast Ep. 19: High school repair and the next generation of Restarters
Restart Radio: Behind the Apple Genius Bar
Restart Radio: The small but powerful Raspberry Pi
Restart Radio: Hoverboards and throw-away toys for ‘big kids’
Restart Podcast ep. 18: Gendered gadgets
Restart Radio: The language of our gadgets
Restart Radio: Saving whitegoods from waste
Restart Radio: Sustaining Virtual Reality
Restart Podcast Ep. 17: Drones aren’t just for Christmas
Restart Radio: Sifting through London’s recycling woes
Restart Radio: Backups and ‘the cloud’
Restart Radio: The Future of Personal Listening
Restart Radio: The Challenges of Winter
Restart Radio: E-toys and connected toys
Restart Podcast Ep. 16: Steve the Spindoctor (part 2/2)
Restart Podcast Ep 15: Steve the Spindoctor (Part 1/2)
Restart Radio: Black Friday and consumer confidence
Restart Radio: Policy tips from Brussels
Restart Radio: Restarting in Leicester
Restart Radio: Connected device horrors
Restart Radio: Have we taken thin too far?
Restart Podcast Ep 14: Boosting reuse
Restart Radio: Revealing our repair economy
Restart Radio: The age of the remote kill switch
Restart Podcast Ep 13: Updates… the good, the bad and the meh
Restart Radio: 3D printing, from prosthetics to blender spare parts
Restart Radio: Eco-labelling of laptops
Restart Radio: A phone box turns repair shop
Restart Radio: How long our stuff should last
Restart Radio: Mobile and retro-gaming (Pokémon GO content warning!)
Restart Radio: A community repair revival in Argentina
Restart Podcast Ep 12: A natural history of our gadgets
Restart Radio: A tour of the Youtube repair “ecosystem”
Restart Radio: Women who build PCs
Restart Radio: Young people and future product design
Restart Podcast Ep 11: A Screen Repair Odyssey
Restart Radio: Keeping a green and quality kitchen
Restart Radio: Repair as a sensory experience
Restart Radio: New drives extend lives of computers and gadgets
Restart Radio: The “Red Ring of Death” and new repair businesses
Restart Radio: selling and buying secondhand electronics
Restart Podcast Ep 10: Getting “closure”, saying goodbye to gadgets
Restart Radio: Unpacking Marie Kondo, reflecting on decluttering
Restart Radio: guitars, cloud kill switches and bots
Restart Radio: Community spaces, gadgets for (April) fools
Restart Radio: carbon emissions, robotic recycling and older PCs
Restart Podcast Ep 9: “Emotionally durable design”
Restart Radio: Opto Noise, making music with lasers and e-waste
Restart Radio: Europe, your toaster and your mobile
Restart Radio: Documentary photography of abandoned e-stuff
Restart Podcast Ep 8: Tools, new and old
Restart Radio: Beyond petitions and boycotts – influencing companies
Restart Radio: Makers and fixers, “Error 53” iPhone scandal
Restart Radio: Getting hands-on with solar
Restart Radio: tracing minerals, and “peak stuff”
Restart Radio: Spare parts, consumer hype and a pre-emptive petition
Restart Podcast Ep 7: The past, present and future of gadget ownership
Restart Radio: Firefox OS for phones is over and the Bolivian WALL-E
Restart Radio: top 5 good news stories of 2015
Restart Podcast Ep 6: where do our gadgets go when they die?
Restart Radio: Adele and Autechre Special… music, media and audio equipment
Restart Radio: The Big Fix and the art of glitches
Restart Radio: breaking the mobile mould
Restart Radio: from changing plugs to changing the world
Restart Radio: from repairing bikes to smartphones
Restart Radio: where are the women fixers?
Restart Podcast Ep 5: How repair economies can thrive (again)
Restart Radio: “Volkswagening” by electronics manufacturers?
Restart Radio: new mobiles we can open, repair
Restart Radio: shopping malls and six-pack of tablets
Restart Radio: the upgrade cycle and recycling
Restart Podcast Ep 4: Climate change and the “shadow impacts” of our gadgets
Restart Podcast Ep 3: Searching for the roots of grassroots innovation
Restart Podcast Ep 2: Interview with a product designer
Introducing the Restart Podcast