Image courtesy of Smile Plastics.
The full schedule of events to accompany Fix Our City exhibition is now available! Choose from an exciting, huge range of activities, workshops, and presentations for all levels and ages!
Schedule of Events
Monday 19th (open 12-8pm)
1-3pm: Clear Village/Bedfords Park Walled Garden Vertical Angel Garden Workshop (for schools only)
3-4pm: Clear Village/Bedfords Park Walled Garden Vertical Angel Garden Workshop – book here!
4-5:30pm: Ross Atkin’s Fizzbits Workshop – book here!
6-9pm: Maker Mile open evening trail
6-9pm: Fix Our City opening evening
Tuesday 20th (open 10am-6pm)
11am-12pm: Maker Mile tour – book here!
11am-3pm: Spaghetti Architecture Workshop with IZONE – book here!
4-6pm: Make Robots with the BBC micro:bit – book here!
Wednesday 21st (open 1-9pm)
11am-12pm: Maker Mile tour – book here!
1-5pm: #HackOnWheels’ Fix Our Wheels workshop – book here!
Thursday 22nd (open 10am-6pm)
11am-12pm: Maker Mile tour – book here!
1-2:30pm: Opendesk’s Design for Open Making – for Designers – book here!
3-4:30pm: Opendesk’s Design for Open Making – for Everyone – book here!
Friday 23rd (open 10am-6pm)
11am-12pm: Maker Mile tour – book here!
1-2pm: Deadwood Lathe Workshop with Peter A. Smith #1 – book here!
4-5pm: Deadwood Lathe Workshop with Peter A. Smith #2 – book here!
4-6pm: Kniterate live garment printing demo/closing event
Fix Our City is an exploration of new approaches towards the roles of citizens and maker spaces in the transformation of city life. The exhibition and workshop programme explore a hyperlocal and circular approach to fixing things, materials, processes, systems and attitudes. Projects demonstrate sustainable design principles, circular economy, open source, and open design as methods by which cities can learn to support and renew themselves. Each of the projects it surveys puts into practice the concept of ‘fixing’ as a way to collaborate and create a sense of agency within our city. Contributors will lead focussed workshops throughout the exhibition, exploring the potential applications and developments of each project. Machines Room, the platform and facilitator for these experiments, looks close-up at individual projects which apply these principles by cultivating them within the communities for whom they were created.
The exhibition and workshop programme will coincide with London Design Festival and feature on the Maker Mile tour.
Curated by Thomas Ermacora.
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