That's a Wrap! Season One of What The Fix?!
What do aircraft fuselages, laptops, digital locks, and Amazon all have in common? Find out on our podcast.
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Repair is a topic with experts and advocates approaching from every angle. From curbing monopoly power to redefining our relationship with consumption, there’s no shortage of opportunities that a more repair-friendly world could lead to.
This year we launched our podcast to highlight the many leaders on the forefront of this effort to change how the world engages with repair. We were lucky enough to hear from a wide range of experts for our first season – if you missed any episodes you can find them all below!
⚒️ Winning the War on Repair with Aaron Perzanowski
Legal scholar Aaron Perzanowski broke down how we ended up in a world where repair is no longer the norm. His legal lens helps Paul and Jack understand the core issues underpinning the ground we have lost for our right to repair in decades past.
🍎 Apple’s War on Customer Repair and the Birth of iFixit with Kyle Wiens
iFixit Founder Kyle Wiens talk about his journey founding the company and the early days of the right to repair movement. Kyle gets us inside the minds of technology companies and explains how our right to repair legislation would lead to increased repairability and longevity for our devices.
💻 Designing the Revolutionary Repairable Laptop with Nirav Patel
Framework Cofounder Nirav Patel discusses his companies ultra-repairable laptop. He speaks with Paul and Jack about how repairability is a choice that companies can choose (or not) to make.
🎥 Celebrating Scrap with Director Stacey Tenenbaum
Filmaker Stacey Tenenbaum unpacks our relationship with items, from aircraft fuselages to rusting classic cars, that have reached their end of life . She talks about how society and the environment would benefit if repair was a more normal part of our lives, and how we might go about changing our relationship with “scrapped” objects.
🔒 Undoing Our DRM Dystopia with Cory Doctorow
Author and journalist Cory Doctorow stresses the importance of everyday people to have control over the things they own. In a world where computers are in just about everything, corporations can lock us out of the devices we own through software or Digital Rights Management (DRM) – but it doesn’t have to be this way.
📦 How Amazon Invaded Our Lives with Emily West
Media and communications scholar Emily West gets real about Amazon. She outlines the arguments in her book about the tactics that the company employs to shift our behaviors, how gobble up markets at the expense of consumers, and why convenience might not always be best for us.
🎣 Teach a Man to Fix with Peter Mui
Creator of the Fixit Clinic, Peter Mui shares his story of how he started a global movement to teach people how to fix their stuff. Peter highlights the unsustainable path of consumption we are on today, and how repair could subvert our growth-focused economic system.
🏭 The High Cost of Low Quality Products for the World’s Most Vulnerable with Matthew Lubari
Director of Community Creativity 4 Development, Matthew Lubari, discusses his repair-focused group operating out of the Rhino Camp Refugee Settlement, Arua, Uganda.
We look forward to have you listen to season 2 where What the Fix?! will be returning as the Fight to Repair Podcast!
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