Fixperts

We believe fixing is a valuable creative and social resource and we now know that people all over the world feel the same. Fixperts creates content that encourages people to use the power of fixing to solve everyday problems and that's awesome. Is there a vision? We want everyone in the world to feel that they can fix stuff and solve problems. We b... elieve that the design process applied to small fixing challenges has the potential to give people the insight and confidence to find solutions for themselves and others. How did it start ? A conversation between James Carrigan (co-founder of sugru) and Daniel Charny (curator of Power of Making). We've been talking about working together for a long while and fixing as a way of thinking seemed like the right thing. We loved the idea of involving as many makers as possible and decided to test it out so we set ourselves a 6 week deadline to build the pilot. It took a group of passionate people that believed in the idea to pull it together and we launched fixperts.org with the first 5 films in September 2012. We discovered that people connected with the idea and wanted to get involved. After the pilot we concentrated on projects in design education: We think that design education is a good place to start, so we are talking to and looking for schools, universities and colleges that are interested to run Fixperts as a project in or bedside their curriculum. We have developed a brief and project guidelines to support educators to run Fixperts as part of their course. We would one day love to see it become part of creative education also in secondary schools but we know have to build up the film archive first. Education is a great resource of creative people ready to explore a diverse range of projects that can positively influence their creative process.Read More