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Sustainability Showcase
Last week Teresa, Neelima and Kinga from the Nottingham Fixing the Future team attended the Sustainability Showcase at BBC Concert Orchestra’s Wild Isles Live in Nottingham City Centre. During the afternoon we spoke to a local secondary school about our research around the challenges of repairing IoT technologies and the way in which the game…
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Fixing the Future Annual Report
It has been a busy year for the Fixing the Future project – so much so we have created an Annual Report to document all the exciting things we have been up to. It is now available on below, and the Director’s statement provides a flavour of some of the highlights thus far. “Welcome to…
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Understanding Repair Challenges
Over the past 12 months the Nottingham Fixing the Future team have been engaging with local repair cafes to unpack the challenges of repairing IoT products within this context. We have worked with 5 different repair cafes and have spent time talking to repairers and item bringers to gain a better understanding of their repair…
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The Right-to-Repair and Equal IoT
‘Fixing the Future: The Right to Repair and Equal-IoT’ is a 2-year, £1.25 million research project funded by the UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) investigating how the lack of repairability in the consumer Internet of Things (IoT) will adversely impact equity, inclusion, and sustainability in the digital economy.
