The Future of Fixing, exhibition, public talks programme and open source resource

The Lodz Design Festival asked us to propose and produce an exhibition and public talks programme to explore future trends in design. The exhibition was seen by 45,000 festival goers in 2014 and proved a hit on blogs worldwide, as it considered how individuals and communities might wrestle back control of the lives of their things.

A number of international venues wanted to tour the exhibition; we came up with the idea of making the complete exhibition available online. In this way anyone could take and adapt the format for themselves. In 2016 this happened, with locally relevant versions of the exhibition opening in Machines Room in London, the Center for Craft Creativity and Design in North Carolina and Barcelona. The files are still available on GitHub and we hope will continue to be adapted, hacked and used as inspiration for into the future.

Year: 2014, 2016
Client: Lodz Design Festival, Poland
Team: Daniel Charny, Dee Halligan, Justine Boussard
Categories: Curating, Creative programmes