The Restart Project Podcast
Episodes
Restart Radio: Women who build PCs
23 Jun 2016
Contributed by Lukas
We talked this week with Monique Szpak and Halima Koundi, software developers and tinkerers who led our "Build Your Own PC" women's skillshare last we...
Restart Radio: Young people and future product design
19 Jun 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Restarters Ben and Faraz had a busy week, starting with a session inspiring UCL engineering students taking a cours on "How to change the world", and ...
Restart Podcast Ep 11: A Screen Repair Odyssey
09 Jun 2016
Contributed by Lukas
How hard could one screen repair be? When Ugo dropped his (unprotected!) Sony Experia mobile in April, little did he know, he was about to find out......
Restart Radio: Keeping a green and quality kitchen
01 Jun 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Our special guest, chef Ian Riley, shared his tips this week on how to select, buy and maintain appliances for the kitchen. Ian has worked in many dif...
Restart Radio: Repair as a sensory experience
25 May 2016
Contributed by Lukas
We love the internet, and the emancipatory potential of communications technology, but what we see around us is a physical alienation from the devices...
Restart Radio: New drives extend lives of computers and gadgets
20 May 2016
Contributed by Lukas
We've depended on hard drives for decades to store our data and files for our operating systems. They are almost synonymous with data storage. But ...
Restart Radio: The “Red Ring of Death” and new repair businesses
11 May 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Restarter Faraz spent three hours helping an Xbox 360 owner deal with the infamous "Red Ring of Death" fault on his game console, and he joined us to ...
Restart Radio: selling and buying secondhand electronics
05 May 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Our mission at The Restart Project is encourage people to keep things for longer. But we are realistic. Sometimes the best option to keep a gadget in ...
Restart Podcast Ep 10: Getting “closure”, saying goodbye to gadgets
26 Apr 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Why does moving on from a mobile sometimes feel like a break up, or worse, a funeral? We talk with Restart Party goers and with designer Joe Macleo...
Restart Radio: Unpacking Marie Kondo, reflecting on decluttering
21 Apr 2016
Contributed by Lukas
We started by paying our respects to climate scientist Sir David MacKay, who died last week at the age of 48. He was very articulate on the climate im...
Restart Radio: guitars, cloud kill switches and bots
13 Apr 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Ben Skidmore, long-time Restarter and guitar repairman, joined us to talk about how he fell in love with guitars and learned how to repair them. We ta...
Restart Radio: Community spaces, gadgets for (April) fools
07 Apr 2016
Contributed by Lukas
We talked about the pressure on libraries, community centres and pub function rooms. Across London, these places are getting the squeeze, either from ...
Restart Radio: carbon emissions, robotic recycling and older PCs
30 Mar 2016
Contributed by Lukas
We talked this week about a company that is often on the tip of our tongues, like it or not. For variety's sake (or perhaps with Mr. Robot as inspirat...
Restart Podcast Ep 9: “Emotionally durable design”
24 Mar 2016
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, podcaster Dave Pickering talks to Professor Jonathan Chapman (University of Brighton), a designer who has helped many other designers...
Restart Radio: Opto Noise, making music with lasers and e-waste
16 Mar 2016
Contributed by Lukas
We had the pleasure of interviewing Faraz Sayed, long time Restarter, maker and now music maker with a group called Opto Noise. Through the London Hac...
Restart Radio: Europe, your toaster and your mobile
09 Mar 2016
Contributed by Lukas
Our work has been affected by Europe from day one. We are very concerned about the potential effects of a Brexit. If you disagree with us, great. If y...
Restart Radio: Documentary photography of abandoned e-stuff
02 Mar 2016
Contributed by Lukas
We interviewed photographer Greg Jones about his charming photography project called "Still Works" to document the abandoned electronics and electrica...
Restart Podcast Ep 8: Tools, new and old
23 Feb 2016
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we talk tools - how do we actually get into electrical appliances or miniaturised electronic gadgets, many of which are designed to k...
Restart Radio: Beyond petitions and boycotts – influencing companies
17 Feb 2016
Contributed by Lukas
We interviewed our friend Fidi, who helped spark a repair revolution in Hackney in her free time, and during the work day is helping change the way we...
Restart Radio: Makers and fixers, “Error 53” iPhone scandal
10 Feb 2016
Contributed by Lukas
We invited our friend Andrew, founder of Mini-maker Faire Brighton and co-organiser of Maker Assembly, among other things, to talk about the links bet...
Restart Radio: Getting hands-on with solar
03 Feb 2016
Contributed by Lukas
We invited our friend Max, from Demand Energy Equality, to talk about their inspiring solar workshops. In these day-long events, beginners with very l...
Restart Radio: tracing minerals, and “peak stuff”
21 Jan 2016
Contributed by Lukas
We discussed our incipient collaboration with Amnesty, Global Witness and Wikirate, which are working to rate companies on their sourcing of minerals,...
Restart Radio: Spare parts, consumer hype and a pre-emptive petition
14 Jan 2016
Contributed by Lukas
We talked with long-time Restarter Dave Lukes about a couple of appliance repairs attempted in Brixton, at our first Restart Party of 2016. The succes...
Restart Podcast Ep 7: The past, present and future of gadget ownership
11 Jan 2016
Contributed by Lukas
We talked with Restart Party participants - and experts from WRAP, Fairphone and Lovefone - about different models for ownership and finance of gadget...
Restart Radio: Firefox OS for phones is over and the Bolivian WALL-E
20 Dec 2015
Contributed by Lukas
This was our last show for 2015. We had Restarter Ten and our podcaster Dave in the studio, sharing some of their thoughts on the most exciting repair...
Restart Radio: top 5 good news stories of 2015
09 Dec 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Our Top 5 Good News Stories for the year, about design, economics, business, policy, and... the children, our future! From New York to Brussels to Gha...
Restart Podcast Ep 6: where do our gadgets go when they die?
27 Nov 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Our favourite waste campaign slogan is quite simple: There is no "away". So where is this "away"? And this is what podcaster Dave Pickering finds out ...
Restart Radio: Adele and Autechre Special… music, media and audio equipment
24 Nov 2015
Contributed by Lukas
In this show we talked about Adele's flip phone, and why it caused such an uproar. "Retro" electronics seem to be all the rage, but why? Music and sou...
Restart Radio: The Big Fix and the art of glitches
19 Nov 2015
Contributed by Lukas
In this show, we discussed with Restarter Dave Lukes the "Big Fix", Hackney's festival of repair taking place this Saturday, featuring a Restart Party...
Restart Radio: breaking the mobile mould
11 Nov 2015
Contributed by Lukas
In this show, we discussed the true meaning of "digital inclusion" - what does it mean to have an online device, when we can perceive helplessly that ...
Restart Radio: from changing plugs to changing the world
04 Nov 2015
Contributed by Lukas
On our show this week, we had a special guest, Alison from The Goodlife Centre, a workshop and learning centre not far from Resonance FM's London stud...
Restart Radio: from repairing bikes to smartphones
31 Oct 2015
Contributed by Lukas
On our show this week, we talked about connections between Restarters and repairing bikes. We spoke to longtime Restarter Ten, who shared the story of...
Restart Radio: where are the women fixers?
21 Oct 2015
Contributed by Lukas
For a special Ada Lovelace Day discussion, we talked to Orsetta, a long time Restarter talked to us about how she got started tinkering and fixing. Sh...
Restart Podcast Ep 5: How repair economies can thrive (again)
16 Oct 2015
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, we discuss commercial repair of gadgets, electronics and home appliances. Most of us can testify, it feels less and less of a possibi...
Restart Radio: “Volkswagening” by electronics manufacturers?
08 Oct 2015
Contributed by Lukas
We discussed the allegations that Samsung has been cheating on energy efficiency testing. We talked about transparency, trust for manufacturers, and e...
Restart Radio: new mobiles we can open, repair
29 Sep 2015
Contributed by Lukas
We actually did talk about some shiny shiny gadgets - two very game-changing projects in the area of modular, repairable design. But first, Restarter ...
Restart Radio: shopping malls and six-pack of tablets
24 Sep 2015
Contributed by Lukas
This week, we talked with Restarter Dave Lukes about a wind-up radio he recently repaired and about the importance of running Restart Parties in shopp...
Restart Radio: the upgrade cycle and recycling
16 Sep 2015
Contributed by Lukas
This is the first episode of our live radio show, broadcast every Tuesday at 1:30pm here in London on Resonance 104.4 FM and always online. Our show i...
Restart Podcast Ep 4: Climate change and the “shadow impacts” of our gadgets
01 Sep 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Before a smartphone reaches us, most of the greenhouse gas emissions it will ever make have already been made. Podcaster Dave Pickering finds at Re...
Restart Podcast Ep 3: Searching for the roots of grassroots innovation
29 Jun 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Podcaster Dave Pickering interviews Adrian Smith, University of Sussex Professor of Technology and Society, who can help us put our fixing into broade...
Restart Podcast Ep 2: Interview with a product designer
07 May 2015
Contributed by Lukas
Product designer Barry Waddilove helps explain to Dave why these gadgets frustrate: what goes into their production, how many different pressures and ...
Introducing the Restart Podcast
08 Apr 2015
Contributed by Lukas
This is the first in a series produced by brilliant podcaster Dave Pickering, based on real fixes, heartbreaks and wisdom shared at our community repa...