Event Details

The Repair Shop 2049 features a variety of creative and fun activities for all ages which highlight how the Blackburn community can come together to begin to improve repair and reuse of smart tech at a local level.

Come and see your Repair Shop of the future! We will be running the event from The Making Rooms – both inside and out – in the heart of the community, come along to access repair knowledge, skills and technologies that we'd love to share with you!

• Smart Device Repair Station – bring your broken smart devices along and let’s work together to try and see if we get them running again.
• Future Mundane Caravan – explore immersive, next generation everyday smart tech while asking yourself what’s it going to take to fix this future?
• Digital Making – The Making Rooms, Blackburn’s community fabrication lab, will showcase a range of fun, creative tools and skills that can be used for repairing things including 3D printing and laser cutting.