by Adam Menter

We at the Autodesk Sustainability Workshop have a lot of respect for the work that iFixIt is doing to encourage and enable people to repair and maintain their possessions. We’re excited that they’re co-sponsoring and helping to judge the design competition we’re currently running with Core77. 

It was my pleasure to co-present to a group of students earlier today with Kyle Wiens, the CEO of iFixIt. We discussed the need to design for repair, the history of iFixIt, design resources available on this site, some good and bad examples of repair, and the design competition.

Here’s the full recording of the webinar, and you can see other webinars in Autodesk Education’s facebook page.

Here are links to some of the topics and tools we discussed on the call:

• Kyle’s Wired articles about Design for Repair and the MacBook Retina laptop
• Kyle’s “Repair 2.0” video that includes footage from material recovery centers in Africa
• Our video series on Improving Product Lifetime: Design for durability, disassembly, recycling, repair, and upgrade. 
• Our quick Reference Guide on Design for Product Lifetime (use it on your next project!)
• iFixIt’s Self-Repair Manifesto (print it out yourself or order yourself a copy) 
• Autodesk Clean Tech Partner Program
• Autodesk Inventor Publisher and Fusion
• iFixIt's Product Teardowns:
  • MacBook Retina laptop: Repairability Score 1 of 10 
  • Motorola Atrix Phone: Repairability Score 9 of 10