{"id":4926,"date":"2026-10-19T22:06:57","date_gmt":"2026-10-19T22:06:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zprod.org\/zwp\/?p=4926"},"modified":"2026-10-20T08:20:49","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T08:20:49","slug":"refunct-machine-repair-acts-bristol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zprod.org\/zwp\/thoughts\/refunct-machine-repair-acts-bristol\/","title":{"rendered":"Refunct Machine @ Repair Acts Bristol"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Back from Bristol after a couple of days celebrating repair culture with Repair Acts [<a href=\"http:\/\/repairacts.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">repairacts.net<\/a>].<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div style=\"position: relative; padding-bottom: 56.25%; height: 0; overflow: hidden;\"><iframe style=\"position: absolute; top: 0; left: 0; width: 100%; height: 100%;\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/1237413337\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<br \/>\nI installed a ReFunct Machine in Bristol City Hall, an interesting space for a pop-up electronic waste semi-improvised sculpture. People in and out through the day added more functions to the circular device.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nThe programme continued with a debate on Bristol&#8217;s Repair Declaration. The very informative debate involved 16 presenters with a keen interest in repair culture. The debate was set in Bristol City Council&#8217;s debate chamber, giving this important topic an unusual gravitas and a chance to appear in forthcoming policies for the city!<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nOther highlights include a sweet evening on the 140 years old Lightship 55 in the Bathurst Basin, with a performance by Tom Marshall channeling the old woman in him, and a nerdy afternoon in Bristol Hackspace hacking Bluetooth functionality into 1980&#8217;s ghetto blasters.<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nFull programme and contributors info <a href=\"https:\/\/repairacts.net\/works\/celebrating-repair-cultures\" target=\"_blank\">HERE<\/a><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nSpecial thanks to Teresa Dillon and Ali Jones \ud83d\udc4d<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4950\" src=\"https:\/\/www.zprod.org\/zwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/PXL_20261016_155247528-scaled-e1792449932237.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"900\" \/><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.zprod.org\/zwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/PXL_20261016_120137464-scaled-e1792450316486.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"900\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4956\" \/><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.zprod.org\/zwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/PXL_20261016_113320617-scaled-e1792450044967.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"900\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4952\" \/><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.zprod.org\/zwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/PXL_20261016_123412585-scaled-e1792450298879.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"1600\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4955\" \/><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.zprod.org\/zwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/PXL_20261016_120208412-scaled-e1792451029866.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"1200\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4966\" \/><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.zprod.org\/zwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/PXL_20261015_173308643-scaled-e1792449996553.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"1600\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4951\" \/><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.zprod.org\/zwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/PXL_20261016_154538803-scaled-e1792450520842.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"1200\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4958\" \/><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.zprod.org\/zwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/PXL_20261016_171650559-scaled-e1792450540600.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"900\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4959\" \/><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.zprod.org\/zwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/PXL_20261017_135728153-scaled-e1792450559152.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"900\" height=\"1200\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4960\" \/><br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.zprod.org\/zwp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/PXL_20261016_142038006-scaled-e1792450334237.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"1600\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-4957\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Back from Bristol after a couple of days celebrating repair culture with Repair Acts [repairacts.net]. &nbsp; &nbsp; I installed a ReFunct Machine in Bristol City Hall, an interesting space for a pop-up electronic waste semi-improvised sculpture. People in and out through the day added more functions to the circular device. &nbsp; The programme continued with a debate on Bristol&#8217;s Repair<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zprod.org\/zwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4926","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zprod.org\/zwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zprod.org\/zwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zprod.org\/zwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zprod.org\/zwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4926"}],"version-history":[{"count":33,"href":"https:\/\/www.zprod.org\/zwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4926\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4971,"href":"https:\/\/www.zprod.org\/zwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4926\/revisions\/4971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zprod.org\/zwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zprod.org\/zwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zprod.org\/zwp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}