Designing Repairable Products with Anglepoise

It is clear that designers can no longer ignore the importance of reparability in their work. Repair processes need to be democratised and it is the role of the designer to help consumers make better choices when it comes to product lifecycles, they need support in following I Fix It’s mantra “If you can’t fix it, don’t own it”. But this change doesn’t mean to say that designers need to innovate for the sake of it, but rather that they should consider whether or not the planet will thank them for their designs, will is still be relevant in 20, 50, 100 years and beyond?

Join Simon Terry, Roddy Clarke and Mark Miodownik in this discussion of the importance of designing repairable products.

Simon Terry, Brand and Innovation Director, Anglepoise

Anglepoise brand and innovation director Simon Terry, is the fifth generation in the business. He took over from his father in 2002 because the company had reached a plateau and had not innovated for over a decade. Simon’s keen focus on rejuvenating the brand whilst keeping its core DNA that made it great in the first place has seen incredible business growth in recent years.

Simon has kept Anglepoise moving forward and although it has kept exactly the same design and mechanisim, it has been updated and stayed relevant and current through innovations in colour, texture and size

Roddy Clarke

Roddy’s passion for interior design stems from a young age. Growing up, his father was a well-known China and Porcelain restorer, igniting a keen interest, for Roddy, in reconditioning and handling luxury items.

Roddy started his career working on exhibitions and displays for various clients, generating design ideas for point of sale displays and event spaces – constantly evolving his creative style.

Following in the footsteps of his father, he then moved in to the restoration industry where he spent over three years managing multiple projects for private clients, stately homes and larger public spaces. It was here that he gained extensive design knowledge, as well as discovering the limits of working with antiques and vintage items.

After moving to London, and as his passion grew, Roddy then focused his energy on the furniture retail industry. Working on product development he used his expertise, in dealing with antique items, to inspire his creative thinking when developing new, contemporary pieces. It was here that Roddy also gained experience styling interior products for shoots.

With a breadth of skills and hands-on industry experience, Roddy now offers an exclusive interior styling and design service. With a can-do attitude, his knowledge and passion shine through on every project he undertakes. Alongside his interior styling and design projects, Roddy is a journalist covering many areas of interior design and working with a lot of well known publishers and titles in the industry.

Mark Miodownik

Mark is an engineer and materials scientist. He is the Professor of Materials and Society at UCL where he teaches and runs a research group. For more than twenty years he has championed materials science research that links to the arts and humanities, medicine, and society. This culminated in the establishment of the UCL Institute of Making, where he is a director and runs the research programme.

The institute of Making is a multidisciplinary research club for those interested in the made world: from makers of molecules to makers of buildings, synthetic skin to spacecraft, soup to clothes, furniture to cities. Mark also recently set up the Plastic Waste Innovation Hub to carry our research into solving the environmental catastrophe of plastic waste.