Make an impact – ikego

Make an impact

Why we do what we do?

To make
a
difference!

Because

our world is drowning in garbage.

We pollute
the earth when we extract resources for products.

And we pollute it again when we dispose of products.

So let’s keep things in the

loop

together!

We start with asking:

Why do products become waste?

Most products today are designed to be made from parts that are

single-use,
hard to make,
and closed source.

This makes these products hard to repair, hard to remix and hard to recycle.

16 unique parts, some of which are inseparable, if one breaks, all become garbage

Circular design is collaborative!

Ikego redesigns everything from parts that are

This enables sustainable practices such as repair, remix, recycling and more.

Multipurpose? Yes. Ikego prefers parts that can be creatively reused in many different solutions, like LEGO® bricks!

Together

You can’t do this alone. So we want to build a global community working together to make it happen. We invite:

Designers

to build on each other’s work and help us grow the world of sustainable products made from open, multipurpose parts.

Vendors

to take parts or models from our growing catalogs and manufacture and sell them to customers around the world.

Customers

to order sustainable and fun products made from multipurpose parts.

Image Credits
garbage image by “Dying Regime”, CC-BY 2.0 Generic
all other images by Studio Mifactori, CC-BY 4.0

Ikego is a circular design platform experiment. The core idea is to build products from multipurpose parts – parts that can be creatively reused like LEGO® bricks – to create products that can be creatively transformed in infinite ways. The parts are open source and mostly very easy to make. The system is collaborative: We invite designers to use it and contribute new parts and products – as part of their professional work or just for fun! And we encourage manufacturers to make products using the Ikego System and to sell them on the market. Small local workshops can also make Ikego products and sell them to individual customers as a ”local make”. This is called “decentralised manufacturing”. It’s sustainable, very sustainable! The Ikego approach works also great for education about design and sustainability. We run workshops ourselves and support others to do the same. Let’s invent a circular design revolution, together!