Full Description
A collection of timely new scholarship, Repair: Sustainable Design Futures investigates repair as a contemporary expression of empowerment, agency, and resistance to our unmaking of the world and the environment. Repair is an act, metaphor, and foundation for opening up a dialogue about design's role in proposing radically different social, environmental, and economic futures.
Thematically expansive and richly illustrated, with over 125 visuals, this volume features an international, interdisciplinary group of contributors from across the design spectrum whose voices and artwork speak to how we might address our broken social and physical worlds. Organized around reparative thinking and practices, the book includes 30 long and short chapters, photo essays, and interviews that focus on multiple responses to fractured systems, relationships, cities, architecture, objects, and more.
Repair will encourage students, academics, researchers, and practitioners in art, design and architecture practice and theory, cultural studies, environment and sustainability, to discuss, engage, and rethink the act of repair and its impact on our society and environment.
Contents
PART 1: Reparative Thinking_Broken Worlds; Five Theses on Repair in Most of the World; Who Decides? Power, Brokenness, and Healing; Repairing the Cracked Concrete; Broken Urban: Repair as Postapocalyptic Design; Why Save This?; Repair and Imperfection through the Lens of the Spectral; For the rain, for the wind; PART 2: Reparative Practices_Wounds, Sutures, and Scars; Aesthetics of Visible Repair: The Challenge of Kintsugi; Repair and Design Futures: An Exhibition and Call to Action; Darning Over Renewal; Thinking Rubble: Ruin and Repair at War's End; Open Dialogues and Material Memory; What Is the Work of Love Today? Repair, Care, and Carrying; Kurhirani no ambakiti (Burning the Devil): Since That's the Only Way They Listen to Us; PART 3: Reparative Thinking_Alternative Ways; Borderlanders: A Political Concept for Repair; Repair on the Move; My Grandmother's Mended Socks: Layered Design Thinking and Durability; Is Business Beyond Repair?; Repairing Imaginations: Rethinking the Ethics of Growth and Degrowth; Is Repair Repairing Architecture?; Trans-Repair: Emancipatory Techno-Poetics; PART 4: Reparative Practices_Patched and Reassembled; Community Repair in South Africa: An Interview with Kevin Kimwelle; Fixing as Learning; Make-Do-and-Mend: The Repair and Reuse of Existing Buildings; Hand Me Up; Recovering a Sense of Place; (Hi)Stories of Repair; Notions of Repair as a Pedagogical Dialogue; Toward Repairing the Social Fabric: Music Performance and Pedagogy at Work; PART 5; Epilogue: Stronger Futures—a Call to Action; Lexicon of repair
