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.
Table of Contents
Foreword by Arturo Escobar
Introduction by Markus Berger and Kate Irvin
PART 1: Reparative Thinking_Broken Worlds
Five Theses on Repair in Most of the World
Avishek Ganguly
Who Decides? Power, Brokenness, and Healing
Lorèn Spears
Repairing the Cracked Concrete
Nakeia Medcalf
Broken Urban: Repair as Postapocalyptic Design
Utku Balaban
Why Save This?
Anna Rose Keefe
Repair and Imperfection through the Lens of the Spectral
Jakko Kemper and Ellen Rutten
For the rain, for the wind
Brian Goldberg
PART 2: Reparative Practices_Wounds, Sutures, and Scars
Aesthetics of Visible Repair: The Challenge of Kintsugi
Yuriko Saito
Repair and Design Futures: An Exhibition and Call to Action
Kate Irvin
Darning Over Renewal
Jeremy Lee Wolin
Thinking Rubble: Ruin and Repair at War’s End
Lynnette Widder
Open Dialogues and Material Memory
Ariel Wills
What Is the Work of Love Today? Repair, Care, and Carrying
Lu Heintz
Kurhirani no ambakiti (Burning the Devil): Since That’s the Only Way They Listen to Us
Adela Goldbard
PART 3: Reparative Thinking_Alternative Ways
Borderlanders: A Political Concept for Repair
Vazira Fazila-Yacoobali Zamindar
Repair on the Move
Bec Barnett and Tristan Schultz
My Grandmother’s Mended Socks: Layered Design Thinking and Durability
Christina Kim
Is Business Beyond Repair?
Gary Blythe
Repairing Imaginations: Rethinking the Ethics of Growth and Degrowth
Ijlal Muzaffar
Is Repair Repairing Architecture?
Olga Ioannou
Trans-Repair: Emancipatory Techno-Poetics
Paula Gaetano-Adi
PART 4: Reparative Practices_Patched and Reassembled
Community Repair in South Africa: An Interview with Kevin Kimwelle
Esther Akintoye and Markus Berger
Fixing as Learning
Steven Lubar
Make-Do-and-Mend: The Repair and Reuse of Existing Buildings
Sally Stone
Hand Me Up
Jussara Lee
Recovering a Sense of Place
Evelyn Eastmond, M Eiffler, David Kim, and Joy Ko
(Hi)Stories of Repair
Lindsay French
Notions of Repair as a Pedagogical Dialogue
Clarisse Labro
Toward Repairing the Social Fabric: Music Performance and Pedagogy at Work
Sebastian Ruth
PART 5
Epilogue: Stronger Futures—a Call to Action
Lexicon of repair
