ABSTRACT
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
part 1|44 pages
Reparative Thinking_ Broken Worlds
part 2|54 pages
Reparative Practices_Wounds, Sutures, and Scars
chapter |6 pages
Kurhirani no ambakiti (Burning the Devil)
part 3|58 pages
Reparative Thinking_Alternative Ways
part 4|58 pages
Reparative Practices_Patched and Reassembled
part |16 pages
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