ABSTRACT

This chapter explores the affordances of repair on the move, amidst the maelstrom of broken modern worlds. People across the globe are now more than ever having to adapt their lives in relation to the impacts of climate change. Some of these challenges include sea-level inundation, poisoned water sources from fossil fuel extraction, land degradation due to rising heat, and destructive agricultural practices. Although these issues are globally significant, wicked problems, this discussion centers primarily around an Australian context. The chapter explores repair through six frames. It explores a series of case studies through these frames, supplemented with experimental design fictions. Over the coming decades people will increasingly move out of the way of the changing climate, taking with them potentially futuring repair skills. Opportunities for repair will arise from the mass-movement of climate refugees.