Includes bibliographical references (pages 256-263) and index.
Contents:
Epilogue. Lexicon of repair / Five theses on repair in most of the world / Markus Berger, Kate Irvin, and Ariel Wills. Who decides? power, brokenness, and healing / Lorn 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 / Markus Berger and Kate Irvin ; Lexicon of repair / Markus Berger, Kate Irvin, and Ariel Wills.
Summary:
"This book investigates repair as a contemporary expression of empowerment, agency, and resistance to our unmaking of the world and our environment. A collection of timely new scholarship, this edited volume is multidisciplinary in its approach, presenting repair as an act, metaphor, and foundation for opening up a dialogue about design's role in proposing alternative social, environmental, and economic futures. This thematically expansive and richly illustrated book, with over 100 visuals, features an international, interdisciplinary group of contributors from across the design spectrum whose voices and artwork speak to multiple forms of repair as entry points for sparking novel insights into how we might attend to our broken social and physical worlds. Organized into reparative thinking and practices, it features thirty long and short essays, photo essays, and interviews, representing projects and research by artists, designers, architects, museum professionals, sociologists, anthropologists, historians, business analysts, and entrepreneurs. Chapters focus on reparative 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"-- Provided by publisher.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.