Repair Sustainable Design Futures

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.

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

Markus Berger is Professor of Interior Architecture at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD). He isthe founder and director of The Repair Atelier. Kate Irvin is Curator and Head of the Department of Costume and Textiles at the RISD Museum, an integral part of the Rhode Island School of Design.