by Markus Berger (Editor), Kate Irvin (Editor)
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.
