Repair Economies: Creating restorative futures

Dillon, Teresa

Abstract

Join Professor of City Futures, Teresa Dillon for an overview of her work on repair, care and maintenance cultures.

'Buy less, choose well, make it last'. Vivienne Westwood (2014)
Westwood’s call to action echoes a growing trend within art and design practices to move away from “constant consumption”. Viewing this move within the broader context of degrowth and diverse economies this talk explores notions of repair, care and maintenance as sites of artistic practice and action.
Asking how can we ‘stay with the trouble’ and create new forms of living and livelihoods that nourish, heal and build restorative futures? This talk draws on my work as programme leader for Repair Acts and research into the history of repair economies in Bristol as well as artistic practices that look towards the disconnect and the discarded, what is in ruin and broken as means to reimagine what we define as growth.

Ref: Haraway, Donna. Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene. Durham: Duke University, 2016.

Westwood quote from Oct, 2014 Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/membership/video/2014/oct/29/vivienne-westwood-capitalism-clothing-video

The talk will be followed by a free workshop on “Mending - the practice of radical thrift” by artist, maker and producer Dawn Giles from 2:30pm - 4:30pm.

• Presentation Conference Type: Presentation / Talk
• Start Date: Jan 24, 2020
• Deposit Date: Mar 10, 2020
• Public URL: https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/5633643