AHRC Design Research Showcase, London Design Festival

Dillon, Teresa

Abstract

Repair Acts invited to showcase as part of AHRC Design Research Showcase, London Design Festival 2018.

Repair Acts is an international and multidisciplinary network of people working on topics relating to repair, care and maintenance cultures.

Broadly these cultures focus on applied, artistic, scholarly and civic practices, which deal with the care, upkeep, maintenance and reuse of objects, materials, buildings, systems and processes.

We view repair, care and maintenance as the challenge to move away from the rhetorics of the ‘new’ as a means of progression and innovation.









Questioning the lexicon of the ‘smart’ and globally connected, repair, care and maintenance cultures addresses everyday consumption by revealing the geopolitical struggles, labour systems and consequences of our material lives on the environment and other species.

Instead we look towards how we attend, nourish and care for the everyday, with a focus on the disconnect and the discarded, what is in ruin and broken as a means through which to reimagine what we define as growth.

• Exhibition Performance Type: Exhibition
• Start Date: Sep 20, 2018
• End Date: Sep 23, 2018
• Deposit Date: Mar 10, 2020
• Public URL: https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/5635140