Repair: Sustainable Design Futures

Repair: Sustainable Design Futures explores repair as a contemporary expression of empowerment, agency, and resistance to our unmaking of the world and the environment. It features an international, interdisciplinary group of contributors from across the design spectrum, with 30 long and short chapters, photo essays, and interviews that focus on multiple responses to fractured systems, relationships, cities, architecture, objects, and more.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 288 pages
Publication date: 14 September 2022
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Repair: Sustainable Design Futures delves into the transformative power of repair as a modern manifestation of empowerment, agency, and resistance against the destructive forces shaping our world and environment. It serves as an act, a metaphor, and a cornerstone for initiating a crucial conversation about the role of design in envisioning radically different social, environmental, and economic futures. This comprehensive and visually rich volume features an international and interdisciplinary collective of contributors from various design disciplines, whose voices and artwork resonate with the urgent need to mend our fractured social and physical realities.

The book is organized around reparative thinking and practices, encompassing 30 long and short chapters, photo essays, and interviews that explore diverse responses to broken systems, relationships, cities, architecture, objects, and more. Through its thematic breadth and captivating illustrations, Repair invites students, academics, researchers, and practitioners in art, design, and architecture practice and theory, cultural studies, environment and sustainability, to engage in meaningful discussions, explore, and reevaluate the significance of repair in shaping our society and environment.

Dimension: 246 x 174 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781032154077