Name/Title
Broken : mending and repair in a throwaway worldEntry/Object ID
TT14.T74 2023Description
"We live in a single-use society, where fashion is fast, disposability is the norm and it is easier to replace than to repair. We don't need to mend things anymore - and yet we do. What is it about Homo faber - man the maker - that cannot resist fixing what is broken? As we start to decouple from the linear take-make-waste model that has dominated Western economies since the Industrial Revolution and seek something more circular, an enquiry into what mending means has never been more urgent. With a foreword by The Repair Shop's Jay Blades, this new book by craft and circularity advocate Katie Treggiden celebrates 25 artists, curators, menders and re-makers who have rejected the allure of the fast, disposable and easy in favour of the patina of use, the stories of age and the longevity of care and repair. Accompanying these profiles, six in-depth essays explore the societal, cultural and environmental roles of mending in a throwaway world."
Featured artists: Rachel South, Jane ní Dhulchaointigh, Vincent Dassi, Jude Dennis & Hannah Stanton, Chris Miller, Celia Pym, Bouke de Vries, Keiko Matsui, Raewyn Harrison, Hans Tan, Bridget Harvey, Paul Scott, Aya Haidar, Paulo Goldstein, Claudia Clare, Ekta Kaul, Lucy Willow, Aono Fumiaki, Marie Cudennec Carlisle & Daniele Barco, Bachor, Linda Brothwell, Fernando Laposse, Sara Grady & Alice Robinson, Gavin Christman, Sebastian Cox.Lexicon
Search Terms
circular economy, design, do-it-yourself work, mending--social aspects, repairing--social aspectsBook Details
Author
Katie TreggidenPublisher
LudionDate Published
2023ISBN
9789493039896Notes
Length: 223General Notes
Note Type
ContentsNote
Repair as restoration of function -- Repair as storytelling -- Repair as activism -- Repair as healing -- Regeneration as repair.