Repair: Sustainable Design Futures

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.