Repair

Markus Berger is Professor of Interior Architecture at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD). He is the founder and director of The Repair Atelier. Kate Irvin is Curator and Head of the Department of Costume and Textiles at the RISD Museum, an integral part of the Rhode Island School of Design.

PART 1: Reparative Thinking_Broken Worlds; Five Theses on Repair in Most of the World; Who Decides? Power, Brokenness, and Healing; Repairing the Cracked Concrete; Broken Urban: Repair as Postapocalyptic Design; Why Save This?; Repair and Imperfection through the Lens of the Spectral; For the rain, for the wind; PART 2: Reparative Practices_Wounds, Sutures, and Scars; Aesthetics of Visible Repair: The Challenge of Kintsugi; Repair and Design Futures: An Exhibition and Call to Action; Darning Over Renewal; Thinking Rubble: Ruin and Repair at War’s End; Open Dialogues and Material Memory; What Is the Work of Love Today? Repair, Care, and Carrying; Kurhirani no ambakiti (Burning the Devil): Since That’s the Only Way They Listen to Us; PART 3: Reparative Thinking_Alternative Ways; Borderlanders: A Political Concept for Repair; Repair on the Move; My Grandmother’s Mended Socks: Layered Design Thinking and Durability; Is Business Beyond Repair?; Repairing Imaginations: Rethinking the Ethics of Growth and Degrowth; Is Repair Repairing Architecture?; Trans-Repair: Emancipatory Techno-Poetics; PART 4: Reparative Practices_Patched and Reassembled; Community Repair in South Africa: An Interview with Kevin Kimwelle; Fixing as Learning; Make-Do-and-Mend: The Repair and Reuse of Existing Buildings; Hand Me Up; Recovering a Sense of Place; (Hi)Stories of Repair; Notions of Repair as a Pedagogical Dialogue; Toward Repairing the Social Fabric: Music Performance and Pedagogy at Work; PART 5; Epilogue: Stronger Futures—a Call to Action; Lexicon of repair