Repair Sustainable Design Futures | Environment & Sustainability

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. |Repair Sustainable Design Futures | Environment & Sustainability