What Does It Mean to Care and Repair?

Hosted by [[Repair Acts]]

• Collecting repair stories
• To build up a picture of everyday repair prctices
• Repair economies, aesthetics, repair in relation to climate change

Monai de Paula Antunes

• [[Wild Design]]
  • [[Gambiarra]] is the starting point

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Alma Clavin

• urban planning, well being
• in the home
  • repair is often cared out by a member of the family
  • bond or gratitude between people helping with repair
• repair in our own gardens
  • trees and green space within 300m have most impact on mental wellbeing
  • rewilding has lower energy inputs
• into town
  • repair and maintenance done by the local authority
• in town
  • planters
    • denaturing of urban space
• allotments
  • seen as spaces of care and repair
  • care of soil, natural environment, and humans (through foodgrowing)
• repair of home and objects owned
  • few formal repair shops in Alma’s town
  • employment opportunities outside of town
• vacancy and decay in town
• relocalising of repair
  • repair value chains
• members of local community came together to repair buildings
• community repair shows us we need to be intergenerational
• out into the wider landscape
  • peat bogs
• [[Just Transition Fund]]

[[Ravi Agarwal]]

• involved in policy in waste economy
• artist in local communities
• Repair and care
  • not just words, integrated ethics of everyday life
  • not only a human act
  • also part of non-human-non-human interactions
• Critical of circular economy / resource efficiency
  • relegates communities
  • ignores the provenance of the materials
  • been co-opted by neoliberalism
• indigenous knowledge, referenced a lot these days but people don’t really know what they’re doing with it
• community and commons