248 pages Paperback

Australia is at the frontline of the climate crisis. While species extinction and natural disasters of increasing intensity are met with glacial shifts in national climate policy, an important undercurrent of projects working to repair the Australian narrative are at play. These stories seek to repair a continent that continues to live under the structuring logic of colonial dispossession and extractive economies.

Repair Stories unpicks the concealing power of disrepair by giving life to the reparative projects already at work in the context of the Australian built environment – in the classroom, in practice, and in theory. Rather than presume that breakage is self-evident, the collection not only asks who repairs, but for whom do we repair? Whose responsibility are the patch-up jobs, the ongoing maintenance of worlds, the mending that is required? Does repair conserve or innovate? Is it contained to moments of breakdown or can it be practised in ongoing acts of care and maintenance? Featuring contributions from artists, architects, designers, and researchers, Repair Stories interrogates the methods, limitations, obligations and potential of repair, and proposes an environmental imperative: repair comes first!

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