What Does It Mean to Care and Repair?
- 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
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Alma Clavin
- urban planning, well being
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in the home
- repair is often cared out by a member of the family
- bond or gratitude between people helping with repair
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repair in our own gardens
- trees and green space within 300m have most impact on mental wellbeing
- rewilding has lower energy inputs
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into town
- repair and maintenance done by the local authority
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in town
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planters
- denaturing of urban space
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allotments
- seen as spaces of care and repair
- care of soil, natural environment, and humans (through foodgrowing)
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repair of home and objects owned
- few formal repair shops in Alma’s town
- employment opportunities outside of town
- vacancy and decay in town
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relocalising of repair
- members of local community came together to repair buildings
- community repair shows us we need to be intergenerational
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out into the wider landscape
- [[Just Transition Fund]]
- involved in policy in waste economy
- artist in local communities
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Repair and care
- not just words, integrated ethics of everyday life
- not only a human act
- also part of non-human-non-human interactions
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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