Shock City: Resilience and the Anthropocene

Today Year of Resilience (#YoR) launches at CCW with a 2 day event, Shock City: Resilience and the Anthropocene, exploring resilience.

More information here:
http://www.ccwgraduateschool.org/shock-city-launching-the-year-of-resilience/

Over lunch today there will be a presentation running about The Department of Repair, and the relationship between repair and resilience.  You can watch it here, but theres a small excerpt below:

By taking a conscious anti-consumption stance, stemming from human and object malaise, The Department of Repair created a collaborative form of activism by legibly displaying subtle symbols of personal politics.

Deliberately visible repairing acts as placard and encouragement, protesting obsolescence and connecting people to people, to objects and to capabilities.

The Department of Repair demonstrated that choosing to repair makes material, personal and social resilience.

The Department of Repair, publication Part 1

The Department of Repair publication 1 is available to read online:  http://issuu.com/thedepartmentofrepair/docs/tdor_part_i/1

The Department of Repair

I have co-curated this project at the Camberwell Space with Maiko Tsutsumi, Michael Hurley and Karen Richmond.  It brings together designers, makers and repairers with things, materials and processes.  Part1 (12th Jan - 30th Jan) includes workshops with repairers and an exhibition, the 2nd part (2nd Feb - 20th Feb) is open as an exhibition, including outcomes generated by the workshops.

There is more information here

https://thedepartmentofrepair.wordpress.com/

There is a publication available, print on demand,  email me for more details on it.

The project, publication and exhibition were designed with zero waste principles in mind.  So the furniture is all made from reclaimed materials, and will be processed back into materials after the project finishes, the publication is printed on reclaimed paper and hand bound.