Repair Economies: Creating restorative futures
Lunchtime Talks
Please note: This event took place in Jan 2020
Buy less, choose well, make it last.
Westwood’s call to action echoes a growing trend within art and design practices to move away from “constant consumption”. Viewing this move within the broader context of degrowth and diverse economies, this talk explores notions of repair, care and maintenance as sites of artistic practice and action.
Join Professor of City Futures, Teresa Dillon, as she asks: how can we ‘stay with the trouble’ and create new forms of living and livelihoods that nourish, heal and build restorative futures? Dillon will draw on her work as programme leader for Repair Acts, including her research into the history of repair economies in Bristol and artistic practices that look towards the disconnect and the discarded, what is in ruin and broken as means to reimagine what we define as growth.
The talk will be followed by a free workshop on “Mending - the practice of radical thrift” by artist, maker and producer Dawn Giles from 14:30 - 16:30. You can reserve a place on the workshop here.
Read more about the work Repair Acts does here.