[Themaintainers] DESIGN-LED REPAIR: Expression of Interest for a special issue (Design and Culture)

[Richard Wheeler]

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From: Guy Keulemans <g.keulemans at unsw.edu.au>
Date: Thu, Sep 16, 2021, 6:33 PM
Subject: [PHD-DESIGN] DESIGN-LED REPAIR: Expression of Interest for a
special issue (Design and Culture)
To: <PHD-DESIGN at jiscmail.ac.uk>


(apologies for any cross-posting)
DESIGN-LED REPAIR: Expression of Interest for a special issue (Design and
Culture)
Designers, repairers, interdisciplinary practitioners and academics are
invited to submit contributions relevant to the theme Design-Led Repair

Provocation:
Repair is increasingly recognised as part of design but this connection
needs to be underscored by conditions of urgency. The climatic disasters we
are currently facing and the ones to come require repair to be at the
forefront as a first responder. Product longevity and durability, despite
being recognised by design as properties to establish, have not deterred
the rampant pace of consumerism. By exploring the agency of repair versus
other practices of a circular economy (such as recycling and
remanufacturing), this special issue aims to explore the role of design in
repair but also how repair is changing the practice and ethos of design. It
also aspires to address the significance of aesthetics in relation to the
transformation of any product type, by any particular method, into
something usable again.
In this context, a design-led repair approach might be driven by the
symbolism of waste and what it provokes (Muniesa 2014) in terms of
economic, technological, ecological, social, and materials innovation; the
responsibility of designers and users to identify in waste the ecological
consequences of everyday life; existing cultures of repair involving
culturally diverse social, and creative practices of reuse and repair; and
mindfully designing what will become waste as well as redirecting or
‘designing out’ waste. In spite of repair’s prevalent interpretation
through an Eurocentric and technocentric lens, this approach acknowledges
its strong connection to resilience as experienced by First Nations,
migrant and eco-communities, and situated, intergenerational knowledges.
The proposed special issue seeks to expand the existing knowledge on
design-led repair beyond the manufacturing and legislative milieu to reveal
the yet to be identified spaces/communities of repair as lived experience.
For this reason, it invites written, practical, and visual investigations
of design-led repair as a practice that encompasses the aforementioned
values and responds to the pressing need for design to repair its
relationship with natural and social environments. Contributions could be:
a case study of transformative repair; research into a community initiative
redirecting repair practices locally or repairing communities via creative
means and strategies; a critical analysis of design-led repair as a
practice that redesigns everyday life and vice versa; an exploration of the
aesthetic importance of repair; and a theoretical exploration of repair as
an intersection between specialist training and lived experience/human
practice.
We are interested in contributions that address the following questions:
●      How do we capture and show repair value? How is repair a practice of
value creation or co-creation? How do we demonstrate and share repair value?
●      How do we bring to the fore the significance of repair aesthetics?
And how is this significance connected to the symbolic economy that drives
designs and shortens product lifespans?
●      How can we rediscover repair as a human-scale practice? How can we
unveil and amplify already existing repair and/or maintenance practices?
●      What would design-led repair look like?
●      What type of waste would we like/not like to design or design with?
●      How can we un-pacify waste?
●      What can design-led repair be acknowledged outside a
Eurocentric/technocentric scope?
●      How could culturally diverse repair cultures lead design-led repair?

Contributions for this issue could take one of the following forms:
Design research papers, speculative design papers, visual essays,
interviews/conversations,
reflections on/reviews of projects/case studies, a statement of practice.

Expression Of Interest (EOI):
Contributors are invited to express their interest by 8/10/2021 by emailing
e.kalantidou at griffith.edu.au<mailto:e.kalantidou at griffith.edu.au>;
g.keulemans at unsw.edu.au<mailto:g.keulemans at unsw.edu.au>
The EOI should include a 250-word abstract, the contributor(s)’ email
address, title, affiliation and location. It should also include visual
evidence (for visual essays), and a brief statement indicating the
connection to the special issue questions. The EOI will be reviewed by the
editorial team as the intention for a full draft submission. Guidelines for
a full submission will be provided after the completion of the EOI process.

Important deadlines/dates:
– EOI due: 8/10/2021
– Contributors notified: 30/10/2021
– Full draft for peer review due (late drafts will not be accepted):
1/2/2022
– Notification of acceptance: March-April 2022
– Deadline for revised articles: April-May 2022
– Final articles including permissions and images due: May 2022

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best regards

Guy

Dr Guy Keulemans
Lecturer & Faculty Research Fellow

School of Art & Design
UNSW Arts, Design & Architecture
UNSW AUSTRALIA

Paddington Campus
Cnr Oxford St & Greens Rd,
Paddington, NSW 2021

Mobile  +61 (0) 425 128 762
Email  g.keulemans at unsw.edu.au<mailto:name at unsw.edu.au>
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