[Themaintainers] Talk: Repair as Accompaniment (Amy Meissner) SIG Maintenance Philosophy Technology Thurs 14th September (1800-1916 UTC+1)

[mark young]

Dear all,


We’d like to share the zoom link for the next session of the SPT
Maintenance and Philosophy of Technology special interest group on Thursday
14th of September (1800-1915 UTC+1). In this session we’re very excited to
welcome Amy Meissner, an artist, writer and repair practitioner based in
Alaska. She’ll be giving a talk based on her fantastic article “Repair as
Accompaniment” (link in abstract below) in which she’ll examine how as a
repair practitioner, she applies an ethic of care to the craft of repair,
based on ongoing research and anecdotal experience. If you'd like a link
for the talk, please send me an email at mark at markthomasyoung.net


Best

Mark

*Repair as Accompaniment: Applying an Ethic of Care to the Craft of Repair*

Amy Meissner

Thursday 14th September (1800-1915 UTC+1)

*Abstract*: This presentation applies an ethic of care to the craft of
repair, utilizing phases of care and ethical qualities developed by Joan
Tronto and Berenice Fisher. My place-based research into the craft of
repair in the Circumpolar North was conducted as a practicum project for
completion of an MA in Critical Craft Studies at Warren Wilson College
(’21), in which I guest edited the Anchorage Museum journal *Chatter Marks*,
issue 3, “The State of Repair.” (
https://repository.warren-wilson.edu/server/api/core/bitstreams/1dce60ac-2d3e-4650-affe-1715bd62f6b1/content
) My contributing essay, “Repair as Accompaniment,” (p. 15) applies
Tronto’s and Fisher’s ethics of attentiveness, responsibility, competence,
responsiveness and plurality/communication/trust/respect to the potential
repair of an inherited hand-woven rug with its own deep entanglement of
care and repair. In the writing, I apply a 6th ethic for consideration:
*accompaniment* – which I define as caring for and being cared for by a
vulnerable object through its period of transition. As a garment repair
practitioner, an artist with both a studio practice and social practice
fostering a repair culture within local communities of craft-based
learning, I refer to and rely on this ethical framework to provide a course
and a vocabulary for the practical, artistic, and socially engaged work I
do.

(In order to avoid confusion regarding the timing of the talks - the
following table clarifies when the talks begin in different locations)

Amsterdam 7:00pm
London 6:00pm
Toronto (New York) 1:00pm
San Francisco 10:00am


*Remaining Schedule for 2023*

October 12th 2023 (18-1915 UTC+1): Guru Madhavan (NASEM)
“The Greatest Show on Earth: Revaluing Maintenance”

November 9th 2023 (18-1915 UTC+1): Andy Russel (SUNY) & Lee Vinsel
(Virginia Tech)
“After Eight Years of the Maintainers”

December 14th 2023 (18-1915 UTC+1): Philip Scranton (Rutgers U)
“Spare Parts: Conceptualizing a Modern Problem
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