Design and repair: from object conservation to material transformation

Autor: Kate Scardifield, Megan Hall
Rok vydání: 2022
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Zdroj: Visual Communication. 22:406-417
ISSN: 1741-3214
1470-3572
DOI: 10.1177/14703572221082114
Popis: This visual essay utilizes a series of images from Make Do and Mend, a participatory workshop that brought together designers, a museum conservator and the general public to explore design for repair as part of Sydney Craft Week in 2019. The photographs capture objects and materials in various states of transformation, bringing to light the aesthetic politics at play that often underpin acts of repair. The essay is a visual re-framing of repair as a form of design practice, revealing objects in various states of transformation and our changing attitudes towards them over time. As a visual narrative, the essay demonstrates the value of material knowledge exchange in shaping new aesthetic registers for object conservation and approaches to repair.
Databáze: OpenAIRE