Repair: Sustainable Design Futures

by Markus Berger (Editor), Kate Irvin (Editor)

A collection of timely new scholarship, Sustainable Design Futures investigates repair as a contemporary expression of empowerment, agency, and resistance to our unmaking of the world and the environment. Repair is an act, metaphor, and foundation for opening up a dialogue about design’s role in proposing radically different social, environmental, and economic futures. Thematically expansive and richly illustrated, with over 125 visuals, this volume features an international, interdisciplinary group of contributors from across the design spectrum whose voices and artwork speak to how we might address our broken social and physical worlds. Organized around reparative thinking and practices, the book includes 30 long and short chapters, photo essays, and interviews that focus on multiple responses to fractured systems, relationships, cities, architecture, objects, and more. Repair will encourage students, academics, researchers, and practitioners in art, design and architecture practice and theory, cultural studies, environment and sustainability, to discuss, engage, and rethink the act of repair and its impact on our society and environment.

288 pages, Hardcover

Published September 30, 2022

About the author

Markus Berger is an Assistant Professor and Graduate Program Director in the Department of Interior Architecture at RISD. He co-founded and co-edits Int|AR and currently also heads his own design studio in Providence, InsideOut Design.