What Does It Mean to Care and Repair?

planted: 16/10/2021last tended: 27/11/2021

1. Hosted by Repair Acts

urban planning, well being
in the home
- repair is often cared out by a member of the family
- bond or gratitude between people helping with repair
repair in our own gardens
- trees and green space within 300m have most impact on mental wellbeing
- rewilding has lower energy inputs
into town
- repair and maintenance done by the local authority
in town
- planters
  - denaturing of urban space
allotments
- seen as spaces of care and repair
- care of soil, natural environment, and humans (through foodgrowing)
repair of home and objects owned
- few formal repair shops in Alma's town
- employment opportunities outside of town
vacancy and decay in town
relocalising of repair
- repair value chains
members of local community came together to repair buildings
community repair shows us we need to be intergenerational
out into the wider landscape
- peat bogs
Just Transition Fund

involved in policy in waste economy
artist in local communities
Repair and care
- not just words, integrated ethics of everyday life
- not only a human act
- also part of non-human-non-human interactions
Critical of circular economy / resource efficiency
- relegates communities
- ignores the provenance of the materials
- been co-opted by neoliberalism
indigenous knowledge, referenced a lot these days but people don't really know what they're doing with it
community and commons

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