Repair Stories
Presented by Melbourne School of Design/University of Melbourne
DETAILS
Ticketed
45 John Street - the tearoom
45 John Street, Brunswick East VIC, Australia
DATES
Fri 16 May 5 – 8pm
Repair Stories Opening
Sat 17 May 12 – 5pm
Exhibition Open
Sat 17 May 2 – 5pmBook now
Repair Workshop: From Gardening to the Art of Maintenance
Sun 18 May 12 – 5pm
Exhibition Open
Sun 18 May 1 – 2pmBook now
Discussion: Repair and Practice
Sun 18 May 2.30 – 3.30pmBook now
Discussion: Repair and Pedagogy
Mon 19 May 12 – 5pm
Exhibition Open
Thu 22 May 12 – 5pm
Exhibition Open
Fri 23 May 12 – 5pm
Exhibition Open
Sat 24 May 12 – 5pm
Exhibition Open
Mired in our climate crisis, suffering the toxic afterlives of extractivism and the ongoing devastation of environment-worlds, it is no longer tenable to continue with business as usual in architecture and design.
This exhibition presents a suite of historical and contemporary repair stories that inspire us to design the world we want in small and large ways, between designers and communities, and by engaging positive acts of repair. The repair team curates an exhibition highlighting the different ways in which repair can serve as a surprising design principle and mode of critical reflection. We explore the different guises that repair can take and the different forms of co-design that underpin a repair ethos. Come along and join our public discussions on: Repair & Pedagogy and Repair & Practice and participate in our Repair Workshop: From Gardening to the Arts of Maintenance.
The exhibition will be on display from Friday 16 May to Saturday 24 May alongside three events across the first weekend:
Repair Workshop: From Gardening to the Art of Maintenance
Saturday 17 May, 2pm-5pm
Join a repair workshop where participants explore gardening and the arts of maintenance, from wicking beds to how to fix a crack.
Discussion: Repair and Practice
Sunday 18 May, 1pm-2pm
Led by Hélène Frichot, University of Melbourne, this discussion addresses the importance of bringing a repair ethos to our creative practice and critical research.
Discussion: Repair and Pedagogy
Sunday 18 May, 2.30pm-3.30pm
Led by Natalie Miles, University of Melbourne, this discussion addresses the ways in which we need to rethink design pedagogies by integrating a repair ethos.
Participants
Virginia Mannering
Virginia Mannering is an Education Fellow (Architectural Design) at the MSD. Her PhD examines the way the construction of the settler-colonial city has reshaped and remade environments. She has taught across architectural design studios and architectural/art history and situates her teaching methodologies across those disciplines.
https://www.virginiamannering.com
Kyla McFarlane
Dr Kyla McFarlane is a curator, writer and academic from Aotearoa New Zealand. As Academic Engagement Research Fellow, Museums and Collections, she leads a broad, collaborative program of engagements connecting tertiary students and academics with the exhibitions, art collection and programs in the University of Melbourne’s Art Museums. She has a particular interest in fostering interdisciplinary and practice-based teaching and research in the museum, and mentorship through graduate research supervision and internships. As a curator, Kyla has worked independently and held key curatorial positions at the QAGOMA, Brisbane; CCP, Melbourne; and MUMA, Melbourne.
Nina Tory-Henderson
Nina Tory-Henderson is an architect and PhD candidate at the University of Melbourne. Within both practice and research, she has recently been focused on local social housing issues in Victoria.
Hélène Frichot
Hélène Frichot (PhD) is Professor of Architecture and Philosophy, Melbourne School of Design, University of Melbourne, Australia. Previously, she was Professor of Critical Studies and Gender Theory, and Director of Critical Studies in Architecture, KTH Stockholm, Sweden. Drawing on her background in architecture and philosophy, her research fosters creative practice methodologies and develops concept-tools situated in relation to feminist posthumanities, dirty materialism, the environmental humanities, and affect theory. She experiments with ficto-critical and transversal writing methodologies and environmental story telling approaches, currently with a focus on the Plantationocene.
Dylan Newell
Dylan Newell has a Master of Architecture from the Melbourne School of Design, and is a permaculture practitioner who views the built environment from a landscape systems perspective. Currently, Dylan is using systems theory to envisage how the suburbs can be transformed and reinhabited through bottom-up action.