Design/Repair: Place, Practice & Community

Preface
Contents
Notes on Contributors
List of Figures
List of Tables
1 Introduction
	References
Part I Design/Repair and Socio-Material Conditions
2 Conflicting Interpretations of ‘Design’ and ‘Premature Product Obsolescence’: Australia’s Right to Repair Inquiry 2020–2021
	Introduction
	Methods and Sources
	Background: The ‘Right to Repair’
	The Australian Government’s Productivity Commission Right to Repair Inquiry
	The Interpretation of ‘Design’ in the PC’s Right to Repair Inquiry
	Design’s Boundaries: Existing Debates
	Premature Product Obsolescence in the Productivity Commission’s Final Report
	Repair and Design—Openness, Process and Long-Term Visions
	Competing Interests
	References
3 Luxury and Scarcity: Exploring Anachronisms in the Market for Transformative Repair
	Introduction
	Background
	Theoretical Framework
	Method
	Results
		SALLY DAN-CUTHBERT × LIZ WILLIAMSON with TULLA CARSON
		HUGO GRUZMAN × KYOKO HASHIMOTO and EBONY FLEUR
		TIM FLANNERY × ILLIAM NARGOODAH
		YAEL STONE × DAVID CAON
		EDRA and CAMPANA BROTHERS × ADAM GOODRUM
		BIANCA SPENDER × LUCY MCRAE
		Auction
	Discussion
	Competing Interests
	Ethical Clearance
	References
Part II Grassroots Design/Repair Activism
4 Design-Led Repair: Insights, Anecdotes and Reflections from Australian Repairers
	Introduction
	What Is Design and Where Does Repair Fit?
	The Australian Volunteer Repair Sector
	Methodology: Repairers and Data Collection
	Data Analysis
	Discussion
	The Need for Repairability in Design Thinking
	Design Challenges to Repair
	Accessibility, Disassembly and Replaceability
	Recommendations
		Recommendation 1: Improving Design Education to Contribute to Circular Economy Goals
		Recommendation 2: Improving Consumer Education and Disclosure Related to Design and Repairability
		Recommendation 3: The Need for Stricter Design Regulation
	Conclusion
	References
5 “We Not Only Repair Our Devices, But Also Our Relationship With Them”: Repair-Led Designing at the Restart Parties in Barcelona
	Introduction
	Theoretical Framework: Repair-Led Designing and Design-Led Repairing
	Methodology: A Design Ethnographic Approach with Restarters Barcelona
	Analysis: An Empirical Enquiry of the Qualitative Impact of Restart Parties
	Opening and Unpacking (Material and Epistemic) Black Boxes
	Post-growth Economies of Sufficiency and Caring Practices for Traumatised Ecologies
	Togetherness: Commoning Knowledge for Collective Response-Abilities
	Discussion: Repair-Led Design as a Techno-Political Resistance for Hopeful Futures
	Conclusion
	Competing Interests
	Ethics Approval
	References
Part III Design/Repair: Decolonial Approaches
6 Are We Repairing Soils and Each Other Here? Exploring Design Cosmotechnics in the Waste Age
	Introduction
	Background: Situating Cosmotechnics in Repair-Led Design
	Methods: Advancing Discourse Using (Multispecies) Ethnography
	Encountering Soil Cultivators in Hong Kong
	Growing with Soil or Without
	The Stuff of Life, Intimately Shared
	Findings: Cosmotechnic Characteristics to Advance Design
	Discussion: Enablers of Cosmotechnics
	Conclusion
	References
7 Relational Repair: Co-designing an Approach to Place-Based Circularity with an Ethic of Care
	Preface
	The Status Quo: A Care-less Economy
	Overview of the Co-design Project
	Positionality and Participation
	A Novel Mashup of Methodological Processes
	Contextualising Circularity in Interconnected Systems
	An Ethic of Care to Underpin Circular Economy Community Hubs
	The Importance of a Relational Approach to Circularity
	The Emergence of Citizen-led Pluriversal Circular Economies
	Healing Through Ontologically Oriented Co-design
	Concluding Remarks: Towards Citizen-led Systemic Repair
	References
Part IV Community-Led and Placed-Based Design/Repair
8 Commoning Repair: Framing a Community Response to Transitioning Waste Economies
	Introduction: Repair, Circularity and the Local Scale
	The Circular Economy Opportunity
	Commoning Repair
	Commoning Repair in Western Sydney
		Parramatta: The Missing Middle of ‘Third-Party’ Repairers
		Canterbury-Bankstown: Cultural Dynamics of Reuse, Repair and Share
	Summative Findings: Framing a Community Response to Transitioning Waste Economies
	References
9 Community Resilience by Repair: Skilling At-Risk Youth for Social Impact and Environmental Sustainability
	Introduction: Repair as a Wholistic Approach Toward Community Resilience
	The Maryborough ‘Creative Industries, Social Enterprise, Repair and Restoration (CISERR)’ Initiative
	Methodological Design
	Findings: Reflections on and Evaluation of the CISERR Program
		Workshops
		Interview Themes
	Discussion: Care and Social Resilience Stemming from Repair
	References
10 From Roadside Detritus to Communities Painting Pet Portraits: Some Things I Have Learnt About Repair
	Introduction
	Some Background and Context: A Brief Account of Studio-Based Craft and Design
	Praxis 1: Design is Waste Is Design (2022)
	Praxis 2: The Pet Project (2020–Present)
	Reflection: Some Things I Have Learnt
	References
Part V A Discussion About Design/Repair
11 Roundtable: A Discussion About Design/Repair
	References
Index