My writing unpicks and sheds light on hidden aspects of making.
Catalogue essays and other writings:
The Visual, Physical and Spoken Discourse of Repair for The Department of Repair (2015)
Reimagining The Collection: A large box of loose parts for A Narrative of Progress: The Camberwell ILEA Collection (2018)
Repair-Making and the Museum summarising my V&A residency (2018-19)
Spelman Cups: Attitudes to the Past for Ephemera Journal, Repair Matters issue (2019)
Guest blogposts for The Restart Project:
Hopeful Repair, Repairing Hopefully
The Meaning of Community Repair
Conference papers and other academic writing:
Repair-Making: Craft, Narratives, Activism (PhD thesis)
REPAIR YOUR PRACTICE! Get out of your tower and into the world
(2017)
Published in the 2017 Making Futures conference journal
Key words; repair, studio practice, volunteer work
The Department of Repair: Repairing as Place Making
(2015)
Published in the 2015 Making Futures conference journal
Key words; repair, curation, studio place, reflection place, making place
The Department of Repair; an expanded form of (re)making
(2015)
Key words; repair, curation, knowing known, knowing made, unknowing shown
Breakage and Repair: Cardigan Print
(2014)
Key words; jumpers, print, materials, form, meta mending, sustainability
How Slow Design and Play Theory can Combine to Create a Better Framework for Designers
(2013)
Key Words; slow design, play, mastery, make believe, rules
Is Slow Design a Viable Modern Production Method?
(2010)
Key Words; slowness, temporality, appropriateness, Henri Bergson, manifesto, STEER theory
A Manifesto For Design: How Ecofeminism and Ecosophy could Transform the World
(2009)
Key Words; ecofeminism, ecosophy, hierarchy, zero waste thinking