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Introduction
No full textThe exhaustion of natural resources, climatic disasters and volume of waste we are currently facing, require repair to be at the forefront of design as a first responder. Product longevity and durability, despite being acknowledged as properties to establish in design practice, have not been widely accepted as design standards. At the same time, decolonial, place-based repair approaches led by communities and grassroots initiatives, provide valuable insights into maintenance and restoration. The above conditions invite a profound exploration of how design could become a leading agent of repair; they also evoke an inquiry of existing repair practices grounded in lived experience that could change design theory and practice. This book offers clarity regarding the existing and potential directions of repair, having at their epicentre design as a principal force. Its chapters advance approaches opening design to a diversity of practices, positions and collaborations that are explored through four themes: Design/Repair and Socio-material Conditions; Grassroots Design/Repair Activism; Design/Repair: Decolonial approaches; and Community-led and Placed-based Design/Repair. A roundtable discussion by the editors concludes the book
Milk Bottle Light
No full textThrough practice-led research, local designer/maker Niklavs Rubenis addresses contemporary critical concerns around design, consumption, material culture and waste. Rubenis' exhibition features propositional and prototype furniture and lighting crafted from waste and de-valued resources
Roundtable : a discussion about design/repair
No full textThe roundtable was an opportunity for the editors, as a group of design academics investigating repair, to explore themes raised by the chapters of this book. The exchange of experiences and opinions gathered individual and collective responses concerning design’s relationship to repair, community and grassroots approaches, activism and decoloniality within the context of repair. The conversation started with a question: how can culturally diverse communities contribute to an understanding of repair cultures and design-led repair? The various responses coming from the editors help identify how repair integrates with design in relation to the past, present and future conditions of waste, the burden of maladaptation caused by poor design, and how transdisciplinarity could positively impact design, production and planned obsolescence. The discussion concludes with a shared acknowledgement of repair, in its broader, ontological and expanded sense, being too important to be ignored by governance, legislation and industry. In this context, design researchers must raise the stakes in terms of supporting the sustaining and adaptive role of repair in precarious conditions, globally and locally
Traded Value
No full textBacked by an impressive body of work made by Canberra Institute of Technology apprentices, Niklavs Rubenis argues the case for the value of trade education
Crafting Waste [Exhibition]
No full textThrough practice-based design research and propositional objects, local artist Niklavs Rubenis addresses contemporary critical concerns around consumption, material culture and waste. Rubenis' exhibition features a 'lounge room' setting including furniture and lighting crafted from de-valued resources
Design Is Waste Is Design
No full textExhibition catalogue published to coincide with the exhibition Reclaim at Craft ACT: Craft & Design Centre
In Portfolio SA.NR.0
More than just making stuff
No full textThis item was commisioned by The Australian Council of Deans and Directors of Creative Art
Tin Can Lights P2
No full textTin cans, brass, cord, wood, plastic milk bottle, electrical fittings, wood
Tin cans and milk bottles, to name just two examples from a countless number of things, are excellent specimens of design. They are engineered to have the least amount of possible material yet yield maximum strength; manufactured using efficient technological processes; and designed to fit within a well-oiled global system of transportation. Every day we interact with these examples of human ingenuity, yet it is not the object that is of interest. Rather it is that particular design’s one affordance which holds all of the value: the safe transportation of its contents across the globe. Once consumed, that single affordance ceases to exist and the object is jettisoned to become a member of another exponentially expanding population of design specimens – waste.
My research revolves around how design is problematic and how our domestic spaces bear witness to a ubiquitous daily flow of global transient material. The finite elements that make up this material have been carefully prepared by the earth over thousands of years. Yet the many objects we use are designed to be impermanent applications manufactured from permanent materials, which we are then content to throw away.
‘Designing for sustainability’ often revolves around better ways of producing new stuff. My interests lie in strategies for reimagining that stuff we already have and the role that studio-based craft and design can play within this broader global context. These lights are one example of a simple exercise that attempts to utilise and elevate the status of wasted commodities – goods that have great potential beyond their original intent.
Design is waste is design
Ottoman
No full textfurniture reconstructed from waste found on the side of the road (transformative repair & reuse
Tin Can Lights P1
No full textTin Cans, milk bottle, cord, wood, electrical fittings, LED
Through practice-led research, local designer/maker Niklavs Rubenis addresses contemporary critical concerns around design, consumption, material culture and waste. Rubenis' exhibition features propositional and prototype furniture and lighting crafted from waste and de-valued resources
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