This workshop sets out to illuminate the art of repair and in particular the notion that creative repair can add character and value to cherished but damaged possessions
As we address global waste output and the need to rethink our relationship to objects, this workshop embraces our attachment to things and explores how creative repair can both preserve meaning and breathe new life into our possessions. In place of a mindset that replaces something that is no longer of use with something new, we should, instead, encourage a repair culture.
Presented by An Mheitheal Rothar, Urban Lab Galway and the AATE Design Lab
For the workshop, members of the public have been invited to submit broken objects – or objects that have seen some repair - accompanied by the story of why they are attached to them. Everything will be returned to the owners.
Workshop leader: Paul O'Donnell, An Mheitheal Rothar