Repair Acts – Programme

School of Art, Rm OC25
Bower Ashton, Kennel Lodge Rd
Bristol BS3 2JT

2025

Screening: Turning the Collar IMC Cinema, Lakepoint, Ireland, N91 FE48

Screening of the documentary *Turning the Collar*. Set in the midlands of Ireland the documentary follows a journey across the county of Westmeath, where twenty craft, restoration, and repair professionals share their stories. Screening followed by a Q&A.

International Repair Day 78 Broadmead, Bristol BS1 3DS

Free Mending & Fixing Workshops, Specialists & Expert Repair Advice, Talks & Screenings. Taking place at Sparks. All Events Free. [Download Full Programme](file: file://kfzvpjszqrxopjlp)

re:pair jam / Winchester

Launching the first of our re:pair jam series – collaborative and interdisciplinary events at which you learn not just how to technically fix or mend an object but also how to research an objects form, aesthetics and place in pop culture and history. The first event will take place as part of Green

The Internet of Dead Things / Book Launch

The Internet of Dead Things, mini-book launch at No School, Nevers. Constructed as a series of long and short form essays that took the French network system Minitel, as a starting point. Based on the work of the former artist, Jérôme Saint-Clair, in collaboration with the cultural producer, educato

The Garden and The Hedge / KUBU / Finland

Connecting to our work in Repair Acts. The Garden and The Hedge is Kulturhus Björkboda’s (KUBU) inaugural international summer exhibition and programme, developed in partnership with Repair Acts, founder Teresa Dillon. Across the three-month programme, over 35 artists, designers, engineers, scholars

Berlin Fieldtrip

Field trip in Berlin, visiting Floating University and Haus der Materialisierung with MA architect students ÉNSA Versailles and tutors Thom Charli, Repair Acts, Bristol Repair Coalition Teresa Dillon, Mark Jacobs Felipe Fonseca), colleagues from University of the West of England and Winchester Schoo

2024

Weaving Narratives of Care and Repair / Panel Discussion at Alliance Graphique Internationale (AGI) / Basel

Weaving Narratives of Care and Repair in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction, invited panel presentation at Alliance Graphique Internationale (AGI), 29th Sept-4th Oct

International Repair Day / 2024

Various events taking place across the globe. Find out what is happening in Bristol and map your event here!

Putting Share and Repair on the Map!

As part of International Repair Day, 2024 and to mark launching a new Library of Things at UWE Bristol’s Frenchay Campus, the UWE MAKERS showcases the thriving community repair cafes taking place around Bristol each month with a new map. The digital tool is a partnership with Share Bristol to showca

Bristol Repair Coalition

#2 Established Bristol Repair Coalition, with this second meeting setting in place a monthly meet up with partners including: Bristol City Council, Bristol Waste, UWE, MAKERS, Materials In Mind, Global Goals Challenge, We Can Make, and Bristol Repair Cafe Network Members.

Matters of Material Maintenance / Keynote at Durham Institute of Energy

Invited keynote talk, Durham Institute of Energy, Durham University.

Nets of Interdependence: Practices Of Healing / Recovery and Repair / Panel Discussion at Esc Return

Panel discussion with Elke Krasny, Kathleen Bomani, Cristina Flores Pescorán, Teresa Dillon & Gilly Karjevsky, Esc Return, Scripts for Degrowth, Buen Vivir and living otherwise, Panke Gallery, Berlin.

Turning the Collar Screening at Esc Return / Scripts for Degrowth / Buen Vivir and Living Otherwise

As part of Esc Return, Scripts for Degrowth, Buen Vivir and Living Otherwise, Panke Gallery, Berlin.

Repair Acts: A Manuel For Pluralistic Endeavours / Online Discussion at DCRC

Reuse, Spring Lecture Series, Institute Digital Communication Environments, The Basel Academy of Art and Design FHNW, Switzerland

Bristol Repair Coalition Launch

Workshop and sharing, launching the Bristol Repair Coalition at DesignWest, Bristol.

Three Works of Gean & Aire / Film Screening at Watershed / Bristol

Three Works of Gean & Aire, Film Screening of Go Deo (2022), They Gathered Rushes (2023) & Turning the Collar (2022) on care, repair, tending, landscapes and entanglement at the Watershed Cinema Bristol, followed by discussion.

The Links and Loops between Material Matters & Techno-Civic Arrangements

Digital Cultures Research Centre, UWE, Seminar Series Discussion, 13-14.00.

Repair and eWaste Panel Discussion

Repair Acts, “Digital Dialogue Series” , International Civic Society Centre, Berlin’s and Civic Tech Africa, 1st Feb, 16-17.00 CET **online here

2023

Developing the circular economy around repair and reuse in Bristol, Global Goals, workshop bringing together key city activists, council members and business.

Turning the Collar / Screening at FixFest

Fixfest is a regular global gathering of repairers and tinkerers, activists, policy-makers, thinkers, educators and companies from all over the world. This year the community met in Cardiff, Wales. Organised by The Restart Project and Repair Cafe Wales in collaboration with the Community Repair Netw

Turning the Collar / Screening at Climate Care

‘Turning the Collar’, Documentary on repair cultures. Screening at Climate Care, Floating University, Berlin.

MAKERS & Repair Acts Presentations / UWE

Repair Acts, presentation and sharing, alongside colleagues Dr. Laura Fogg-Rogers and Kat Corbett, from MAKERS (Making and Knowledge Exchange for Repair and Sustainability), UWE sharing work on repair research and practice. Events also included the launch of UWE’s Climate Education Course.

Direct Action for Repair / Talk and Workshop / No School

Direct Action for Repair, Talk and Workshop at No School, Never, France. Two week summer school, held in Nevers, Burgundy, aimed at students, artists, designers, makers, hackers, activists and educators who wish to further their skills and engage in critical research around the social and environmen

Go Deo (forever) / Video and Sound installation

“Go Deo (forever)” ritual video triptych and sound installation that pays respect to the loss of the Rannoch-Rush, a flowering plant that grew in parts of midlands bogs in Ireland and is now extinct. Showing at LUAN Gallery, Athlone as part of the group exhibition, ‘Athrú, an Invocation’. Opening 1s

My Hardware / my Choice!

Connecting with the 10th anniversary celebrations of the Global Innovation Gathering (GIG), discussing repair practices across the north and global south. Panel with Cory Doctorow, Martin Oloo, Max Voigt, Open Knowledge Foundation Germany.

Turning the Collar at ReKindle Festival of Lost Skills

Turning the Collar screening as part of Common Knowledge, Ennistymon, Co. Clare, Ireland. Screenings will take place on Thur, 11th at 20.30 The Courthouse Gallery & Studios and at Ennistymon Community Centre on Sunday, 17th at 15.15 and 16.15.

Undergraduate Research Symposium / UWE

Inspiring to share perspectives with UWE students, whose work has been exploring ideas of ending, crashes, trash and dystopian narratives across fashion, film, comics and image making. Thanks to Jenny Rintoul and colleagues in Visual Cultures for organising.

MA Design / UWE

Seminar session with MA Design students at UWE, where we discussed the role of repair in relation to thinking about design skills and manufacturing.

Rose of Jericho

Rose of Jericho is a leading manufacturer and supplier of materials used for the conservation, repair and decoration of traditional and historic buildings. Based in Dorchester, we went the visit the company to learn more about their repair based work and approach to making traditional limewash and d

2022

Repair / Consumption and Sustainability Development Goals

Talk by Dr. Alma Clavin, as part of Repair Acts, Ireland to students at St. Angela’s Home Economics School, Sligo, focusing on literature on repair studies, links to policy and practice around skills, waste and the circular economy.

Repair / Consumption and the Sustainability Development Goals

Talk by Dr. Alma Clavin, as part of Repair Acts, Ireland to students at the National University of Ireland, Galway, who are taking a university-wide sustainability module.

Arán & Im is a theatrical performance in which Manchán Magan bakes sourdough bread for 70 minutes while offering insights into the wonders of the Irish language – exploring potent words of landscape, terms of intuition and insight, and the many phrases that bring to life the mysterious glory of our

Fun Mends With Noelle

Lead by educator and sensory facilitator Noelle Dunne and ideal workshop for those busy little fingers (3-6yrs), who enjoying craft activities that use and recycle everyday materials.

Furniture Uplift / Chalk Paint Workshop with Handmade Design

Learn how to transform a drab piece of furniture into a fabulous new piece using chalk paint. This workshop is ideal for anyone who wants to build their confidence and wet their toes but do not know how to approach a furniture repair or mend.

Of Mortars and Stone Walls Part 2: Dry stone walling workshop with O’Dwyer Masonry and Anú Heritage

Second part of this two-day workshop with stonemasons Neil O’Dwyer and David Corrigan (O’Dwyer Masonry) and conservation consultant Caroline Gethings (Anú Heritage).

Pocket Forests Demonstration

Learn how to enhance and restore the biodiversity in your area with the Pocket Forest team, who have created a method of planting native trees, shrubs and wildflowers in small urban areas adapted from the work of Japanese botanist Akira Miyawake.

Pop-Up Bike Repair Demos With Kenny

Pop-Up Bike Repair Demos With Kenny. Taking the fear out of fixing a bike puncture or changing a chain. Aimed at adults. participants should bring their bikes and tools to work and learn alongside. Hosted by Kenny’s Bi-cyle Shop.

Restoration of Ardan Wood / Woodland Walk

Ardan Wood is a beautiful woodland in Co. Westmeath, Ireland. It is in the shape of a crescent and the middle field and surrounding fields have recently been purchased by the Native Woodland Trust. Staff of the Native Woodland Trust will guide the walk and discussion, which shares the ways in which

Working with broken electronic toys, TokTek and guests take you on a sonic journey that transforms that broken, glitchy toy into a sonic, art object. Eight parent-child spaces available, ideal for ages 12-17yrs.

Jiminy Toy Repair Café

Bring your torn soft toys, snapped plastic toys, burst inflatables and “missing a piece” toys to eco toystore Jiminy ‘Toy Repair Café’. Jiminy will diagnose your toy’s problem and demonstrate how to repair it.

Lace Affair / Irish Lace Mending Workshop with Fiona Harrington

Working with ideas of the broken and fractured artist Fiona Harrington works with Irish lace techniques to create contemporary reparative objects. Join Fiona for a workshop where you can learn the basic of needle lace and the lace making process.

Meet At the Bridge / Walking Tour of Kilbeggan’s Industrial Heritage

Author of the ‘Little Book of Westmeath’ (2016) historian and tour guide, Ruth Illingworth provides her take on Kilbeggan’s rich industrial heritage. From the role the River Brosna played in powering flour mills and distillery wheels, to the history of whiskey making and cooperage, to the architectu

Of Mortars and Stone Walls Part 1: Dry stone walling workshop with O’Dwyer Masonry and Anú Heritage

Have you ever thought about restoring an old building, or mending a traditional dry stone wall? Many people have but are not clear on how to approach such heritage builds or how best to solve questions relating to material rules and regulations. Demystifying such processes, join us for this two-day,

Caring for Repairing Exhibition Opening / The Repair Declaration Chat & “Turning the Collar” Premiere

Situated in the minimalist surrounds of St James Hall our exhibition, ‘Caring For Repairing’ is a 4-day event that celebrates the work of the Repair Acts, Ireland team. Located in the midlands town of Kilbeggan’s, the opening event, kicks off with series of responses from invited guests to our ‘Repa

Once We Are Farmers

The farming community has been at the heart of repair activism for the last decade with key cases, particularly in the US providing precedent for change. This prelude conversation to our weekend exhibition and Féile will kick off with what ways Irish Farmers can enhance the repairability of their ma

Storytelling and Declaration Workshop with Men’s Shed Moate

Listening and gathering stories of repair from the members of this active midlands group and their views on what would be included in a ‘Repair Declaration’ for the county.

Tactile and Critical Making

Tactile and critical media broadly refers to a number of approaches within art and design that bring together activism, network technologies and collaborative modes of making to comment on mainstream media forms. With the intention to create imaginative alternatives and playful views on the way in w

A History of Repair in County Westmeath with Robin Ferguson

As part of the national Heritage Week programme, our Repair Acts Ireland researcher Robin Ferguson will be presenting archival work, which traces the history of repair in the County. The repair professions, and repair skills of those that came before us may trigger our own thoughts on how we incorpo

Make and Repair Your Own Bodhrán with Paraic McNeela

Paraic McNeela has been crafting bodhráns since 1978 and sold his first hand made instrument via his fathers news agency in the East Wall, Dublin. Join us on Saturday August 6th from 14-17.00 for a workshop session with Paraic on how to “Make your own Bodhrán”. For at the Fleadh Cheoil, Mullingar Pa

Vintage Amp Repair and Care with Bob Leadbeater

Delighted to welcome a longtime friend and collaborator of Repair Acts, Bob Leadbeater to the Fleadh Cheoil Westmeath. The largest annual celebration of Irish music, language, song and dance, the Fleadh attracts some 500,000 visitors. In partnership with Westmeath County Council, we will be particip

How To Build A Repair Declaration

Do you think we should have walk-in mobile repair units in every town and village? Do you think we should make repairing things, fun, easy and accessible or that we should give VAT or tax breaks on repaired goods? Should we make International Repair Day a major day in Ireland for celebrating our rep

Storytelling and Declaration Workshop with the Irish Wheelchair Association

Connecting to the vibrant network that is the Irish Wheelchair Association (IWA), we will be hosting a number of ‘Storytelling and Declaration’ workshops in County Westmeath for IWA members. Gathering stories, histories, ‘how-to’ tips and motivations for repairing things, we will be capturing this c

Dave Kavanagh has over 40 years of experience in the construction industry and has worked at the Rediscovery Centre in Ireland for over four years. He originally trained as a carpenter and joiner and he currently oversees the Rediscover Paint programme. The Rediscover Paint programme takes donated p

Discovery Session

Would you like to find out more about Repair Acts Ireland? Visit our stand at the Athlone Agricultural Show. We are interested in all kinds of repair e.g. buildings, farm machinery, household objects. Be part of Ireland’s first Repair Declaration, a set of actions and statements that we can get behi

Eternally Yours / Somerset House / Exhibition / London

Repair Acts will be taking part in Somerset House, London exhibition Eternally Yours (16th June-25th Sept 2022), a free exhibition exploring ideas around care, repair and healing. Showcasing diverse examples of creative reuse, from historical samples of the Japanese art of Kintsugi and Boro, which e

Repair Acts Ireland / Storytelling and Declaration Workshop / Streamstown

Gathering stories, histories, ‘how-to’ tips and motivations for repairing things, we will be hosting a mending and fixing workshop with the ICA, Mullingar, Streamstown guild from 20.30-21.30.

Repair Acts / Ireland / Family Storytelling Workshops / Mullingar

As part of the Repair Acts, Ireland summer programme and the Westmeath-Cruinniú na nÓg (Ireland’s free day of activities for under 18yr olds), we will be hosting two “Family Storytelling Workshops” in Mullingar Library. Workshop one will run from 10.30-11.30; workshop two will run 12.00-13.30.

Repair Acts / Ireland / Storytelling and Declaration Workshop / Horseleap

Gathering stories, histories and ‘how-to’ tips and motivations for repairing things, we will be turning into and to Horseleap, Streamstown guild of the ICA, running a workshop with them from 20.30-21.30.

Repair Acts / Ireland / Storytelling Workshop with Órla Mc Govern / Kilbeggan

We are delighted to be working with storyteller Órla Mc Govern, who we will be collaborating with us on a workshop at St James Hall Kilbeggan. Leading us through a number story share exercises, we will be exploring individual and collective stories around the repair of objects and associated memorie

Repair Acts / Ireland / Family Storytelling Workshop / Castlepollard

Family, intergenerational storytelling workshop at Castlepollard Library on Thursday May 19th from 3-4pm. We welcome all grandparents, parents and children to share their stories of a much loved object that you have repaired. For the workshop, please bring a picture or an object of a repaired or bro

Repair Acts / Ireland / Storytelling Workshop / Castlepollard

As part of Westmeath County Council Biodiversity Week we will be running for 18yrs+ ‘Storytelling & Declaration” workshop at Castlepollard Library on Thursday May 19th from 6.30-8pm.

Repair Acts Ireland / Family Storytelling Workshop / Athlone

Join us for a family, intergenerational storytelling workshop at Athlone Library on Tuesday May 17th from 3-4pm. We welcome all grandparents, parents and children to share their stories of a much loved object that you have repaired. For the workshop, please bring a picture or an object of a repaired

Repair Acts / Ireland / Storytelling & Declaration Workshop / Hill of Uisneach

We will be running our first face-to-face storytelling workshop at The Bealtaine Fire Celebration, which takes place on the Hill of Uisneach. Add your voice to how we can make Ireland more repair-minded and bring along a picture of a repaired object and we will upload it to our website, with each st

WIRED OCEAN: MATERIALITY AND GEOPOLITICS OF THE CLOUD / Panel Conversation / Berlin

As part of C/O Berlin presents Songs of the Sky an exhibition on photography and the cloud. The panel WIRED OCEAN: MATERIALITY AND GEOPOLITICS OF THE CLOUD, invites Teresa Dillon and artists Evan Roth and Mario Santamaría to discuss their works in relation to the topic of the internets environmental

TALES OF CARE & REPAIR / Hand Stitching Workshop / Bristol

Have the moths eaten your jumpers? Have the kids ripped their jeans? Is there a stain on your t-shirt? Do your socks have holes? Share your skills & learn new ones. Together we will repair the holes, make patches, make your repairs beautiful. All hand sewing. All materials provided – just bring your

TALES OF CARE & REPAIR / Publication Launch / Bristol

TALES OF CARE & REPAIR is a crowd-sourced collection of photographs, interviews, events and stories about the objects we repair everyday. From Feb 2021-Feb 2022 over 700 stories of everyday repaired were gathered through a comprehensive programme of activities that included a number of workshops, on

Repair Acts / Ireland / Discovery Workshops / Online

Repair Acts, Ireland Discovery Sessions are online evenings, where people can share your stories of repairing, fixing and mending things and find out about our project intentions and approach. Facilitators: Teresa Dillon & Alma Clavin

Repair Acts / Ireland / Discovery Workshop / Online

Repair Acts, Ireland Discovery Sessions are online evenings, where people can share your stories of repairing, fixing and mending things and find out about our project intentions and approach. Facilitators: Teresa Dillon & Alma Clavin

Tales of Care and Repair / LOOK CLIMATE LAB 2022 / Open Eye Gallery / Liverpool

TALES OF CARE & REPAIR will be taking part in Open Eye Gallery’s Look Climate Lab (13th Jan-20th March, 2022).Look Climate Lab asks the question, what are the images that we think of when we think of climate change, and what is our social responsibility when it comes to reshaping this visual narrati

2021

Tales of Care & Repair / Closing Symposium / Day 2 / Online

On the 8th and 9th of November, we celebrate the wrap up of the TALES OF CARE & REPAIR project. Sharing with you our learnings, views, stories, declarations and journey over the last 10 months (Feb-Nov 2021). Reaching out to our collaborators, colleagues, project partners and inspiring repair practi

Tales of Care & Repair / Closing Symposium / Day 1 / Online

On the 8th and 9th of November, we celebrate the wrap up of the TALES OF CARE & REPAIR project. Sharing with you our learnings, views, stories, declarations and journey over the last 10 months (Feb-Nov 2021). Reaching out to our collaborators, colleagues, project partners and inspiring repair practi

Tales of Care & Repair / A Thing of Beauty / Exhibition / London

City of London and British Council have selected TALES OF CARE AND REPAIR and other Creative Commissions awardees to be part of the City of London Corporation’s Outdoor Arts Programme A Thing of Beauty. Commemorating the bicentenary of the death of the poet John Keats and celebrating beauty, which w

Tales of Care & Repair / Repairing is Caring / Community Workshop / The Pickle Factory / Bristol

What does repair mean to you? If it’s broken do you throw it away or fix it? Do you fix things for a living? Come and share your stories of repair, from professional to DIY and failed attempts. What does it mean to foster a repair-centred neighbourhood? What would we need? What would it mean in term

Tales of Care & Repair / Repair cafe / Zero Waste Week / Belo Horizonte

As part of the activities of the Zero Waste Week in Casa Branca village (municipality of Brumadinho), Tales of Care and Repair and Gambiologia in collaboration with Cabra Institute will organize the first repair cafe ever in the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais. The event will be held with the partic

Tales of Care & Repair / Fixes in the Shanty Town / Belo Horizonte

Repairing things is a positive practice in several ways: it helps us save money, keep the objects we like for longer, it is a gesture of creativity and, finally, it helps to preserve the environment, generating less garbage and less waste. This workshop will discuss repair practices, how they can be

Tales of Care & Repair / Designing Repair-Centred Futures / Stories and Declaration Part B / Student Workshop UWE / Bristol

Working with undergraduate graphic design students at the University of the West of England. The second part of this two-day workshop will focus collating the material generated during Part A. Students will work towards generating posters that summarise the stories they inputted into the “Tales of C

Soft Agency / Copenhagen Architecture Festival / Landscapes of Care / Copenhagen

In the making of Copenhagen Architecture Festival’s 2021 edition Landscapes of Care, asked Soft Agency to curate a collection for their online Journal that would help expand our understanding of the notion of ‘care’ in relation to architecture and urban space. The work carried out by Soft Agency mem

Tales of Care & Repair / What Does It Mean to Care and Repair? Public Seminar / International Repair Day

Join us on International Repair Day for the conversation with geographer and co-ordinator of Repair Acts, Ireland Dr Alma Clavin and artist and researcher Monai de Paula Antunes on “What Does It Mean to Care and Repair?”. Drawing on the work of Amartya Sen ‘Commodities and Capabilities’, Irish geogr

Tales of Care & Repair / Repair Stories and Declaration / Community Workshop / Knowle West Media Centre / Bristol

How do the everyday efforts to repair objects affect our relationship with them? Sharing stories of such effort and effect, we join forces with Knowle West Media Centre, who for over twenty-five years have been supporting people to make positive changes in their lives and communities, using technolo

Tales of Care & Repair / Towards a Repair Culture / Workshop / Brazil/Online

The climate emergency requires us to rethink consumption, as well as the relationship between human beings and nature, also considering social spaces. To extend life on the planet, it is essential that societies increasingly encourage practices of reuse of materials and the regeneration of the envir

Tales of Care & Repair / Designing Repair-Centred Futures / Stories and Declaration Part A / Student Workshop / UWE / Bristol

The second part of a two-day workshop with UWE students focusing on sharing stories of repaired objects. Students will bring to the session three photographs – one of professionally repaired objects, the second a self/DIY repair and the third a failed repair. As part of the students ‘Professional Pr

Tales of Care & Repair / How can we foster repair cultures in Bristol? Green Mingle / Bristol Green Capital Partnership

How can a city become more repair-orientated? What does this mean? Is it possible to foster new ways of thinking about how we repair the objects that we consume and use every day on a city level? Can we co-construct a city wide repair-mind set and what form would “Repair and Care Declaration” for Br

Tales of Care & Repair / Building Repair-Centred Neighbourhoods / INSPIRE Talk / Knowle West Media Centre / Bristol

What does it mean to create land build repair-centred neighbourhoods? Does it mean accessibility to trusted repair professionals? Or easy access to spare parts or community fabrication labs, where you can make the bits and bobs that you need? Does it mean knowing what to do or getting advise on how

Tales of Care & Repair / Stitch It Don’t Ditch It: Stories and Declaration / Student Workshop / UWE / Bristol

Working with undergraduate Fashion and Textile students at the School of Art and Design at the University of the West of England, the first part of this workshop will focus on the pleasures and necessity of care and repair. Exploring what repair means the first part of “Stitch It Don’t Ditch It” wil

MINERAL COMPRESSION / Berlin

MINERAL COMPRESSION, Pop-pop-kultur, Berlin, 27th Sept, Berlin

Tales of Care & Repair / Workshop / New Delhi

The second part of a two-part workshop, Care to Repair? is open to students across India. The workshop focuses on reconsidering, fading cultures of repair in New Delhi and India by raising awareness and discussing with students, what values lie behind the act of repairing. Emphasises will be placed

Tales of Care & Repair / The Meta Repair Warehouse / Brazil/Online

LAB Procomum is a laboratory of citizen innovation in the center of Santos-Brazil, located in the neighbourhood of the city’s repair shops and flea markets. The Galpão Ateliê (“Workshop Warehouse”) – one of the spaces in the cultural center – was occupied by the Traquitanas e Invenções (“Conceptions

Tales of Care & Repair / Repair and Reparation / Seminar / Brazil/Online

The seminar aims to expand the understanding of repair practices in Brazil and their implications in art, environment, economy and society, articulating such practices in light of the environmental emergency and the need to re-found the way humanity relates to objects and materials. The guests’ dist

Calling Into The Now / Conversation / Berlin

Third part of the work Calling Into the Now, took the form of a conversation on post-human legalities that was hosted by Climate Care with Teresa Dillon, Caroline Frank (legal scholar) and Jakob Walter (researcher).

Tales of Care and Repair / The Art and Ecology of Care & Repair / Seminar / New Delhi

As part of Tales of Care & Repair, Toxics Link (moderator Ravi Agarwal) host a discussion on past and present cultures of repair in India and their relationship to climate change. The seminar brings together circle economy policy experts, artists, environmental scientists and scholars together to ex

Tales of Care & Repair / Inventory Workshop / Belo Horizonte

One of the criteria for storing or discarding objects is their proper functioning (or not). Fixing things – whether by hiring a professional or by hand – can be a cost-effective and creative way to extend the life of objects we like. This workshop will discuss how the practice of repairs can be valu

Tales of Care & Repair / Repair Economy Workshop / Belo Horizonte

The climate emergency requires us to rethink consumption, as well as the relationship between human beings and nature and social spaces. To extend life on the planet, it is essential that societies increasingly encourage practices of reuse of materials and the regeneration of the environment. This w

Architecture After Architecture / Conversation with MOULD / Online

What happens to architecture after the climate emergency undoes its foundational assumptions of growth, extraction, and progress? The current moment demands a thorough reconsideration of our collective ways of being in the world. This talk will introduce a series of premises that inform the ongoing

Talk & Workshop / No School / Nevers

Continuing contribution to the yearly No School programme. Supporting students projects, speaking about repair, care and maintenance cultures and hosting workshop on guided visualisation mediations and technology.

Call Into the Now / Guided Visualisation Mediation Workshop / Berlin

Call Into the Now, Guided Visual Mediation, Workshop at Floating University, 28th June, 10-13.00, Berlin as part of Climate Care. This workshop focused on visualising the life cycle of the reeds that surround the Floating University site. Interpretations of which were used to form the bases for the

Prototyping AI ethics futures: Data / AI and environment / Online

Online moderated conversation for JUST AI, as part of the Ada Lovelace Institute programme on 22 June, 13-14.30. Without big data, we can’t describe ‘a climate’. As individuals, we are nevertheless entreated to minimise data consumption in order to consume less energy. Yet on a global scale data-bas

Repair Acts / Ireland / Storytelling & Declaration Workshop / Mullingar

Connecting to the vibrant network that is the Irish Countrywomen’s Association (ICA) we will be hosting a number of ‘Storytelling and Declaration’ workshops with the Westmeath Federation over May and June 2022. Gathering stories, histories, ‘how-to’ tips and motivations for repairing things, we will

Stream If You Want to Die Faster / Podcast

Stream If You Want to Die Faster is a podcast for Container Magazine that discusses the true costs of streaming that explores the environmental impact of data streaming who who should be responsible for it. Is it ‘big tech’ or the individual at fault? What options do we have for positive data future

Data / Climate Change and Environmental Justice / Online

What is the relationship between, data climate change, ecocide and environmental justice? Discussing this complex and thorny issue, we invite colleagues from across the global, to share their thoughts and practices. Conversation hosted by Teresa Dillon as part of Data, Climate Change and Environment

Tales of Care & Repair / Care to Repair / Sashiko Workshop / Open Eye Gallery / Liverpool

In this hands-on workshop you will learn simple techniques to repair your clothes. This workshop is for all levels of skill and experience, no sewing experience is necessary. Come and share your skills and learn new ones. Bring an item of clothing that you would like to repair – a jumper with a hole

Empires and Ecologies of the Cloud / Berlin

How can platform capitalism’s extractivist model of networks be confronted and decolonized? Scholar of environmental media Mél Hogan and critical internet theorist Ulises A. Mejias analyze the ecological and social costs of big data infrastructure and connectivity. Challenging the colonial and ecosy

2020

Liquid Loss / Conversation & Workshop

Liquid Loss, Conversation & Workshop Online as part of Remembrance Day For Lost Species, 6 Dec

Repair Economies: Creating restorative futures

Buy less, choose well, make it last’. Vivienne Westwood (2014) Westwood’s call to action echoes a growing trend within art and design practices to move away from “constant consumption”. Viewing this move within the broader context of degrowth and diverse economies this talk explores notions of repai

2019

In Your Aerial / Bristol

Established in the early 2000s, Bristol Wireless is a community network with an unqiue history and exciting new future. Developed so as to provide free Internet services to schools and community centers across central Bristol. As commercial Internet provision became the norm, the network became a si

Infrastructure as Commons / Neglected Histories of Community Networks in Bristol

Keynote panel presentation at “Commoning the Creative City” Creativity, Cities, Knowledge, Watershed, Bristol, 12th Sept 2019 on the care, repair and maintenance of community Internet networks with a focus on Wireless Bristol.

The Force Majeure: Selected readings on climate change / Berlin

Selected readings on climate change, performed at Climate, Care, Floating University, Berlin.

No School / Nevers

Inaugural year for NØ SCHOOL NEVERS 2022 (1-14th July) – unique international summer school, held in Nevers, in Burgundy, aimed at students, artists, designers, makers, hackers, activists and educators who wish to further their skills and engage in critical research around the social and environment

Formats of Care / Conversation and Workshop / Berlin

FORMATS OF CARE was a two part conference of feminist practitioners that took place in Vienna and Berlin in May and June 2019. What makes a format a format of care? The conference relates to the associated curatorial project, developed by Rosario Talevi, Gilly Karjevsky and Elke Krasny and their wo

My Square Mile / Galway

My Square Mile is a pilot study into the history of repair and maintenance businesses in a square mile around Bedminster, Bristol. The project maps changes in businesses that deal with repair and maintenance from 1938 to 2018. Panel co-convenor on “Repair” and paper presentation at 7th EUGEO Congres

Dancing with the Dog: Interspecies cadence and urban life / Cardiff

Invited lecture at the Environmental Justice Research Unit, Cardiff Uni, 14th May. This paper looks to how contemporary artists such Terike Haapoja, Maja Smrekar, Laurie Anderson and others are listening, caring, attending and attuning to the nuanced understandings of our interspecies relationships.

Repair Acts: Care / Reuse and Maintenance Cultures / Berlin

Following on from our conversation at re:publica, Accra, Teresa Dillon and Amanortey Kisseih continue the conversation at re:publica, Berlin (7-8th May, 2019) on how artists are producing ‘urgent eco-critical stories’ that reimagine repair and its associated cultures.

RADMIN – A Festival of Administration / Bristol

Performing MC role at the gala dinner of RADMIN Britain’s first Festival of Administration three event including receptions, discussions, dinners, provocations and office parties.

Curricula Meeting / Bristol

International meeting on developing repair, care & maintenance curricula with presentations from Ben Gaulon, Rosario Talevi, Alma Clavin and Sarah Chave.

International Network Meeting & Conversation / Bristol

One-day symposium at CREATE, Centre for Sustainability Bristol. The event brings together national and international artists, scholars, policy makers, designers, engineers, architects and social entrepreneurs to discuss a series an interrelated questions relating to topics of repair, care and mainte

Repair Acts / Exhibition / Bristol

The Repair Acts Exhibition emerges from on-going dialogues among network members, as well as early-stage research into the history of repair business in Bristol and prior research on mending practices in the South West of England. The work exhibited focuses on labour practices, the aesthetics of fai

eWaste Workshop with Ben Gaulon / Bristol

Moore’s law dictates that the complexity of computer chips doubles each 18 months. This causes a rapid decrease in the value of existing electronics. Thus, the dark side of technological progress is the production of endless amounts of electronic waste: e-waste. Although the economic value of obsole

What Remains Workshop with Marloes de Valk / Bristol

This workshop deals with the things we don’t get to repair and possible responses to this. Amazon destroys unsold items at a massive scale, according to an undercover report from French M6’s Capital. Earlier a similar report came from German Frontal 21 TV show summer 2018. Waste turned out to be fin

2018

Repair Acts: Care / Reuse and Maintenance Cultures / re:publica / Accra

Teresa Dillon in conversation with artist Amanortey Kisseih at re:publica, Accra on how artists are producing ‘urgent eco-critical stories’ that reimagine repair and its associated cultures. Followed by a Q+A with Amanortey Kisseih, who worked with Accra locals and assisted in the production of the

Repair Archive Workshop / London

Hosted by Helena Byrne, Curator of Web Archives and Stella Wisdom, Digital Curator, Contemporary British Collections at the British Library. This workshop provided an introductory overview on how to set up the Repair Archive using the Libraries archive system.

Repair Curriculum / Bath

Building on our work in Bristol and New Delhi, this student workshop focused on mapping repair activity in Bath City Centre. Drawing on archival work in the Bath Records Office and ethnographic fieldwork, choosing a more in-depth examination of specific repair practices in-situ. This fieldwork culmi

Repair Conversations / Penryn

Coordinated by Professory Caitlin De Silvey, in association with the University of Exeter’s Environment and Sustainability Institute. Guest speakers included Stefano Pascucci, ESI Professor in Sustainability and Circular Economy, on ‘Community, Circularity and Innovative Practice’, and Peter Halswel

Visible Mending Exhibition / Penryn

Curated by Steven Bond, the “Visible Mending” exhibition drew on a previous AHRC-funded project led by the University of Exeter. From 2010-12, team of three researchers (two cultural geographers and a photographer) set out to find, visit and document workplaces in the South West where people fix bro

Mapping Repair: Workshop / Penryn

The final part of our 2018 workshop series focused on the craft aspects of our CECE – Critical, Essential, Craft and Economic – axes. Two-day event that opened with a visit to Godolphin House with stone mason and sculptor David Paton providing an overview of the repairs which had taken place on the

After the Revolution…Who’s going to pick up the garbage on Monday morning?* / Berlin

A public conversation about repair cultures and care practices as they relate to architecture and the built environment. With Elke Krasny and Teresa Dillon, moderated by Rosario Talevi. With contemporary urban development agendas primarily driven by fast-paced growth, innovation imperatives and solu

Mapping Repair: Workshop / New Delhi

Addressing critical, essential and economic forms of repair this workshop was the second in a third part series over 2018 that focused broadly on repair, reuse, waste and maintenance cultures in India, namely New Delhi. Alongside mapping areas of knowledge, practice and application, participants wor

Repair Conversations / New Delhi

Delivered in partnership with Urban Hosts. Kaveri Gill [IN]. Academic and author of ‘Of Poverty and Plastic: Scavenging and Scrap Trading Entrepreneurs in India’s Urban Informal Economy‘ discusses the socio-economics of the informal waste collection and recycling sector in India. Vimlendu Jha [IN].

Mapping Repair: Workshop / Bristol

Practitioners from a variety of fields come together to discuss and map critical forms of repair. Guest speakers included the artist Linda Brothwell, whose practice draws on the intersections between repair, care and craft within urban settings. To support our collaborative thinking, workshop partic

Repair Conversations / Bristol

Delivered in partnership with Urban Hosts; speakers included Ravi Agarwal [IN]: Artist, writer, curator and founding director of Toxics Link the environmental NGO who work on chemical safety, toxics, waste and recycling in India, shares his experiences on waste and repair policy. Benjamin Gaulon [FR