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How can a strategic design project enable ecological reparation in deprived suburban neighbourhoods? Repairing broken social relations, altered subjectivities, depleted imaginaries, unjust politics and uneven economics as well as repairing neighbourhood assets, poor architectures, damaged environments and ultimately participating in repairing the planet, doing all this together with concerned communities – this is the ambitious goal of the R-Urban project initiated by atelier d’architecture autogérée. R-Urban creates possibilities for a commons-based mending ecology through a network of civic hubs in which inhabitants of suburban neighbourhoods can develop resilience practices and create locally closed ecological circuits. Five such hubs have been built since 2011 in Paris and London. The chapter gives a critical account on the successes and failures of this undertaking, trying to demonstrate that commons can be a valid pathway for cities mending ecologies and that architects can facilitate this process.
Ecological Reparation engages with social-environmental degradation by attempting to rethink concepts and practices that may be needed to repair damaged ecologies and to claim reparations for persistent inequities and injustices. The volume brings together a multiplicity of original contributions of international scholars in science and technology studies, environmental studies, ecological humanities, art and design, geography, anthropology and other social sciences exploring a multiplicity of socio-ecological struggles as well as insurgent and inventive modes of conservation, mending, care and empowerment of more than human ecologies.
This chapter is the result of a series of ‘conversations on benches’ between Leila Dawney, a cultural geographer, and Linda Brothwell, an artist, in Bristol during December 2020. Linda is renowned for initiating a repair movement in the arts through her ‘acts of care’, where she performs intricate repairs on objects in public space. Leila and Linda have been collaborating on a new iteration of Linda’s ‘acts of care’ series. This chapter explores the themes of their conversations, including the effect of austerity policies on public objects and spaces, the role of objects in generating a shared life, and our ethical relationships towards objects. It concludes by offering a provocation to care for our shared objects, arguing that small acts of repair and custodianship can shift, at the micro level, our relationships with our world, our sense of who we are, and our sense of responsibility and belonging in public space.
How to think the ecological work of reparation when it is the very arts of living that are in question? Focusing on the devastation brought about by the tsunami that hit the northeastern coast of Japan in 2011, and on the improvisational practices of spiritual care work that a collective of priests fabricated in its wake to address the sorrows as much of the living as of the dead, this chapter explores the aporetics of ‘reparation’ as the incommensurable space opened up between destruction and redemption, between loss and compensation. In so doing, it makes a proposition for generative, partial, speculative forms of cosmoecological reparation: not the attempt to restore the modern terms of order, to render life resilient to disaster, but that of carefully reweaving modes of living and of dying otherwise from the interstices of the catastrophe, of experimentally recomposing a cosmos on a ravaged earth.
In this chapter, we explore the attention to fragility at play in two urban maintenance settings: graffiti removal and water networks management. Drawing on ethnographic fieldworks, we show that maintenance activities consist of situated sensorial explorations by which maintainers carefully scrutinize the state of things and become attentive to their tendency to alter and transform. Paying attention to maintainers’ attention outlines ways to elaborate a specific ecological posture. Maintenance appears indeed as a situated and political process that engages materials, bodies, instruments and texts, and is accomplished through provoking and cultivating encounters within emerging ecologies wherein what acts, and what interacts, is never completely known in advance. Exploring attention to fragility thus helps to reconsider how humans interact with things beyond ‘cultural’ or ‘symbolic’ relations. Furthermore, drawing its value from repetition and constancy, the continuous attentional work that fragility requires performs a reparation that cannot be ‘settled’ once and for all. Far from fixing the state of things, maintenance inextricably participates in their becoming.
State crimes and forced migration due to war violence and precarity are some of the ongoing entanglements of injustice in the landscape of post-accord Colombia. Within this landscape, governmental reparation and asylum solidarity are still deployed as ambitious yet widely limited techno-political projects reproducing historical and ongoing asymmetric relations of power in the encounters between states and those seeking reparation and assistance. Those projects materialize an incapacity of the state to acknowledge the multiplicity of forms of violence and displacement affecting the everyday lives of people on the move and victims of state crimes. Drawing on the repertoire of STS and its intersections with critical migration studies and posthuman understandings of memory, this chapter wonders about those worlds exceeding governmental reparation and asylum solidarity, how bodies engage in material transformative practices, and the role of non-humans in the material politics of other forms of reparation and solidarity.
Ecological Reparation engages with social-environmental degradation by attempting to rethink concepts and practices that may be needed to repair damaged ecologies and to claim reparations for persistent inequities and injustices. The volume brings together a multiplicity of original contributions of international scholars in science and technology studies, environmental studies, ecological humanities, art and design, geography, anthropology and other social sciences exploring a multiplicity of socio-ecological struggles as well as insurgent and inventive modes of conservation, mending, care and empowerment of more than human ecologies.
Ecological Reparation engages with social-environmental degradation by attempting to rethink concepts and practices that may be needed to repair damaged ecologies and to claim reparations for persistent inequities and injustices. The volume brings together a multiplicity of original contributions of international scholars in science and technology studies, environmental studies, ecological humanities, art and design, geography, anthropology and other social sciences exploring a multiplicity of socio-ecological struggles as well as insurgent and inventive modes of conservation, mending, care and empowerment of more than human ecologies.
How do we address the threat of social and environmental destruction while creating and maintaining liveable worlds?
Expert scholars from diverse backgrounds unpack the question in this research-oriented, real-world challenges-focused collection.
The authors explore practices of repairing damaged ecologies across different locations and geographies and propose innovative ideas for the conservation, mending, care and empowerment of human and non-human ecologies.
This ground breaking collection establishes ecological reparation as an urgent and essential topic of public and scholarly debate.
Ecological Reparation engages with social-environmental degradation by attempting to rethink concepts and practices that may be needed to repair damaged ecologies and to claim reparations for persistent inequities and injustices. The volume brings together a multiplicity of original contributions of international scholars in science and technology studies, environmental studies, ecological humanities, art and design, geography, anthropology and other social sciences exploring a multiplicity of socio-ecological struggles as well as insurgent and inventive modes of conservation, mending, care and empowerment of more than human ecologies.
