Repair
- Time: 15:15 - 16:15, Wednesday 22 November
- Location: B120 Theatre (Singapore)
This session will explore how we recognise dis/repair. A seemingly straightforward challenge of fixing what is broken, repair presupposes repairability – that what is broken can be fixed and what is fixed can be broken. Yet these conditions are not self-evident. In the age of planned obsolescence, when objects are made to be thrown out and not kept, when knowledge is proprietary and not public, when consumers hail the new and not the old, the act of repair is more complex.
Speakers
Loren Adams
Doctoral Fellow in Architecture, Computational Design, Robotics and Public Policy, Melbourne Centre for Cities, The University of Melbourne
Lucy Benjamin
Post Doctoral Research Fellow in Architectural Philosophy, Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning, The University of Melbourne
Hélène Frichot
Professor of Architecture and Philosophy, Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning, The University of Melbourne
Gerard Reinmuth
Director of TERROIR Architecture, Professor of Practice, School of Architecture, University of Technology Sydney