REPAIR FUTURES

Explores the current and future possibilities for repair within the fashion system.

It aims to stimulate popular interest in clothing repair and inspire greater engagement of consumers, designers, and businesses in this practice.

The project consists of an exhibition, workshops, discussions, collective mapping, and a public campaign. It promotes repair as a method for transforming, reactivating and (re)imagining clothes and advocates for its structural inclusion in the fashion retail system.

We invite participants to collectively explore potential futures, in which we all have a more meaningful relationship with material objects and a renewed attention to maintenance and care.

Together we map the ‘seeds’ of change, such as grassroots repair initiatives, start-ups that make it possible to order repairs with a few clicks, or designers creating new repair solutions. We imagine they growth and conditions needed for it. We also envision the contributions that various actors, such as fashion brands, schools or governments should make to the future cultures of repair.

This collective exercise will result in an open online map of current and future possibilities, co-created with the participants of the project and the global community of repairers and menders. Crowdsourcing ideas from people the project will return them to the community in a hope to inspire innovation and change.