A culture of visible mending: improvisation, or bodging the job?

摘要

The first declaration of the MENDR*S Manifesto is ‘To make mending visible’. I take this to have a double meaning. First, that mending as a practice has been hidden from view, eclipsed by a worship of disposable consumer culture. Second, that the mending of an object should itself leave a visible trace. This indication of repair might result from the addition of materials—patches, glue, stitching, etc., traces of workmanship (sic), or the radical reworking of the form of an object.