Visible mending
Subtitle: everyday repairs in the South West
By: Steven Bond, Caitlin DeSilvey & James R. Ryan
Contributors: Sackett, Colin, book designer, editor; Uniformbooks
Publisher: Uniformbooks
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Axminster, Devon
Language: eng
Number of pages: 157
ISBN-13: 9780956855992
Subjects: Art and industry; Repairing trades; Work; Photography; Chron; Imprints; Specimens
Description: "In September 2010 a team of three researchers--two cultural geographers and a photographer--set out to find and visit workplaces in the South West where people repair broken things. Notebooks and cameras were the project tools, and these tools produced an extensive archive of texts and images, a selection of which are printed in this book, the culmination of eighteen months of fieldwork. The project was inspired by an attraction to the aesthetics of these workplaces, but also by an interest in what the practices of fixing, mending, repair and renewal could reveal about the way people value things, and each other. In the words of Elizabeth Spelman: '... though we do not repair everything we value, we would not repair things unless they were in some sense valuable to us, and how they matter to us shows up in the form of repair we undertake'."--Front flap.
Notes: "Edited and designed by Colin Sackett and Steven Bond ... Images: Steven Bond/University of Exeter. Text: Caitlin DeSilvey, James R. Ryan."--Title page verso.

Introduction by Sarah Pink; foreword by Nick Hand.

Includes bibliographical references.