Looks like a great thing!
On 17/04/2012 18:37, helen Pritchard wrote:
Hi all,
Please find below a call for MEND*RS Research Symposium, Lake
District, 29 Jun - 2 July 2012, you may be interested in - Thanks Helen
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*Manifesto*
MAKE MENDING VISIBLE
MAKE MENDING VALUABLE
MAKE MENDING SOCIABLE
MAKE MENDING VITAL
MAKE MENDERS VISIBLE
MAKE MENDERS VALUABLE
MAKE THINGS MENDABLE
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MERZ MEND*RS is a Mending Research Symposium at the Merzbarn in the
Lake District, the first ever large-scale gathering dedicated to
mending in the UK. See *mendrs.net <http://mendrs.net/> *This
informal, hands-on event will bring together mending practitioners,
theorists, entrepreneurs and activists in the inspirational and
germane setting of Kurt Schwitters' Merzbarn. Its objective is to map
the state of the art, devise a critical agenda for mending research
and to disseminate mending practices and enterprises. MEND*RS is an
activist project to promote practices and discourses of mending within
and beyond the academic establishment. Its aim is to maximise the
social impact of mending research and to reinvigorate mending cultures
in everyday life. Join us for an idyllic rural retreat at the height
of summer in one of the Lake District's most beautiful valleys.
*www.merzbarn.net <http://www.merzbarn.net/>*
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*Submission guidelines*
MEND*RS is a post-disciplinary event which invites participation from
diverse disciplines and backgrounds and in multiple formats including:
1. 20 minute academic paper / presentation / show and tell
2. Proposals for workshops / discussion groups
3. Art-based interventions / collaborations / artifacts /
performative and audiovisual work
4. A2 posters / manifestos etc
If you would like to participate in any of these formats, please
submit the following on max 1 side of A4.
* Your proposed contribution (max 250 words)
* A statement of why mending matters to you and/or a response to our
manifesto <http://highwire-dtc.com/mendrs/?page_id=6> (max 250 words)
* A potted bio or link to website
For more details or guidance we are happy to discuss submission themes
and formats. We welcome submissions in formats which are subtly and
radically different to those suggested and encourage participants to
embrace the mood of mending culture in which adaptability and
improvisation are key. The symposium itself is organised around these
principals.
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*Important Dates*
* April 27: submissions due
* May 8: participants notified
* May 21: final programme announced
* June 29 -- July 2: MEND*RS 1st Mending Research Symposium, Lake
District, UK
For full details see *mendrs.net* <http://mendrs.net/>
Please send general inquiries to *[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>*
Please send submissions to *[email protected]
<mailto:[email protected]>*
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*Themes*
*Economies of mending* / the currency of mending, the shift from
consumers to makers to menders, high street menders, new economies of
mending, amateur/professional/prosumer menders, skills economy,
scavenger economy, post-/de-growth economy, mending as disruptive
innovation
*Technology and mending* / technologies of repair, self-repairing
technologies, hacking obsolescence, reverse engineering digital
obsolescence, standardisation, anti-blackboxing, digital menders,
technofixing, patches, open source mending, upgrading mending, online
communities of menders, mending toolkits
*The visibility of mending* / the time of mending, invisible/visible
mending, durational aesthetics, desirability and durability, mending
as marking time, presencing time, delaying decay, hiding and revealing
problems, showing skills, narratives of wear, wabi sabi, narratives of
menders, mobilising communities of menders, mending activism
*Theories of mending* / neo-vitalism, new materialism, mending as
gift/re-enchantment/bringing back to life/transformation, ethics of
care, keeping things alive, bringing things back to life, mending as
memory/nostalgia/utopia/transition strategy, emotional mending and
attachment, mending for socializing, the language of mending, what
does mending do to the thing mended?
*The mendability of matter */ mending affordances, making mendable,
planned anti-obsolescence (planned mendability?), improving,
permanence/novelty, possibility, the meaning of working/broken/no
good/unmendable/not worth mending, the limits of mending, mending as
metaphor, the hole or tear is a sign of unnecessary pressure, what do
we mend (first)?,
*Practices of mending*/
upcycling/re-use/remake/repair/upgrade/DIY/bodge, mending vernaculars,
mending as gendered practices, mending competencies, performing
mending, enabling/skilling solutions, ethnographies of mending,
mending craftsmanship, non-divestment, anti-consumerism,
self-limitation wardrobes, identity construction through
non-consumption, sites of mending, transmission of mending skills
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The Mending Research Symposium (MEND*RS) was formed in July 2011 by
JonnetMiddleton (Highwire, Lancaster University), Giuseppe Salvia
(Politecnico diMilano) and Rebecca Collins (University College, London).
This project is supported by the Lancaster University FASS Enterprise
Centre.
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