Katie Irvin - Repair
and Design Futures: Lessons from Mended TextilesABSTRACT: This
presentation explores the lessons that worldwide practices of mending offer
designers today, moving from historic objects, the maker’s hand, and the care
taken in the creation and life extension of singular, meaningfully crafted
functional objects to overarching concerns of environmental and societal repair
evident in contemporary design projects and proposals. Past practices of
textile repair from around the globe will be explored alongside innovative
design projects that are illuminated and electrified by their example. In this
context repair is extolled and framed both as a localized, concrete mending
practice applied to beloved textiles, and as something much larger—as a global
meta-concept functioning as a palliative aid to environmental and
socio-political tears and ruptures.
Lynnette Widder - Döllgast
and Domoto: Two Case Studies in Architecture and RepairABSTRACT: When repairing a building, an architect’s ability to define the
boundary between old and new may require the repression of technique in order
to maintain the standard of authenticity. Munich architect Hans Döllgast’s renovation of the Alte Pinakothek
Museum (1946-73) illustrates this conflict. Its celebration as a masterpiece of
postwar reconstruction represses the technology behind its reconstruction. A
revised reading of the Alte Pinakothek would instead see its technical
components as important contributors to its value as memorial and monument. The same struggle takes on
another dimension when concerns derived from sustainability practice are taken
seriously. In my own practice, the three-year renovation of Japanese-American
architect Kaneji Domoto’s 1949-50 Lurie House, a focus on tempering,
daylighting and air-tighting restored the building’s environmental
responsiveness and enhanced the building’s original spatial structure as well.
Claire Weisz - WXY architecture and urban design
https://mediaspace.gatech.edu/media/dmr_session1/1_poiocl9d