Broken: Mending and Repair in a Throwaway World by Katie Treggiden reframes mending not as nostalgia but as a political and cultural act — profiling 25 makers who have turned repair into a sustained creative and ethical practice.
About This Book
In a culture built on disposability, the impulse to repair is quietly radical. Broken investigates that impulse through the work of 25 artists, curators and re-makers who have rejected the logic of fast fashion and single-use consumption in favour of longevity, patina and care. Craft and circularity advocate Katie Treggiden frames their practice within six essays that examine the societal, cultural and environmental stakes of mending — positioning repair not as a minor domestic skill but as a meaningful response to the linear take-make-waste economy. With a foreword by Jay Blades of The Repair Shop, this is a book for anyone thinking seriously about material culture, sustainability, and the human compulsion to make things whole again.
Key Features
- 232 pages of artist profiles and in-depth critical essays on repair and material culture
- Foreword by Jay Blades (The Repair Shop); profiles of 25 artists, curators, menders and re-makers
- Published by Ludion, ISBN: 9789493039896
What You'll Discover
- How 25 contemporary practitioners are using repair as a form of cultural and environmental resistance to the throwaway economy
- Six essays examining mending through societal, cultural and environmental lenses — moving well beyond technique into meaning
- The concept of Homo faber — the maker — and why the drive to fix rather than discard persists even when replacement is easier
- How circular thinking is beginning to displace the Industrial Revolution's linear model of production and consumption, and what craft's role in that shift looks like
About the Author
Katie Treggiden is a craft and circularity advocate whose work sits at the intersection of making, sustainability and material culture. She writes, speaks and campaigns on the role of craft in building a more circular society.
Specifications
- Format: Hardcover
- Pages: 232
- Dimensions: 220 x 270 mm
- Language: English
- ISBN: 9789493039896
- Publisher: Ludion
- Publication Date: [Details available upon request]
Perfect For: Designers, makers and design academics engaged with sustainability, material culture and circular economy thinking; craft practitioners and collectors interested in the cultural politics of repair.