About this project
This Australian Research Council- funded Linkage project, led by Associate Professor Guy Keulemans in partnership with JamFactory and the Australian Design Centre, explores the creative repair and reuse of consumer products as a service provided by designers, craftspeople and visual arts professionals.
In partnership with the Australian Design Centre (ADC), Adelaide University, the University of New South Wales (UNSW) and JamFactory Craft and Design, and funded by the Australian Research Council (ARC), this project develops and tests new models for the sustainable use of materials and products, establishing new opportunities for consumers, collectors and the public to thoughtfully and beautifully repair their broken things.
The project generates new knowledge in design-based repair and reuse of consumer products to develop a community of craft and design practitioners, audience and clientele. It responds to the pressing cultural and environmental burden of product obsolescence and consumer waste through innovation in transformative repair – a designed reworking of broken or discarded consumer objects that transforms their aesthetic appeal and cultural value.
Using transition design theory, localised progressions of the transformative repair model foster knowledge exchange between partner organisations while contributing to a sustainable design economy in Australia.
