TALES OF CARE AND REPAIR gathers stories of the repair of everyday objects from India, UK and Brazil.

Considering repair as a potentially radical act that can transform our relationship with our material worlds. Our programme aims to build a repository of ‘stories’ of everyday repaired objects. To generate the tales or stories we aim to collect 1000 images of everyday repaired objects, which can be uploaded to this site and tagged with details about the repair.

Each story will appear on our website landing page and is accompanied by a series of questions which provide information such as the type of repair – was it a self (DIY), professional (paid for) or failed (it was not possible to make happen) repair.

To support the collection of the stories we will be hosting a series of online conversations and local workshops. Within our workshops we will also focus on creating “Repair Declarations” that is, a set of intentions that can act as a means towards collectively reimagining how we can move towards more restorative futures. Each declaration will be created in collaboration with local communities in New Delhi, Belo Horizonte and Bristol.

Follow our programme of online conversations and join us to explore how repair cultures manifest in our different countries and intersect with climate change, craft and traditional practices, environmental reparations and repair economies. Our workshops and conversations aim to support thinking through what repair means in different contexts.