Fostering restorative cultures by connecting past stories, with what we do today, to how we envision the future.

Repair Acts is an artist-led research programme focused on material, technological and spatial cultures of repair, care, maintenance and healing.

We do this by creating spaces for dialogue and practice through making and building art works, designing and developing art exhibitions, public events, forums, workshops and conversational spaces and carrying out desk and applied based research.

Taking a pluralistic approach, we work at a local and place-based level within landscapes, infrastructures and communities and in collaboration with governing bodies, craftspeople, skilled trades and other professionals. Connecting local wisdom and practices to global, regional and national currents in economics, policy and law, we build pathways between lived experiences and systemic change.

We have a specialist interest in collective reparative action, electronic and digital forms of repair and maintenance, including those relating to obsolete and discarded tech, low-fi, off-grid, online, peer-to-peer, the robotic and algorithmic.

In an age of radical climate transition, we view our work as tactically hopeful.

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