Repair Acts is rooted within the curricula practice with our work taking place in formal, higher education, as well as in secondary school and community settings through informal programmes, workshops and summer residency programmes.

Winchester School of Art and Design, University of Southampton, UK

NØ SCHOOL, Summer Programme, Never, France

Floating University, Berlin, Germany, with Climate Care

School of Art and Design at the University of the West of England (UWE), Bristol, UK

University College Dublin, Geography Department, Ireland with Alma Clavin

Central St Martins, Architecture Department, University College London, UK with the MOULD Collective

National College Art and Design, Ireland, Tactical and Critical Media Class with Cliona Harney

The Hochschule für bildende Künste Hamburg/University of Fine Arts of Hamburg, Germany, Social Design with Valentina Karma

Universität der Künste Berlin/Berlin University of the Arts, Building Planning and Design Programme Architecture Department with Markus Bader

Through these university partnerships we provide opportunities for students during their studies to participate in our programme. We also provide early career opportunities and have worked extensively over the years with graduates, including from UWE Marta Celio (graphic designer) and Carmela Pietranglo (producer/researcher).

Applicants interested in carrying out MA or PhD research on topics relating to material repair, care, maintenance and healing, should contact Teresa Dillon.

UWE Curricula Experiments

Experimental curricula projects such as In Your Aerial (2019), explored over a 10-week period the legacy, care and maintenance of community wireless networks with BA Graphic Design graduates and brought them into contact with members of Bristol Wireless, Bristol City Council's Legible City team and archivist at Bristol Library.

As part of a two-week professional development module, BA Graphics graduates explored designs ideas for creating "Repair Declaration". This work was shared as part of our publication 'Stories of Everyday Maintenance' (2022).

We have ran numerous mending and story gathering workshops with BA Graphics, Fashion and Textile and Fine Art students, with stories contributing to our archive, to the collective declaration for the city and contributing to our understanding of intercultural and intergenerational mending cultures.

Community Curricula

Emerging from TALES OF CARE AND REPAIR, artist and producer, Dawn Giles has gone on to establish 'Stitching Together' – a beginners level and intermediate level sewing class for refugee and asylum-seeking women at Easton Family Centre on Saturdays as part of the Bridges for Communities work in Bristol.

Curating, stimulating and inspiring repair-based activities is at the heart of the Repair Acts, Ireland and through this programme we have hosted a number of community-based workshops including to name but a few, vintage electronics, bodhrán mending, dry stone wall making and fixing, lace making and mending, toy and furniture restoration. We welcome artists, designers, crafters, makers and professional trades people interested in working with us at this level to get in touch with us.

External Curricula Projects

Focusing on care, repair and restoration colleagues from across our network (Ben Gaulon, Dr. Alma Clavin, Rosario Talevi, Dr. Lara Houston) also took part in our initial curriculum-based explorations as part of our programme of events in 2019 in Bristol. With Dr. Alma Clavin, running repair-based mapping activities with students at Bath Spa University (2018) and later with students at the University College Dublin, as part of Repair Acts, Ireland (2022). In Brazil, our colleague Fred Paulino/Gambiologia has worked extensively with Dr. Wellington (Low) Cançado and students from the Federal University of Minas Gerais/ UFMG, School of Architecture, Belo Horizonte, Brazil, as part of TALES OF CARE AND REPAIR.