BROKEN

We live in a single-use society, where fashion is fast, disposability is the norm and it is easier to replace than to repair. We don''t need to mend things anymore - and yet we do. What is it about Homo faber - man the maker - that cannot resist fixi
ng what is broken?

As we start to decouple from the linear take-make-waste model that has dominated Western economies since the Industrial Revolution and seek something more circular, an enquiry into what mending means has never been more ur
gent.

With a foreword by The Repair Shop''s Jay Blades, this new book by craft and circularity advocate Katie Treggiden celebrates 25 artists, curators, menders and re-makers who have rejected the allure of the fast, disposable and easy in f
avour of the patina of use, the stories of age and the longevity of care and repair. Accompanying these profiles, six in-depth essays explore the societal, cultural and environmental roles of mending in a throwaway world.