The speakers invited to this symposium explore these questions from diverse disciplinary perspectives and at different scales: from textile, crafts, and devices, to products, buildings, infrastructure. All address the long tail of what we make and use -- their multiple entanglements in time, in history, in technology, and in everyday life after their designers and engineers have left the scene.
Schedule of Events
Session 1
9:30 Welcome & Introduction: Sabir Khan
9:50 Keynote: Andrew Russell
10:30 Kate Irvin
11:00 Lynnette Widder
11:30 Claire Weisz
12:00 Discussion
12:30 Lunch
Session 2
1:15 Laura Forlano
1:45 Lisa Marks
2:15 Priya Jain
2:45 Discussion
3:15 Coffee Break
Session 3
4:00 Joe Brown
4:30 David Frost
5:00 Steve Usselman
5:30 Closing Remarks
6:00 Designing and Making Through Repairing: Student Work from ID 4833 Exhibition Reception
About Our Speakers
Session 1
Andrew Russell | Keynote | Dean, College of Arts and Sciences, Professor of History, SUNY Polytechnic Institute will present "The Innovation Delusion"
Kate Irvin | Curator, Costumes & Textiles, RISD Museum will present "Repair and Design Futures: Lessons from Mended Textiles"
Lynnette Widder | Professor, Sustainability Management, Earth Institute, Columbia University will present "Döllgast and Domoto: Two Case Studies in Architecture and Repair"
Claire Weisz | Principal, WXY architecture + urban design will present "Maintaining Work: Recycling the Architecture of Past Industry"
Session 2
Laura Forlano | Associate Professor, Institute of Design, Illinois Institute of Technology will present "The Best Sleep of My Life: Automated and Networked Medical Devices as Sites of Feminist Technoscience"
Lisa Marks | Assistant Professor, Technology and Applied Design, Berea College will present "Repairing as Making: From a Single Stitch to the Fabric of a Cultural Practice"
Priya Jain | Assistant Professor, Department of Architecture, Center for Heritage Conservation, Texas A&M University will present "Every Little Thing: Documenting and Repairing Historic Facades in the Digital Age"
Session 3
Joe Brown | Assistant Professor, Environmental Engineering Sustainable Communities, Georgia Tech will present "Reliability and Resilience: Drinking Water Infrastructure in Rural Bangladesh, Pakistan, and Mozambique"
David Frost | Elizabeth and Bill Higginbotham Professor, Geosystems Engineering, Georgia Tech will present "Infrastructure Failure: Addressing Resilience During Reconstruction"
Steve Usselman | Professor, History and Sociology, Ivan Allen College, Georgia Tech will present "Can Maintenance Persist?: Reflections on IBM and the Pennsylvania Railroad"