Before Repairing : Pausing and Knotting Discomfort

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A1 Alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä
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2023-10-22

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Department of Design

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en

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14

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Diseña, Volume 23

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In this work, we reflect on a speculative pedagogical exercise in which we recorded, and invited others to record, through and with knots, situations of our daily lives related to forms of containment and entrapment. Accompanying this creative and collaborative work allowed us to materialize situations of vulnerability and unease (as knots), as well as the difficulty of registering these discomforts (through knots). We are interested in presenting this exercise as an embodied design practice. We also want to highlight how the staging of vulnerability and unease―made through material practices― generates contemplative pauses that have the power to make the fragility of life visible, and thus anticipate the need for repair. We argue here that repair, as a practice linked to design, is a making that deserves to be propitiated by contemplation and catharsis, in the face of damage and fragility in capitalist contexts.

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Funding Information: We acknowledge the support of the Research Council of Finland through grant #324756. Publisher Copyright: © 2023, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile. All rights reserved.

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Abyss, design pedagogy, knots, quipus, vulnerability

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10.7764/disena.23.Article.1

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Pérez-Bustos, T & Botero, A 2023, ' Before Repairing : Pausing and Knotting Discomfort ', Diseña, vol. 23, 1 . https://doi.org/10.7764/disena.23.Article.1

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