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The Act of Repair Garm-Straker, Emma

Abstract

The act of repair is a response to what we contextualize as broken and by nature of its brokenness we determine a need to mend. In this context mending does not refer to fixing, but rather it is an acknowledgment of opportunism to mediate forces of creation and decay. In the context of 5649 Dunbar St. the notion of repair is an investigation into the reminisce of moments and memories that have been left, forgotten. The project transfers the site of 5649 Dunbar St. to the site of the paper and catalogues repair by a way of celebrating and embracing the flaws. Acts of repair then are located in time, bringing together the acts of the past and responding to them with new opportunity for a type of renewal.

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Title
The Act of Repair
Creator
Garm-Straker, Emma
Date Issued
2024-04
Description
The act of repair is a response to what we contextualize as broken and by nature of its brokenness we determine a need to mend. In this context mending does not refer to fixing, but rather it is an acknowledgment of opportunism to mediate forces of creation and decay. In the context of 5649 Dunbar St. the notion of repair is an investigation into the reminisce of moments and memories that have been left, forgotten. The project transfers the site of 5649 Dunbar St. to the site of the paper and catalogues repair by a way of celebrating and embracing the flaws. Acts of repair then are located in time, bringing together the acts of the past and responding to them with new opportunity for a type of renewal.
Subject
Repair; Decay; Broken; Paper
Genre
Graduating Project
Type
Text
Language
eng
Series
University of British Columbia. ARCH 549
Date Available
2024-05-02
Provider
Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
Rights
Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International
DOI
10.14288/1.0442118
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/2429/88149
Affiliation
Applied Science, Faculty of; Architecture and Landscape Architecture (SALA), School of
Campus
UBCV
Peer Review Status
Unreviewed
Scholarly Level
Graduate
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http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
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