R for Repair

R for Repair reimagines repair as an inspiring activity that produces aspiring outcomes. Ten designers in Singapore were invited to exercise their creativity and restore broken, faulty, worn-out objects that were volunteered by the public through an open call. Their unique and fascinating approaches resulted in outcomes that challenge our preconceptions of repair.

There are also nine repair kits produced by design students. Each delivers a novel repair technique where the restored products are “better off” than the original. Despite the pandemic, online hands-on workshops were organised, where each participant received a repair kit via mail to realise a repair process at home presented at the exhibition. 

Detailed information is available on the project site: R-for-Repair.com

 

Minjeong Cha volunteered her favourite pair of glasses that was wrecked by her daughter

Lanzavecchia + Wai transformed a wrist watch from Nichole

Justin and Sheree's fused radio clock made interactive by Clement Zheng

Zi Ning's broken seashell from her childhood friend repaired by QimmyShimmy