Repairative Architectures is framed as a platform made visible through a series of connected research iniatives spanning teaching, research, practice, exhibition, and collaboration. Each project approaches repair from a different site, scale, or institutional context, while contributing to a shared inquiry into how architecture engages maintenance, care, spatial justice, ecology, and collective knowledge. Student work, collaborative research, public programmes, and situated partnerships are brought into dialogue without being collapsed into a single method or outcome. Together, these projects allow the platform to remain open, cumulative, and responsive, building a broader body of work around the possibilities and politics of repair practice.
Coastal Architectures of False Bay: Relational Inquiries into Repair
Student Work: UCT
A UCT post graduate centered collaborative research and teaching project using False Bay to explore repair as a coastal, ecological, social, and spatial practice through architecture, fieldwork, partnership, and situated inquiry.
The Cost of Repair
Research Work: Jhono Bennett
Under Construction
A Southern Urbanist Maintenance Corner
Resource Platform: UCL Urban Lab
A Southern Urban Practice Maintenance Corner is a collective, ongoing digital resource for Southern Urbanist practitioners — a space to re-supply inspiration, reflect on ideas, and repair the parts of one’s own practice that need re-working.
Student Work: UCL
UCL Bartlett undergraduate student projects examining what repair is for, who defines it, and whose labour sustains it through situated research, material investigation, mapping, and architectural propositions.
Constellations of Southern Spatial Practice
Research Work: 1to1
Under Construction
Practice Resource: 1to1 & Jhono Bennett
Jus’t Spatial Design ZA is a South(ern) African socio-technical design support resource — a platform for design practitioners working towards spatial justice in South Africa, offering accessible key concepts, practitioner stories, and further resources and perspectives beyond the editor’s own.
