Decay

This is a note about the unstable state of objects and links to such concepts as #ruins (Private), #fixing (Private), and #maintenance (Private)

Cf.

• repair, visible repair, mending, fixing, maintenance, upkeep, care, etc.
• curated decay, ruins, heritage
• aesthetics of decay
• rot and rotting
• entropy
• disorder, mess, dirt, chaos, erosion, dissolution, overgrowth and other related phenomena that humans typically disapprove of and struggle against with symmetry, composition, hygiene, etc.

Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space - Volume 4, Number 3, Sep 01, 2021 (sagepub.com) Special Issue on Decay and Repair

Decay

On rot and rotting.

Hage, Ghassan. Decay. Durham: Duke University Press, 2021.

Lorimer, Jamie. ‘Rot’. Environmental Humanities 8, no. 2 (2016): 235–39. https://doi.org/10/gh5d26.

Ruins

Edensor, Tim. Industrial Ruins: Spaces, Aesthetics, and Materiality. Oxford: Berg, 2005.

Fixing

Cf. 'visible repair' movement

Terzi̇oğlu, Nazli Gökçe. ‘Do-Fix: Creating Deeper Relationships Between Users and Products Through Visible Repair’. PhD Thesis, The Royal College of Art, 2017.

Aesthetics

Trigg, Dylan. The Aesthetics of Decay: Nothingness, Nostalgia, and the Absence of Reason. New York: Peter Lang, 2006.

Heritage

DeSilvey, Caitlin. Curated Decay: Heritage Beyond Saving. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2017.

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Backlinks

• Housing as Ecology