THE REPAIR SHED with BA Interior and Spatial Design (University of the Arts London)

Repair as an act of care

The Repair Shed explores repair as a design approach rooted in care - a slow, collective practice that values maintenance over replacement. Developed with first-year BA Interior and Spatial Design students at Camberwell College of Arts, the project invites reflection on how we sustain what already exists- socially, materially, and ecologically.

A Space to collect and make

Working collaboratively, students restored an existing garden shed and extended it to form a shared infrastructure for repair: a material store, a tool library, and an evolving archive of repair techniques. At its heart sits a table to make, a mobile workshop designed for shared work and dialogue. It moves between the shed, the garden, and the neighbourhood, creating moments for learning, mending and exchange.

A support structure for care

The Repair Shed continues to function as a base for ongoing acts of repair at The Playground, Wilson Road. Students from different faculties contribute to the archive and adapt the space, keeping it alive through use. In this, the project embodies an idea of sustainability rooted in continuity, design as a practice of care rather than consumption.

Tutors: Reem Charif, Shibboleth Shechter, Lucy Eccles, Madoka Ellis, Francesca Merton, Harriet Lee and Ben Bill.

Photography by BA ISD Team