This course combines hands-on work with bio-materials like bio-plastics, and theoretical discussions on repair, healing and imagination. Participants engage in hands-on projects, challenge Western ideals and create "poetic futures" that celebrate transformative practices and aesthetics beyond perfection.

This course begins with a interrogation of Westernized notions of healing and repair that are often oriented towards ‘a better future’, and come with the desire to reproduce or get close to a former status quo. Cultural theory, art, design and architecture likewise have been engaging with this tradition. We set off from there, asking: Is it even desirable that bodies always fully and infinitely recover? Is it sustainable if mechanisms, ecosystems or infrastructures are again and again fixed, patched and stabilized in order to fully function again? But even if we move away from these utopian fictions of reproduction, repair, and healing: How to deal with their colonial, patriarchal and capitalist residues?

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