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"Repair" is often imagined as an act of fixing broken objects, but its reach is much broader. Material things, infrastructures, relationships, ecosystems, bodies of knowledge, communities, and institutions all require care, ongoing maintenance, and, at times, intervention. In an era marked by extraction, disposability, and structural harm, repair offers a counter-practice: one that recognizes what already exists, what has been damaged, what must be mended, and who must be held to account. Repair can mean making amends, restoring trust, revitalizing environments, or sustaining cultural memory. It can also take the form of transgressive action when formal systems fail to respond.

The Repair Initiative explores the many ways individuals and collectives confront breakage and neglect: through restorative justice and historical reparations; right-to-repair movements; community archiving and the preservation of languages and culture; acts of care, stewardship, and maintenance; participatory or DIY interventions in public space; and the creation of tools and techniques to preserve, authenticate, or access knowledge. Repair is not nostalgia for an earlier condition; it is a practice of accountability, critical imagination, and regeneration in the present for the future.