Festival of Maintenance 2022

Online · Saturday 8th October

At this energetic online event, Maintain hosted a full day of fascinating talks and discussions with world-class practitioners, maintaining everything from technology to culture, democracy to the environment.

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This year’s festival schedule

Saturday 8th October, online

10:00

Zoom room opens – welcome!

10:10

Maintaining hope: Creating kinship and bringing people together

In a time of crisis, how can imagination and hope to create kinship between human and more-than-human worlds?

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Featuring presentations and discussion from:

Phoebe Tickell

Founder and Director, Moral Imaginations

Liz Slade

Unitarian Church

11:20

Short break

11:30

Maintenance and Change: Planning for/mitigating climate change, architecture and the public realm

Climate emergency, an ageing population and the high cost of heating homes are all problems requiring radical solutions. But what happens when these solutions seem impossible to achieve? How can we use maintenance practices to change and adapt to these new conditions?

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Featuring a presentation and discussion from:

Paulina Kolata

Researcher, Japanese Buddhist temples and material culture

13:00

Lunch break

14:00

Information Maintenance: Nurturing truth and narrative through the web

The internet is our source of information and archive, but it is increasingly clear that truth and narrative require vigilant investment maintenance. How can we maintain the truth, and tell the story of how we got there?

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