Healy, L. orcid.org/0000-0002-5713-0610 (2024) Dirt jumps are matter carefully placed, maintained, and governed. Revista Diseña, 2024 (24). ISSN 0718-8447
Abstract
This article draws on research produced with DIY bike trail and dirt jump builders to unpack the forms of repair and care that they employ in maintaining their spaces. I begin by describing the mundane practices involved in keeping bike trails running, such as shoveling, watering, and compacting, and conceptualize these activities as repairing the ‘ruins’ of the often squatted spaces that they occupy. Second, I draw from literature in feminist science and technology studies (STS) and commons to argue for a thickening of care, finding that these spaces alert me to the ways that ‘neglect’, and exclusion from participation-in, and research-on, are often a requirement of their subsistence. In conclusion, I find that in these spaces forms of repair and maintenance are multiple and layered―from mundane practices to their forms of governance—and in recent years, have involved practices to ‘repair’ the pervasive and dominating macho, heteronormative cultures of these social worlds.
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Keywords: | diseño DIY; construcción de circuitos para bicicletas; cuidado; reparación; bienes comunes DIY design; bike trail building; care; repair; commons |
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Institution: | The University of Sheffield |
Academic Units: | The University of Sheffield > Faculty of Social Sciences (Sheffield) > School of Architecture and Landscape |
Funding Information: | Funder Grant number ARTS AND HUMANITIES RESEARCH COUNCIL AH/X005372/1 |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Sheffield |
Date Deposited: | 25 Sep 2024 08:36 |
Last Modified: | 25 Sep 2024 08:36 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.7764/disena.24.article.6 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:217608 |