Xiaodong Ma

Jan 14, 2025 | mdpi.com | Lei Zhang |Xiaodong Ma |Weishuai Xu |Xiang Wan

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Nov 7, 2024 | mdpi.com | Weishuai Xu |Lei Zhang |Ming Li |Xiaodong Ma

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Oct 27, 2024 | mdpi.com | Lei Zhang |Xiaodong Ma |Ming Li |Weishuai Xu

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Apr 26, 2024 | designboom.com | Xiaodong Ma

‘repair society’ invites stronger bonds with used objectsXiaodong Ma’s Repairing Society is a social critique via design, proposing that we repair, not replace. Deviating from the overconsumption and planned obsolescence of modern life, it invites people to cultivate stronger and more long-term relationships with objects through the design practice of Repair (‘old is better than new’), Graft (‘recombine for repurpose’), and Autotomy (‘design for repair’).

Nov 27, 2023 | boredpanda.com | Diana Lopetaitė |Xiaodong Ma

Repairing Society is a speculative design practice inviting us to imagine an alternative way of consumption and production that is opposed to our current Throw-away Society. Through three proposals in this project (Repair, Graft, Autotomy), we can keep a longer relationship with objects and revive our bonds with old things.