Mesting and Rending is an exploration of Mesting (mending + resting) and Rending (resting + mending) as entangled radical, relational, and restorative practices in response to capitalist systems that demand constant productivity, efficiency and growth, and therefore erase slow and cyclical rhythms.
2025
ANNA LUTZENBERGER
ALEXANDRA MAXIMOVÁ
TRASFORMAČNÝ DIZAJN
PARTICIPATÍVNY DIZAJN
In a world where resting and mending is often treated as personal responsibilities, carried out in private, and valued only for its ability to restore function, we ask:
What if your rest was my rest and my mending was yours?
And if rest is relational, how do we make space for each other’s rest?
Through collective gatherings, metadesign tools, autoethnographic reflection and undisciplined collaborations, we work with the intertwined practices of Mesting and Rending, both as a methodology and as a way of imagining other ways of living and embodying.
As a response to the question of how we could lend, borrow, receive, give and take resting and mending, the unreliable library of Mesting and Rending, proposes a soft infrastructure, that not only holds physical materials, such as zines, games, mending patches and tools,... but also invites for Mesting and Rending on the spot while imagining how we could stretch the concept of a library beyond material exchange.
Mesting and Rending is an exploration of Mesting (mending + resting) and Rending (resting + mending) as entangled radical, relational, and restorative practices in response to capitalist systems that demand constant productivity, efficiency and growth, and therefore erase slow and cyclical rhythms.
2025
ANNA LUTZENBERGER
ALEXANDRA MAXIMOVÁ
TRASFORMAČNÝ DIZAJN
PARTICIPATÍVNY DIZAJN
In a world where resting and mending is often treated as personal responsibilities, carried out in private, and valued only for its ability to restore function, we ask:
What if your rest was my rest and my mending was yours?
And if rest is relational, how do we make space for each other’s rest?
Through collective gatherings, metadesign tools, autoethnographic reflection and undisciplined collaborations, we work with the intertwined practices of Mesting and Rending, both as a methodology and as a way of imagining other ways of living and embodying.
As a response to the question of how we could lend, borrow, receive, give and take resting and mending, the unreliable library of Mesting and Rending, proposes a soft infrastructure, that not only holds physical materials, such as zines, games, mending patches and tools,... but also invites for Mesting and Rending on the spot while imagining how we could stretch the concept of a library beyond material exchange.
Mesting and Rending is an exploration of Mesting (mending + resting) and Rending (resting + mending) as entangled radical, relational, and restorative practices in response to capitalist systems that demand constant productivity, efficiency and growth, and therefore erase slow and cyclical rhythms.
2025
ANNA LUTZENBERGER
ALEXANDRA MAXIMOVÁ
TRASFORMAČNÝ DIZAJN
PARTICIPATÍVNY DIZAJN
In a world where resting and mending is often treated as personal responsibilities, carried out in private, and valued only for its ability to restore function, we ask:
What if your rest was my rest and my mending was yours?
And if rest is relational, how do we make space for each other’s rest?
Through collective gatherings, metadesign tools, autoethnographic reflection and undisciplined collaborations, we work with the intertwined practices of Mesting and Rending, both as a methodology and as a way of imagining other ways of living and embodying.
As a response to the question of how we could lend, borrow, receive, give and take resting and mending, the unreliable library of Mesting and Rending, proposes a soft infrastructure, that not only holds physical materials, such as zines, games, mending patches and tools,... but also invites for Mesting and Rending on the spot while imagining how we could stretch the concept of a library beyond material exchange.