ABSTRACT
Kintsukuroi (or kintsugi) expresses the idea that breaking and mending can be an important part of the life of an object, adding to its beauty and meaning. As geographies and practices of mending attract growing attention from practitioners, activists and academic researchers, it becomes ever more important to craft methods that will allow us to consider how cultures and spaces of mending are produced, and made durable. The 'Small is Beautiful?' project originated at a moment in cultural geography when discussions about the relationships between geography, visual culture and art were beginning to engage more fully with the potential of collaborative practice. It was becoming commonplace for geographers to work alongside artists and integrate creative visual methodologies into their work. This project sought to extend such work, drawing on visual and sensory methodologies pioneered in anthropology and responding to calls in geography for 'visual and material research that unravels, disturbs and connects with processes, embodied practices and technologies'.
