Sam Bennett
Maintainers Steering Committee
Ethnographer, Maker, and Designer
Sam Bennett is an ethnographer, maker, and designer who believes in slow research that minimally impacts our planet and advocates for human well-being. You can find her investigating people’s relationships to objects in the domestic space, making with mycelium and discarded materials, and co-running Repair Shop. She is a senior researcher at Healthy Materials Lab and also teaches at Parsons School of Design, Pratt Institute, and New Jersey Institute of Technology in the Interior Design and Industrial Design departments. Sam was a Maintainers Movement Fellow, Movement Builder, and is now a Steering Committee Member.
Sam’s publications and events:
Blog post: Being Care-Full
Blog post: “Can we fix this? A Year of Cobbling and Upkeep in the Built Environment”
Blog post: Governors Island: Balancing the Past with the Future
Blog post: Layers of Time
Blog post: To a Super, with Love
Event: Embodying Degrowth Event
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