THE GREAT REPAIR
SESSIONS ON TERRITORY – Urbanism in a Broken World
Highlighting emerging politics and practices of repair that aim to reduce exploitation, care for what already exists, repair what has been damaged, and conserve resources, the upcoming series will untangle how such alternatives in design education and practice have the potential to counter the condition of manifold crises.
THE GREAT REPAIR: LAUNCH ARCH+ #250
Editors in conversation with Marc Angélil, Silke Langenberg, Momoyo Kaijima, Bas Princen and other guests
SESSIONS ON TERRITORY
Sessions on Territory is a series of public debates on the political economy of architecture and territory.
The sessions on repair are embedded within THE GREAT REPAIR, an exhibition and publication project realised in collaboration between ARCH+ gGmbH, the Akademie der Künste, Berlin, the University of Luxembourg’s Department of Geography and Spatial Planning, and the Department of Architecture at ETH Zürich during 2022-23. The recently published ARCH+ 250 The Great Repair: Politiken der Reparaturgesellschaft serves as the departure point for the program.
The six sessions on repair take place on selected Mondays during the spring term. Every intervention by a guest speaker is followed by a discussion with invited respondents.
Capitalist modernity, with its emphasis on innovation, growth, and progress, its economic system based on consumerism, wasteful use, and profligacy, has led to a ruthless exploitation of humans and nature. Architecture has played no small part in this, as the statistics on greenhouse gas emissions and construction and demolition waste prove. As a counterstrategy to capitalism’s creative destruction, The Great Repair advocates a focus on repair, in which nurturing, maintenance and repair become the key strategies for action. The project aims to reorient the foundations of our systems of thought and economy toward economies of repair and care, in order for the economy to be re embedded in society, and the latter for its part in the natural environment.
The editorial team with Christian Hiller, Felix Hofmann, Markus Krieger, Anh-Linh Ngo Florian Hertweck, Milica Topalović, and Nazlı Tümerdem will be in conversation with collaborators, contributors and critics Marc Angélil, Silke Langenberg, Momoyo Kaijima, and Bas Princen.
Read the editorial of The Great Repair: Politiken der Reparaturgesellschaft. ARCH+ #250 here. By Florian Hertweck, Christian Hiller, Markus Krieger, Alex Nehmer, Anh-Linh Ngo and Milica Topalović.
The Great Repair launch event opens the latest iteration of the SESSIONS ON TERRITORY—Urbanism in a Broken World, which will continue to present and debate politics and practices of repair throughout the spring.