‘The Great Repair’ combines two seemingly opposing ideas: the desire for radical change and the evolutionary approach to repair. While revolution is often associated with breaking things apart, repair reminds us to take change one step at a time.
The exhibition of the same name was accompanied by two issues of ARCH+, designed by Stan Hema. The first volume (No. 250, The Great Repair – Politics of Repair Society, Dec. 2022) serves as a theoretical introduction, the second, bilingual volume (No. 253, The Great Repair – A Catalog of Practices) presents repair in practice and was published as a catalogue to mark the opening of the exhibition.
