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27.02.2023
ARCH+ #250 Editors in conversation with Marc Angélil, Silke Langenberg, Momoyo Kaijima, Bas Princen and other guests - THE GREAT REPAIR: LAUNCH

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.

The event is part of the lecture series
SESSIONS ON TERRITORY—Urbanism in a Broken World: REPAIR.

CONCEPT AND REALISATION
Chair of Architecture and Territorial Planning, ETH Zurich Department of Architecture
Prof. Milica Topalović
Dr. Nazlı Tümerdem
Dr. Marija Marić
Jakob Walter
Jan Zimmermann

VIDEO RECORDING AND EDITING
Qianer Zhu

GRAPHIC DESIGN
Goda Budvytyte

SESSIONS ON TERRITORY is a series of public debates on the political economy of architecture and territory. Focusing on agriculture, the upcoming series will draw upon relationships of care and reciprocity with soil and biodiversity from the past and present, to help move beyond consumerist techno-fixes, and toward more self-sufficient and ecological land practices. Through a series of debates with invited guests, the seminar will explore the critical agrarian questions emerging under 21st-century (extended) urbanisation. Every intervention by a guest speaker is followed by a panel discussion with invited respondents.

Please find all lectures here: https://topalovic.arch.ethz.ch/Course...