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Ingrid Behrsin

Institute for Local Self-Reliance

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    Field Notes on Repair: 8

    Places Journal

    The eighth and final installment of a series in which scholars, designers, planners, activists, and artists share observations on practices of repair, reuse, preservation, maintenance, and care.

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    Repairing Architecture Schools

    Places Journal

    Architecture education has long upheld the ideal that to be an architect is “to build.” Now we need a new paradigm focused on repair. In short, we need a pedagogical revolution.

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    Tending Building

    Places Journal

    To tend a building requires us to direct our attention away from cultural expectations of the “new,” and to design in consonance with inevitable change.

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    Step by Step

    Places Journal

    The best repair manuals present a vision of repair that is social, embodied, intuitive, and accessible. What if we extend these principles beyond material objects, to the scale of civic systems and spaces?

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    This River Is a Model

    Places Journal

    In the Netherlands, water management is stubbornly technocratic, driven more by metrics than people. As climate change upends calculations, can planners find new modes of ecological repair?

  • Online

    Field Notes on Repair: 7

    Places Journal

    The seventh installment of a series in which scholars, designers, planners, activists, and artists share observations on practices of repair, reuse, preservation, maintenance, and care.

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    Field Notes on Repair: 6

    Places Journal

    The sixth installment of a series in which scholars, designers, planners, activists, and artists share observations on practices of repair, reuse, preservation, maintenance, and care.

  • Online

    Field Notes on Repair: 5

    Places Journal

    The fifth installment of a series in which scholars, designers, planners, activists, and artists share observations on practices of repair, reuse, preservation, maintenance, and care.

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    Field Notes on Repair: 4

    Places Journal

    The fourth installment of a series in which scholars, designers, planners, activists, and artists share observations on practices of repair, reuse, preservation, maintenance, and care.

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    Field Notes on Repair: 3

    Places Journal

    The third installment of a series in which scholars, designers, planners, activists, and artists share observations on practices of repair, reuse, preservation, maintenance, and care.

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    Field Notes on Repair: 2

    Places Journal

    The second installment of a series in which scholars, designers, planners, activists, and artists share observations on practices of repair, reuse, preservation, maintenance, and care.

  • Online

    Field Notes on Repair: 1

    Places Journal

    The first installment of a series in which scholars, designers, planners, activists, and artists share observations on practices of repair, reuse, preservation, maintenance, and care.

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