47standing
what happens when we stop rushing and just stand still and look? Architecture, landscape, art and design all slow down, and take note of things that need attention and repair.
on site review 47 :
stand still and fix something
Resistance to ‘moving fast and breaking things’ does not necessarily indicate revolution; it could be a slowing down, a stopping of relentless progress that rushes ever-forward, like a flood sweeping away much that stands in its way. This particular urgency is being, slowly, replaced by the urgency that we must stop, as industrial progress has endangered life itself.
Repair, rejuvenation, re-use, renovation — many things beginning with re-, depend on stopping for a moment, looking at what we have materially, here, now, on the ground, and in the process of looking, finding ways to rethink how we might fix a few things.
The essays and projects in this issue refocus our environment of architecture and landscape with all its histories, its problems, its tropes and metaphors, to find resilience and opportunity to proceed with remediation in mind.
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