Repairing as Preparing

In the 1990s, the then Regional Conservator of Upper Austria and later president of ICOMOS Austria, Wilfried Lipp, coined the term “repair society” in a pioneering essay, parts of which are reprinted in this issue. In conversation with guest editor Florian Hertweck, heritage theorist and architect Silke Langenberg as well as ARCH+’s Alex Nehmer and Markus Krieger he reflects on the term’s topicality and how it can be made productive for The Great Repair project.