{"id":15,"date":"2025-09-03T12:19:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T12:19:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.blog-archkuleuven.be\/the-great-repair-25-26\/?p=15"},"modified":"2025-09-03T12:21:51","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T12:21:51","slug":"the-great-repair-final-review-january-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blog-archkuleuven.be\/the-great-repair-25-26\/2025\/09\/03\/the-great-repair-final-review-january-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"The Great Repair \u2013 Final Review, January 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"201\" data-end=\"525\">In January 2025, the final evaluation of <em data-start=\"242\" data-end=\"260\">The Great Repair<\/em> studio took place on location in the Star Europe building in Brussels. The setting itself underscored the themes of the studio: working with what is already there, questioning the culture of repair, and exploring its architectural, social, and poetic dimensions.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"527\" data-end=\"881\">The students presented a wide variety of outcomes, reflecting the breadth of approaches within the studio. The results ranged from <strong data-start=\"658\" data-end=\"708\">on-site interventions and an exhibition set-up<\/strong>, to a <strong data-start=\"715\" data-end=\"744\">book on \u201cshitty repairs,\u201d<\/strong> the <strong data-start=\"749\" data-end=\"798\">restoration of a single sash window in Dublin<\/strong>, and even the poetic story of <strong data-start=\"829\" data-end=\"878\">gently helping an inclined bunker to lay down<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"883\" data-end=\"1093\">Together, these projects show how repair can be more than a technical fix. It can be a cultural act, a narrative, and a way of engaging with the built environment that is attentive, critical, and imaginative.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"883\" data-end=\"1093\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-22\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blog-archkuleuven.be\/the-great-repair-25-26\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/790\/2025\/09\/The-Great-Repair-2025-Jury-00072-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.blog-archkuleuven.be\/the-great-repair-25-26\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/790\/2025\/09\/The-Great-Repair-2025-Jury-00072-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.blog-archkuleuven.be\/the-great-repair-25-26\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/790\/2025\/09\/The-Great-Repair-2025-Jury-00072-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.blog-archkuleuven.be\/the-great-repair-25-26\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/790\/2025\/09\/The-Great-Repair-2025-Jury-00072-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, 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The setting itself underscored the themes of the studio: working with what is already there, questioning the culture of repair, and exploring its architectural, social, and poetic dimensions. The students presented a wide [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":65,"featured_media":29,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog-archkuleuven.be\/the-great-repair-25-26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog-archkuleuven.be\/the-great-repair-25-26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog-archkuleuven.be\/the-great-repair-25-26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog-archkuleuven.be\/the-great-repair-25-26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/65"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog-archkuleuven.be\/the-great-repair-25-26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog-archkuleuven.be\/the-great-repair-25-26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog-archkuleuven.be\/the-great-repair-25-26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15\/revisions\/31"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog-archkuleuven.be\/the-great-repair-25-26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog-archkuleuven.be\/the-great-repair-25-26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog-archkuleuven.be\/the-great-repair-25-26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog-archkuleuven.be\/the-great-repair-25-26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}