The Re-Use Atlas

Foreword

Tabula Plena

Professor Graeme Brooker Head of Interior Design, Royal College of Art

IT IS A PRIVILEGE TO BE INVITED to contribute the foreword to this book and be given the opportunity to contextualise its unique contents. The Re-Use Atlas is a timely book, overflowing with projects and ideas, work that is suffused with the compelling enthusiasm of its author and contributors. Atlas is the ideal term to use in the depiction of reuse, a process that describes the durability of things and the tenacity of the people undertaking their extended existence. The Greek myth of Atlas symbolised a feat of endurance: as the son of Zeus, the Titan god was condemned to hold up the sky in perpetuity. Obstinacy, persistence and the enduring qualities ...