Rebuilding Is Not a Metaphor | Ingeborg Hau, Bhawna Jaimini, Natalie Mossin, Adam Linde Nielsen, Asbjørn Lund, Søren Nielsen, Alessandra Gola, Abdalrahman Kittana, Yasmeen Lari, Anna Mette Exner, Ramatu Aliyu, Rizvi Hassan, Ruchi Varma, Maria Cynthia Y. Funk, Anna Aslaug Lund, Khwaja Fatmi, Corrin Chan, Hassan Chaachouh, Maria Fernanda Rivera Flores, Kainat Azadzoi, Đoan Thanh Hà, Marwa Al-Sabouni, Leena Shibeika

Rebuilding Is Not a Metaphor brings together diverse experiences and approaches to foster a conversation on how to engage in rebuilding – as architects, planners, professionals in the building industry, politicians, community organizers, activists, and in the end and always – as people. The scope of this book is acts of rebuilding that relates to the built envi­ronment. As implied in the book title, borrowed from Leena Shibeika’s essay, it concerns rebuilding as a practice, not as metaphor. 
The rebuilding practices present­ed span responses to environmental disasters, postindustrial blight and conflict, and are rooted in many differ­ent geographies. They are deeply local yet share themes and generate understandings that are relevant to discuss and exchange across contexts. The practices range from the material, hands-on, tactile and crafty, to practices that give voice, produce new knowl­edge, or are argumentative or theoreti­cal. The contributions are different in their format as well, from statements to visual essays and feature articles.