This issue, I’m going to borrow Architect Matthew J. Mercieca’s words on renovation from his article in issue 55: ‘Things and places could just lie in disrepair for decades: motionless and decaying. As they lie there, taking on unwelcome intruders,environmental attack and corrosion, they long for somebody to re-establish a need to use them. Inanimate objects may not really be just that. They interact with each other and us to give us anexperience. But it takes time, effort and investment to bring about a force of transformation over these objects. This force of change is something that takes courage to grapple with.