The Gift of Repair: How a gesture of global solidarity among makers became an embodied act of reconstruction across borders through the Handshouse Studio: Notre-Dame Project

Presentation Description:

In this Panel Presentation featuring project representatives that will share the story of this international collaboration, exploring how the meaning and importance of the “act of repair,” led to Handshouse to sending Notre-Dame Project representative to work side-by-side with traditional French carpenters reconstructing Notre-Dame de Paris’s 315ft wooden spire in France.

Presentation Panelists: 

• Lindsay Cook, Assistant Teaching Professor of Architectural History in the Department of Art History at Penn State University; Handshouse Studio: Notre-Dame Project Historian

• Jackson DuBois, professional timber framer, Executive Director of the Timber Framers Guild, and owner/operator of DuBois Timber Frames (Cooperstown, NY), Handshouse-Studio: Notre-Dame Project representative in the official reconstruction of Notre-Dame de Paris’ timber spire in France

• Michael Burrey, Faculty of Preservation Carpentry at the historic North Bennet Street School in Boston, traditional carpenter, and owner/operator of MLB Restorations (Plymouth, MA), Handshouse-Studio: Notre-Dame Project representative in the official reconstruction of Notre-Dame de Paris’ timber spire in France

• Marie Brown, Executive Director of Handshouse Studio, Notre-Dame Project Director, La Forêt Model Project Faculty