Reading and recognition : landmarks of memory -- The perception of the past : the task of the translator -- Site specific art : unintentional monuments -- The problem of obsolete buildings: a society can only support so many museums -- Memory and anticipation : the existing building and the expectations of the new users -- Conservation : a future orientated movement focussing on the past -- Sustainable adaptation -- Spatial agency or taking action -- Smartness and the impact of the digital -- On taking away -- On making additions : assemblage, memory and the recovery of wholeness -- Itinerant elements -- Nearness and thinking about details