Wrench tools
The project
WRENCH is an inter-university project based at the Institute for History of Science of the Autonomous University of Barcelona. WRENCH aims to address the effects of climate change on tangible and intangible heritage while widening the mainstream understanding of heritage to include storytelling, narratives, and ephemeral legacies. Even more than ruination, abandonment, or major disruption, it is when it becomes mute, unable to tell any story that heritage is lost forever. WRENCH envisions heritage as both something at risk and something able to tell a story about the risk we are all running.
Press review
We regularly update this press review, featuring media outlets reporting on WRENCH.
Recent news
- Narrativas como patrimonio vivo en la Cuenca Matanza-Riachuelo. Inauguración de la muestra, Sábado 8 de agosto 2026 · 14 h · Museo de la Inmigración, Buenos Aires
- Reshaping Memory and Nature. Commons in the Face of Climate Change – Wrench – OCC! Summer School – Tameiga, Mos, July 15-19th 2026
- La Villa 21-24 será sede de la primera excavación arqueológica científico-comunitaria. Noticias desde el colectivo WRENCH Matanza–Riachuelo en Buenos Aires
- Jornada TAIN – Taller en Buenos Aires
- WRENCH Witness Seminars: Memory, Reclamation of Montes Veciñais in Galicia
