The introduction, titled “Mass Housing, Maghrebi Art, and the Poetics of Repair,” establishes the key terms, stakes, and methodologies of the book—mass housing, the Maghreb, repair, and poetics—in conversation with artwork by Maghrebi visual artists Amina Menia, Kader Attia, Katia Kameli, and Hassan Darsi, among others. Through an exploration of their repair-centered artwork, the author articulates the theoretical framework for the book: namely, that through its attention to the fault lines, wounds, and absences in the materials, histories, and representations of colonial-era mass housing, art practices a poetics of repair that disrupts existing epistemologies, puts people, buildings, and histories into different relationality, and builds pathways for ontological reshapings and new futures. Artwork not only responds to historically, politically, and socially produced accounts of lives and built environments, it produces new accounts of mass housing that have the potential to shift histories and futures.