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What roles for ruins? Meaning and narrative of industrial ruins in contemporary parks
This article is concerned with the notion that parks containing industrial ruins possess an emotional attraction that can depoliticize historical narratives. How can we design parks containing industrial ruins that reveal the multiplicities of history? In order to pursue this question, the article examines the literature to outline the relationships between the historical meanings of traditional ruins in landscape design and the contemporary emotional appeal of industrial ruins. The article also examines the relationship between cultural perceptions of industry, its ruins, and parks containing industrial ruins. The findings show that each of these three conditions (industry, industrial ruin, and park containing industrial ruins) are perceived differently, but all share the roles of icons, emotional objects, settings, workplaces, environmental agents and characters in cultural life. The article concludes with a guide for designers to assist in the creation of more complex narratives than are found in the contemporary genre of parks containing industrial ruins.
What roles for ruins? Meaning and narrative of industrial ruins in contemporary parks
This article is concerned with the notion that parks containing industrial ruins possess an emotional attraction that can depoliticize historical narratives. How can we design parks containing industrial ruins that reveal the multiplicities of history? In order to pursue this question, the article examines the literature to outline the relationships between the historical meanings of traditional ruins in landscape design and the contemporary emotional appeal of industrial ruins. The article also examines the relationship between cultural perceptions of industry, its ruins, and parks containing industrial ruins. The findings show that each of these three conditions (industry, industrial ruin, and park containing industrial ruins) are perceived differently, but all share the roles of icons, emotional objects, settings, workplaces, environmental agents and characters in cultural life. The article concludes with a guide for designers to assist in the creation of more complex narratives than are found in the contemporary genre of parks containing industrial ruins.
What roles for ruins? Meaning and narrative of industrial ruins in contemporary parks
Chan, Elisabeth Clemence (author)
Journal of Landscape Architecture ; 4 ; 20-31
2009-09-01
12 pages
Article (Journal)
Electronic Resource
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