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Plevoets, Bie; Cleempoel, Koenraad Van

doi:10.4324/9781315161440-1

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“…Nevertheless, the focus on heritage materiality still prevails over its intangible and relational dimension (Veldpaus et al ., 2019). To overcome the crystallization of both the heritage and adaptive reuse discourse, it is important to focus attention on processual adaptation practice and theories (Plevoets and Van Cleempoel, 2019; Lanz and Pendlebury, 2022), which performativity reinforces relational (heritage) aesthetics (Bourriaud, 2002), characterized by unconventional forms of beauty.…”

Section: Touched Heritagementioning

confidence: 99%

Ethics and aesthetics of adaptive heritage reuse in Europe: an introduction to what happens to territories when heritage is touched

Fava

2024

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PurposeThe paper introduces ethical and aesthetical implications emerging from participative forms of adaptive heritage reuse. Its aim is to depict the overall framework to contextualize the investigations explored in the Special Issue titled “Ethics and aesthetics of adaptive heritage reuse in Europe.” Therefore, the article confronts with potentialities and contradictions of “open” heritage processes, introducing key critical elements to recode heritage practices and planning in today’s conjuncture of global change.Design/methodology/approachThe paper drawn on a literature review, which combines different bodies of studies: heritage, urban studies, care studies and recent policy documents. A photographic essay, moreover, serves to “augment” the presented argumentations through a visual apparatus resulting from one of Gaia Ginevra Giorgi’s artwork, which develops in the intersection between performative art, participation and territorial reuse.FindingsThe author argues that for adaptive heritage reuse to be really sustainable, ethical and aesthetical heritage codes need to be reassessed and reoriented toward the present socio-ecological priorities, multiplicating the ways cultural heritage is conceived, valued and reused. The paper suggests proceeding along the creative paths of uncertainty, providing the first elements to develop political projects of abundance and enjoyment for current urban settlements.Practical implicationsThe presented argumentations can be used as a baseline by heritage managers and policymakers to experiment with participative processes of adaptive heritage reuse and to identify more environmentally and socially just trajectories of urban development.Originality/valueThe paper expands the concept of adaptive heritage reuse, considering the active participation of both human and non-human agents. Treating heritage in a laic way, namely free from absolute and preordered judgments of value, it deals with uncomfortable heritage materiality and contexts, illuminating the quality of unpleasant or odd forms of beauty.

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Section: Touched Heritagementioning

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Ethics and aesthetics of adaptive heritage reuse in Europe: an introduction to what happens to territories when heritage is touched

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2024

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“…Cantacuzino (1989) stated that the physical structures of buildings tend to outlive their original function, leading to monuments from the Renaissance onwards being regularly transformed for new uses. Prior to the advent of conservation movements, it was also common for new buildings to source their materials from older structures (Plevoets and Van Cleempoel, 2019). Many old buildings were therefore treated primarily as a source of re-useable materials, with historical architectural features often adapted or removed without question.…”

Section: Adaptive Re-use Of Built Heritagementioning

confidence: 99%

“…By contrast, Ruskin's conservation philosophy emphasized how the aging of structures contributed to the romantic beauty of architecture. Twenty-first century conservators in the vein of Ruskin therefore premise that built heritage should be allowed to exist and honestly display signs of age, where time is viewed as an essential element that should not to be removed or restored, but retained (Plevoets and Van Cleempoel, 2019).…”

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Local perspectives on the cultural significance of rejuvenated heritage shophouses in George Town, Penang

Phua

Tan

2022

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PurposeThis research presents a comparative perception study towards rejuvenated, community-driven shophouses in George Town, Penang.Design/methodology/approachIt captures the opinions of two distinct age groups by utilizing a mixed-methods approach encompassing quantitative (main) and qualitative (supporting) research to obtain a dynamic understanding of perceptions between younger and older residents in the city and how these impact the long-term sustainability of heritage conservation efforts. The distribution of questionnaires to residents of Penang was the primary data collection method, with the structure of the questionnaires supported by recent academic literature and past perceptional research studies about built heritage.FindingsThe four main findings from the study are therefore as follows: 1. Both age groups have a similar, positive perception towards the tangible, physical elements of rejuvenated shophouses. 2. Intangible, functional factors play an equal or stronger role in influencing people and their attitude towards public participation and overall “Sense of Place”. 3. The pessimistic “Sense of Place” responses from the “Older” group reflect an equally pessimistic attitude towards intangible, functional factors surrounding rejuvenated shophouses. 4. Youth-led changes to George Town's heritage shophouses are degrading the “sense of place” connecting the older generation to the city.Originality/valueThe study can serve as a guide for the development of more inclusive and socially sustainable conservation and adaptive re-use policies for safeguarding the heritage identity and value of shophouses for current and future generations to experience in a post-COVID world.

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“…Adaptive reuse is an architectural practice with a long-established tradition, especially in Europe and the Western world. During the past half century, it has evolved into a complex and diverse field of operation, with a multiplicity of approaches that has produced a vast catalog of remarkable case studies (Wong, 2017; Plevoets and van Cleempoel, 2019). While at the height of the postmodern era in architecture the main concern pivoted on the linguistic and stylistic relationship between extant artifacts and new interventions, the focus has gradually shifted towards the material and experiential domain of reused spaces (De Matteis, 2009).…”

Section: Discovering the Experiential Space Of Ruins: A First-person ...mentioning

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Atmospheric assemblages: the affective space of adaptive reuse

Matteis

2022

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PurposeAdaptive reuse entails the physical modification of abandoned architectural structures, with the activation of processes and practices leading to the re-incorporation of heritage into the contemporary life of communities. This transformation entails an affective adaptation, a re-modulation of how citizens attune to a built environment that has been returned to urban, shared forms of use. By observing the emotional ties that are established between subjects and the spaces they inhabit, affecting forms of dwelling, attachments and corporeal responses, the author can clarify how adaptation purports this affective modification, where the original ambiance is not necessarily altogether overwritten, but may rather merge with the supervening situation to give life to unique assemblages of spatialized feelings.Design/methodology/approachDrawing from contemporary phenomenological theories, with their specific focus on the affective and embodied dimension of lived experience, this paper describes and discusses two instances of adaptive reuse, one in Brussels, the second in Rome, highlighting their different processes and spatial outcomes.FindingsThe paper implements recent literature on spatial experience to bring to light conditions found in cases of adaptive reuse. By describing the generators of shared emotions – objects, movements, expressions, materialities, textures – it highlights how the layering of the physical world can lead to both the domestication of affects and to discrepancies and discontinuities in the fabric of experienced space.Originality/valueThere is only a limited literature dedicated to the description of adaptive reuse processes from the contemporary phenomenological perspective. This kind of description can clarify the dynamics unfolding between citizens and experienced space in cases of heritage reuse.

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Ethics and aesthetics of adaptive heritage reuse in Europe: an introduction to what happens to territories when heritage is touched

Ethics and aesthetics of adaptive heritage reuse in Europe: an introduction to what happens to territories when heritage is touched

Local perspectives on the cultural significance of rejuvenated heritage shophouses in George Town, Penang

Atmospheric assemblages: the affective space of adaptive reuse

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