Public Spaces and Cultural Heritage in Community Projects – the Example of Warsaw

Hołuj, Dominika

doi:10.1515/esrp-2017-0013

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“…The numerous efforts at the restoration of civic spaces had positive effects and resulted in a concomitant 'healing' of civic communities. Examples with positive, albeit occasionally contested [62,63], outcomes are Warsaw [64], Gdansk [60], Malta [65], Dresden [66], Frankfurt [67], Rothenburg [68], and Sewastopol [69]. This observation has led to calls not only to ensure that disaster management plans are drawn up for historic properties but, moreover, to consider historic properties as part of a community's critical infrastructure and thus form an integral part of disaster responses and post-disaster recovery [70,71].…”

Section: Role Of Familiar Places/heritage/landmarks In Disaster Recoverymentioning

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The Nexus between Cultural Heritage Management and the Mental Health of Urban Communities

Spennemann

2022

Land

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In authorized cultural heritage management discourse, heritage sites can be included in local government heritage registers if their aesthetic, scientific, historic or social values are deemed significant. While notionally providing protection from major alterations and destruction for the benefit of future generations, such listings primarily serve the present generation whose values they reflect. This paper considers the role that cultural heritage places play in terms of community identity and their contribution to a sense of place, to place attachment and, by implication, to personal and community mental health.

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Section: Role Of Familiar Places/heritage/landmarks In Disaster Recoverymentioning

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The Nexus between Cultural Heritage Management and the Mental Health of Urban Communities

Spennemann

2022

Land

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“…The thing is that if you walk through Praga you say hello to people, something that usually does not happen in the center of a city” (PI3). In addition, the district has its own formative culture cultivated, based on spirit, dialect, a notorious image and a gritty reputation due its low spatial accessibility and a high crime rate (Holuj, 2017; Pawlikowska-Piechotka, 2010). Other elements that are mentioned by the interviewees as being part of the immaterial heritage of Praga are the artists' vibe in some parts of Praga, the remains of the Warsaw dialect which is still in use, local names for streets and buildings, the street life, and the naturalness of organizing things on a street level.…”

Section: Ethics and Aesthetics In Pragamentioning

confidence: 99%

“…And following the popular post-industrial aesthetics in urban development, a former vodka factory was converted into a luxurious entertainment hub (see for instance Cizler, 2012; Mathews and Picton, 2014). Such projects have been fostering the already ongoing gentrification of the district and has led to an erosion of the district's urban and architectural identity, and to the estrangement of local communities to their heritage (Holuj, 2017). In order to understand how such processes of erosion and estrangement between heritage and local communities can be countered, while still redeveloping heritage buildings for contemporary urban needs, this paper explores with what kind of practices and heritage approaches these tensions can be mitigated, learning from the recent experiences in Praga.…”

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Mitigating tensions between ethics and aesthetics through community-led adaptive heritage reuse: the case of post-industrial Praga, Warsaw

Knippenberg

Boonstra

2022

JCHMSD

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PurposeHeritage reuse, in which the aesthetics of heritage play a leading role, often leads to extreme commodification of heritage, place branding, gentrification and the exclusion of many narratives and voices. In order to understand how such processes of erosion and estrangement between heritage and local communities can be countered, while still redeveloping heritage buildings for contemporary urban needs, this paper explores with what kind of practices and heritage approaches these tensions can be mitigated, learning from recent experiences in Praga district.Design/methodology/approachBased on qualitative semi-structured interviews in a case study of a living lab of ongoing heritage reuse practice in Praga district in the city of Warsaw, Poland, the authors identify practices and approaches that can help to overcome tensions between the ethics and aesthetics of heritage reuse.FindingsIn rapidly changing district like Praga, local communities and others are struggling to compete process of change that impact their heritage, and the engagement with it. Although the local community is quite active in addressing various urban challenges and preserving the character of Praga including heritage elements, the conditions under which these community-led heritage reuse practices operate are quite impactful, as it appears that cooperation with local institutions is vital in order to embed community-led heritage reuse practices to overcome the tensions between ethics and aesthetics of heritage reuse.Originality/valueThis paper presents an in-depth analysis of a living lab of community-led heritage reuse. As such, the paper highlights various practices of community organizations and citizen initiatives that address heritage reuse, as well as the conditions under which these initiatives operate.

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“…No matter what changes, these places are still a landmark in a city. In addition to historical buildings, historical public spaces and landscapes are essential elements for the CH of a city (Hołuj, 2017;Milan, 2017). In cities with a long and interesting history, these spaces contain tangible CH, and the citizens connect their personal meaning and feelings with this spatial information (Hołuj, 2017;Zawilińska & Szpara, 2016).…”

Section: The Content Of Cultural Heritagementioning

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“…In addition to historical buildings, historical public spaces and landscapes are essential elements for the CH of a city (Hołuj, 2017;Milan, 2017). In cities with a long and interesting history, these spaces contain tangible CH, and the citizens connect their personal meaning and feelings with this spatial information (Hołuj, 2017;Zawilińska & Szpara, 2016). Heritage places are crucial in terms of transferring cultural identity and history to new generations (Misirlisoy & Günçe, 2016).…”

Section: The Content Of Cultural Heritagementioning

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Preferences for a Multimedia Web Platform to Increase Awareness of Cultural Heritage: A Stated Choice Experiment

Wang

Vries

Dane

2021

Journal of Heritage Management

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As stated by UNESCO, cultural heritage (CH) (tangible and intangible) plays an important role in inheriting, maintaining and passing the values and knowledge from past generations to the next ones. To create an interest and raise the awareness of CH, variety of media sources (i.e., maps, text, 3D models, virtual reality) are exploited. These multimedia sources are brought together on web platforms that preserve and disseminate tangible and intangible CH information, with the aim to reach to large audiences. Although there are many examples of these multimedia web platforms, there is little research on understanding people’s willingness to use such multimedia web platforms and which media type people prefer for understanding and learning about CH. This is important to address since the success and sustainability of such platforms lies on their acceptance by the target audience in terms of data representation and the ease of information provision. To address this problem, this research applied a stated choice experiment to represent a hypothetical multimedia web platform to respondents. Different media types were tested for the description of CH (spatial content and historical content). The collected data from 630 respondents was analysed by a mixed logit model in order to determine the preference towards different media in a given hypothetical multimedia web platform to increase awareness of CH. The results indicate that people prefer multiple media rather than a single medium. Especially, adding dynamic media (i.e., 3D models and videos) to static media (i.e., 2D map and text) increase people’s willingness to use the multimedia web platform. The results help to formulate a new multimedia web platform and can help representatives of heritage sites to create a more sustainable way to broadcast information about CH to the public.

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Public Spaces and Cultural Heritage in Community Projects – the Example of Warsaw

Cited by 3 publications

References 17 publications

The Nexus between Cultural Heritage Management and the Mental Health of Urban Communities

The Nexus between Cultural Heritage Management and the Mental Health of Urban Communities

Mitigating tensions between ethics and aesthetics through community-led adaptive heritage reuse: the case of post-industrial Praga, Warsaw

Preferences for a Multimedia Web Platform to Increase Awareness of Cultural Heritage: A Stated Choice Experiment

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