Curated Decay
Heritage beyond Saving
Seiten
2017
University of Minnesota Press (Verlag)
978-0-8166-9436-5 (ISBN)
University of Minnesota Press (Verlag)
978-0-8166-9436-5 (ISBN)
A bold new approach to heritage conservation that embraces change and accommodates decay
Transporting readers from derelict homesteads to imperiled harbors, postindustrial ruins to Cold War test sites, Curated Decay presents an unparalleled provocation to conventional thinking on the conservation of cultural heritage. Caitlin DeSilvey proposes rethinking the care of certain vulnerable sites in terms of ecology and entropy, and explains how we must adopt an ethical stance that allows us to collaborate with—rather than defend against—natural processes.
Curated Decay chronicles DeSilvey’s travels to places where experiments in curated ruination and creative collapse are under way, or under consideration. It uses case studies from the United States, Europe, and elsewhere to explore how objects and structures produce meaning not only in their preservation and persistence, but also in their decay and disintegration. Through accessible and engaging discussion of specific places and their stories, it traces how cultural memory is generated in encounters with ephemeral artifacts and architectures.
An interdisciplinary reframing of the concept of the ruin that combines historical and philosophical depth with attentive storytelling, Curated Decay represents the first attempt to apply new theories of materiality and ecology to the concerns of critical heritage studies.
Transporting readers from derelict homesteads to imperiled harbors, postindustrial ruins to Cold War test sites, Curated Decay presents an unparalleled provocation to conventional thinking on the conservation of cultural heritage. Caitlin DeSilvey proposes rethinking the care of certain vulnerable sites in terms of ecology and entropy, and explains how we must adopt an ethical stance that allows us to collaborate with—rather than defend against—natural processes.
Curated Decay chronicles DeSilvey’s travels to places where experiments in curated ruination and creative collapse are under way, or under consideration. It uses case studies from the United States, Europe, and elsewhere to explore how objects and structures produce meaning not only in their preservation and persistence, but also in their decay and disintegration. Through accessible and engaging discussion of specific places and their stories, it traces how cultural memory is generated in encounters with ephemeral artifacts and architectures.
An interdisciplinary reframing of the concept of the ruin that combines historical and philosophical depth with attentive storytelling, Curated Decay represents the first attempt to apply new theories of materiality and ecology to the concerns of critical heritage studies.
Caitlin DeSilvey is associate professor of cultural geography at the University of Exeter. She is coauthor of Visible Mending and coeditor of Anticipatory History.
Contents
1. Postpreservation: Looking Past Loss
2. Memory’s Ecologies: Curating Mutability in Montana
3. When Story Meets the Storm: Unsafe Harbor
4. Orderly Decay: Philosophies of Nonintervention
5. A Positive Passivity: Entropic Gardens
6. Boundary Work: On Expertise and Ambiguity
7. Palliative Curation: The Death of a Lighthouse
8. Beyond Saving: Care without Conservation
Acknowledgments
Notes
Permissions
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 19.03.2017 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 8 |
| Verlagsort | Minnesota |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 127 x 203 mm |
| Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Hilfswissenschaften | |
| Naturwissenschaften ► Geowissenschaften ► Geografie / Kartografie | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| Technik ► Architektur | |
| Technik ► Bauwesen | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-8166-9436-2 / 0816694362 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-8166-9436-5 / 9780816694365 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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