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Integrität und kulturelles Erbe
Full text linkObwohl ein Erbe der Vergangenheit niemals vollständig Teil der Gegenwart sein kann, gibt es das allgegenwärtige Bedürfnis nach einer materiellen oder ideellen Kohärenz von Erbe - beispielsweise, um eine Identität zu definieren. Aus diesem Paradoxon entsteht ein permanenter Konflikt zwischen der Vieldeutigkeit kulturellen Erbes und einer Sehnsucht nach Eindeutigkeit, Kontrolle und Ganzheit, die sich mit dem Begriff der Integrität umschreiben lässt. Sophie Stackmann untersucht erstmals systematisch das Integritäts-Verständnis in Diskursen um Denkmalschutz, kulturelles Erbe und Welterbe. Dabei diskutiert sie auch den grundlegenden Konflikt im Umgang mit kulturellem Erbe
Dessau-Roßlau: Wohnen in der Kathedrale der Zukunft : Die Veränderungsgeschichte der Siedlung Dessau-Törten
No full textThis paper explores diverse ways of reading historical architecture with a focus on the Dessau-Törten housing estate, which was designed by Walter Gropius during his time as master of the Bauhaus School in Dessau (1926–
1928). Today the settlement is understood as one of the most prominent legacies of the Bauhaus in Dessau-Roßlau.
Since 1977, it has been listed as a protected group of buildings under Saxony-Anhalt‘s state Law for the Protection
and Preservation of Monuments.
However, the interior and exterior design of the houses within the settlement has been changed throughout its
history. This has led to numerous discussions concerning the evaluation of these modifications, in the wake of which
heritage conservation professionals have mainly undertaken measures to restore the original design. Residents have largely contested these. Taking this conflict as a starting point, the paper both compares the original design with the
current state of the settlement and highlights the dynamics and complex processes which have inscribed themselves into the architecture over time. It is proposed that these dynamic processes may themselves represent a value for assessing the Dessau-Törten settlement as a historical group of buildings. Thus, the paper attempts to develop an approach that could be more feasible and sustainable for both the residents of the housing estate and the conservation professionals responsible
Sonja Longolius, Performing Authorship. Strategies of “Becoming an Author” in the Works of Paul Auster, Candice Breitz, Sophie Calle and Jonathan Safran Foer
No full textIn Performing Authorship. Strategies of “Becoming an Author” in the Works of Paul Auster, Candice Breitz, Sophie Calle and Jonathan Safran Foer, Sonja Longolius analyzes how two writers (Auster and Foer) and two performing artists (Calle and Breitz) have not only been producing works but, in the process, have also consciously “become authors” by creating their own authorial personae. In the beginning of her introduction, Longolius quotes a remark taken from one of Auster’s interviews about hi..
The Ascription of Values and Logics in Planning within Historic City Spaces. New Contributions to the Conservation of Urban Heritage
No full textStädte sind zu allen Zeiten dynamischen Wandlungsprozessen ausgesetzt. Denkmalpflege ist hierbei ein Ansatz, um bauliche und räumliche Kontinuitäten durch Selektion und Bewertung zu tradieren. In historischen Stadträumen ist sie daran beteiligt, Stadtentwicklung im Sinne dieser Kontinuitäten zu gestalten.
Nicht nur der Denkmalschutz, sondern auch die Städte selbst unterliegen dabei Planungslogiken, die zwischen Recht und divergierenden Interessen changieren und in der Interaktion verschiedenster Akteure sowohl Entwicklungsräume eröffnen als auch an Grenzen stoßen. Gerade die Attraktivität historischer Stadträume – seien es Altstädte oder Wohnviertel – wirft die Frage auf, wie sich die Denkmalpflege zu diesem Wandel positioniert und welche Stellung sie in der Vergangenheit eingenommen hat.
In dem vorliegenden Sammelband wird in fünf Beiträgen die Rolle der Denkmalpflege im Beziehungsgeflecht von Stadtentwicklungsprozessen anhand unterschiedlicher Beispielorte in Deutschland sowohl in historischer Perspektive wie auch mit Blick auf aktuelle Prozesse untersucht. Thematisiert werden die Bedeutung der Schadenskartierung des Zweiten Weltkriegs für die Stadtplanung Augsburgs, historisierend „präparierte“ Stadtgebiete der 1970er Jahre, die in Hamburg einen „Altstadtcharakter“ evozieren, die Bauhaus Siedlung Dessau-Törten im Spannungsfeld von ästhetischem Bildschutz, Bildproduktion und der Anpassung an Wohnbedürfnisse, die Bedeutung der Denkmalpflege für gentrifizierte Viertel in Berlin und die Umwandlung des historischen Kurortes Bad Münstereifel zu einem städtischen Outlet Center.Cities are subject to dynamic change at all times. Heritage conservation is one approach to perpetuate structural and spatial continuity through processes of selection and evaluation. In historic urban spaces it is involved in shaping urban development according to these continuities.
Not only heritage conservation, but also the cities themselves are subject to planning logics that oscillate between law and diverging interests. These inherent planning logics, shaped through actor involvement, open up new opportunities in urban development as well as they portrait their limits. The appeal of historic urban spaces – e. g. old towns or residential neighborhoods – raises the question how heritage conservation defines and defined its position within these continuous processes of urban change.
This anthology presents five essays that analyze the role of heritage conservation in the mesh of relations in urban development for selected examples in Germany from a historical perspective as well as with regard to current processes: the importance of damage recordings of the Second World War for the urban planning of Augsburg, historically „arranged“ urban areas of the 1970s, which evoke an „old town character“ in Hamburg, the Bauhaus settlement Dessau-Törten in the area of tension between aesthetic image protection, production and the adaptation to needs in housing, the importance of heritage conservation for gentrified neighborhoods in Berlin and the transforming of the historic spa town of Bad Münstereifel into an urban outlet center
Selma Lagerlöf och Sophie Elkan
Full text linkA description of the friendship between the Swedish children's books author Selma Lagerlöf and the Jewish-Swedish author Sophie Elkan
Pixelated flesh
No full textThe pixel and the technique of pixelating faces belong to a politics of fear and a digital aesthetics of truth which shapes public perceptions of criminality and the threat of otherness. This article will draw on Paul Virilio's account of the pixel in Lost Dimension in order to analyze its specific role and operation in relation to contemporary representations of incarceration. In particular, the article will consider the figure of the incarcerated informant. The incarcerated criminal or informant plays a complex role as both subversive other and purveyor of truth and as such constitutes an important example of the ways in which pixelation functions as a visible signifier of a dangerous truth whilst blurring, erasing and, ultimately, dehumanizing those "speaking" this truth. Our discussion forms part of a larger analysis of the production, framing and circulation of images of otherness, identifying Virilio as key to debates around the violence of the screen
Gemeinsam Räume schaffen. Facetten kollektiven Arbeitens in Architektur und Planung
Full text linkEven though it is well known that only very few buildings have been planned and built by individuals alone, dominant conceptions of art and architectural history still are shaped by the idea of a few, self-sufficient artistic personalities. However, the fact that the production of architecture is always integrated into societal and social contexts, i. e., that it always takes place in interaction with a variety of actors, has garnered scholarly attention in recent years. At the same time, there has been increasing interest, from the point of view of architectural practice, in considering different forms of collaborative work. One specific form of this collaborative approach to work is that of the collective. During the interwar period, in particular, this concept was influenced by the various protagonists of classical modernism; in most of its iterations, it is based on a socio-critical foundation questioning established hierarchies (including the construct of a formative author figure) as well as the conditions of living and working under capitalism. Instead, they conceive of building as a task to be taken on by society as a whole. This idea already was politicised in the early Soviet Union, where it went hand in hand with a centralised notion of the state. In the German Democratic Republic, also, government building policy was tied in with this notion, as is evident from GDR agencies organising the entire building process in collectives. This led, at least in part, to resentment (discussed more or less openly) among contemporary architects, whose self-image as creative workers had thus been called into question (a fact which found expression in various debates about the organisation of working methods and the role of the author or collective leader within the collective). Certain persistent difficulties in the practice of architectural and art history – those in assessing and valorising buildings from that era – also reflect this problem: Even today, dispensing with a clear attribution of authorship apparently still is difficult (though this phenomenon may also be attributed to a lack of knowledge and understanding as regards the organisational and working methods of collectives at that time. Starting from this problem, the present article focuses on the various processes that take place during the creation of a work of architecture. One of the questions to explored is whether there are – or have been, historically – specifically ›collective‹ ways of ›doing architecture‹. In order to focus on this question from another angle, the article also points out significant parallels (and differences) between the working methods and self-image of architecture and planning collectives, then and now. Initially, work in collectives appeared to have taken a backseat after German reunification – a circumstance due in part, possibly, to the association of collective working modes with the failed socialist utopia of the GDR. In more recent years, however, there has been renewed interest in the topic of collective work. Taking up ideas from the interwar period, these new collectives usually choose to inhabit a decidedly critical framework which questions both widespread working methods and production systems. Terms such as ›participation‹, ›multidimensionality‹, and ›inclusion‹ have become core concepts, expanding the focuses of ›classic‹ collectives with genuinely contemporary perspectives. Here also the question arises, however, as to how this new focus is reflected both in the concrete work and in dealing with the created object or with spatial interventions. In partial answer, the first part of this article derives the genesis of the term or concept of ›the collective‹ from its sources in architectural history, before taking a closer look at the specific form the collective took in the GDR. Next, an empirical analysis examines the working methods of two collectives active in the GDR and today, respectively, are examined and contextualised vis-à-vis the respective contemporary discourse on collective work. This empirical investigation focuses on the conflicts surrounding the so-called Zitronenpresse (›lemon squeezer‹) in Gera, East Germany, a café building planned and built between 1973 and 1978 by several architect collectives, before being demolished in 1997 and, finally, reconstructed in a spatial intervention by a planning collective. Throughout, the juxtaposition of different working methods – represented by the different collectives in their respective historical and social contexts – serves as a basis for the presentation of ideas and practices of collective working in in architecture and planning. A concluding analysis then summarises the similiarities and differences between the two collectives – for example, with regard to their hierarchical structure, modes of everyday cooperation, and divergent notions of authorship
Rezension: "Merlins Tochter" von Sophie Reyer
Full text linkIn ihrem neuen Roman spürt Sophie Reyer einer traumatischen Kindheit und rettender Imaginationskraft nach. Der vielseitigen Autorin gelingt so ein eindringliches Porträt einer misshandelten Frau, die ihr Schicksal auf überraschende Weise selbst in die Hand nimmt.In her new novel, Sophie Reyer traces a traumatic childhood and the rescuing power of the imagination. The versatile author succeeds in creating a haunting portrait of an abused woman who takes her fate into her own hands in a surprising way
Integrität und kulturelles Erbe: Das Bedürfnis nach Unversehrtheit und Eindeutigkeit in den Denkmalwissenschaften
Full text linkObwohl ein Erbe der Vergangenheit niemals vollständig Teil der Gegenwart sein kann, gibt es das allgegenwärtige Bedürfnis nach einer materiellen oder ideellen Kohärenz von Erbe - beispielsweise, um eine Identität zu definieren. Aus diesem Paradoxon entsteht ein permanenter Konflikt zwischen der Vieldeutigkeit kulturellen Erbes und einer Sehnsucht nach Eindeutigkeit, Kontrolle und Ganzheit, die sich mit dem Begriff der Integrität umschreiben lässt. Die Autorin untersucht erstmals systematisch das Integritäts-Verständnis in Diskursen um Denkmalschutz, kulturelles Erbe und Welterbe. Dabei diskutiert sie auch den grundlegenden Konflikt im Umgang mit kulturellem Erbe
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