A conversational plea for the ruin studies
This note offers a conversation between an academic and a non-academic as an attempt to envision a prosthetic curriculum, to advance an inquiry under the banner of the “ruin studies”. Taking their recent project on modern ruination as a point of departure, the interlocutors try to measure its notion...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2022 |
| País: | España |
| Institución: | Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (CSIC) |
| Repositorio: | DIGITAL.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSIC |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:digital.csic.es:10261/368669 |
| Acceso en línea: | http://hdl.handle.net/10261/368669 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | Ruinology Ruin studies New ruins Ruined subjectivity Ruinenlust Unfinished architectures Parainstitution Wasteland twinning Pandemic Berlin |
| Sumario: | This note offers a conversation between an academic and a non-academic as an attempt to envision a prosthetic curriculum, to advance an inquiry under the banner of the “ruin studies”. Taking their recent project on modern ruination as a point of departure, the interlocutors try to measure its notional framework against the current pandemic predicament. The loosened-up mode of their exchange allows them to widen the lens on the knowledge production field, to include not only the institutional (academic) backbone, but also a “parainstitutional” (non-academic) tissue. Thus, they launch an appeal to other researchers to test out the “ruin” angle within their fields. It could reveal, they argue, buried and blocked-off facets of the (post)pandemic reality. The features of their own case study (on ZK/U, i.e., Centre for Arts and Urbanistics – located in a ruined train depot in Berlin), as well as the applied methodology (that had resulted in a photocomic form of presentation), serve here as a precedent. |
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