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Journal articles on the topic "Dark Heritage Sites"
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Biran, Avital, Yaniv Poria, and Gila Oren. "SOUGHT EXPERIENCES AT (DARK) HERITAGE SITES." Annals of Tourism Research 38, no. 3 (July 2011): 820–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.annals.2010.12.001.
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Farmaki, Anna, and Katerina Antoniou. "Politicising dark tourism sites: evidence from Cyprus." Worldwide Hospitality and Tourism Themes 9, no. 2 (April 10, 2017): 175–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/whatt-08-2016-0041.
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Purpose This paper aims to extend understanding on how the tourist experience at dark heritage sites is directed and consequently influences the narratives of cultural heritage. By discussing the way dark heritage sites are projected by suppliers, the paper anticipates to advance knowledge on the nexus between dark tourism and heritage and to offer insights into the management of dissonant heritage sites. Design/methodology/approach The cases of two opposing national museums in the divided island of Cyprus are presented and discussed in an attempt to illustrate how dissonant heritage interpretation in a post-conflict context is often the product of political direction, commemorating the past and to a great extent influencing the future of a society. Findings National struggle museums represent dark heritage sites, which evoke emotions pertinent to ethnic identity reinforcement. Evidently, the management of such sites is in opposition to peace-building efforts taking place in a post-conflict context. The paper concludes that visitation to dark heritage sites is culturally driven rather than death-related and suggests that efforts consolidate to target specific segments of visitors, if the reconciliation potential of dark tourism is to be unleashed. Originality/value Insofar, minimal attention has been paid on the conditions of the supply of dark heritage sites and the role of suppliers in influencing culture-based issues including collective memory and national identity. This paper addresses this gap in literature and advances understanding on the developmental elements defining dark heritage tourism, by identifying and discussing trajectories between dark tourism and politics.
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Meutia, Zya Dyena, Arief Rosyidie, Denny Zulkaidi, and Sri Maryati. "The Role of Heritage Planning in Dark Sites Case Study : Tsunami Sites in Banda Aceh." International Journal of Education, Language, and Religion 2, no. 2 (December 21, 2020): 64. http://dx.doi.org/10.35308/ijelr.v2i2.2492.
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The concept of dark heritage has been used as a concept of preserving an area or site that contains relics due to dark events in the past. Tsunami disaster in 2004 that hit Banda Aceh as the most affected area after the disaster has left various relics that need a consideration regarding to dark heritage planning. However, in the planning of dark heritage, it has not yet considered aspects of local communities, especially survivors as the most affected group from the tsunami. The purpose of this paper is to observe the planning of dark heritage involving the community as an important aspect in the preservation of post-disaster areas and to find out the components and values that are considered important by the community in preserving dark heritage. The study was conducted from August 2019 to January 2020 in the post-disaster area, Banda Aceh, as the most affected area using a qualitative approach, a case study. This study showed that dark heritage planning which involves the community is strongly influenced by communicative values in building agreements in the post-disaster memorial area to create sustainable dark heritage planning. Field research also found that spatial elements need to be considered in planning post-disaster dark heritage in seeing post-disaster areas as areas of dark heritage that are also influenced by religious values by the community treating dark heritage sites.
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Lennon, J. John. "Dark tourism sites: visualization, evidence and visitation." Worldwide Hospitality and Tourism Themes 9, no. 2 (April 10, 2017): 216–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/whatt-09-2016-0042.
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Purpose This paper aims to consider dark tourism sites and their pivotal role as evidence of atrocity and evil. How they are interpreted and the role of visual imagery, most particularly photography, are considered from the perspective of the locations as heritage and learning sites. The complex arguments in relation to conservation and maintenance are juxtaposed with the behaviour of visitors in recording and uploading imagery of such material. This phenomenon allows us to consider the enormity of witnessing such events and viewing such sites as part of contemporary tourist behaviour. Design/methodology/approach The approach utilizes contemporary literature from tourism, sociology and film studies and uses secondary sources to highlight key sites that illustrate discursive elements of the paper. Findings This appeal and appetite for photographic and filmic record by visitors to such dark sites illustrates not only an inherent fascination but also a series of dark and recurring themes. However, it is also notable that in some locations, ideological selectivity in development is present and evidence, record and history are challenged. The cases of Cambodia and Russia and elements of their tragic pasts are used to illustrate why key heritage sites are developed as attractions or are ignored as evidential sites. For these reasons, this area still merits evaluation and discussion in tourism. Originality/value The area of dark tourism has been the focus of researchers for over a decade. However, the areas of selectivity in development, ideological impact on content and the issues related to visualization have not as yet been fully explored. This paper begins to explore issues related to visualization and evidence and how it related to these dark tourism sites.
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Dhatrak, Swapnil P. "Dark Tourism Sites in India: A Review." Shanlax International Journal of Arts, Science and Humanities 8, no. 2 (October 1, 2020): 53–57. http://dx.doi.org/10.34293/sijash.v8i2.3328.
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The study of this paper aims to study the various sites of dark tourism in India. Tourism in India is important for the country’s economy and its sectors growing rapidly. Tourism means the act and process of spending time away from home in pursuit of recreation, relaxation, and pleasure while making use of the commercial provision. There are many forms of tourism based on the purpose of visit. in that paper; we discussed dark tourism development and sites in India. Dark tourism (black tourism, morbid tourism)has been defined as tourism involving travel to places historically associated with death and tragedy, planning a project on dark tourism documenting the increasing popularity of morbid landmarks around the world. The main attraction to dark locations is their historical value rather than associations with death and suffering. Holocaust tourism contains aspects of both dark and heritage tourism .dark tourism is a sheer curiosity that pushes people to thread the road less traveled to search their answers, so travel by far has always been related to journey and to explore beautiful places. There are a lot of places in India. This research paper includes references to the promotion of dark tourism in India. The work includes references in the promotion of dark tourism in India, a destination that has largely failed to improve itself on Indian tourism market because this form of tourism promotions a destination .dark tourism attractions demonstrate demand but also consist of commemoration, historical references, narrative legacies, and populist heritage this tourism sites in some cases become one of few remaining elements of victims and tier testimonies. There is a lot of scope for developing dark tourism in India but taking some efforts and specific solutions to developed dark tourism in India. For this paper used secondary research methodology has been used for research for data collection, secondary data collected from the literature review also government agency data; online tourism news has been collected.
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Hryhorczuk, Nicholas. "Radioactive Heritage: The Universal Value of Chernobyl as a Dark Heritage Site." Qualitative Inquiry 25, no. 9-10 (August 2, 2018): 1047–55. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1077800418787553.
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In 1986, the world witnessed the worst nuclear power accident in history at Chernobyl. Today, Chernobyl has become a popular site for dark tourism. This autoethnographic study seeks to determine whether Chernobyl has an outstanding universal value to merit designation as a UNESCO heritage site. Precedents for dark heritage sites include Auschwitz-Birkenau and Hiroshima. Their common elements are historic tragedy, the expression of strength and hope of humanity, and a symbol for change. Chernobyl is a historic tragedy. The heroism among first responders and liquidators provides hope in humanity. Chernobyl has led us to ponder the pros and cons of nuclear power. Chernobyl meets the criteria as a potential UNESCO dark heritage site, but would require the financial support of the Ukrainian government and a commitment to ensuring a safe and valuable tourism experience.
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Stone, Philip R. "Atlas of Dark Destinations—Explore the World of Dark Tourism by Peter Hohenhaus." Journal of Scientific Exploration 36, no. 2 (August 20, 2022): 325–26. http://dx.doi.org/10.31275/20222609.
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Dark tourism is an appellation defining travel to a diverse array of tourist sites that portray death, disasters, or calamities. For over 25 years, dark tourism as an international subject of scholarly interest has drawn together multidisciplinary discourse, where the dominion of the dead collides with contemporary touristic consumption. In turn, dark tourism has opened scholarly scrutiny of our significant Other dead and how societies deal with difficult heritage. Consequently, dark tourism is about polysemic touristic encounters with our memorialized dead, where a fine line exists between commemoration and commercialism. Dark tourism is inherently political and dissonant, as (re)presentations of our dead are imbued with sociopolitical bias and where remembrance is politically engineered and hegemonically orchestrated. Whereas heritage may produce narratives for dark tourism, it is the tourist experience that consumes such messages and co-constructs meaning making. Indeed, dark tourism displays our fights, follies, failures, and misfortunes, and subsequent tourist experiences of our ‘heritage that hurts’ mediates a sense of mortality at places of fatality.
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Meutia, Zya Dyena, Arief Rosyidie, Denny Zulkaidi, and Sri Maryati. "Perencanaan Dark Heritage Bagi Masyarakat di Kawasan Pascabencana Tsunami Banda Aceh, Indonesia." TATALOKA 23, no. 4 (November 30, 2021): 511–23. http://dx.doi.org/10.14710/tataloka.23.4.511-523.
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The concept of dark heritage has been used as a concept of preserving an area or site that contains relics due to dark events in the past. The 2004 tsunami disaster that hit the city as the most affected area after the disaster has left various relics and tsunami sites that need to consider dark heritage planning. However in dark heritage planning has not yet considered aspects of local communities, especially survivors as the most affected group from the tsunami disaster. The purpose of this paper is to look at dark heritage planning that involves the community as an important aspect in the preservation of post-disaster areas as well as to find out the components and values that are considered important by the community in preserving dark heritage. The study was carried out from August 2019 to December 2019 in the post disaster area of Banda Aceh as the most affected area using a qualitative approach. This study reveals that dark heritage planning that involves communities contributes to resilience thus creating resilient communities. In addition, religion and local culture in the post disaster area are important aspects that cannot be separated for the community in sustainable dark heritage planning.
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Rozite, Maija, and Aija van der Steina. "Sites related to death and disaster in cultural an tourism geography – a theoretical perspective." Folia Geographica 18 (2020): 62–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.22364/fg.18.8.
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Research into tourism, a relatively new discipline, is developing, using theories and approaches from other disciplines. Extensive research is underway in Latvia on sites related to tragic historical events and death, including the use of Holocaust sites in tourism. In order to comprehensively study these dark heritage sites, previous studies related to cemeteries and death sites have been analysed. The aim of this article is to identify death sites as special places and as elements of the cultural landscape. The attitude of locals towards dark heritage sites cannot be understood without understanding the attitude towards death sites and cemeteries in the cultural context. This article gives an overview of existing research in necrography, summarising the geographical approaches used to characterise these particular sites. The studies already conducted in Latvia have been reviewed and the most relevant definitions of dark tourism and thanatourism have been identified. The main problems faced in including places of death and tragedy in tourism product promotions have been described, especially if they are related to tragic events such as the Holocaust. In conclusion, the main aspects and approaches to be used for further research into the use of Holocaust sites in tourism have been identified.
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Ruggles, Clive. "Session 21.4 – World Heritage and the Protection of Working Observatory Sites." Proceedings of the International Astronomical Union 11, A29A (August 2015): 463–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1743921316003604.
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AbstractThis joint session between FM21 and FM2 (“Astronomical Heritage: Progressing the UNESCO–IAU Initiative”) focused upon the need to preserve the dark skies necessary for the continued functioning of the world's leading optical observatories and whether, if some of the sites concerned could be inscribed on UNESCO's World Heritage List, this could help achieve this objective. Among the main issues addressed were: is a WHL inscription feasible in the first place? how could the strongest case for inscription be made? what progress has been made towards doing this? and what other effects might a WHL inscription have and would they all be desirable to astronomers? Addressing such issues involves not only scientific but also heritage and political considerations.
Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Dark Heritage Sites"
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Wight, Alexander Craig. "Tracking discourses of occupation and genocide in Lithuanian museums and sites of memory." Thesis, University of Plymouth, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/10026.1/3083.
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Tourism visits to sites associated to varying degrees with death and dying have for some time inspired academic debate and research into what has come to be popularly described as ‘dark tourism’. Research to date has been based on the mobilisation of various social scientific methodologies to understand issues such as the motivations of visitors to consume dark tourism experiences and visitor interpretations of the various narratives that are part of the consumption experience. This thesis offers an alternative conceptual perspective for carrying out research into museums that represent genocide and occupation by presenting a discourse analysis of five Lithuanian museums which share this overchig theme using Foucault’s concept of ‘discursive formation’ from ‘Archaeology of Knowledge’. A constructivist methodology is therefore applied to locate the rhetorical representations of Lithuanian and Jewish subject positions and to identify the objects of discourse that are produced in five museums that interpret an historical era defined by occupation, the persecution of people and genocide. The discourses and consequent cultural function of these museums is examined and the key finding of the research proposes that they authorise a particular Lithuanian individualism which marginalises the Jewish subject position and its related objects of discourse into abstraction. The thesis suggests that these museums create the possibility to undermine the ontological stability of Holocaust and the Jewish-Lithuanian subject which is produced as an anomalous, ‘non-Lithuanian’ cultural reference point. As with any Foucauldian archaeological research, it cannot be offered as something that is ‘complete’ since it captures only a partial field, or snapshot of knowledge, bound to a specific temporal and spatial context. The discourses that have been identified are perhaps part of a more elusive ‘positivity’ which is salient across a number of cultural and political surfaces which are ripe for a similar analytical approach in future. It is hoped that the study will motivate others to follow a discourse-analytical approach to research in order to further understand the critical role of museums in public culture when it comes to shaping knowledge about ‘inconvenient’ pasts.
Books on the topic "Dark Heritage Sites"
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Korstanje, Maximiliano E., and Daniel H. Olsen. Dark Tourism and Pilgrimage. CABI, 2019.
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Webster, Maud. Heritage and the Existential Need for History. University Press of Florida, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.5744/florida/9780813066844.001.0001.
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In a sweeping survey of archaeological sites spanning thousands of years, Heritage and the Existential Need for History asks fundamental questions about the place of cultural heritage in Western society. What is history? Why do we write about the events of yesterday and set up memorials for them? Why do we visit places where momentous things have happened? Maud Webster takes readers on a journey from Bronze Age Mycenae through the Greek Dark Ages, from Medieval Rome through the Italian Renaissance, and from Viking Sweden to Restoration-period England and Civil War America. Combining archaeology, history, and psychology, Webster explores themes including literacy and text, monumentality and spoliation, and death and identity. She traces the human need for history at two levels—the collective, here shown through archaeological evidence, and the individual, shown through written records and the behavior they document. Webster’s robust cross-examination of artifacts and texts, and the illustrations drawn from this methodology, attest that locating our history helps us anchor ourselves, for multiple purposes and from varying perspectives, and that the drive to write and build histories is an enduring part of the human experience.
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Moodie, Deonnie. The Making of a Modern Temple and a Hindu City. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190885267.001.0001.
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This book is about what temples do for Hindus in the modern era, particularly those who belong to India’s diverse and evolving middle classes. While many excoriate these sites as emblematic of all that is backward about Hinduism and India, many others work to modernize them so that they might become emblems of a proud heritage and of the nation’s future. I take Kālīghāṭ Temple, a powerful pilgrimage site dedicated to the dark goddess Kālī, in Kolkata (formerly Calcutta) as a case study in the phenomenon by which middle-class Hindus work to modernize temples. At the height of the colonial era in the 1890s, they wrote books and articles attaching this temple to both rationalist and spiritual forms of Hinduism. In the middle decades of the twentieth century, they filed and adjudicated lawsuits to secularize and democratize its management structure. Today, in the wake of India’s economic liberalization, they work to gentrify Kālīghāṭ’s physical spaces. The conceptual, institutional, and physical forms of this religious site are thus facets through which middle-class Hindus produce and publicize their modernity, as well as their cities’ and their nation’s. The use of Kālīghāṭ as a means to modernization is by no means uncontested. The temple plays a very different role in the lives and livelihoods of individuals from across the class spectrum. The future of this and other temples across India thus relies on complex negotiations between actors of multiple class backgrounds who read their various needs onto these sites.
Book chapters on the topic "Dark Heritage Sites"
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Marsh, R. Scott. "Understanding Children's Visits to Difficult Heritage Sites." In Children, Young People and Dark Tourism, 114–27. London: Routledge, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003032199-11.
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Korstanje, M. E., and L. Howie. "Pilgrimages to terror: the role of heritage in dark sites." In Dark tourism and pilgrimage, 48–56. Wallingford: CABI, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1079/9781789241877.0048.
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Kennell, James, and Raymond Powell. "Dark tourism and World Heritage Sites: a Delphi study of stakeholder perceptions of the development of dark tourism products." In Dark Tourism Studies, 9–23. London: Routledge, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781003266723-2.
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Timothy, Dallen J. "Sites of Suffering, Tourism, and the Heritage of Darkness: Illustrations from the United States." In The Palgrave Handbook of Dark Tourism Studies, 381–98. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-47566-4_16.
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Korstanje, Maximiliano Emanuel, and Handayani Bintang. "Virtual Dark Tourism." In Applying Innovative Technologies in Heritage Science, 231–49. IGI Global, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-7998-2871-6.ch011.
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Death is a great unifier, not only for one who is in grief but also those who have similar shared values (i.e., tourist demand for visiting death sites). In this sense, visitation to the death sites denotes its importance to people's lives. However, as types of death sites are distinctively different from one to another, death sites as tourist attraction remains a segmented target market. This chapter looks at some viewpoints for making death sites not only for a segmented target market, which leads to discourse of virtual dark tourism (VDT) formation. With sound branding coupled with augmented reality (AR) as tools to support the claims of virtual dark tourism, death sites, which are considered exclusive touristic market offerings, presumably could be consumed by more target markets. Several issues and direction for future research are discussed.
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Korstanje, Maximiliano Emanuel, and Babu P. George. "Emotionality, Reason, and Dark Tourism." In Advances in Hospitality, Tourism, and the Services Industry, 1–25. IGI Global, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-2750-3.ch001.
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The present chapter questions to what extent visitors in dark sites are really interested for heritage issues or understanding the roots of moral disasters as the specialized literature suggests or simply are in quest of pleasure-maximization. This text is based on a criticism of the book Heritage that hurts authored by Joy Sather-Wagstaff. Far from any emotionality, dark tourism represents an ideological mechanism to reinforce the supremacy of liberal cultural values which are enrooted in late-capitalism. As the previous backdrop, to what extent tourists visiting these sites emulate (living as victims) or produce a genuine empathy with suffering is the main question goes unnoticed for sociologists and anthropologists. This essay review, which explores the roots of emotions not only continues our previous research in regards to the rise of Thana-Capitalism.
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Khamis, M. K. F., and F. M. Shariff. "Motivation factors, satisfaction and return intention towards dark tourism sites in Malaysia." In Heritage, Culture and Society, 121–24. CRC Press, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1201/9781315386980-22.
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Asquith, Wendy, and Charles Forsdick. "The Intersectionality of Dark Heritage: Overlapping Histories of Enslavement and Incarceration." In Un siècle de sites funéraires de la Grande Guerre, 259–77. Presses universitaires de Paris Nanterre, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.4000/books.pupo.22832.
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Handayani, Bintang, Hugues Seraphin, and Maximiliano Korstanje. "Dark Tourism in the Philippines Islands." In Special Interest Tourism in Southeast Asia, 23–42. IGI Global, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-7393-7.ch002.
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Though the study of dark tourism has been widely expanded over the recent years, less attention was given to the Southeast Asian destinations. Dark tourism exhibits events that are marked a disgrace, the fatalities that interrogate on our own vulnerability. As a gaze of the Significant Other, dark tourism anthropologically mediates between our finitude and the future. The chapter centers on Philippines as a new emergent destination of dark tourism, stressing the contributions of the industry to the heritage sites but alerting the contradictions this new morbid consumption generates.
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Webster, Maud. "Archaeological Cases: Blood from Stone." In Heritage and the Existential Need for History, 30–56. University Press of Florida, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.5744/florida/9780813066844.003.0003.
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Chapter 2 investigates sociopolitical needs and precedents for history expressed through buildings--archaeological and architectural sites where needs for a documented past can be seen as a driving force behind monuments. Topics covered include the following: the use of tombs to claim land in prehistory: Bronze Age cases from Denmark, Sardinia (Italy) and Greece; a brief history of relevant aspects of the Greek “Dark Age”; a discussion of the significance of the dead body and present-day tombs of “the unknown soldier”; the case of Abraham’s land claim in Genesis; monumentalized land claims in protohistory: the Iron Age case of the Argive Heraion in Greece, and a discussion the theme of fabrication; the proactive re-use of old monuments in ancient and medieval times: the cases of Constantinople and Rome, and a discussion of the nature and meaning of spoliation (and of quotation); present-day “readings” of historic spolia-buildings: the cases of the churches of Ayia Triada/Merbaka and the Little Metropolis in Greece; and a discussion of metaphorical “play-worlds” and their meaning for human existence.
Conference papers on the topic "Dark Heritage Sites"
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Bordas Eddy, Marta, and Miguel M. Usandizaga Calparsoro. "Reconquistando nuestras ciudades históricas." In International Conference Virtual City and Territory. Mexicali: Universidad Autónoma de Baja California, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.5821/ctv.7640.
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Se propone una reflexión general sobre la necesidad de recuperar nuestras emblemáticas ciudades históricas y su arquitectura, para que sean devueltas a sus ciudadanos y usuarios. Se detecta una “museización” de dichas ciudades, en las que su carácter histórico y patrimonial parece primar sobre el derecho de libre movilidad y disfrute de las personas, minimizando la vida cotidiana urbana y transformando el entorno en puras imágenes para admirar en la distancia, en una especie de símil de patrimonio congelado en forma de gran escultura.
La reflexión se basa en el estudio y resultados generados por el Programa Intensivo “LOCUS - Let‟s Open Cities for Us”, programa que, durante el transcurso de tres años consecutivos, ha afrontado la problemática de movilidad y accesibilidad en cascos históricos de fuerte carga patrimonial y de compleja y pronunciada topografía. En la mayoría de ocasiones se trata de ciudades fortificadas, protegidas por una muralla medieval en lo alto de una colina, debido a su primer origen defensivo, indispensable en la época pero en plena contraposición contemporánea: debemos, por lo tanto, replantear nuestras ciudades históricas y garantizar su franco acceso.
Nuestro deber de asegurar una completa igualdad de condiciones de uso y nuestro derecho a gozar de una buena calidad de vida, nos exige investigar las herramientas adecuadas que nos permitan acceder a nuestro patrimonio de forma equitativa para todas las personas, independientemente de sus diversas necesidades especiales. Se trata de innovar en una arquitectura inteligente capaz de dar respuesta a nuestras demandas actuales, sin renunciar a la percepción de belleza y harmonía de nuestra herencia patrimonial. El objetivo es el de mejorar la relación entre arquitectura y sociedad: mediante una arquitectura accesible se garantiza un mayor confort de todos los usuarios en general y, consecuentemente, un aumento de la calidad de vida, de rentabilidad y sostenibilidad. La arquitectura sólo será sostenible cuando permita su utilización, siendo la arquitectura accesible la máxima garantía para una sociedad inclusiva.
LOCUS (www.etsav.upc.edu/locus) ha sido coordinado por la Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) y ha contado con la participación de ocho escuelas de arquitectura de universidades europeas asociadas al programa. La ponencia presentará conclusiones derivadas del estudio realizado por LOCUS en las siguientes cuatro ciudades ibéricas: Tarragona (Febrero 2008), Girona (Julio 2008), Évora (Julio 2009) e Ibiza (Abril 2010). Se destacan la diversidad de enfoques y propuestas que se generan en un estudio como éste, pudiendo ser de gran ayuda real para futuras actuaciones municipales similares. The paper addresses a general reflection upon the need of recuperating our emblematic historic cities and their architecture, in order to return it back to their citizens and users. A certain sort of “museumization” is detected in the mentioned cities, where their great heritage and historical character seems to be a priority over the right of free mobility and enjoyment of the people, minimizing the urban daily life and transforming the environment in pure images only to be admired from the distance, in a kind of simile of frozen heritage in the form of a great sculpture.
This consideration comes from the study and results generated by the Intensive Program “LOCUS – Let‟s Open Cities for Us”, which has faced, during three consecutive years, the problematic of mobility and accessibility in historic city centers with strong heritage value and complex and steep topography. In most occasions these sites are fortified cities, protected by a medieval wall on the top of a hill, due to their first defensive origin, indispensable at that time but in a total contemporary contraposition: we must, therefore, rethink our historic cities and ensure their frank access.
Our duty of ensuring completely equal terms of use and our right to enjoy a good quality of life, leads to the research on those adequate tools that will allow accessing the heritage in an equitable manner for all people, regardless their diverse special needs. It is about innovating an intelligent architecture able to offer an answer to our present demands, without renouncing the perception of beauty and harmony of our inheritance. The objective is to improve the relationship between architecture and society: by means of an accessible architecture we can guarantee a better comfort for all users and, consequently, and improvement of the quality of life, the profitability and the sustainability. Architecture will be only sustainable when its utilization is permitted, being an accessible architecture the maximum guarantee of an inclusive society.
LOCUS (www.etsav.upc.edu/locus) has been coordinated by the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) and has the partnership of eight architecture schools coming from diverse European universities. The paper will present conclusions resulting from the analysis of four Iberian cities studied by LOCUS: Tarragona (February 2008), Girona (July 2008), Évora (July 2009) and Ibiza (April 2010). It is worth mentioning the diversity of approaches and solutions generated by a study like this, being a great orientation for future similar urban interventions.
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Mora García, Raúl Tomás, Ma Francisca Céspedes López, and Miguel Louis Cereceda. "Aplicación de la fotogrametría en el levantamiento gráfico de la Iglesia de San José en Elche." In International Conference Virtual City and Territory. Barcelona: Centre de Política de Sòl i Valoracions, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.5821/ctv.7557.
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La Iglesia de San José en Elche, situada en la provincia de Alicante (España), está declarada Bien de Interés Cultural. Es una construcción de estilo barroco que se comenzó a ejecutar en el año 1561. SanJosé formaba parte del convento franciscano de la población, donde actualmente se sitúa la Biblioteca Municipal. Aún siendo una construcción tan singular, no existe información gráfica de la misma, por lo que se considera necesario documentarla. Para ello, se van a utilizar sistemas tradicionales de levantamientos gráficos junto con otros sistemas más actuales y económicos como es la fotogrametría por intersección directa.
Se pretende comprobar la fiabilidad de la fotogrametría frente a los sistemas tradicionales empleados en la documentación gráfica del Patrimonio edificado. Además, se busca generar ortofotos de las fachadas para representar texturas en verdadera magnitud. Otra finalidad del estudio es dar a conocer el patrimonio arquitectónico de nuestras ciudades mediante el empleo de las nuevas tecnologías.
La metodología empleada para la resolución de esta investigación se ha basado en métodos analíticos, fundamentados principalmente en la observación científica y en la medición cuantitativa. Los materiales empleados han sido: cámaras digitales, medidor láser, nivel láser, estación total con medición directa sin prima, software AutoCAD 2006 y PhotoModeler 6.
Con esta investigación se ha generado documentación gráfica del edificio que describe su estado actual. Se cree necesaria la utilización de la fotogrametría en todo levantamiento del patrimonio edificado, por ser un sistema del que se extrae mucha información y al mismo tiempo es accesible económicamente, fácil y rápido de utilizar.
Se concluye con el estudio que los resultados de la fotogrametría dependen de la escala a la que se va a grafiar el dibujo, puesto que las zonas más alejados y de peor visibilidad pueden suponer errores no aceptables. Por ello se recomienda complementar la toma de datos mediante sistemas tradicionales topográficos. The church of San José in Elche, in the province of Alicante (Spain), has been declared a Site of Special Cultural Significance. Begun in 1561, the baroque church formed part of the town’s Franciscan convent and now houses the Elche Municipal Library.
Despite the uniqueness of this building, no graphic information existed and it was thus deemed necessary for it to be documented. Traditional graphic surveying systems were used, together with more up-to-date and cheaper systems, including direct-intersection photogrammetry.
The aim was to determine the reliability of photogrammetry compared with traditional systems used in graphically documenting heritage buildings. A second objective was to produce orthophotos of the church’s exterior to present its textures in true dimensions. The study also aimed to raise awareness of the architectural heritage of our towns through the use of new technologies.
The research for this project used analytical methods involving mainly scientific observation and quantitative measurement. The following materials were used: digital cameras, laser meter, laser level, prismless total station, and AutoCAD 2006 and PhotoModeler 6 software.
The research produced graphic documentation of the building in its current condition. Photogrammetry was deemed necessary for all surveying of the building, as it is an affordable system that is both fast and easy to use, and extracts detailed information.
This study can conclude that results from photogrammetry depend on the scale at which the image is to be shown, as unacceptable errors may result from more distant and less visible areas. It is therefore recommended for all data gathered to be complemented with traditional systems of topography.