Hardcore Heritage represents a new way of thinking about monuments and cultural heritage. Through deliberate destruction, radical changes in con-text, and seemingly contradictory additions, a new field of tension arises  between present, past and future.

Ronald Rietveld graduated in 2004 cum laude at the Amsterdam Academy of Arts. His working period during Prix de Rome 2006 at the Rijksakademie of Visual Arts in Amsterdam was the early beginning of RAAAF [Rietveld Architecture-Art-Affordances]. After winning the golden medal he founded the multidisciplinary studio together with his brother and Socrates Professor in Philosophy Erik Rietveld. 
Ronald & Erik work at the intersection of visual art, architecture and philosophy. “RAAAF’s site-specific artworks are materialized visions and explorations of possible new worlds. These interventions invite reflection and question practices, conventions and habits that people take for granted.”

RONALD RIETVELD (AMSTERDAM): HARDCORE HERITAGE

Stefan Berger (Bochum): Erinnerung an Industrialisierung und Deindustrialisierung im globalen Vergleich – Industriekultur und ihre Erzählungen

Deindustrialisierungsprozesse haben in der ganzen Welt zur Entstehung von Erinnerungslandschaften geführt, die allerdings an unterschiedlichen Orten sehr divers gestaltet sind. Der Beitrag schlägt eine Typologisierung von Deindustrialisierungserfahrungen in globaler Perspektive vor und versucht diese in Verbindung zu setzen mit jeweiligen Erinnerungsregimes. Dabei bedient er sich der Theorie der agonalen Erinnerung (Hansen/ Bull 2016) und argumentiert, dass, je nach Deindustrialisierungserfahrung, antagonistisches, kosmopolitisches und agonales Erinnern in postindustriellen Räumen vorherrscht.

Stefan Berger ist Professor für Sozialgeschichte und Direktor des Instituts für soziale Bewegungen an der Ruhr-Universität Bochum. Er ist außerdem Vorstandsvorsitzender der Stiftung Geschichte des Ruhrgebiets und Honorary Professor an der Cardiff University in Großbritannien. Er forscht zur Geschichte von Arbeiterbewegungen, der Geschichte des Nationalismus, Historiographiegeschichte, historischer Theorie, Erinnerungsgeschichte und Deindustrialisierungsgeschichte. Letztere versucht er mit Erinnerungsgeschichte und der Geschichte sozialer Bewegungen zu verbinden.

STEFAN BERGER (BOCHUM): ERINNERUNG AN INDUSTRIALISIERUNG UND DEINDUSTRIALISIERUNG

Timothy Ingold: The World in a Basket
For most of human history, generations were understood to overlap and to twist around one another longitudinally like the fibres of a rope. Increasingly today, however, successive generations are likened to strata, layered horizontally over one another.
As a result, crafts once learned in everyday practice can be passed on only insofar as they can be represented in the form of algorithms which are transmissible independently of their lifetime achievement. What cannot be transmitted drops out. Among crafts on the endangered list is basketry. In this chapter I show that basketry is no mere technique but a life process through which not only things but also people and their provisions are as much grown as made. The basket, like the human community, is all-in-one. To restore baskets to life, I argue, means rethinking the passage of generations. It means imagining a society in which the curiosity of the young and the wisdom of the elderly can once again come together, looping the past through the eyes of the present in the making of a common world. The contemporary production of heritage, however, breaks the loop. The practice of the basket has given way to the logic of the algorithm. If life and feeling are to be revived in a world in which both are vulnerable to algorithmic decomposition, we need to bring the practice back.

Timothy Ingold, geboren 1948, zählt zu den renommiertesten Stimmen der zeitgenössischen Anthropologie. Er ist emeritierter Professor für Anthropologie an der University of Aberdeen, an der er von 1999 bis 2018 lehrte. Nach seinem Studium der Sozialanthropologie promovierte Ingold 1976 an der Universität Cambridge. Von 1974 bis 1990 war Ingold als Dozent an der Universität Manchester tätig, wo er 1990 zum Professor und 1995 zum Professor für Sozialanthropologie ernannt wurde. Er hält die Ehrendoktorwürde der Universität von Lappland in Rovaniemi, sowie die Ehrendoktorwürde in Philosophie von der Leuphania Universität in Lüneburg. Zur Exemplifizierung seiner theoretischen Arbeit zu Technologien und Lebensumständen in der Polarregion, zu Evolutionstheorie, Sprache, Werkzeuggebrauch und Umweltwahrnehmung unternahm er zahlreiche Feldforschungen nach Lappland. In seinen wissenschaftlichen Arbeiten beleuchtet er die Schnittstellen von Anthropologie, Archäologie, Kunst und Architektur. Seine jüngsten Arbeit widmet sich der Verbindung von Umweltwahrnehmung und Lebenspraxis. Ingold stellt dabei den Modellen der genetischen und kulturellen Übertragung, die auf der Allianz von neodarwinistischer Biologie und Kognitionswissenschaft beruhen, einen relationalen Ansatz entgegen und konzentriert sich dabei auf das Wachstum von verkörperten Wahrnehmungs- und Handlungsfähigkeiten innerhalb sozialer und umweltbezogener Entwicklungskontexte.

TIMOTHY INGOLD (ABERDEEN): THE WORLD IN A BASKET

GÖTZ ALY (BERLIN)

MARCO A. M. GABRIEL (MAILAND)

DIEBEDO FRANCIS KÉRÉ (BERLIN)

ALFRED HAGEMANN (BERLIN)

ALEXANDRA STAUB (PENNSYLVANIA, USA)

NILOUFAR TAJERI (BRAUNSCHWEIG)

STEPHANIE HEROLD (BERLIN)

RASMUS GREINER (BREMEN)

FELIX ACKERMANN (WARSCHAU)

JOHAN LAGAE (GENT)

LJILJANA RADONIĆ (WIEN)

SUZANA MILEVSKA (INSBRUCK)

TOBIAS EBBRECHT - HARTMANN (JERUSALEM)

WOLFGANG ERNST (BERLIN)

STEFANIE HENNECKE (KASSEL)

ELISA SATJUKOW (LEIPZIG)

Janna Vogl (Berlin)

Ewa Majewska (Berlin)

Philipp Oswalt (Weimar)

Tilman Walther (Weimar)

Ibrahim Klingeberg-Behr (Weimar)

Aysegül Dinççag Kahveci (Berlin)

Oliver Trepte (Weimar

Katharina Rotté (Berlin)

Aine Ryan (Berlin)

Darja Jesse (Berlin)

Jochen Kibel (Weimar)

Elisaveta Dvorakk (Weimar)

Jan Engelke (Berlin)

Die Vorlesung wurde im Rahmen der Ringvorlesungsreihe "Identität und ERbe" des DFG-GRK 2227 am 16.05.2017 im Hörsaal H0112 an der Technischen Universität Berlin aufgezeichnet.
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Barbara Welzel: Kulturelles Erbe in einem Einwanderungsland. Zugehörigkeit und Beheimatung.

Oussouby Sacko (Kyoto): The Role of Architecture Conservation for Communities‘ Continuity – Example of Historical Towns Djenne and Kyoto

In this presentation a common question will be asked, namely how to ensure continuity of communities, and what role can architecture restoration or renovation play in that process? These questions will be explored through two completely different communities and situations, historical towns of Djenne and Kyoto. Djenne has been a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1988 and Kyoto alone has 17 historical monuments listed as UNESCO Heritage Sites.
In Malian historical towns, such as Djenne and Tombouctou, the construction process itself is a kind of family and community practice shaped by special ties that bind the traditional builders (masons) and the families that own the houses. A family has ‘their mason’, as much as the mason has‘ his family’. The relationship goes from father to son on both sides and lasts for the whole of their life. Traditional technics and intangible practices plays an important role both as a means of protection against professional risks and as part of communication codes between all participants in the house creation. Djenne, despite having this old tradition, is nowadays confronted with old houses’ restoration, building techniques conservation and therefore community continuity problems.
On the other hand, with a growing aging rate and a very low birth rate, Japan is facing a great transformation of its communities. This scourge of depopulation has affected almost the entire country. The city of Kyoto, with a 14.1% of uninhabited houses, suffers from decreasing demographics, and as result many elementary schools closed. Facing this crucial problem, Kyoto municipality has implemented renovation and revitalization projects, notably by supporting projects, such as artists’ integration, creators and modern artisans’ implementation into these empty houses. The „Escola“ project, which I will introduce in this presentation, is an example of Kyoto community renovation.
In this presentation, I would like at first to understand how the conservation of local construction practices can have impact on community’s continuity. Secondly, the introduction of „Escola“ project, its characteristics and the complex and varied problems it faces, will enable us to understand the renovation process and problems of a city in community transition like Kyoto.

Oussouby Sacko is Professor at the Department of Liberal Arts, Faculty of Humanities at Kyoto Seika University, Japan, and was Dean of Faculty from April 2013 until March 2017. Since April 2018 he is President of Kyoto Seika University. He is also affiliate to the Graduate School of Humanities and to the Graduate School of Design (Architecture).
Born in Mali (Bamako), he went to China (Beijing and Nanjing) after graduating high school to pursue his education in the field of Architecture. He got a Bachelor Degree from SouthEast University (Dongnan Daxue), Nanjing China. He moved to Japan afterward and got a Master Degree and a Doctor Degree of Engineering in the field of Architecture and Architecture Planning from the Graduate School of Engineering at Kyoto University, Japan. He has been conducted field researches and worked on housing planning, policy and design in Mali and Japan. Recently, his main interest is on community architecture, community re-design and architecture conservation, restoration in historical cities. He has recently conducted field researches in Japan, China, Mali, Mauritania, Morocco, Burkina Faso and Niger.

Die Vorlesung wurde im Rahmen der Ringvorlesungsreihe "Identität und Erbe" des DFG-GRK 2227 am 9.10.2018 im Hörsaal A an der Bauhaus-Universität Weimar aufgezeichnet.
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Oussouby Sacko (Kyoto): The Role of Architecture Conservation for Communities‘ Continuity

How can people’s memories contribute to our understanding of the built environment? How can narratives about spaces shed new light on the mechanisms that govern architecture and buildings? If considering architecture built under fascism, can oral histories suggest an alternative interpretation of facts? Can private stories contribute to the process of decolonisation and at the same time valorisation of this controversial architecture? The subjects of the lecture are the new settlements built by Mussolini in colonial Libya and Italy in the 1930’s. The realisation of the new towns and settlements, both in Italy and in the colony, was a step to achieve the project of internal colonisation launched by Mussolini, which envisaged the shifting of population from regions that were overpopulated and had high unemployment rates, to the newly funded towns. The reclamation of the Agro Pontino, a marsh district south from Rome, took from 1927 until 1939. It included, besides the draining of the marshes, the subdivision into agrarian parcels of 840 square kilometres of land, the realisation of around 3000 farms and 18 villages and five new towns. The program of mass colonisation of Libya envisaged the transfer of 100.000 peasants to the colony, divided into 5 yearly transfers of 20.000 people. In 1938 and 1939 the first two stages of its implementation took place, with the organised transfer of circa 40.000 Italian peasants to 27 settlements on the coasts of Tripolitania and Cyrenaica. What happened after the end of fascism and colonisation? Where the agricultural programs completed? What happened to the architecture and the inhabitants? From being part of a big political utopia, did the settlers change their habits and everyday lives after the end of fascism? Did their personal stories contributed to a more objective interpretation of the fascist architecture? This paper aims at exploring how a method which combines both objective data and subjective narratives can contribute to the overall understanding of the architecture of the fascist rural settlements. In particular the idea of fascism as promoted by the State and as perceived by the settlers will be analysed and compared. The topic is one of the research themes in the MODSCAPES EU project, Modernist Reinvention of the Rural Landscapes www.modescapes.eu

Vittoria Capresi: The Fascist Settlements in Colonial Libya and Italy

Der Vortrag geht der Frage nach, wie ein ‚mediopassives‘ Verhältnis zur Geschichte aussehen kann. Damit ist eine Daseinsform gemeint, welche auf geschichtliche Gewordenheit reagiert und antwortet, ohne durch sie gebunden zu sein. Als Ausgangspunkt soll die Analyse der Beziehungsformen Resonanz und Echo dienen: Resonanz ist die Transformation der Identität durch die Begegnung mit dem Anderen. Echo ist dagegen die Affirmation der Identität durch Abgrenzung oder Nostrifizierung des Anderen.

Hartmut Rosa: Affirmation oder Transformation? Resonanz und Echo im Umgang mit der Geschichte

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