Publication
The Social Life of Heritage-Making: Cultural Representations and Frictions
Related publications (32)
Actors and Objects of Heritage Preservation. The Singular and Dual Condition of Historical Architectural Archives
Salvatore Aprea, Barbara Galimberti
In a society that recognizes the urgency of safeguarding the environment and drastically limiting land transformations and energy-intensive activities like constructing new buildings, the protection of architectural and environmental heritage is no longer ...
2024Avalanche risks management as intangible cultural heritage
Florence Graezer Bideau, Chiara Maria Bortolotto
This paper tackles Avalanche Risks Management (ARM), nominated by Switzerland and Austria and inscribed on the UNESCO Representative List of Intangible Cultural Heritage in 2018. On the one hand, this nomination conventionally highlights how traditional em ...
2023Unlocking a multimodal archive of Southern Chinese martial arts through embodied cues
Sarah Irene Brutton Kenderdine, Yumeng Hou, Fadel Mamar Seydou
Purpose: Despite being an authentic carrier of various cultural practices, the human body is often underutilised to access the knowledge of human body. Digital inventions today have created new avenues to open up cultural data resources, yet mainly as appa ...
2023Preserving suspended structures with light façades (1960-1980).Architectural study and retrofitting proposals
Nowadays, the energy efficiency of the existing building stock is internationally accepted as a topical issue. Energy retrofitting is encouraged, improving the thermal performances of buildings, but often altering the historical image of our cities. Attent ...
EPFL2023Impromptu Conservation – Unveiling Huế's Mnemonic Sites: Heritagization, (de)Colonization, and Place-making
This dissertation interrogates postcolonial cities’ syncretic territories, using Huế’s mnemonic sites – historically and culturally significant locales that aid in remembrance – to explore displaced communities’ cohabitation tactics and decolonization effo ...
EPFL2023The Facets of Intangible Heritage in Southern Chinese Martial Arts: Applying a Knowledge-Driven Cultural Contact Detection Approach
Investigating the intangible nature of a cultural domain can take multiple forms, addressing for example the aesthetic, epistemic and social dimensions of its phenomenology. The context of Southern Chinese martial arts is of particular significance as it c ...
2023Porter le temps: mémoires urbaines du Locle et de la Chaux-de-Fonds
In our memory-obsessed time, cities have become places for the elaboration of images of the past that serve as a background for understanding, legitimizing, or contesting urban transformations. How are these cultural representations produced? How are they ...
2022The state-led use of industrial heritage in mega-events in China
This paper investigates the role of industrial heritage during mega-events in a Chinese context. By adopting a comparative analysis of the use of industrial heritage in a few mega-events in China, the paper aims to summarize a framework of the state-led us ...
2022"Digitales SchauDepot" - Digital curation of cultural heritage
Due to the growing pressure of digitization and open access demands, cultural institutions are increasingly presenting their collections in digital space. Dealing with this constantly growing amount of data poses a major challenge, especially with regard t ...
2021An Urban Strategy for Adaptive Reuse: Learning from Industrial Heritage in Barcelona
Cities evolve through time, adapting to new needs, uses and dynamics. This study examines a specific transformation, industrial uses, in a particular location, Barcelona. The objective is to develop a methodology that allows to analyze the transformation o ...
Springer2021