Industrial Heritage and Collective Memory in post-war Kosovo – the potentials of adaptive reuse through the case of Kishnica mine
Session
Architecture and Spatial Planning
Description
The impact of industrialization was fundamental on reshaping the world, yet de-industrialization is a process which still continues in the developing and transitional countries, and its effect might be even more drastic in terms of vanishing or preserving and regenerating the buildings and industrial sites for their potential as physical and psychological assets. With the lack of policies on industrial heritage and the rapid privatizing of state-owned assets, Kosovo has lost most of the opportunities to rescue, preserve, regenerate, retrofit and adapt these assets for future use within the new planning and development. Using the case study of the proposal for adaptive reuse of Kishnica Mine, this paper presents both the importance of expounding and fostering the problem in the education of the young architects and providing the methods, opportunities, and potentials of rescuing and redeveloping industrial buildings and sites, as both an institutional and professional liability and opportunity for blending the new into the old as assets for sustaining the economic development and collective memory of socio-cultural landscapes.
Keywords:
industrial heritage, Kishnica mine, policies, adaptive reuse, collective memory
Proceedings Editor
Edmond Hajrizi
ISBN
978-9951-550-50-5
Location
UBT Kampus, Lipjan
Start Date
29-10-2022 12:00 AM
End Date
30-10-2022 12:00 AM
DOI
10.33107/ubt-ic/2022.367
Recommended Citation
Shyqeriu, Banush and Arifi, Artinë, "Industrial Heritage and Collective Memory in post-war Kosovo – the potentials of adaptive reuse through the case of Kishnica mine" (2022). UBT International Conference. 376.
https://knowledgecenter.ubt-uni.net/conference/2022/all-events/376
Industrial Heritage and Collective Memory in post-war Kosovo – the potentials of adaptive reuse through the case of Kishnica mine
UBT Kampus, Lipjan
The impact of industrialization was fundamental on reshaping the world, yet de-industrialization is a process which still continues in the developing and transitional countries, and its effect might be even more drastic in terms of vanishing or preserving and regenerating the buildings and industrial sites for their potential as physical and psychological assets. With the lack of policies on industrial heritage and the rapid privatizing of state-owned assets, Kosovo has lost most of the opportunities to rescue, preserve, regenerate, retrofit and adapt these assets for future use within the new planning and development. Using the case study of the proposal for adaptive reuse of Kishnica Mine, this paper presents both the importance of expounding and fostering the problem in the education of the young architects and providing the methods, opportunities, and potentials of rescuing and redeveloping industrial buildings and sites, as both an institutional and professional liability and opportunity for blending the new into the old as assets for sustaining the economic development and collective memory of socio-cultural landscapes.