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

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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.