Journal of Cultural Heritage Management and Sustainable Development: Volume 14 Issue 1

Ethics and aesthetics of adaptive heritage reuse in Europe: an introduction to what happens to territories when heritage is touched

Federica Fava

The paper introduces ethical and aesthetical implications emerging from participative forms of adaptive heritage reuse. Its aim is to depict the overall framework to contextualize…

Ruin heritage and its reuse: the case of ruin bars in Budapest

Dóra Mérai, Volodymyr Kulikov

The paper discusses ethical issues related to the adaptive reuse of ruin heritage on the example of the so-called ruin bars in Budapest's District VII. It explores how heritage…

Mitigating tensions between ethics and aesthetics through community-led adaptive heritage reuse: the case of post-industrial Praga, Warsaw

Karim van Knippenberg, Beitske Boonstra

Heritage reuse, in which the aesthetics of heritage play a leading role, often leads to extreme commodification of heritage, place branding, gentrification and the exclusion of…

Aesthetics, gentrification and new identities: the comparison of adaptive reuse practices in contemporary Budapest and Warsaw

Katarzyna Sadowy, Hanna Szemző

Post-socialist urban development changed cityscapes and city life profoundly, reusing public space in a different manner and reinterpreting the role of work, heritage, and…

From values to valuing: an ethnographic approach to get a grip on the implicit disclosure of built heritage

Roel De Ridder, Hanne Van Gils, Bert Timmermans

The purpose of this paper is to map the process of (social) valuing by people encountering built heritage in their daily environments. Value-based approaches are not well…

Atmospheric assemblages: the affective space of adaptive reuse

Federico De Matteis

Adaptive reuse entails the physical modification of abandoned architectural structures, with the activation of processes and practices leading to the re-incorporation of heritage…

Adaptive reuse for leftover urban landscape: ruins, remains, waste and monsters for an approaching genealogy of future

Annalisa Metta

This paper aims to explore the topic of adaptive reuse referring to urban open spaces into a more-than-human perspective. It underlines that dealing with heritage means being part…

The building as a palimpsest: heritage, memory and adaptive reuse beyond intervention

Francesca Lanz

This paper contributes to this special issue on the ethics and aesthetics of adaptive reuse with a reflection on the specific case of the reuse of those sites and buildings that…

Adaptive reuse of an operating urban infrastructure: a conversation with raumlabor about the Floating University Berlin

Marco Ranzato, Federico Broggini

The adaptive reuse of heritage has the potential to socially and culturally re-signify dilapidated or suspended structures in the urban landscape. However, the scope of adaptive…