Shifting Heritage, Empowering Communities. Stewardship Strategies to Care for the Living.

Felix Balling

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David Gindroz

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Lalie Porteret

This project argues that the current understanding of what constitutes heritage must be challenged. It reflects on what is worthy to protect and proposes a legal shift from heritage as encompassing only static physical materialities to including the entire ecosystems, from soil to the atmosphere to human local collective structures and site specific qualities. A "Stewardship Association" of local actors is created to undertake the care labor and constant transformation of an ever-shifting heritage, at the service of all living forms.

Team
Unit:
RIOT
Teachers:
Charlotte Malterre-Barthes
Assistants:
Summer Saud Islam, Antoine Iweins D'Eeckhoutte, Kathlyn R Kao, Nagy Makhlouf
Infos
Year:
2023
Period:
Fall
Category:
Semester Project
Topic:  
Architecture, Construction, Housing, Theory, Territory, Urban study, Environment, Sustainability
Copyright:
CC BY Licence
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