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presented by Sara Schinco & Massimo Schinco at Memory: Forgetting and Creating Interdisciplinary Conference in Gdańsk, Poland 11th – 12th September 2014 Organizer: University of Gdańsk (Poland) – Research Unit for Dream, Memory and Imagination Studies Co-organizers: Jagiellonian University (Poland) Federal University of Paraná (Brazil) University of São Paulo (Brazil) McGill University (Canada)
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Troubled Spaces
Massimo Schinco, ITALYpsychotherapist
Sara Schinco, ITALYmaster in architecture
in territorial identity processes
time affections and memories
Memory: Forgetting and CreatingInterdisciplinary Conference in Gdańsk - 11th – 12th September 2014
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Memory: Forgetting and Creating - Interdisciplinary Conference in Gdańsk - 11th – 12th September 2014
what happens when things we cannot usually see become visible?
what happens when questions often considered as metaphysical and sometimes ambiguous like time affections memories become explicit in space?
just as a scenographic environment, space can reveal and show different
functionsvalues meanings
depending on how we look at it, move inside it, how we touch it, how we relate to it, being us audience and actors at one time
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the qualities of space are revealed by our interaction among a
“profusion of connections”(Arnheim 1981)
in which our mind gives and finds meaning and relevance
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we make a choice
we find order (take something out)
we give order
(put something in)
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we establish a hierarchy
all this is a process
it is related to identity
it is carried out during time
not only our time and our identity
we relate also to other people and memories of the past
in this sense the process of building an identity is collective, partially unconscious and continuously ongoing
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theorists and professionals are not concordant on a definition of restoration but they all agree on some aspects:
it is a complex and time related operation
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branches of knowledge and operations which are intended to build, ordinate and organize spaces
territorial planning restorationarchitecture
it includes many different aspects, some of which hidden and troubled
it has to guarantee and respect the temporal
continuity - flow of time
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what is a monument?
identitymonument vs contest
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what is original (authentic)?
timeconservation vs renovation
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vs / & ?
all these are problems related to
multidimensionality implicate orders
how to translate complex identities into physical and detectable space and to convey the stream of time into a solid framework?
what happens when multidimensionality and those implicate orders are forgotten, not recognized or denied?
Ernest Hemingway used to say about narrative process:
“… I always try to write on the principle of the iceberg. There is seven-eighths of it underwater for every part that shows. Anything you know you can eliminate and it only strengthens your iceberg. It is the part that doesn’t show. If a writer omits something because he does not know it then there is a hole in the story.” (the underlining is ours)
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before considering some practical examples, can we connect the observations above in a consistent and sharp-cut theoretical framework?
we are persuaded that soon we’ll be able to answer a full “yes” but
as for now the work is still in progress
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the process started between the end of the 19th century and the first half of 20th
the basic assumptions of Western Culture went into a radical crisis
a need of a new foundation was felt in all fields of human creativity:
arts, philosophy, sciences …
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in consequence of what was started then we are now leaving at our back views based on
reductionismmaterialism separation
perspectives founded on strict determinism seem to be replaced by explanations not pretending to be complete
whose outcomes are not fully predictable
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the role of
the human responsible choice
and of the affections
are taken into account
much more than before
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intuitions from philosophers and scholars like Edmund Husserl
Henri Bergson
William James
Edith Stein
seem to make a comeback through new paradigms of consciousness
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several Authors (e.g. Manousakis, 2006)
depict individual consciousness as
a subsystem, just relatively autonomous
into an infinite stream of global consciousness
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in a frame as such, where a separation between “inner” and “outer” reality is no longer accepted,the hypothesis of
the continuity between different states of consciousness
(Hartmann 2011, 2012)
acquires a larger scope with a huge fallout on the choices of individuals and groups about their environment
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in this bias
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individual and group’s behaviors
dreams, myths, artistic products, religious systems
the collective recollection or avoidance of memories and feelings shared by entire
communities
show themselves as phenomena reapproaching us to the collective foundations of our identity
one of the most authoritative representative of this cultural trend
is the psychoanalist and dream researcher Montague Ullmann (1932 – 2008)
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Ullmann emphasizes that
“we are much less separate than we think we are”
“…that part of us which is linked to others through feeling is more real, more enduring and more significant than other dimensions of our existence. It compels belief. It dissolves distances, creates unity and links us to the real world. This is the stuff of reality”
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from a theoretical point of view Ullmann roots his statements in the contribute of the physicist David Bohm
following Bohm, reality “explicates” and “implicates” itself in an endless
“holomovement”
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in consequence of this
all conceptions considering
individual vs collective, psychological vs “material”
past, present and future as ultimately separated
are no longer accepted
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“changing a physiognomy [of a space]… [we construct] new social, functional and symbolic geographies” (Secchi 2006)
is that enough?
3 “troubled spaces” related to identity and time
“Visually […] the balance of a project can only rely on what is detectable to the eye” (Arnheim 1981) (the translation is ours)Memory: Forgetting and Creating - Interdisciplinary Conference in Gdańsk - 11th – 12th September 2014
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Dresden
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Dresden
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reconstructionstrong reaffirmation of the lost identity signs of the flow of time in the use of material
Dresden
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reviving old identity? new identity?
Berlin
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Berlin
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frozen time?
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new constructionreconsideration of compositive models & materials
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layering
Küstrin/Kostrzyn
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Küstrin/Kostrzyn
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Prussian identity – removed
Küstrin/Kostrzyn
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Soviet identity – removed
2007
2009
2014
Küstrin/Kostrzyn
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revitalisation?
Küstrin/Kostrzyn
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nowadays or no-days identity?
Küstrin/Kostrzyn
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as a final remark
things can be destroyed
sceneries can be upset
maps can go lost
affections and memories can be removed
but the implicate orders they convey always remain and shall be taken into account
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just as a final disclaimer
issues about the ultimate nature of the individual “I” operating in the stream of contents and processes of consciousness
where there is not a general consensus among scholars
have not been taken into account in this presentation, since they go beyond its focus and scope
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Thank You!