Davydov, Dimitrij
Denkmal_Emotion: Politisierung – Mobilisierung – Bindung
The "emotional turn", it seems, has meanwhile arrived in the field of Heritage Studies. The connection between emotions and heritage/monuments can be regarded as a reciprocal and interdependent relationship. Understood as an integral part of processes of individual and collective meaning-making, emotions are being reconceived as a formative aspect of valorization, appropriation and rejection rather than their mere by-product, and as such are being recognized as constitutive for the field of heritage conservation. The essays gathered here reflect in their range the different facets of the complex relationship between Heritage Studies and emotions, be it in relation to the political dimensions of that relationship, to the development of new emotional points of reference or to very concrete processes of the appropriation or rejection of heritage.
Alltägliches Erben
When considering historical cities, monuments and architectural heritage, a large part of the building stock is left out – marginalized as too ordinary or mundane. It often seems as if only “the highlights" make it into the art historical and preservationist canon. The conference volume ALLTÄGLICHES ERBEN therefore deals with fundamental questions about the perception, appreciation and value of “everyday architecture”. In different perspectives, international, historical, and theoretical backgrounds of the everyday are illuminated, building tasks and challenges of monument preservation are discussed.
