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Die Eisenblüte – Ein Schatz zwischen Abbau und Erinnerung
Read more: Die Eisenblüte – Ein Schatz zwischen Abbau und ErinnerungDie meisten Dinge die mit dem Bergbau assoziiert werden sind groß, schwer oder zumindest nützlich: Bagger, Lastwagen, Hochöfen, Erz. Die Eisenblüte passt jedoch nicht ganz…
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The Iron Blossom – A treasure between mining and remembrance
Read more: The Iron Blossom – A treasure between mining and remembranceMost things associated with mining are expected to be large, heavy, and useful: excavators, trucks, furnaces, ore. In the small Austrian town of Eisenerz, located…
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Un Viitor Pescar, un Potențial Campion
Read more: Un Viitor Pescar, un Potențial CampionCare este primul lucru care îți vine în minte când te gândești la Delta Dunării? Poate stolurile impresionante de păsări care zboară deasupra unor peisaje…
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A Future Fisherman, a Potential Champion
Read more: A Future Fisherman, a Potential ChampionWhat’s the first thing that comes to mind when thinking about the Danube Delta? Perhaps it’s the stunning bird flocks flying above landscapes that seem…
Project Pillars
Pasts and presents in places of abandonment and renewal
Waste/Land/Futures uses ethnographies (an anthropological research method) to understand how (inter)generational relations are changing in places that have experienced industrial abandonment and renewal across Europe.
We take a material ethnographic approach, meaning we focus on the material world and what it can tell us about people and place. You can learn more about what we’ve discovered in our object vignette series.
Capturing the stories held within things
We explore individual memories of the past and present of places through interviews with residents that focus on objects, things, and photographs.
You can read more about what we learn from the entanglement between objects and people in our object vignette series.
How do different generations understand the past and imagine the future?
What happens when different generations come together to talk about the past and to think about the future of a place?
Through intergenerational family interviews, we’re eliciting existing narratives about place from different generations, and asking those families to share with us how they think about the future at the moment.
Imagining utopian futures for places of abandonment and renewal
We don’t just want to speculate about the future. We want to create it.
In 2027, we will run creative workshops for the research team and residents. Led by expert artists, researchers and residents will produce new, collectively created, utopian narratives about the future of the Danube Delta, Eisenerz, Glasgow and Rutherglen, and the Saarland.