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Industrial Monuments

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Industrial monuments are structures or sites that represent significant historical, architectural, or technological achievements in industrial production. They serve as physical reminders of industrial heritage, reflecting the socio-economic and cultural contexts of their time, and are often preserved for their educational and historical value.
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Industrial monuments are structures or sites that represent significant historical, architectural, or technological achievements in industrial production. They serve as physical reminders of industrial heritage, reflecting the socio-economic and cultural contexts of their time, and are often preserved for their educational and historical value.

Key research themes

1. How can contemporary art mediate the value and social perception of industrial monuments and technological ruins?

This research area investigates the transformative role contemporary art plays in reinterpreting, valorizing, and reconnecting industrial and technological relics to society. It explores how art interventions facilitate heritage recognition, public mediation, and social revalorization of obsolete industrial sites and objects, an endeavor increasingly important amid widespread deindustrialization and the fragility of industrial remains.

Key finding: Through an archaeological and interdisciplinary framework, this paper develops a typology of contemporary art's interactions with industrial and technological ruins, identifying four types: conversion of industrial spaces... Read more
Key finding: The paper highlights how adaptive reuse and artistic interventions of industrial buildings foster dialogue between old industrial structures and contemporary functions, emphasizing architectural openness and flexibility. It... Read more
Key finding: Using the former Brewery in Turda as a case study, the paper exemplifies how contemporary interventions in industrial heritage buildings can reposition them as social condensers and cultural emblems. It shows that despite... Read more
Key finding: By employing a multimodal autoethnographic approach at a Spanish industrial complex, this study foregrounds the experiential and sensorial richness gained from 'preserving-by-not-preserving.' It argues for recognizing the... Read more

2. What business model transformations characterize the sustainable operation and tourism of post-industrial monuments?

This theme examines how post-industrial heritage sites transition from production facilities to tourism and service-oriented enterprises, focusing on evolving business models, economic sustainability, and regional development implications. It analyses operational strategies that enable heritage sites to balance conservation with economic viability, contributing to the knowledge economy and sustainable development in post-industrial contexts.

Key finding: Based on research on 42 post-industrial tourism sites within Poland's Industrial Monuments Route, the article identifies three key business transformation models: post-production organizations servicing tourists, hybrid... Read more
Key finding: This paper reveals that protection efforts tend to prioritize visually iconic industrial monuments, often neglecting less aesthetic but socially significant elements such as workers’ housing and labor history. It highlights... Read more
Key finding: Through expert discussions, this work emphasizes the importance of interdisciplinary collaboration, policy frameworks, and community involvement in conserving industrial heritage. It outlines the critical role of tailored... Read more

3. How can authenticity and conservation principles be operationalized in the preservation and adaptive reuse of historic industrial monuments across cultural contexts?

Focused on the practical and conceptual challenges of preserving industrial monuments, this theme explores frameworks for maintaining architectural and cultural authenticity during conservation and adaptive reuse. It emphasizes the reconciliation of heritage values with contemporary functions, structural interventions, and socio-cultural contexts to sustain the integrity and relevance of industrial heritage in diverse global settings.

Key finding: Through empirical analysis of the Large Machine Factory, the study presents strategies ensuring authenticity in conservation, including minimal intervention, historical façade restoration, preventive structural reinforcement,... Read more
Key finding: Investigating Finnish cases, this paper uncovers how industrial chimneys transform from operational structures into heritage monuments through social recognition by local communities. It reveals that preservation decisions... Read more
Key finding: Reviewing over 50 years of industrial archaeology, this article stresses the importance of rigorous archaeological methods for uncovering and conserving industrial heritage’s material authenticity. It advocates for... Read more

All papers in Industrial Monuments

The article deals with the interrelationship between state policy and the development of metallurgy in the Szopienice settlement and the impact of industry on the environment. The Szopienice settlement was part of the Habsburg monarchy... more
The article deals with the interrelationship between state policy and the development of metallurgy in the Szopienice settlement and the impact of industry on the environment. The Szopienice settlement was part of the Habsburg monarchy... more
Niniejszy artykuł ma na celu przeanalizowanie zjawiska budowania tożsamości miejsca z wykorzystaniem funkcji, które dotychczas leżały w strefie tabu – wywoływały lęk przed śmiercią, nieczystością, rozkładem. Należą do nich cmentarze,... more
Zarys treści : celem autora artykułu było określenie stosunku właścicieli terenów, na których znajdują się górnicze wieże wyciągowe, do tych obiektów. W wyniku badań terenowych przypisano po jednej wieży wyciągowej do każdej z... more
Industry in Silesia and Lesser Poland has been developing for ages. However, during the last 200 years that area became one of the leading industrial regions in Europe. The number of industrial monuments in the Silesian Voivodeship is... more
This article explains issues pertaining to protection of materials that are relevant by their use or their invention in the view of changing socio-economicconditions and evolution of approaches to historic preservation. The author... more
Podgórze, na którym usytuowany jest kamieniołom Libana, powstało w 1784 r. w wyniku nadania przez Józefa II praw wolnego miasta wraz z nazwą – Josefstadt, przywilejami (m.in. zwolnieniem podatkowym) oraz własnym herbem. Okazało się ono... more
A 18─19. századi műszaki fejlődés eredményeként született meg a modern vízügyi szakigazgatás alapjául szolgáló, a vízjogról szóló és 1962-ig érvényben lévő 1885. évi XXIII. Törvénycikk, az ún. vízjogi törvény. Az európai... more
Koncepcja Listy Światowego Dziedzictwa rozwija się dzięki wdrożeniu Konwencji w sprawie ochrony światowego dziedzictwa kulturalnego i naturalnego przyjętej przez UNESCO podczas 17. sesji w Paryżu 16 listopada 1972 1. Od pierwszych wpisów,... more
LACKO, Miroslav. Robotnícke kolónie na Železníku - zabudnutý industriálny skvost [Workers' Lodgings in Železník - A Forgotten Industrial Jewel]. In: Z dějin hutnictví 42 - Rozpravy Národního technického muzea v Praze 219 (2012), pp.... more
Industrial-era heritage of polish cities is a space of comprehensive changes that occur after 1989. Among these transitions we can indicate degradation and abandonment, but also conservation, adaptations of buildings to new functions and... more
Despite being state-protected cultural monuments, many of mining constructions have been quickly disappearing. This primarily depends on the cultured manners of the object’s owner/user. The problems of the protection of mining technical... more
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