Certain places, certain regions have been shaped by industry. In mining regions, large private companies have modified the landscape by building small towns from scratch or even mountains of coal waste, called slag heaps. In many places, there is no longer any difference between nature and industry; the two intertwine, to create a new, neo-natural landscape, which is nature transformed by the mine…
And since the closure of the mines, this heritage has become heritage. We make them cultural places, we create museums there. But do the local populations find their way there and do they feel at home in this revisited version of their past?
This is what we are going to talk about today. First with Lucas Monsaingeonassociated architect at the Philippe Prost Architecture Workshop, who is working on a thesis on the architectural rehabilitation of the Nord-Pas-de-Calais mining basin, and who coordinated the beautiful file devoted to this same theme in the architectural review d’a in November 2023. Then in a second part with Camille Mortelette, geographer and contractual teacher-researcher at the Institute of Urban Planning and Alpine Geography in Grenoble, author of a thesis on the reconversion of former mining sites into cultural places.
The map of the territory
An old map of the Lens region where you can read the ground and the subsoil at the same time. This shows to what extent the “above” lived to the rhythm of the “below”. And today, what about mining landscapes? – Source gallica.bnf.fr / Bibliothèque nationale de France
Find the map of the territory from Tuesday on @Mgarrigou and the Bluesky social network
2023-12-14 20:02:29
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