Everyday heritage in the making

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Future making in the anthropocene

Future Making in the anthropocene

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Currently, we’re witnessing the effects of human behavior on the natural world: mass migration and mass tourism, in the midst of soaring temperatures and a dramatic loss of biodiversity. How do these global issues translate to the everyday practice of urban and landscape planners that are trying to keep our environment livable? In this series, we'll be talking to young academics enrolled in the research and training programs Heriland and Terranova. Can their research inspire urban and landscape planners to actually adapt current practices?

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Everyday heritage in the making

Future making in the anthropocene

45 minutes 46 seconds

2 years ago

Everyday heritage in the making

In this third episode Heriland-researcher MJ Swiderski explains how memories could provide a base for collecting heritage values and applying them to urban planning processes. Architect and researcher Lidwine Spoormans reflects on his research and provides views on how everyday heritage is as least as important for residents than protected monuments.

Warsaw-born MJ Swiderski is part of the Heriland research program, dedicated to training a new generation of heritage professionals. His research makes a great example of how young or ‘everyday’ heritage might be approached in ways that take account of residents’ views. He consulted residents of Ursynów (Warsaw), one of the largest housing estates built during the socialist period in Poland, to share their personal memories about their surroundings. By adding fictional characters, illustrations and his own personal memories to the online questionnaire, he managed to collect over 1.100 reactions. The memories were used for an urban game and workshop for residents and heritage and planning professionals, that allowed for informed discussions on the future of Ursynów.

The term ‘everyday heritage’ is frequently coined by Lidwine Spoormans, an architect and lecturer at Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands. She specializes in post-war architecture, and, more specifically, architecture built in the 1980’s. A couple of years ago, she launched the online platform ‘Love 80’s architecture', that showcases both well-known, as well as more obscure, Dutch buildings and urban schemes from that period. Like Swiderski, she takes residents’ views on their surroundings seriously. She recognizes residents’ ability to spot other qualities than those promoted by professionals, i.e. the authorized heritage discourse. “Residents assess from today’s point of view, instead of referring to the intentions of the urban design.”

MJ Swiderski conducts his PhD-research under supervision of professor Gert-Jan Burgers and professor Henri de Groot and research associate Niels van Manen of the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.

Show notes

- Find out more about MJ Swiderski’s method in English or in Polish

- View MJ Swiderski’s Profile on the Heriland website.

- Read or contribute to Lidwine Spoormans’ initiative Love 80’s architecture

- View Lidwine Spoormans’ Profile on the website of Delft University of Technology