(IN)TANGIBLE HERITAGE(S)
Abstract
The heritage value of the working-class residential fabric motivated by migratory processes is increasingly recognized. However, its intangible value, which goes beyond urban planning and derives from the values of its human resources, is a research niche to be explored in the architectural field. This communication addresses this field of knowledge based on advances in the recognition of the value of emotions in disciplines such as Human Geography or Environmental Psychology. Among its emotional models, the concept of attachment has established itself as one of the most widely studied ubiquitous tools . One of its methodological applications is related to the nature of change of place, migrations and the country-city exodus. Starting from this methodological application and through two case studies, the following two objectives are addressed: – To analyze migratory processes from rural areas in which memory of daily landscape we leave behind is erected as material in the construct of attachment to the new migrated landscapes; – In contrast, to study how new daily host landscapes are decisive in the construction of emotional ties. The first case is approached from studies of geographer Jeffrey Smith, who has studied the migratory processes of Hispanics in New Mexico and Colorado. This experience allows examining how attachment is manifested in the places of destination through various expressions of the memory of the rural landscape of origin: painted murals, funeral preferences, popular music or the construction of water infrastructures. The second case is approached from the anthropological studies in the _re-HABITAR project in the Barrio del Carmen of Seville . The studies in this social neighborhood of the Modern Movement −all of them receiving the great rural exodus of the second half of the 20th century in Spain− allow us to deepen the assessment of attachment through public space and neighborhood identity.
Adrián Rodríguez Segura (Seville, 1993) architect, University of Seville US (2011-2017). First of the promotion with awards: Real Maestranza de Caballería 2017 (Real Maestranza de Caballería and US), Extraordinary End of Studies Award 2017 (US), Hon. Seville City Council 2017 (Excmo. Seville City Council and US). Research Teaching Staff since 2020 at the ETSA with a University Teacher Training Grant (FPU) 2019 (Ministry of Universities). Member of the UNESCO Chair in Urban Heritage built in the digital era CREhAR (Creative Research and Education on heritage Assessment and Regeneration) since 2019. Publications to ReUSO Granada 2017 (2017). Student since 2019 in the doctoral program in Architecture at the US (director and tutor: Mar Loren Méndez). Member of the Research Group HUM-666: City, Architecture and Contemporary Landscapes (CAPC) of the US.
Mar Loren-Méndez (Málaga, 1968) PhD in Architecture, University of Seville US (1994, 2004), Master in Heritage and New Technologies -Leonardo Da Vinci- European Program- (1996), Advanced Master Design Studies, Harvard University (1998). Professor of the Department of Architectural History, Theory and Composition, Escuela Técnica Superior de Arquitectura, US (2019), where she has taught since 1999. Director of the UNESCO Chair in Urban Heritage Built in the Digital Age CREhAR (Creative Research and Education on heritage Assessment and Regeneration) since 2019. National and international publications present in Avery, Riba, A&H Index or JCR endorse his research production: Arquitectura COAM (2008), Apuntes (Colombia) (2008), AS (Chile) (2009 ), Construction Reports (2012), EGA (2014), Geographical Review (USA) (2016, 2020), TDSR (Berkeley) (2017), PPA (2017), VLC (2018), IJGI (Switzerland ) (2018), DoCoMOMO International (2019).