Industrial Heritage in Brazil – Patrimônio Industrial no Brasil

TICCIH 2006Latin America is experiencing fast desintegration of industrial plants and connected structures. Furthermore the metropolises in these countries are expanding rapidly, contrary to those in Europe and North America, turning the central industrial sites into vital space for urban growth. Factories built in modern architecture are not yet considered endangered and state policies regarding preservation are unclear and difficult to supervise. Extraordinary examples of 2nd generation industries can be found in the São Paulo metropolitan area, São José dos Campos and Sorocaba.

Carta Manifesto dos integrantes do TICCIH Brasil 15/03/2003.

www.patrimonioindustrial.org.br/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=5

Brazilian article for TICCIH congress 2006, Rome.

MENEGUELLO, Cristina (Associate Professor, UNICAMP, Brazil) The Industrial Heritage in Brazil and prospects for the Brazilian Committee for the Conservation of Industrial Heritage.

www.ticcihcongress2006.net/paper/Paper%200/Meneguello_paper.pdf

www.ticcihcongress2006.net/

European Route of Industrial Heritage

FerropolisERIH is the European Route of Industrial Heritage, a network of the most important industrial heritage sites in Europe. It is the common link between them all. From disused production plants to industrial landscape parks and inter-active technology museums. The backbone of the route consists of the so-called anchor points: the outstanding industrial monuments in the former heartlands of the Industrial Revolution, Great Britain, Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg and Germany. But this is just the beginning. For ERIH intends to grow further – right to the borders of Europe.

http://en.erih.net/ 

Industrial heritage: conservation charters

Since the Unesco Charter (1962) industrial heritage has been included in conservation charters, gaining an exclusive document in the Nizhny Tagil Charter (2003). The Comittee for the Conservation of Industrial Heritage (TICCIH) was created in 1978, followed by many national departments, the Brazilian not before 2004. In 1964 the iron factory São João do Ipanema in Iperó (São Paulo) was listed by Iphan, the gold mines of Ouro Preto are UNESCO world heritage.
There is a rapid increase in the recognision of historically significant sites. Heritage, according to Tunbridge and Ashworth (1996), “is what contemporary society chooses to inherit.” Our society seems to demand more and more heritage. The industrial heritage itself has increased its scope: today it includes, besides buildings, also industrial landscapes, infrastructure, machinery, as well as worker´s housing projects, churches, leisure etc.

The Nizhny Tagil Charter for the Industrial Heritage – Russia, July 2003

www.ticcih.org/

Charters adopted by ICOMOS

www.international.icomos.org/centre_documentation/chartes_eng.htm

Kernwasser Wunderland, Kalkar

photo by KungfumanKernwasser Wunderland, Kalkar, Germany, inaugurated 2005.
Leisure center established in former nuclear breeder facility SNR-300, whose construction started in 1972 but never started electricity production and was finally purchased by Dutch investor Hennie van der Most in 1995.

In the 1980´s fast nuclear breeder plants became unpopular and were banned from political agendas around the globe, mainly because of the Chernobyl accident. Today the debate regarding reuse of nuclear fuel is on the agenda again, thanks to global warming.

www.kernwasser-wunderland.de/

http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wunderland_Kalkar

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SNR-300

www.kernies-familienpark.de/kalkar map

Urban Pioneers – Temporary Use and Urban Development in Berlin

Urban PioneersThis new book provides a unique analysis of temporary use practices which are currently transforming Berlin. The book draws on results of two research projects: the European ‘Urban Catalyst’ project and ‘Raumpioniere’, a study on temporary uses in Berlin. The bilingual (German/English) publication has been conceived and edited by Studio UC/ Klaus Overmeyer, commissioned by the Berlin Senate’s Urban Planning Department and published by Jovis Publishers, Berlin.

www.studio-uc.de/urbanpioneers.php?lang=en