Troubled Spaces: Time, Affections and Memories in Territorial Identity Processes

1. Troubled Spaces time affections and memories Massimo Schinco, ITALY psychotherapist Sara Schinco, ITALY master in architecture in territorial identity processes Memory: Forgetting and Creating Interdisciplinary Conference in Gdańsk - 11th – 12th September 2014

2. what happens when things we cannot usually see become visible? what happens when questions often considered as metaphysical and sometimes ambiguous like Memory: Forgetting and Creating - Interdisciplinary Conference in Gdańsk - 11th – 12th September 2014 Troubled Spaces - S. Schinco - M. Schinco time affections memories become explicit in space?

3. just as a scenographic environment, space can reveal and show different functions values meanings depending on how we look at it, move inside it, how we touch it, how we relate to it, being us audience and actors at one time Memory: Forgetting and Creating - Interdisciplinary Conference in Gdańsk - 11th – 12th September 2014 Troubled Spaces - S. Schinco - M. Schinco

4. the qualities of space are revealed by our interaction among a “profusion of connections” (Arnheim 1981) in which our mind gives and finds meaning and relevance Memory: Forgetting and Creating - Interdisciplinary Conference in Gdańsk - 11th – 12th September 2014 Troubled Spaces - S. Schinco - M. Schinco

5. we make a choice we give order (put something in) we find order (take something out) Memory: Forgetting and Creating - Interdisciplinary Conference in Gdańsk - 11th – 12th September 2014 Troubled Spaces - S. Schinco - M. Schinco we establish a hierarchy

6. all this is a process it is related to identity it is carried out during time not only our time and our identity we relate also to other people and memories of the past in this sense the process of building an identity is collective, partially unconscious and continuously ongoing Memory: Forgetting and Creating - Interdisciplinary Conference in Gdańsk - 11th – 12th September 2014 Troubled Spaces - S. Schinco - M. Schinco

7. architecture territorial planning restoration branches of knowledge and operations which are intended to build, ordinate and organize spaces theorists and professionals are not concordant on a definition of restoration but they all agree on some aspects: it is a complex and time related operation Memory: Forgetting and Creating - Interdisciplinary Conference in Gdańsk - 11th – 12th September 2014 Troubled Spaces - S. Schinco - M. Schinco it includes many different aspects, some of which hidden and troubled it has to guarantee and respect the temporal continuity - flow of time

8. what is a monument? Memory: Forgetting and Creating - Interdisciplinary Conference in Gdańsk - 11th – 12th September 2014 Troubled Spaces - S. Schinco - M. Schinco identity monument vs contest

9. what is original (authentic)? Memory: Forgetting and Creating - Interdisciplinary Conference in Gdańsk - 11th – 12th September 2014 Troubled Spaces - S. Schinco - M. Schinco time conservation vs renovation

10. Memory: Forgetting and Creating - Interdisciplinary Conference in Gdańsk - 11th – 12th September 2014 Troubled Spaces - S. Schinco - M. Schinco vs / & ? all these are problems related to multidimensionality implicate orders how to translate complex identities into physical and detectable space and to convey the stream of time into a solid framework? what happens when multidimensionality and those implicate orders are forgotten, not recognized or denied?

11. Ernest Hemingway used to say about narrative process: “… I always try to write on the principle of the iceberg. There is seven-eighths of it underwater for every part that shows. Anything you know you can eliminate and it only strengthens your iceberg. It is the part that doesn’t show. If a writer omits something because he does not know it then there is a hole in the story.” (the underlining is ours) Memory: Forgetting and Creating - Interdisciplinary Conference in Gdańsk - 11th – 12th September 2014 Troubled Spaces - S. Schinco - M. Schinco

12. before considering some practical examples, can we connect the observations above in a consistent and sharp-cut theoretical framework? we are persuaded that soon we’ll be able to answer a full “yes” but as for now the work is still in progress Memory: Forgetting and Creating - Interdisciplinary Conference in Gdańsk - 11th – 12th September 2014 Troubled Spaces - S. Schinco - M. Schinco

13. the process started between the end of the 19th century and the first half of 20th the basic assumptions of Western Culture went into a radical crisis a need of a new foundation was felt in all fields of human creativity: arts, philosophy, sciences … Memory: Forgetting and Creating - Interdisciplinary Conference in Gdańsk - 11th – 12th September 2014 Troubled Spaces - S. Schinco - M. Schinco

14. in consequence of what was started then we are now leaving at our back views based on reductionism materialism separation perspectives founded on strict determinism seem to be replaced by explanations not pretending to be complete whose outcomes are not fully predictable Memory: Forgetting and Creating - Interdisciplinary Conference in Gdańsk - 11th – 12th September 2014 Troubled Spaces - S. Schinco - M. Schinco

15. the role of the human responsible choice and of the affections are taken into account much more than before Memory: Forgetting and Creating - Interdisciplinary Conference in Gdańsk - 11th – 12th September 2014 Troubled Spaces - S. Schinco - M. Schinco

16. intuitions from philosophers and scholars like Edmund Husserl Henri Bergson William James Edith Stein seem to make a comeback through new paradigms of consciousness Memory: Forgetting and Creating - Interdisciplinary Conference in Gdańsk - 11th – 12th September 2014 Troubled Spaces - S. Schinco - M. Schinco

17. several Authors (e.g. Manousakis, 2006) depict individual consciousness as a subsystem, just relatively autonomous into an infinite stream of global consciousness Memory: Forgetting and Creating - Interdisciplinary Conference in Gdańsk - 11th – 12th September 2014 Troubled Spaces - S. Schinco - M. Schinco

18. in a frame as such, where a separation between “inner” and “outer” reality is no longer accepted, the hypothesis of the continuity between different states of consciousness (Hartmann 2011, 2012) acquires a larger scope with a huge fallout on the choices of individuals and groups about their environment Memory: Forgetting and Creating - Interdisciplinary Conference in Gdańsk - 11th – 12th September 2014 Troubled Spaces - S. Schinco - M. Schinco

19. in this bias individual and group’s behaviors dreams, myths, artistic products, religious systems the collective recollection or avoidance of memories and feelings shared by entire communities show themselves as phenomena reapproaching us to the collective foundations of our identity Memory: Forgetting and Creating - Interdisciplinary Conference in Gdańsk - 11th – 12th September 2014 Troubled Spaces - S. Schinco - M. Schinco

20. one of the most authoritative representative of this cultural trend is the psychoanalist and dream researcher Montague Ullmann (1932 – 2008) Memory: Forgetting and Creating - Interdisciplinary Conference in Gdańsk - 11th – 12th September 2014 Troubled Spaces - S. Schinco - M. Schinco

21. Ullmann emphasizes that “we are much less separate than we think we are” “…that part of us which is linked to others through feeling is more real, more enduring and more significant than other dimensions of our existence. It compels belief. It dissolves distances, creates unity and links us to the real world. This is the stuff of reality” Memory: Forgetting and Creating - Interdisciplinary Conference in Gdańsk - 11th – 12th September 2014 Troubled Spaces - S. Schinco - M. Schinco

22. from a theoretical point of view Ullmann roots his statements in the contribute of the physicist David Bohm following Bohm, reality “explicates” and “implicates” itself in an endless “holomovement” the movement of the whole Memory: Forgetting and Creating - Interdisciplinary Conference in Gdańsk - 11th – 12th September 2014 Troubled Spaces - S. Schinco - M. Schinco

23. in consequence of this all conceptions considering individual vs collective, psychological vs “material” past, present and future as ultimately separated are no longer accepted Memory: Forgetting and Creating - Interdisciplinary Conference in Gdańsk - 11th – 12th September 2014 Troubled Spaces - S. Schinco - M. Schinco

24. “changing a physiognomy [of a space]… [we construct] new social, functional and symbolic geographies” (Secchi 2006) is that enough? 3 “troubled spaces” related to identity and time “Visually […] the balance of a project can only rely on what is detectable to the eye” (Arnheim 1981) (the translation is ours) Memory: Forgetting and Creating - Interdisciplinary Conference in Gdańsk - 11th – 12th September 2014 Troubled Spaces - S. Schinco - M. Schinco

25. Dresden Memory: Forgetting and Creating - Interdisciplinary Conference in Gdańsk - 11th – 12th September 2014 Troubled Spaces - S. Schinco - M. Schinco

26. Dresden Memory: Forgetting and Creating - Interdisciplinary Conference in Gdańsk - 11th – 12th September 2014 Troubled Spaces - S. Schinco - M. Schinco

27. Dresden reconstruction strong reaffirmation of the lost identity signs of the flow of time in the use of material Memory: Forgetting and Creating - Interdisciplinary Conference in Gdańsk - 11th – 12th September 2014 Troubled Spaces - S. Schinco - M. Schinco

28. Dresden Memory: Forgetting and Creating - Interdisciplinary Conference in Gdańsk - 11th – 12th September 2014 Troubled Spaces - S. Schinco - M. Schinco reviving old identity? new identity?

29. Berlin Memory: Forgetting and Creating - Interdisciplinary Conference in Gdańsk - 11th – 12th September 2014 Troubled Spaces - S. Schinco - M. Schinco

30. Berlin Memory: Forgetting and Creating - Interdisciplinary Conference in Gdańsk - 11th – 12th September 2014 Troubled Spaces - S. Schinco - M. Schinco frozen time?

31. new construction reconsideration of compositive models & materials Memory: Forgetting and Creating - Interdisciplinary Conference in Gdańsk - 11th – 12th September 2014 Troubled Spaces - S. Schinco - M. Schinco

32. Memory: Forgetting and Creating - Interdisciplinary Conference in Gdańsk - 11th – 12th September 2014 Troubled Spaces - S. Schinco - M. Schinco layering

33. Küstrin/Kostrzyn Memory: Forgetting and Creating - Interdisciplinary Conference in Gdańsk - 11th – 12th September 2014 Troubled Spaces - S. Schinco - M. Schinco

36. Küstrin/Kostrzyn Memory: Forgetting and Creating - Interdisciplinary Conference in Gdańsk - 11th – 12th September 2014 Troubled Spaces - S. Schinco - M. Schinco Prussian identity – removed

38. Küstrin/Kostrzyn 2007 2009 2014 Memory: Forgetting and Creating - Interdisciplinary Conference in Gdańsk - 11th – 12th September 2014 Troubled Spaces - S. Schinco - M. Schinco Soviet identity – removed

39. Küstrin/Kostrzyn Memory: Forgetting and Creating - Interdisciplinary Conference in Gdańsk - 11th – 12th September 2014 Troubled Spaces - S. Schinco - M. Schinco revitalisation?

40. Küstrin/Kostrzyn Memory: Forgetting and Creating - Interdisciplinary Conference in Gdańsk - 11th – 12th September 2014 Troubled Spaces - S. Schinco - M. Schinco nowadays or no-days identity?

42. as a final remark things can be destroyed sceneries can be upset maps can go lost affections and memories can be removed but the implicate orders they convey always remain and shall be taken into account Memory: Forgetting and Creating - Interdisciplinary Conference in Gdańsk - 11th – 12th September 2014 Troubled Spaces - S. Schinco - M. Schinco

43. just as a final disclaimer issues about the ultimate nature of the individual “I” operating in the stream of contents and processes of consciousness where there is not a general consensus among scholars have not been taken into account in this presentation, since they go beyond its focus and scope Memory: Forgetting and Creating - Interdisciplinary Conference in Gdańsk - 11th – 12th September 2014 Troubled Spaces - S. Schinco - M. Schinco

44. Thank You!

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