Comments for RUIN MEMORIES http://ruinmemories.org Materiality, aesthetics and the archaeology of the recent past Thu, 25 Aug 2011 09:46:34 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 Comment on My Father’s Things by Burl Seagroves http://ruinmemories.org/2011/02/my-fathers-things/comment-page-1/#comment-1222 Burl Seagroves Thu, 25 Aug 2011 09:46:34 +0000 http://ruinmemories.org/?p=333#comment-1222 Hello! Someone in my Facebook group shared this site with us so I came to give it a look. I'm definitely enjoying the information. I'm book-marking and will be tweeting this to my followers! Wonderful blog and fantastic design. Hello! Someone in my Facebook group shared this site with us so I came to give it a look. I’m definitely enjoying the information. I’m book-marking and will be tweeting this to my followers! Wonderful blog and fantastic design.

]]> Comment on Butte, America: ruination, reclamation, and the remainder by Arn Keeling http://ruinmemories.org/2011/08/butte-america-ruination-reclamation-and-the-remainder/comment-page-1/#comment-1219 Arn Keeling Tue, 23 Aug 2011 23:37:27 +0000 http://ruinmemories.org/?p=620#comment-1219 Hi Caitlin: Wonderful post! I spent a year at MSU Bozeman and visited Butte a couple of times, including a trip down the mine. It's a fascinating landscape. You must know the work of Tim LeCain on Butte and industrial mining in America, as well as Gray Brechin's notion of the city (in his case, San Francisco), as inverted minescape. In any case, I am a cultural-historical geographer working on a similar project related to mining in Northern Canada. Come visit us at www.abandonedminesnc.com to see what we're up to, and feel free to contact us! Arn Hi Caitlin:

Wonderful post! I spent a year at MSU Bozeman and visited Butte a couple of times, including a trip down the mine. It’s a fascinating landscape.

You must know the work of Tim LeCain on Butte and industrial mining in America, as well as Gray Brechin’s notion of the city (in his case, San Francisco), as inverted minescape.

In any case, I am a cultural-historical geographer working on a similar project related to mining in Northern Canada. Come visit us at http://www.abandonedminesnc.com to see what we’re up to, and feel free to contact us!

Arn

]]> Comment on Reanimating Industrial Spaces: Call for papers by Somya Johri http://ruinmemories.org/2011/03/reanimating-industrial-spaces-call-for-papers/comment-page-1/#comment-1194 Somya Johri Wed, 13 Jul 2011 06:42:26 +0000 http://ruinmemories.org/?p=403#comment-1194 Hello I am a Conservation Architect from School of Planning and Architecture, New Delhi. I have done my Masters thesis on the settlement of Sambhar as a traditional inddustrial landscape. Sambhar is a small settlement along Sambhar Lake. This saline lake is a unique ecosystem within the semi-arid region of Rajasthan in India. Salt extraction has been a traditional activity in the lake and with time it developed as a major industry, giving its people a new perspective and an alternate for sustenance. The proposed paper will aims at studying the salt industry and understanding its impact on the organisation of the life of the people involved or as termed as the industrial society. The Industrial heritage is the icon of the industrial past which was specific to its salt industry and evolved with time, with modernization and introduction of new technologies. It is a representative of the past culture, which has transformed but continues till today, aiding to the survival of the society. The economic value of it justifies its sustained existence in the contemporary society and hence it is important to identify and conserve this industrial heritage which has been a symbol of a flourishing past. Please let me know if this above mentioned topic fits into your criterias and what are the other requirements . Thanks Regards Somya Johri Conservation Architect Hello
I am a Conservation Architect from School of Planning and Architecture, New Delhi. I have done my Masters thesis on the settlement of Sambhar as a traditional inddustrial landscape. Sambhar is a small settlement along Sambhar Lake. This saline lake is a unique ecosystem within the semi-arid region of Rajasthan in India. Salt extraction has been a traditional activity in the lake and with time it developed as a major industry, giving its people a new perspective and an alternate for sustenance.
The proposed paper will aims at studying the salt industry and understanding its impact on the organisation of the life of the people involved or as termed as the industrial society. The Industrial heritage is the icon of the industrial past which was specific to its salt industry and evolved with time, with modernization and introduction of new technologies. It is a representative of the past culture, which has transformed but continues till today, aiding to the survival of the society. The economic value of it justifies its sustained existence in the contemporary society and hence it is important to identify and conserve this industrial heritage which has been a symbol of a flourishing past.

Please let me know if this above mentioned topic fits into your criterias and what are the other requirements .

Thanks
Regards
Somya Johri
Conservation Architect

]]> Comment on In Action in Iceland. The Ruin Memories Team Explores Four Sites. by thorathora http://ruinmemories.org/2010/11/in-action-in-iceland-the-ruin-memories-team-explores-four-sites/comment-page-1/#comment-92 thorathora Tue, 07 Dec 2010 09:11:38 +0000 http://ruinmemories.org/?p=258#comment-92 Yes - all carefully chosen to fit our interests and needs on a one day adventure! So, also practical reasons, as dull as it may sound. But the sites are amazing! Where is the site you photographed? -- Þóra Yes – all carefully chosen to fit our interests and needs on a one day adventure! So, also practical reasons, as dull as it may sound. But the sites are amazing!
Where is the site you photographed?
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Þóra

]]> Comment on In Action in Iceland. The Ruin Memories Team Explores Four Sites. by Bradley L. Garrett http://ruinmemories.org/2010/11/in-action-in-iceland-the-ruin-memories-team-explores-four-sites/comment-page-1/#comment-86 Bradley L. Garrett Sun, 28 Nov 2010 15:21:31 +0000 http://ruinmemories.org/?p=258#comment-86 Were these sites pre-chosen for exploration? If so, I would be interested to hear how and why they were picked. I was in Iceland last in 2007 and found small pill boxes like this one: http://www.flickr.com/photos/30218751@N05/sets/72157625485126962/ all over the place. I always thought they had some historic military application, though I liked to imagine them as one-way traps for curious children where they were steamed into incuriousness. Love and best wishes from London on your adventures. Push the limits with reckless abandon at every opportunity. Were these sites pre-chosen for exploration? If so, I would be interested to hear how and why they were picked. I was in Iceland last in 2007 and found small pill boxes like this one: http://www.flickr.com/photos/30218751@N05/sets/72157625485126962/ all over the place. I always thought they had some historic military application, though I liked to imagine them as one-way traps for curious children where they were steamed into incuriousness.

Love and best wishes from London on your adventures. Push the limits with reckless abandon at every opportunity.

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