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Comment on SVÆRHOLT: Memories of a Northern War Site by Bjørnar Olsen

Bjørnar Olsen — Thu, 08 Mar 2012 07:59:26 +0000

Hi Luke. It is a very special place and we are happy you liked the report. Please feel free to use it. There is also an earlier short entry on this and two other northern WW2 sites with some more images.

best
Bjørnar

Comment on SVÆRHOLT: Memories of a Northern War Site by Luke Bennett

Luke Bennett — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 14:50:59 +0000

Fascinating report – its really got me thinking. Hope you don’t mind but I’ve used the barbed wire picture as a graphic for my blog praising this report and directing readers towards your site.

Regards,

Luke Bennett

@lukebennett13

Comment on SVÆRHOLT: Memories of a Northern War Site by Material memory – in praise of Ruin Memories’ Svǽholt study « lukebennett13

Wed, 07 Mar 2012 14:48:20 +0000

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Comment on The “Archaeology of Memory” at the Sorø Kuntsmuseum by Barbara Lambert

Barbara Lambert — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 01:33:53 +0000

HELLO — I just stumbled on this article. How completely fascinating. On the other hand, you could have really complicated my life: I’m a novelist, with my next novel more or less plotted out — and now I see a whole NEW one popping into view, after reading about your exhibitions!

Hmmmm!

Best to you all,

Barbara L.

Comment on My Father’s Things by Burl Seagroves

Burl Seagroves — Thu, 25 Aug 2011 09:46:34 +0000

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Comment on Butte, America: ruination, reclamation, and the remainder by Arn Keeling

Arn Keeling — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 23:37:27 +0000

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

Somya Johri — Wed, 13 Jul 2011 06:42:26 +0000

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

thorathora — Tue, 07 Dec 2010 09:11:38 +0000

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

Comment on In Action in Iceland. The Ruin Memories Team Explores Four Sites. by Bradley L. Garrett

Bradley L. Garrett — Sun, 28 Nov 2010 15:21:31 +0000

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.