presented by Sara Schinco & Massimo Schinco at Memory: Forgetting and Creating Interdisciplinary Conference in Gdańsk, Poland 11th – 12th September 2014 Organizer: University of Gdańsk (Poland) – Research Unit for Dream, Memory and Imagination Studies Co-organizers: Jagiellonian University (Poland) Federal University of Paraná (Brazil) University of São Paulo (Brazil) McGill University (Canada)

1. Troubled Spaces
time affections and memories
Massimo Schinco, ITALY
psychotherapist
Sara Schinco, ITALY
master in architecture
in territorial identity processes
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2. what happens when things we cannot usually see
become visible?
what happens when questions often considered as
metaphysical and sometimes ambiguous like
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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
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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
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5. we make a choice
we give
order
(put something in)
we find order
(take something out)
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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
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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
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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?
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identity
monument vs contest

9. what is original (authentic)?
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time
conservation vs renovation

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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)
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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
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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 …
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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
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15. the role of
the human responsible choice
and of the affections
are taken into account
much more than before
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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
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17. several Authors
(e.g. Manousakis, 2006)
depict individual consciousness as
a subsystem, just relatively autonomous
into an infinite stream of global consciousness
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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
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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
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20. one of the most authoritative representative
of this cultural trend
is the psychoanalist
and dream researcher
Montague Ullmann
(1932 – 2008)
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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”
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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
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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
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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)
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25. Dresden
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26. Dresden
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27. Dresden
reconstruction
strong reaffirmation of the lost identity
signs of the flow of time in the use of material
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28. Dresden
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reviving old identity? new identity?

29. Berlin
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30. Berlin
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frozen time?

31. new construction
reconsideration of compositive models & materials
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32. Memory: Forgetting and Creating - Interdisciplinary Conference in Gdańsk - 11th – 12th September 2014
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layering

33. Küstrin/Kostrzyn
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34. Küstrin/Kostrzyn
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35. Küstrin/Kostrzyn
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36. Küstrin/Kostrzyn
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Prussian identity – removed

37. Küstrin/Kostrzyn
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38. Küstrin/Kostrzyn
2007 2009 2014
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Soviet identity – removed

39. Küstrin/Kostrzyn
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revitalisation?

40. Küstrin/Kostrzyn
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nowadays or no-days identity?

41. Küstrin/Kostrzyn
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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
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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
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44. Thank You!