Rietmann, F.;
(2024)
Turning the project of dictatorship into an example of democracy? Chances and risks of participation at the Nazi relic Prora.
Architecture_MPS
, 29
(1)
, Article 2. 10.14324/111.444.amps.2024v29i1.002.
Preview |
Text
amps-3241-rietmann.pdf Download (4MB) | Preview |
Abstract
This article explores a participatory process organised to deal with the highly contested former Nazi project Prora on the Baltic island of Rügen. It was carried out on behalf of the German government in 1996. The participatory process was an exceptional way of dealing with a heritage that remains difficult for Germany to this day. Key aspects shifted in Prora as a result of the procedure: away from the ideal of conscientious and careful conservation of the building as a memorial to past dictatorships and towards an active process of highlighting, rejecting and changing qualities of Prora for the construction of a new and alternative future. The main focus shifted from memory work to different present-day demands of the local population and the associated future scenarios for their island. The article argues that during the participatory process Prora was a real-life laboratory in which many things were tried out that were to become important pioneering approaches in heritage management over the next two decades. However, the participatory process in Prora is not only an impressive example of the potential that lies in such approaches; as an experiment it also points to new problems that are associated with them.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Turning the project of dictatorship into an example of democracy? Chances and risks of participation at the Nazi relic Prora |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.14324/111.444.amps.2024v29i1.002 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.14324/111.444.amps.2024v29i1.00... |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © 2024, Florian Rietmann. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Licence (CC BY) 4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/, which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. |
| Keywords: | participation, difficult heritage, contested heritage, heritage communities, heritage management |
| URI: | https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10198101 |
Archive Staff Only
 |
View Item |
