Art + Social Entrepreneurship = Revitalization 2.0 Historical perspective of heritage preservation has shown that values inherited in historical structures are unstable mental constructs determined by the “taste” of a specific historical period. In general, the use of traditional preservation methods on a particular monument or within a historical environment leads to ascribing a fixed set of values to them. During the scientific procedures, the question of dealing with the reality or “contemporaneity of memory” is often avoided or left unanswered. Consequently, many historical monuments are preserved as structurally and conceptually closed parts of the urban system. Methodological sketches drawn in the background of Karlovac Idea Parks project, instead of attempting to come up with new functions that would solve the problems of the historical environment in question, are rather arguing for a moderated discussion of the existing cultural layers. The communication is considered to be the main tool in attracting contemporary functions. In order to establish an atmosphere in which the historical structure could breathe freely, the project proposes projecting the existing structure not to the past or future, but to the present moment of virtual social reality.
Virtual public responses can reveal or generate entirely new cultural layers, functions and design methods, and thus determinate the critical attitude towards the scale and the nature of the proposed physical interventions into the sensitive historical environment.
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“When you give everyone a voice and give people power, the system usually ends up in a really good place.” Mark Zuckerberg, 2008
The only remaining piece of 16th century walls.