TY - BOOK ID - 36634341 TI - Curated decay : heritage beyond saving PY - 2017 SN - 9780816694365 9780816694389 9781452953717 PB - Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, DB - UniCat KW - Cultural property KW - Historic preservation KW - Historic sites KW - Protection. KW - Philosophy. KW - Conservation and restoration. KW - Cultural property, Protection of KW - Cultural resources management KW - Cultural policy KW - Preservation, Historic KW - Preservationism (Historic preservation) KW - Philosophy KW - Protection KW - Conservation and restoration KW - Government policy KW - Building design KW - Conservation. Restoration KW - Architecture KW - Social geography KW - architectural history KW - historic monuments KW - historic buildings KW - Préservation historique KW - Patrimoine culturel KW - Lieux historiques KW - Philosophie KW - Conservation et restauration UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:36634341 AB - Transporting readers from derelict homesteads to imperiled harbors, postindustrial ruins to Cold War test sites, Curated Decay presents an unparalleled provocation to conventional thinking on the conservation of cultural heritage. Caitlin DeSilvey proposes rethinking the care of certain vulnerable sites in terms of ecology and entropy, and explains how we must adopt an ethical stance that allows us to collaborate with-rather than defend against-natural processes. Curated Decay chronicles DeSilvey's travels to places where experiments in curated ruination and creative collapse are under way, or under consideration. It uses case studies from the United States, Europe, and elsewhere to explore how objects and structures produce meaning not only in their preservation and persistence, but also in their decay and disintegration. Through accessible and engaging discussion of specific places and their stories, it traces how cultural memory is generated in encounters with ephemeral artifacts and architectures. An interdisciplinary reframing of the concept of the ruin that combines historical and philosophical depth with attentive storytelling, Curated Decay represents the first attempt to apply new theories of materiality and ecology to the concerns of critical heritage studies. ER -