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Reactivating Neglected Heritages, Reweaving Unspoken Memories. A Study on the Adaptive Reuse of Former Asylums into “mind museums”.

Descrizione del progetto

Una nuova destinazione d’uso per i vecchi manicomi

Generalmente, i manicomi occupano un posto oscuro nell’immaginazione popolare. Il progetto ReMIND, finanziato dall’UE, prevede nuovi utilizzi per i vecchi istituti, analizzando la storia della malattia mentale attraverso i manicomi che erano in funzione in tutta Europa. L’attenzione si concentra su strutture costruite dalla metà del XIX secolo agli anni ’60, quando fu introdotto il processo di deistituzionalizzazione nell’assistenza psichiatrica. ReMIND esaminerà le istituzioni psichiatriche abbandonate e come alcune sono state riutilizzate per finalità culturali. Il progetto analizzerà ex manicomi che sono stati restaurati e riutilizzati come musei attraverso due studi pilota. Ciò contribuirà inoltre a sviluppare nuove competenze di ricerca in settori quali gli studi sui visitatori e gli studi sul patrimonio.

Obiettivo

ReMIND focuses on the potentials for ‘mind museums’(former asylums turned into museums)to provoke emotional responses in visitors and foster critical reflection on the histories and contemporary problems of dealing with mental illness (MI) in society.Its objective is to fill some relevant scientific gaps on the subject, as well as to conjoin complimentary disciplinary approaches from museum and exhibition design and museum studies and develop new research competence for me as fellow and for the host institution in the field of visitor studies.
ReMIND explores the MI heritage landscape through asylums built in Europe from the mid-19th cent until the 60s’ deinstitutionalisation process in the psychiatric care system.Today most of these buildings still stand where they were, often completely or partially abandoned, left to decay, and contributing to urban decline.ReMIND will survey the European landscape of MI heritage considering phenomena such as abandonment and reuse of historic asylums for cultural purposes.However alongside this general desk-based overview, its main aim is to analyse former asylums that have been restored and reused as museums, specifically involving 2 indepth interdisciplinary pilot case studies.Nowadays we don’t have a sense of potentials for the responsible adaptive re-use of asylums and they are in danger.Likewise once converted into museums, their role in effecting attitudinal change in visitors that may help to dismantle stigma and promote awareness toward MI has not been properly investigated.ReMIND addresses these gaps.
To do so my study will integrate various disciplinary approaches to rethink adaptive reuse interventions and contemporary heritage conservation and valorisation practices.I will work at the intersection of different research fields, moving from Italy to UK at New Castle University to learn, deploy and contribute in implementing theories and methodologies related to heritage studies, visitor studies, and display analysis.

Campo scientifico (EuroSciVoc)

CORDIS classifica i progetti con EuroSciVoc, una tassonomia multilingue dei campi scientifici, attraverso un processo semi-automatico basato su tecniche NLP. Cfr.: https://op.europa.eu/en/web/eu-vocabularies/euroscivoc.

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Meccanismo di finanziamento

MSCA-IF-EF-ST - Standard EF

Coordinatore

UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE
Contributo netto dell'UE
€ 224 933,76
Indirizzo
KINGS GATE
NE1 7RU Newcastle Upon Tyne
Regno Unito

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Regione
North East (England) Northumberland and Tyne and Wear Tyneside
Tipo di attività
Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
Collegamenti
Costo totale
€ 224 933,76