Caring for the Future: Architectural Heritage, Vulnerability and Collectivities

近年来，对文化遗产的关心越来越受到公众的关注。当建筑遗产遭到破坏，考虑保护、保存或重建时，这一点尤其明显，因为这些“不可移动的”文物的丢失或损坏与归属问题和受影响的人有关。如果对文化遗产的关心唤起了过去，那么它也是面向未来的：正是从现在的角度来决定应该维护、照顾和修改什么，以及为谁。该项目在三个案例研究的基础上调查了建筑如何塑造集合体的形成，每个案例研究都介绍了一个特定的焦点。以最近在国际刑事法院进行的与马里文化遗产被毁事件有关的审判为例，第一项研究调查了这种关系是如何在法律和法律推理中阐明的；第二项研究探讨了在巴黎圣母院火灾事件中建筑本身是如何发挥作用的；第三项研究考虑了集体的观点如何在德国重建犹太教堂的项目中发挥作用。虽然当地传统和文化多样性越来越被认为是确定建筑遗产的重要因素，但“人性”理念的复兴也是值得注意的。该项目将重点放在情感依恋和脆弱性上，从概念上探索社会关系的物质性，同时将自己视为对文明生活脆弱性问题的贡献。

Care for cultural heritage has been of growing public concern in recent years. This is particularly evident when architectural heritage is destroyed and where considerations of protection, preservation or reconstruction connect with questions of belonging and of who is affected by the loss or damage of these “immovable” cultural objects. If care for cultural heritage invokes a past, it is nonetheless also oriented towards the future: it is from a perspective of the present that decisions are made on what should be maintained, cared for and modified, and for whom. The project investigates how architecture shapes the formation of collectivities on the basis of three case studies, each of them introducing a particular focus. Taking up the example of a recent trial at the International Criminal Court related to the destruction of cultural heritage in Mali, the first study investigates how that relationship is spelled out in law and legal reasoning; the second study explores how architecture itself comes into play in the event of the Notre-Dame fire in Paris; and the third considers how the perspective of a collectivity articulates itself in projects of reconstructing synagogues in Germany. While local traditions and cultural diversity are increasingly considered important in the determination of architecture as heritage, a resituating of the idea of “humanity” is also noticeable. With its focus on affective attachments and vulnerability, the project conceptually probes the materiality of social relationships while seeing itself as a contribution to the question of the fragility of civilized life.