- ReUso 2026 - New heritage and future strategies. Perspectives on conservation and promotion
- A cura di Alessandro Scarnato, Marisa García Vergara, Ángeles Layuno Rosas
Daylighting and Scenography: Case studies in preservation experiments in the U.S.
- Aleksandr Mergold
- © 2026 Author(s) |
- CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
- DOI: 10.36253/979-12-215-1113-0.108
This paper frames “daylighting” and “scenography” as operative modes for experimental preservation: not restoring a singular past, but exposing heritage as layered, contested, and unresolved. Daylighting brings obscured histories into view; scenography temporarily stages fragments, materials, and spatial cues to make alternate histories and futures perceptible. Two U.S. case studies test this approach: Crossing the Line in Central New York, which materializes a 1792 survey line with colonial debris, and The Steel Horsie of Columbus, which reanimates suppressed railroad and industrial histories through borrowed infrastructural remnants.
- Keywords:
- Daylighting scenography spolia experimental preservation,
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Titolo del capitolo
Daylighting and Scenography: Case studies in preservation experiments in the U.S.
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Aleksandr Mergold
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Inglese
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-1113-0.108
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Anno di pubblicazione
2026
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© 2026 Author(s)
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Titolo del libro
ReUso 2026 - New heritage and future strategies. Perspectives on conservation and promotion
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14th International Congress Barcelona-Girona, 4-7 November
Curatori
Alessandro Scarnato, Marisa García Vergara, Ángeles Layuno Rosas
Opera sottoposta a peer review
Anno di pubblicazione
2026
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© 2026 Author(s)
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Firenze University Press
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-1113-0
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