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Requirements for this course are participation in lectures and in workshops as well as preparation of a case study. The study will be prepared in two-person teams and should include:
- the choice of historical post-industrial site,
- the attempt of brief description of the various initial conditions and circumstances in which the given site functions and its valorisation,
- presenting the idea for its adaptation.
The case study will require written form of the answers for the given questions/instructions (an essay between 5 and 8 pages):
1. Chose a post-industrial site/monument (in Germany or other EU country) which has not been yet adapted for new functions.
2. Short analysis of:
- sites history;
- previous functions, forms of using, relations between the site and local community (inhabitants, workers), infrastructural links between the site and its surroundings (transport system, other industrial sites, etc.);
- current ownership structure and its conservation; who is the site`s and the real estate owner, who is responsible for it conservation, what is the technical condition, to what extend it is protected (monuments register), is the parcel considered a wasteland (contaminated)?;
- valorisation of its cultural value such as: authenticity, integrity, uniqueness (how important it was in micro/macro scale or the branches of industry in which it functioned), aesthetic/artistic/architectural value, emotional – connected with the identity of local community, the value connected with intangible aspects of industrial heritage, what is the site`s image;
- reasons why the site is no longer used?;
- what actions have been recently implemented in order to persevere or adapt the site;
- the site`s availability means of transport connections, its location, the distance between the site and the town`s centre.
3. What are three main advantages and disadvantages of the site?
4. What are the stakeholders groups (from public and private sector) for the planned adaptation? What are their motivations and interests? For whom and if the planned changes will be beneficial? Who can initiate them?
5. Indicate what functions can the site be adapted to e.g.: touristic purposes, recreation, culture, art, entertainment (event places), education or commercial purposes e.g. for creative industry, IT, design.
6. Why should the given site be persevered and adapted to a particular functions?
7. Will the new role be respecting site`s character? Will the suggested solutions prioritize the perseverance of historical buildings and their reconstruction, regenerating or will they assume a major alteration.
8. May the given function/s be assumed a profitable concept?
9. As a conclusion perform an analysis of the site based on the Business Model Canvas by Alexander Oterwalder and Yves Pigneur (Osterwalder A., Pigneur Y. 2010: Business Model Generation. A Handbook for Visionaries, Game Changers and Challengers, PJohn Wiley & Sons, Inc. Hoboken, New Jersey,). This model allows to identify the key elements essential for any business project functioning and allows to describe the way any organizations create and provide their customers with the value.
The list of questions was prepared based on:
Otto Markus, Plastrotmann Karl, Scharnholz Lars: Obiekty industrialne jako zasoby. Institut für Neue Industriekultur INIK e.V., Forst (Lausitz), 2007. (Polish version ISBN: 978-3-00-021009-9)
Otto Markus, Plastrotmann Karl, Scharnholz Lars: Industriebau als Ressource. Institut für Neue Industriekultur INIK e.V., Forst (Lausitz), 2007. (German version ISBN: 978-3-00-021012-9)
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