1172 | 414 | Improving ruralities: from nun’s convent to a postindustrial cultural place-rooted geographical map. | Cerarols, Rosa; Luna, Antoni
If we understand the crisis as an opportunity, we can conceive of the ruins as a possibility to think differently and conceive it as a possibility to reverse the obsolescence of the capitalist system to build new geographical worldviews that disarticulate relationships between center-periphery, rural-urban and local-global in the framework of post-industrial societies. As an example of an alternative cultural practice that has generated a new discourse based on rootedness in the territory and geocreativity, we analyze the dynamics created from a recovered 19th century industrial colony abandoned in 1992. The Konvent project in Cal Rosal on the Llobregat riverbed (Berguedà), based on the local resilience and through cultural practice, reverses the traditional scale roles by building a new territoriality that provides an alternative vision of development in “peripheral zones” that overturn the map of cultural creation and rurality narratives outside the current pejorative stereotype. From a geohumanistic perspective, the social cohesion and networks established in Catalan-speaking territories is reviewed at first, and also the parallel scenarios of other realities based on local development projects focused on art and culture, articulates a new territorial discourse that traces a contemporary discourse in the face of contemporary emergencies. The crisis, like resilience, is not new, but it must be interpreted as a key to change in order to contribute to a more inclusive geography that goes beyond the map and the established cultural stereotypes._x000D_
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Cerarols, Rosa; Luna, Antoni
UPF, Barcelona
ID Abstract: 414