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Notice (permalien)

Réf.

41682

Type

conference item

Titre

Creativity and the settings of monuments and sites in Thailand: conflicts and resolution

Langues

English

Auteurs

Klinkajorn, Karin

Date

2005

Pages

8 p.

Titre de conférence

15th ICOMOS General Assembly and International Symposium: ‘Monuments and sites in their setting - conserving cultural heritage in changing townscapes and landscapes’

Lieu de conférence

Xi'an, China

Date de conférence

17 – 21 oct 2005

Mots-clés

conservation of cultural heritage / Venice Charter / World Heritage Sites / development planning / management / historic buildings / economic development / setting / historic towns

Pays mentionnés

Thailand

Monuments et sites

Krung Rattanakosin, Thailand

Résumé en anglais

The impact of Thailand’s striving after economic transformation is giving rise to the notion that the only way to be truly creative was to be different—making things new, original, and unexpected. Novelty has become the new aesthetic and the yardstick of creativity, even in historic conservation practices. New development strategies and programs are introduced and implemented continually in order to promote economic growth. In parallel, much traditional cultural heritage and its vulnerable setting are disappearing rapidly due to the prevailing modern lifestyles and social change. Settlements in World Heritage Sites and the old city of Rattanakosin are now under heavy development pressure to replace traditional buildings, landscapes, and communities, by new construction projects and tourism developments which are not very sympathetic to the surrounding area, as well.‘Destructive Creativity’ extols speed, force, and violence. In cultural heritage conservation practices, it can be a blind, amoral, and destructive force, which pushes us forward to an artificial whole, racked with tensions and contradictions. This must be tempered with another form of creativity—a clear perception of the situation as a whole, of where things are moving and how they will evolve—‘the creativity of healing and making things whole.’

Document joint

2-18.pdf

Licence

Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (BY-NC-ND)