Adaptive Re-uses and Re-significations in Places of Alterity. The Case of a Middle-Range City in Northern Greece
Adaptive Re-uses and Re-significations in Places of Alterity. The Case of a Middle-Range City in Northern Greece

Summary/Abstract: The experience of modernity has radically changed the way the social sciences comprehend and translate the past. Since the requested objective is no longer a proof of repetition and thus a lineal continuation, the new perspectives are indifferent to identify indications in order to verify the stability or to consolidate spatial correlations. Having been a testimony of social memory, these indications now form a field of contradistinction, as the material representation of memory is open in alternative and conflicting readings and uses. This paper studies the multiply articulated and transformed space that includes and attributes different and often contrasting significances to agencies, behaviours and actions: the re-occupation of an old hospital constitutes an example of a space where the memory is being vindicated by different agencies, groups, and authorities who adopt prepositional actions in order to assert the localization, which is, in similar manner, culturally composed. The principal goal was the investigation of the subject’s experienced practice; anticipating that the – often – invisible individual who is activated in this space would be able to narrate his own story, recall his own memories, or attribute his own meaning, revealing a relationship “from below” between the city and the memory.

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