Chernobyl as a space of tourist practices in the field of ‚Dark Tourism‘ and ‚Heritage Tourism‘
Some reflections on Darmon Richter’s approach in ‚Chernobyl: A Stalker’s Guide‘ The Chernobyl disaster The Chernobyl nuclear disaster occurred on April 26, 1986, in reactor block 4 of the Chernobyl nuclear power plant near the city of Prypyat. It was the first event to be classified in the highest category of ‚catastrophic accident‘ (INES 7)…
The Damascus Room and the Staging of the ‚Oriental Other‘ in the Dresden State Art Collections
How the ‚Damascus Room‘ came to Dresden The so-called Damascus Room, exhibited in the Ethnological Museum of Dresden (Germany), was bought in 1899 by Karl Ernst Osthaus, the founder of the Museum Folkwang, now in Essen (Germany), after one of his journeys. Osthaus was one of the most important German art patrons and art collectors…
The Production of the ‚Self‘ and the ‚Other‘ in the Spaces of Museum Cultures
Museums are spaces within which the outside world is presented. These representations are productions of the other or foreign in so far as we imagine, with the help of the exhibited, what the temporally or spatially distant looks or has looked like.
Nazi Party Rally Grounds
THE ARCHITECTURAL LEGACY OF NATIONAL SOCIALISM AS A PALIMPSEST
A praxeological search for traces in the built space
Stefan Applis | Spaces, Places & Practices 