Cultural and Intangible Heritage in Post-Industrial Waterfront Zones Gdansk Shipyard 5 – 8 August 2015

My recent intervention on the former U-Boat hall sites in the shipyards. The description reads ‘U-BOATS’ ‘During the Nazi occupation U- Boats were constructed here using forced labour. 1940 – 1945’  The former Danzigerwerft shipyard became Stocznia Gdanska after WW11 and has gone through a series of demolitions since the decline of industry. There is a heavy influence of  the history of the Solidarity movement and little attention to the war period. This ‘heritage plaque’ idea is a suggestion or a proposal to what history the people of Gdansk could choose to remember on the former site. The design was inspired by the heritage plaques installed in my home port town of Leith as part of a regeneration process in 1986. Photo courtesy of Dr Waldemar Affelt

Plaque design

 

 

Heritage plaque in Leith, Scotland. 2015

 

 

Souvenir Shop, Solidarity Museum. Aug 2014

• August 17, 2015
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