ERC Advanced Grant · 2023
ARCHITECTURES OF COAL AND MODERN EUROPE
After centuries coalmining is ending in Europe. Few will be sorry to say goodbye to an industry that epitomises the causes and effects of climate change. But while its environmental impact is now starkly and painfully obvious, Architectures of Coal and Modern Europe (ACME) explores another side of coalmining whose legacies and residues remain in various and often unexpectedly progressive forms. It argues that, responding to the unique conditions of coalmining – underground working practices, labour struggles, economic primacy, and social and environmental degradation – architecture emerged as both site and transmitter of an intense and unprecedented level of technological and social…
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