"The project of the National Programme of the Development of Humanities:
“Development” 2.b entitled Post-industrial Places as the Subject of
Transdisciplinary Studies. From Design to Rootedness stems from the
need to both develop a transdisciplinary research path and to show
how a post-industrial place is practised in culture. And it is the sphere
of praxis which is the subject of this volume. A view combining perspectives
of culture theoreticians and practitioners as well as designers
is crucial in the study of phenomena related to post-industrial heritage.
For the humanities it is important to capture the moment of transition
from design issues to cultural reflection upon designed places/things/
concepts. The retreat from industrial production as “manufacturing
things” to producing and processing the ideas is marked with a trail
of technological transformation and the emerging service industry. A
departure from the planned and mass towards the individual, at least
potentially, opens us towards design practices which transform what
is unrooted, abandoned, ancient, degraded. Analyses of cities, design,
economics, social environment open to research domestication of the
explosion of design in the inherited post-industrial space. A place, no
matter how overexerted today, is still a challenge in humanistic thought." (fragm.
