Solutions and problems of industrial heritage Seed memory

In this episode of Seed Memory, we hear from Kavya Venkatraman and Tamara van Kessel, assistant professor in the Department of Art and Cultural Studies at the University of Amsterdam, about the different things that might make up heritage, showing how broad the idea of heritage can be. We then hear from De Ceuvel, a sustainable community hub in Amsterdam-Noord in a former shipyard, exploring how they are re-valorising industrial heritage sites by dealing with their toxic legacies, restoring them to possible economic value (for building and living) in connection with the area’s identity(s), as well as speaking with Steven High, an industrial heritage historian from the university of Montreal, about a wider look at the issue of re-use of industrial heritage. This includes the emotional response that working-class communities associated with industrial sites feel about how deindustrialised sites exist in the present.
Credits: Seed Memory is created by Harry Reddick for Waag. This episode includes the help of Kavya Venkatraman, Tamara van Kessel, Tycho Hellinga, De Ceuvel, Steven High and Instituut voor Beeld & Geluid. Amsterdam-Noord Buiksloterham is one of the pilot areas of the Centrinno project. Music by: Anton Pearson and Lewis Shields.