Mancini FrancescoGlusac Tanja2024-03-142024-03-142023Mancini Francesco, Glusac Tanja., Fragment, Field and Frame: Reflection on Heritage, Contemporary City and its Identity. The case of Perth, WA. W: XXIX International Seminar on Urban Form. ISUF 2022 Urban Redevelopment and Revitalisation. A Multidisciplinary Perspective. 6th June – 11th September 2022, Łódź–Kraków, Kantarek A.A. (Ed.), Hanzl M. (Ed.), Figlus T. (Ed.), Musiaka Ł. (Ed.)., Lodz University of Technology Conference Proceedings No. 2554, Lodz University of Technology Press, Lodz 2023, p. 1040-1051, ISBN 978-83-67934-03-9, DOI: 10.34658/9788367934039.83.978-83-67934-03-9http://hdl.handle.net/11652/5107https://doi.org/10.34658/9788367934039.83Unlike industrial buildings which have been subject to adaptive reuse, heritage buildings have been increasingly prevented from playing an active role in the recent transformations of the contemporary city due to an excessive preoccupation with their preservation. Heritage sites in urban areas, according to modernist planning, are often defined as extended portions of territory, precincts with clear boundaries, limiting the continuity of the city in its form and experience. Exceptions to this are the centres of European cities like Rome, Paris and London which for instance all still have their historical nuclei essential for the recognition of their city’s identity. What happens when the strong historic nucleus is missing, and isolated buildings scattered across the urban landscapes are supposedly entrusted with the role of perpetuating a city's heritage and associated identity, as is the case in Perth, Western Australia? This paper argues that to date urban design has not conceived of itself as a frame that recombines heritage fragments in an urban field by re-establishing successful habitus (Bourdieu [in:] Glusac 2015) – a balanced set of socially, economically, and politically conditioned systems of dispositions to let people experience a city's contemporary and former past. We propose to consider heritage as defined through Aldo Rossi’s concepts of urban form being both 'the locus of the collective memory (1982:130) and the most representative tangible artefact of such memory as a way of responding to the pervasive loss of contemporary cities’ identity. A loss that, according to Richard Sennett, is due to recent changes in urban modes of production and living which let the individual, social, and cultural identity of a post-colonial city inhabitant’s psyche diminish, making any connections between heritage and identity in places like Perth difficult. We further argue that from the perspective of contemporary development of global and specifically post-colonial cities, both individual, social, and urban identities are indispensable requisites for culturally sustainable cities. The case study of Perth’s Cultural Centre precinct evolution via the recently completed Boola Bardip Western Australian Museum helps with demonstrating that the preservation and recognition of heritage through a carefully integrated manipulation of existing and new built forms is essential in enabling multicultural social relations through the acknowledgment of indigenous and non-indigenous cultures by means of their urban re-signification.enDla wszystkich w zakresie dozwolonego użytkuFair use conditionurban identityurban formheritagecollective memorypost-fordismtożsamość miejskaforma urbanistycznadziedzictwopamięć zbiorowapost-fordyzmkonferencja - rozdziałLicencja PŁLUT License10.34658/9788367934039.83