Shaping Place Identity through Interaction on the Example of the European Solidarity Centre in Gdansk

Wojciech Targowski; Piotr Czyż

doi:10.1088/1757-899x/245/4/042055

Shaping Place Identity through Interaction on the Example of the European Solidarity Centre in Gdansk

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The article presents process of shaping place identity on the example of an important for Pomerania region investment - European Solidarity Centre. The realization of the European Solidarity Centre aims to be one of the essential elements of shaping Gdańsk’s identity of space. The article is an attempt to analyse how the presence of realization gradually affects the formation of the place identity of new urban space. Analysis of this realization will allow on the one hand to verify design assumptions made by authors, on the other provides the opportunity to search for best description of still vague notion of local identity. This concept, though intuitively close to everyone still seems to elude conceptual apparatus of theory of architecture. The intention of this article is to explore the notion of identity based on the observations of the newly realized significant cultural space. This analysis approaches the concept of identity from two perspectives. The first approach draws from the concept of identity of Christian Norberg-Schulz. Here, local identity is seen as a unique set of characteristics of space. So seen the concept of place identity is a correlate of concept of personal identity. In this analysis, methods of description of personal identity were transferred to the identity of the place. In the second approach, the identity of place is understood as a unique for that place way of being in space, way to spend time and development of the sitespecific urban rituals. Such a concept of identity, draws from the concept of place of Kim Dovey. Both presented approaches seems to complement each other but they also emphasize different qualities. Meaningful elements are seen from aesthetic perspective. In this perspective, the concept of place identity is seen as a static formation. This perfectly corresponds to design determinants of historical spaces associated with the concept of cultural heritage. In the authors' opinion identity of the place is also built on the interactions that occur between users in space. The space in this approach becomes a catalyst for social contact. What is important for the user is the formation of identity through customs. This concept of place recognizes dynamic nature of space identity - as a changeable formation which is continuously co-created. Such recognition can give better understanding of identity for specific design conditions, such as gradual formation of new urban spaces.

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Wojciech Targowski dr inż. arch.
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IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering, vol.245 strony 1 - 10

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Targowski W., Czyż P..: Shaping Place Identity through Interaction on the Example of the European Solidarity Centre in Gdansk, W: IOP Conference Series: Materials Science and Engineering, vol.245, 2017, ,.

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10.1088/1757-899x/245/4/042055

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