Processes of signification in the conservation of industrial landscape: Zona Fundición Aguascalientes

Authors

  • Alba Mariana Díaz Márquez Estudiante del Programa de Maestría de Ciencias y Artes para el Diseño en la UAM-X
  • Diana Elena Barcelata Eguiarte DOCENTE
  • Juana Martínez Reséndiz Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana-X https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9269-8607

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.56039/rgn20a09

Keywords:

Key words: cultural heritage, industrial landscape, significance, urban imagination

Abstract

This paper presents the main findings of ongoing research concerning the dialog among industrial heritage and landscape, territorial configuration, memory, and identity as part of the construction of significance of the community living in the vicinity of the Aguascalientes Foundry Area (Zona Fundición Aguascalientes). The issue is addressed from the viewpoint of Braudel’s (1991) scenarios that have emerged along the history of the city of Aguascalientes, which have also brought about transformations in the industrial landscape, as part of the cultural heritage at risk due to neglect. The paper focuses on the 19th Century, during the expansion of industrialization, and the implications of Mexico’s development. Particularly in the state of Aguascalientes, the Gran Fundición Central Mexicana (GFCM) was a leading driver of this process. With the collapse of mining in the Bajío area, the GFCM closed in 1925, transforming a zone that promised to be prosperous into a toxic industrial waste site. These changes had serious effects, both on the ecosystem of the San Pedro River, on urban morphology, and on its significance in urban imagination that the vestiges of the metallurgic complex encompass. Preliminary results present the processes of signification of this industrial landscape through narrations contributed by social subjects around identity construction in urban imagination, as well as the formation of social groups that advocate for an administration that draws attention to their decision-making rights in processes of intervention aimed at recovering and preserving this landscape.

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Author Biographies

  • Alba Mariana Díaz Márquez, Estudiante del Programa de Maestría de Ciencias y Artes para el Diseño en la UAM-X

    CURSA ACTRUALMENTE EL MÓSULO III  MAESTRÍA EN CYAD.  EN LA UAM-X

    Mi trabajo comprende el diseño interior, el patrimonio y la cultura comunitaria.
    He participado en proyectos de conservación de bienes patrimoniales inmuebles en el Centro Histórico
    de la Ciudad de Aguascalientes y su rehabilitación.
    Fui becaria CONACYT en el plan de estudios de la Especialización en Diseño, Conservación y
    Planificación de Paisajes y Jardines en la UniversidadAutónoma Metropolitana unidad Azcapotzalco .
    Actualmente me desarrollo profesionalmente comointeriorista; soy tallerista en el programa de JóvenesConstruyendo el Futuro en el Centro de RehabilitaciónJuvenil del Estado de Aguascalientes y como proyectopersonal en la formación del programa de infraestructura autogestiva de cultura comunitaria.
    para Artistas con Diversidad Funcional.

  • Juana Martínez Reséndiz, Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana-X

    Profesora Investigadora UAM-Xochimilco

Published

2023-03-31

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How to Cite

Processes of signification in the conservation of industrial landscape: Zona Fundición Aguascalientes. (2023). Gremium, 10(20), 95-112. https://doi.org/10.56039/rgn20a09

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