Vizita in comunitate: manifestari ale patrimoniului industrial intangibil din Anina

During the last edition of the cultural project “Anina, Mine of Ideas” (2018), the coordinators focused on the more complex issue of how to record and narrate the intangible aspects of the industrial heritage from Anina (Romania), already approached and studied in its tangible manifestations during the previous editions of the project (2014 – 2017). Questions such as: “How to give voice to the post-industrial community?”, “How to record the intangible aspects of the industrial heritage?" or “How to use the local memory in the further on territorial revitalization strategies?” became main guidelines in the field research and cultural events organized at Anina during 2018. Thus, it was initiated an interdisciplinary study of the local community with the main purpose of identifying the current significance of the post-industrial spaces and places. To this was associated a wider photographic recording activity that tried to fix in time and space the members of the community that participated in the study. The current publication illustrate the method used in this tentative of memory recording from Anina that brought together a solid know-how exchange between the field of cultural heritage studies, anthropology, architecture and photography. Furthermore, the publication presents the conclusions of the field research, stressing and illustrating through photography the intangible aspects considered sensitive and strategic in the further on cultural heritage enhancement initiatives (locally and regionally).