1st Edition
Assembling the Archipelago: Heritage in Energy Transitions and Climate Action
1. Thinking with islands 2. Narratives and materialities of sustainability on Ameland 3. Troubles with wind and landscape consciousness on Tinos 4. A common world: legacies of community and commons in Shetland 5. In the shadow of the volcanoes: action and inaction in the Aeolian islands 6. Acting with islands
Biography
Marilena Mela is Assistant Professor in Heritage Studies at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, where she earned her PhD as part of the European Marie Curie-funded project Heriland. She also holds MSCs in Architecture and Architectural Theory from the National Technical University of Athens. Her research focuses on the intersection of heritage, sustainability, landscape, and climate, exploring situated links between inherited pasts and imagined futures in the face of socioenvironmental crises. She teaches courses on heritage, history, design, landscape, and urbanism. She also collaborates with the award-winning collective Boulouki whose work centres on traditional building practices and local knowledge within Greek landscapes.
Using strategically chosen cases from four islands, within four archipelagoes, within four European seas, this book brilliantly shows that such islands aren't reducible to an isolated location on the periphery of the mainland. They are rather places core to the recovery of the heritage of European cultural and environmental sustainability.
Kenneth Olwig, Landscape Architecture, Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
