Highlights:
- The project investigates how smokestacks and smoke function as symbolic elements in cultural narratives about industrial and post-industrial urban transformation.
- It explores the relationship between urban space, air quality, and environmental change through an eco-critical lens.
- The research analyzes representations of industrialization in cultural texts across time to understand societal and artistic responses to urban transformation.
Project description:
The project focuses on the ecological cultural narrative regarding the memory of transformation during the industrial and post-industrial eras. The goal of the research is to demonstrate how images and descriptions of smokestacks, air and smoke in cultural texts have become a source for reconstructing narratives of transformation in industrial and post-industrial periods. Using an eco-urbanist perspective, it analyzes cultural texts from different periods to show how society, citizens, and artists reacted to industrial landscapes and how attitudes toward them have evolved.
