Cover Routledge Handbook of Dark Events - black with white line drawing of dancing skeletons

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colleagues who have chapters in this new 📖 #BookSky #DarkHeritage #DarkTourism #DeathStudies #Heritage #HelenFrisby @drdan.bsky.social @deathandculture.bsky.social 👏

Born from alpine folklore and pagan winter solstice rites, the #krampus embody the shadow that walks beside the light. Not demons for spectacle, but living memory of european tradition, fear, and ritual. #folklore #krampuslauf #winterrites #darkheritage

Architect chosen for Grenfell Tower memorial A team led by up-and-coming practice Freehaus has been selected to co-develop the proposed Grenfell Tower memorial, working with the bereaved and survivor families of the 2017 tragedy

#DarkHeritage News

Community focussed practice Freehaus will lead the project to design a memorial to the 72 people who died in the Grenfell Tower fire and the communities effected.

The proposed design is expected to be presented in 2027, the 10th anniversary of the notoriously avoidable disaster.

Titan submersible imploded due to poor engineering, say US officials The submersible disappeared from sensors on its journey to the wreck of the Titanic, killing all five people on board.

#DarkHeritage Tourism News

US NTSB report finds poor engineering doomed OceanGate's Titan submersible and loose international.voluntary guidance and inadequate US rules for small passenger vessels doomed its passengers, enabling OceanGate to represent paying passengers as "Mission Specialists".

In the latest #WatchingBrief, #DarkHeritage, #DarkTourism and #Archaeology as @mrsoup.bsky.social and @andybrockman.bsky.social look at the most recent avoidable tragedy involving the world's most famous shipwreck #Titanic, the loss of the #Titan submersible.
#archaeologynews #watchingbrief #titanic

Grenfell memorial winner announcement is delayed The naming of a winner for the Grenfell Tower memorial design contest has slipped back, while, separately, the government has set out details of the tower’s deconstruction

#DarkHeritage & #Memorialisation News

The announcement of the winning design in the RIBA organised competition to design a Grenfell Tower memorial has been delayed and could now come as late as November.

Wie umgehen mit dunklem/schwierigem Erbe? Dazu ein paar Gedanken in einem kürzlich veröffentlichten Interview.
Abrufbar hier:

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New Plaque Appears on Colston Plinth Edward Colston’s statue was pulled down in a Bristol protest five years ago. The act, and its implications and consequences, are still debated today

Another #DarkHeritage Story

It is five years since the statue of slave trader Sir Edward Colston was pulled from his plinth and dunked in Bristol harbour.

Now, after decades of campaigning, there is a new plaque on the statue's empty plinth explaining why.

Demolition contractor to take down Grenfell tower under £12m deal Work set to take two years to complete

#DarkHeritage News

With permanent memoriaisation undecided and currently a constant reminder on London's skyline of one of the most egregious, avoidable tragedies in UK public housing, it will take two years and cost £12.25m, to deconstruct Grenfell Tower under a contract announced by GOVUK.

How to handle #DarkHeritage? - First reaction towards #UnwantedMonuments usually is ... to get rid of them.

Due to its history, there are a number of such examples in #Germany.

Here‘s, however, an interesting approach from #Hamburg: Preservation - with additional #context.