Storicità e riqualificazione del Patrimonio pubblico dismesso. Il caso dell’architettura industriale spagnola

The industrial Heritage represents a large part of 20th-century buildings all over the world, whose fate, however, is almost uncertain due to their obsolete functions in an almost completely changed scenery. It is, therefore, of primary importance to begin an evaluation-methodological reflection on how these buildings fit into the landscape transformation processes, and on how to rethink their reuse or repositioning in the territorial context to which they belong. A project repositioning that reverses the regression, historically determined, from place to not-place, leveraging a recognized historical value that is at the same time an added value to the territory and, therefore, also cultural, economic and social. This contribution, focusing on the Spanish context, deals with the birth and evolution of Industrial Archaeology, the events that determined the transformation of these places into not-places and the gradual process that today sees these disused spaces as Heritage to be recovered and revived as traces of a past that isn’t only architectural, but historical, cultural and social.