Dissonant Heritage and War. Conservation and Communication of a Difficult Legacy

The project Dissonant Heritage and War. Conservation and Communication of a Difficult Legacy (Co.Co.War) is conceived as a critical reflection and a systematic framework of theoretical issues and exemplary cases concerning interventions on Dissonant Heritage. The research focuses on the social, political, ethnic, and cultural processes that emerge in situations where heritage is marked by a divisive charge generated by either military or interpretative conflict, or by manipulations of the message or cultural content associated with the asset. Such dynamics lead communities to adopt attitudes of neglect or denigration, ultimately materializing in actions of abandonment, denial, rejection, transfiguration, or destruction. The project, which is in its final phase, aimed to explore innovative tools for identifying and managing this new way dissonance takes shape, by mapping situations where tensions emerge through manipulated communication, and by identifying strategies based on virtuous cases of re-signification of Dissonant Heritage. The goal is to outline targeted strategies for the preservation and communication of these architectures.