ChimneyScapes: Perspectives on Rural Estonia and Industrial Heritage

The aim of the project

What is the story of the landscape when approached from the position of its infrastructure? What perspectives are developed when thinking with infrastructures? What kind of relationships are enabled through infrastructures?

The course activities will include archival work, interviews, and field visits. The participants will collect information on the technical features, construction, usage, and current status of rural industrial infrastructure. This information will then be contextualised in relation to current discussions on the condition of social life in the Estonian countryside. We will examine, for instance, the discourses associated with rural depopulation, re-industrialisation, and local relationship to Soviet legacy. The results of this project will result in a public exhibition and an interactive map.