In Unclaimed Experience: Trauma, Narrative, and History, Cathy Caruth defines as traumatic our encounters not with life-threatening events but with those that cause a break in our perception of time. She explains that the memory of trauma is always fleeting, leaving connections with the time and place of traumatic occurrence fragile and obscure. Caruth's definitions shape the work of contemporary geographers who argue that trauma is fundamentally unmappable. Does trauma's relationship to space change when traumatization becomes repetitive and systematic? To explore systematic traumatization's relationship to space, I adopt Lauren Berlant's trauma definition as a crisis of ordinariness and revisit the South Wales Valleys region and its coal mining history as traumatic and contested. Using the exceptional Aberfan 1966 disaster as a starting point, I investigate a more "common" industrial crisis of the same period and explore its relationship to the industrial space by analyzing its discursive and drawing records. In this journey, sketching out the spatial qualities of the colliery's maze is crucial for understanding the crisis' occurrence, its belatedness and commemoration.

Dimitra Ntzani

Architecture and Culture

Architecture and Culture, the international award winning, peer-reviewed journal of the Architectural Humanities Research Association, investigates the relationship between architecture and the culture that shapes and is shaped by it. Whether culture is understood extensively, as shared experience of everyday life, or in terms of the rules and habits of different disciplinary practices, Architecture and Culture asks how architecture participates in and engages with it – and how both culture and architecture might be reciprocally transformed.    Architecture and Culture publishes exploratory research that is purposively imaginative, rigorously speculative, visually and verbally stimulating. From architects, artists and urban designers, film-makers, animators and poets, from historians of culture and architecture, from geographers, anthropologists and other social scientists, from thinkers and writers of all kinds, established and new, it solicits essays, critical reviews, interviews, fictional narratives in both images and words, art and building projects, and design hypotheses. Architecture and Culture aims to promote a conversation between all those who are curious about what architecture might be and what it can do.

Architecture and Culture is the internationally award-winning, peer-reviewed journal of the Architectural Humanities Research Association. It investigates the relationship between architecture and the culture that shapes and is shaped by it. Whether culture is understood broadly as the shared experience of everyday life or in terms of the rules and habits of different disciplinary practices, Architecture and Culture asks how architecture participates in and engages with culture, and how both culture and architecture might be reciprocally transformed. The journal publishes exploratory research that is purposefully imaginative, rigorously speculative, and visually and verbally stimulating. It invites contributions from architects, artists, urban designers, filmmakers, animators, poets, cultural and architectural historians, geographers, anthropologists, and other social scientists, as well as thinkers and writers of all kinds, both established and emerging. Submissions may include essays, critical reviews, interviews, fictional narratives in both images and words, art and building projects, and design hypotheses. Architecture and Culture aims to promote a conversation among all those who are curious about what architecture might be and what it can do.

《Architecture and Culture》是国际获奖的、经过同行评审的建筑人文学科研究协会期刊，探讨建筑与塑造及被其塑造的文化之间的关系。无论文化是被广泛理解为日常生活的共同体验，还是以不同学科实践的规则和习惯为基础，《Architecture and Culture》都在询问建筑如何参与并与文化互动，以及文化与建筑如何相互转变。该期刊发表的探索性研究旨在富有想象力、严谨推测，并在视觉和语言上都能引人入胜。我们欢迎来自建筑师、艺术家、城市设计师、电影制作人、动画师和诗人，以及文化和建筑历史学家、地理学家、人类学家和其他社会科学家的投稿，鼓励各类思想家和作家，无论是资深还是新锐，提交文章、评论、访谈、图文叙事、艺术和建筑项目以及设计假设。《Architecture and Culture》旨在促进所有对建筑的可能性及其作用感到好奇的人的对话。

Drysfeydd y Cymoedd: ¹ The Sub-Topographies of South Wales Valleys’ Industrial Crises

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Drysfeydd y Cymoedd: ¹ The Sub-Topographies of South Wales Valleys’ Industrial Crises