Feucht, K 2025, 'Perception as a key for post-industrial design', in S Knutsson, AB Fourie & M Tibbett (eds), Mine Closure 2025: Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Mine Closure, Australian Centre for Geomechanics, Perth, https://doi.org/10.36487/ACG_repo/2515_0.02
(https://papers.acg.uwa.edu.au/p/2515_0.02_Feucht/)
Abstract: The development of the hidden potentials of post-mining landscapes and industrial legacies requires a focus on perception. The question is, “How do we perceive the potentials of what is left by industry, and how can we design an emptied space as a former mine for an as-yet-empty future?”. For this purpose, the method of the Perception Workshop® provides an innovative instrument for the discovery of the value and for the development of adequate and sustainable concepts of (re)design and (re)utilisation of post-industrial sites. The experience in the post-mining region of Lusatia in Germany, in the iron ore mine in Austria, and in the urban context of Berlin teaches that perceptiveness plays a crucial role in such complex situations and can also be helpful as a seismograph for our current and future culture of industry. This is how industrial culture takes on a meaning, as industrial ethics that adds a human, ecological, and global perspective to present economy.

Keywords: post-mining landscapes, industrial heritage, perception, potential, design, reutilisation