But now I want to share a little rant
Ive just been to a swimming pool ruin.
The pool itself was dry, with scrapes of green algae and accumulated dirt baked in the sun, poolside chairs piled up like discarded vacation mementos, and the swimmers in the colorful murals oddly detached from each other as sections of walls were already dismantled. Ive read and heard and bickered about the demolition of the Tjihampelas swimming pool for over a month then, but it was the first time that I actually saw the carnage firsthand and sat amongst the ruins.
It was an almost surreal, and for a moment I found myself fervently wishing that I had merely stepped into some off-frequency world where the pool was in ruins due to some apocalyptic debacle or other cracky things rather than simply greedy investors and sheer ignorance.
Well, but its not XD The Tjihampelas Swimming pool in the rapidly growing commercial district of Cihampelas is supposedly up for demolition to make way for a glitzy new mall or parking lot or hotel with a waterboom park or something along that line (its getting harder and harder to distinguish one blocky garish new building from another here in bandung
The majority of Bandung citizens, myself included, are not really strangers to the mowing down of heritage buildings and landscapes in the name of the citys economic growth Just a month ago, an antique shophouse in the historical shopping district of Braga was suddenly found to be demolished (the guys doing it did the dismantling from the back and insides first, so when it was found out it was pretty much too late although it was listed as a heritage building), and another antique swimming pool near my former school has already been boarded off and is just waiting to be demolished. The list goes on and on from previous demolitions, and for ones concerned with heritage conservations, its like drafting up a mounting death tally. As it probably should be for a lot of people, perhaps.
Along my dabbling about in the Heritage conservation thing, Ive been asked more than once about the actual importance of conserving heritage buildings and landscapes. Many points out that just because a majority of people on the Heritage conservation field comes from an architectural background that its merely about some sort of misguided, nostalgic-oriented, self-importance of supposedly valuable architecture disregarding such things as economic values and well economic values (what else there is, anyway
Yet I must digress. Heritage conservation is not merely some nostalgic effort to cling to the past, ignorant of current conditions. It is called heritage conservation because what were trying to conserve are not simply buildings or gardens or complexes but there are also values and cultural legacies within those places that still has a place even in this rapidly growing world. Old things has within them values handed down from the past that might do good if appreciated rather than simply shunning it for newer, shinier, and quicker things that keeps flooding us everyday.
These are times when we are growing and changing much, much quicker than we can perhaps adapt to without being rootless and rather lost. Finding and appreciating values handed down from times past might actually make us step slower, more carefully, with more appreciation and consideration to things around us. There are painstaking thoughts and incredible work ethos to be found on the sturdy walls of an old building, and value in gardens and open public spaces that might take us to contemplate nature and our surroundings more carefully, how traditional constructions represents cultural values handed down orally from elders and the generation linkages that goes through it. Its inside these things that we might take root while still facing the current world.
Heritage conservation in itself is not terribly rigid in implementation, as some might feel that conservation means keeping a building or a place in the same way as it was like, hundeds of years ago or such. But actually its a pretty flexible thing, for the cultures and values that is being kept is constantly fluctuating and interacting with newer factors. An old builidng might undergo adaptive reuse where the major physical form would be the same yet the function and usage would differ accordingly. If handled correctly, the heritage factor can actually be a major selling point for business. So well, anyone saying that an old building or place cannot give of sufficient monetary benefit is just lazy, yo
/End of rant. Sorry for whoever actually read this XD Um, so, it wont hurt to pay more attention to heritage sites around us and more awareness for those sites might help us appreciate our city more and if anything ever happens to them :3
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For comic artists or comic enthusiasts in Bandung, the Manyala Comic community is re-hosting a routine comic workshop in Tobucil (Jl. Aceh No. 56, near gor Saparua). The host changes every workshop, each with different topics, but anyone is welcome (encouraged!
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