Kozak, Weronika
2025.
‘Traces, glimmers, residues, and specks of things’: engaging with urban leftovers through a counter-archival project.
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10.18573/agoriad.24
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Abstract
This article starts from the premise that urban leftovers hold unique potential, as their commonplace incompleteness and vagueness can be perceived as openness and possibility. However, this potentiality is often found hard to engage with, which leads to the disappearance of these spatial fragments due to redevelopments or transformations. How could their indefinite and vague status be maintained and enhanced to inspire care and interest? This article proposes to think about urban leftovers beyond mere by-products of fragmentation and perceive them as entities brimming with innumerable possibilities and operating in relationships instead (following McFarlane, 2021: 63). To properly interact with and safeguard these spaces, a novel methodological approach is undertaken—a counter-archival project—which might highlight the potentiality and heterogeneity of urban leftovers. A counter-archive of fragments could multiply perspectives and realities, encourage various interpretations, foster numerous connections and inspire open-ended journeys.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Date Type: | Publication |
| Status: | Published |
| Subjects: | G Geography. Anthropology. Recreation > G Geography (General) |
| Publisher: | Cardiff University Press |
| ISSN: | 2976-8578 |
| Date of First Compliant Deposit: | 9 December 2025 |
| Date of Acceptance: | 11 September 2025 |
| Last Modified: | 09 Dec 2025 12:40 |
| URI: | https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/183044 |
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