Arboleda, PabloRosa, Brian2023-11-022023-11-022024Arboleda P, Rosa B. 'But what’s wrong with ruin?' Traversing inevitable loss in industrial heritage. Cultural Geographies. 2024 Apr;31(2):283-90. DOI: 10.1177/147447402311915291474-4740http://hdl.handle.net/10230/58201An architect and a cultural geographer meet to visit a vast industrial complex in southern Spain that was gradually abandoned between 1962 and 2012. Despite being formally designated as protected heritage, the practical absence of material intervention, historical interpretation, or control of access turns the act of walking through these ruins into a highly immersive, sensorial, and reflective experience. Drawing from fieldnotes and photo-documentation, this contribution is a creative praise that empirically broadens the generative potential of preserving-by-not-preserving, a novel heritage approach recently tackled in cultural geography literature.application/pdfengArboleda P, Rosa B. 'But what’s wrong with ruin?' Traversing inevitable loss in industrial heritage, Cultural Geographies (volume 31 and issue 2). Copyright © 2023 SAGE Publications. DOI: 10.1177/14744740231191.info:eu-repo/semantics/articlehttp://dx.doi.org/10.1177/14744740231191529Industrial ruinsHeritage lossSensory walkingField notesPhotographyCreative writinginfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess