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The working stay at the Akademie der Künste was used to continue Philipp Valentes research into the aesthetics of Industrial Culture Ruhr. The materiality and structure of industrial buildings have always attracted and inspired architects and photographers. My work attempts to explore these architectural means and specify their characteristic qualities.

It is not just a matter of identifying or preserving these structures of Industrial Culture Ruhr but of updating and translating them to the present day in a coherent way. It is about questioning capitalist development of regional structural transformation and developing bold ideas that will effect change.