%0 Journal Article
%T Reimagining unfinished architectures: ruin perspectives between art and heritage
%A Pablo Arboleda
%J cultural geographies
%@ 1477-0881
%D 2019
%R 10.1177/1474474018815912
%X For the past five decades, hundreds of unfinished public works have been erected in Italy as the result of inconsistent planning and the presence of corruption and organised crime. A third of these constructions are located in Sicily alone, and so, in 2007, a group of artists labelled this phenomenon an architectural style: ¡®Incompiuto Siciliano¡¯. Through this creative approach, the artists¡¯ objective is to put incompletion back on the agenda by viewing it from a heritage perspective. This article reviews the different approaches that the artists have envisaged to handle unfinished public works; whether to finish them, demolish them, leave them as they are or opt for an ¡®active¡¯ arrested decay. The critical implications of these strategies are analysed in order to, ultimately, conclude that incompletion is such a vast and complex issue that it will surely have more than one single solution; but rather a combination of these four. This is important because it opens up a debate on the broad spectrum of possibilities to tackle incompletion ¨C establishing this as one of the key contemporary urban themes not only in Italy but also in those countries affected by unfinished geographies after the 2008 financial crisis
%K active arrested decay
%K critical heritage
%K demolition
%K entropy
%K modern ruins
%K unfinished architecture
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1474474018815912