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TU Dortmund
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Event:
Oktober 8 – November 24
Exhibition: Lonely mountain tops - Lost places in the Alps and their people
its abandoned ski resorts: Rusty masts, defective gondolas and dilapidated mountain restaurants still seem to be waiting for their visitors. Cableways slice through the forests, as do ski slopes that are [...] people affected by structural change in the Swiss mountains. In studies of ski resorts that are no longer operating, known as Lost Ski Area Projects (LSAP), human narratives are not always prominent. “Yet they [...] loneliness,” says Professor Christoph Schuck. Together with his team, he has built up a database of all ski resorts and individual valley lifts in Switzerland ever documented – over 40 percent have meanwhile …