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#Abandoned school how to#
It can be argued that few things have greater impact on our development and personality, our understanding of the world around us and how to interpret it, than our experience of the classroom and schoolyard. In Portuguese, the word Saudaderepresents this feeling an emotional state of longing for an absent something-“the love that remains.”
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And nostalgia is even trickier still a wistful desire in thought or in fact, for a former time in one’s life. It can be continually stretched, coveted, erased and manipulated by the environment and circumstances from which it is recalled taking on greater or lesser significance that is determined by the interpretation of those who recollect in the present. Memory is dynamic and fluid-a pulsing living thing. A sheep roams Bunnadden National School in County Sligo. In a sense, I am not just exploring a physical landscape, but a cognitive landscape where my memory of these places as everlasting is now clearly wrong. A familiar environment that has fallen into decay can be both unsettling and intriguing, inspiring fascination and fear as a tangible reminder of the scale of your own lifetime.īut in the school houses I visit, it is the bizarre and sometimes false sense of nostalgia that is most striking how my concept of time is warped as I am surrounded by a familiar man-made environment that is being quickly reclaimed by the earth. I guess the big question is why? Contemporary ruins can provoke an unusual emotional response that is difficult to define. I don’t think it’s become an obsession, but I have visited almost 150 abandoned school houses in the past 12 months. I have no real explanation for why I began doing this it began by accident while undertaking some field work during my nine-to-five as an archaeologist.
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Due to a long-term tradition of emigration, and changing demographics, there are a surprising number of derelict school houses scattered around the Irish countryside. On most weekends for the past year I have been visiting abandoned elementary schools in rural Ireland.