Bring anina to the surface: The intangible aspects of industrial heritage in anina between experiment and reality

The present article approaches the issue of intangible heritage within a ter-ritory found in an identity, economic, and sociocultural transition, as it is the specific case of Anina Town. Known for its heritage value before the closure of the mine in 2007, Anina shows a certain social inertia to change, with direct impact on built envi-ronment abandonment, deterioration, and disappearance. The team of the “Anina Mine of Ideas” cultural project implement-ed a multidisciplinary explorative method-ology trying to map the collective memory from the perspective of experiences cumu-lated in relation with the industrial Anina (of the past) and the post-industrial Ani-na (of the present), with a view to finding instruments for stimulating the local community in the process of acknowledging its own heritage values and of redefining a post-industrial identity.