emergent ecologies during the post-socialist period. The open-ended, eclectic and hard-to-
define nature of such sites resists the common interpretations in terms of (industrial)
heritage, nature, creative industries or speculative real estate development. Consequently,
such postindustrial ecologies should be approached in a non-teleological way: neither as
sanitized ruins, nor as fetishised nature, but as provisional ex-industrial materialities …