patina

Digital artifacts are by their nature sharp, clean, crisp and do not age in the same way as physical products. In their purest construct, they lack any kind of patina, texture or surface quality. An analogy can be made with the advent of digital photography in the later part of the twentieth century. According to Christopher Nolan, for all its... See more

The patina is the element which leads to the perception of the value of something being old. The variable key to the patina is time; it only exists by passing. In accordance with the affirmation that patina is a dynamic process, because when it is removed it can regenerate itself, it is essential that urban revitalization and rehabilitation actions... See more

Before endeavoring to answer these questions, it is important to understand that patina of the city is associated with two factors: permanence and transformation. The dynamics given by the passage of time and by human intervention may favor either permanence or produce the transformation of the places. Permanence is understood as being the... See more

The concept of place, by aggregating this historical dimension produced by the superimposing and juxtaposing of the social relationships in it and developed with it, ends up being an inherent part of the discussions of patina of the city. Heath (2001) has already pointed to a relation between patina and place by conceptualizing it as a gradual... See more

The understanding of artificial patina as a practice which seeks to reproduce the effect caused by the action of time has been appropriated by “an industry of patina kitsch ”, which proceeds to ensure “these symbolic values are ‘glued’ onto objects in the cheapest way possible”, this being the reason why it is said patina should be applied or a... See more