However, being interested, as I am in cultural geography I became obsessed with the Estonian collective farm.
More about them here.
From 1944, when the Soviets illegally took over Estonia, until glorious independence in 1991, much of Estonia was covered with collective farms which looked like this:
Note the 1980's brick and state of total neglect.
Being a dissident kind of blogger, I would have been sent to one, and so I became fascinated by them and our journey (Tallin, Tartu, Parnu, Muhu island, Saremma, then Tallin) became a spot-the-collective farm experience.
All of them were nameless and fallen into total disrepair in stark contrast to the loved restored Estonian farm buildings.
Our friends in Tallin told us they were invisible parts of the landscape.
I thought, ofcourse, of South Yorkshire, of the mines and the foundries, now closed down.
I thought also, that I have moved from objects to landscapes.
I have become a cultural geographer.
This explains why Andy and Zahir and I decided to move our focus for this project from objects to houses, buildings and landscapes.
They reflect changing identities and shifting cultural and social ideologies.
PS Dr Joolz is right.
The whole world lives on Flickr.
See more on Estonian life here.
3 comments:
Hello to all in Estonia :)
So we communicate by text and blog.
BTW - there are also estonia vids on youtube.
wow Estonia looks fabulous. You could be on a tv programme Kate, promoting a place where Brits can go and buy up all the property and fill them with MFI furniture. They could have meetings at the English pub they set up ... or maybe not. Looks fabulous - As does the new website for your project. Looks really great to be involved with that. wonderful.
Actually the web site is nothing to do with me it is all Zahir but yes it is fab.
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