Study on the Construction of "Memory Anchors" and Spatial Narrative Strategies of Public Art in the Transformation of Urban Industrial Heritage

Abstract

As an important carrier of urban history and culture, industrial heritage carries the city’s collective memory and witnesses the course of industrial development. Transforming old factories into cultural and creative parks has become a mainstream model of urban renewal, but problems such as homogeneity and “thousands of parks with the same appearance” are prominent. Traditional transformation models often ignore the excavation of historical context and the expression of cultural connotation, leading to memory loss and lack of spiritual identity. Taking Beijing 798 Art District, Shanghai M50 Creative Park and Shenyang Hongmei Cultural and Creative Park as research objects, this paper takes public art (sculptures, installations, murals) as the core carrier, defines the concept and value of “memory anchors”, and constructs a spatial narrative strategy system of “anchor layout—context integration—experience interaction”. This research solves the problem of homogenization in industrial heritage transformation, provides a theoretical reference for the organic combination of public art and industrial memory, and forms a replicable practical paradigm for the cultural renewal of urban industrial heritage with memory and temperature.