Master’s Thesis 2017 by Amal Ashur. Graduated summer 2017 from Aarhus School of Architecture, Studio Transformation of Cultural Heritage
This Master’s Thesis is a narrative of a silent history of slavery and heavy sugar production on the plantations through an active use of the symbolic sugar mills on St. Croix, USVI.
Thematics such as identity, slavery and apology has flared up in connection to the centennial of the selling of the Virgin Islands. 100 years ago, 31st of March 1917, Denmark sold the Islands to United States of America (USA) and there has been a great awareness towards the history and the lost ties between Denmark and US Virgin Islands. This is an exploration of a history that has left iconic ruinous stone mills that, for better or worse, has become the symbol of St. Croix, USVI. Is it possible to make a new and active use of the former sugar mills with the brutal history in mind?
