Abstract:

This article places the ongoing struggle between disability activism and architectural preservation in a new light, by examining the creation and renovation of the Institute for Deaf- Mutes in Paris during the period when a political and social discourse of preservationism was first being constructed. This school was converted from the former Saint-Magloire seminary during the French Revolution of 1789, as disability education was nationalized and as the revolutionary government debated the fate of Old Regime edifices and symbols. While the seminary was never officially designated a “historic monument” worth conserving, the translation of this former religious site into a national deaf institute took place alongside, and intersected with, nascent debates on preservation and restoration that spanned the revolutionary and postrevolutionary eras. Through this investigation, this article recovers the principles of inclusion, democracy, and the social collective that infused the earliest conservation efforts, ultimately to counter the binary model of historical integrity versus accessibility that colors contemporary battles over preservation and the built environment.

摘要：

本文通过考察在首次构建保护主义的政治和社会话语期间巴黎聋哑研究所的创建和改造，以新的视角展示了残障人士行动主义与建筑保护之间正在进行的斗争。这所学校是在1789年法国大革命期间从前圣马格洛尔神学院改建而来的，当时残疾教育被国有化，而革命政府则在辩论旧政权的建筑物和符号的命运。虽然该神学院从未被正式指定为值得保护的“历史古迹”，但该前宗教场所被翻译成国立聋人研究所，是与革命和革命后时代有关保护和恢复的新生辩论并与之相交的。