St Peter’s Seminary in Cardross, Scotland: Engagement, Representation, and Conservation

St Peter’s Seminary in Cardross, Scotland, was designed by Isi Metzstein and Andy MacMillan for the architectural firm in 1953 (built 1961–1966, completed 1968) in the Modern Movement style, for the diocese of Glasgow; its closure in 1980 marked the beginning of an unstoppable process of ruination. This chapter suggests that a critical use of representation technologies – particularly digital media – and of sharing platforms, matched with current unstructured acts of engagement and appropriation of both the building and the landscape, point to a fragmentation of perceptions and a loss of unified identity. Rather than being a lamentable state of affairs, this in fact indicates a possible way forward for the seminary.