Postindustrial landscapes have emerged along with the transformation of industrial wastelands. These abandoned lands, once deserted and unsuitable for use due to certain dangers, have become a very special landscape resource that has regained people’s attention in the postindustrial era. In people’s previous cognition, the human emotions triggered by the abandoned land should be disliked and rejected, and would only play a negative role in aesthetic activities; however, in fact, even though we have a refusal of it, it also attracts us to a certain extent, and puts us in a certain kind of emotional dilemma we are subjected to physiological instinctive disgust, and at the same time, we will feel a sense of emotion in the abandoned land. We are subjected to physical instinctive aversion, but also driven by reason to the desire to explore the things behind the aversion, and the industrial wasteland is precisely as such a unique aesthetic object that has become the focus of the transformation of postindustrial landscapes. People's cognitive transformation is firstly attributed to the change of aesthetic consciousness, when we incorporate all this into the ecological aesthetics perspective, we can better understand this type of landscape created by making the best use of the land, which is in line with the natural environment and connected with the historical lineage. This is an important reference for the construction of postindustrial landscape in China.

postindustrial landscapes; aesthetic identity; ecological aesthetics