Overview
- Cross-disciplinary approach to the different applications, meanings and strategies of the vernacular
- Creates an entirely novel way of looking at the relationship between ancient and contemporary issues
- Cross-references practices, values and structures as appropriate to the conservation of traditions
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Table of contents (21 papers)
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Front Matter
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About this book
The aim of this book is to reflect on ''vernacularity'' and culture. It concentrates on two major domains: first it attempts to reframe our understanding of vernacularity by addressing the subject in the context of globalisation, cross-disciplinarity, and development, and second, it discusses the phenomenon of how vernacularity has been treated, used, employed, manipulated, practiced, maintained, learned, reconstructed, preserved and conserved, at the level of individual and community experience. Scholars from a wide variety of knowledge fields have participated in enriching and engaging discussions, as to how both domains can be addressed.
To expedite these aims, this book adopts the theme "Reframing the Vernacular: Politics, Semiotics, and Representation",organised around the following major sub-themes:
• Transformation in the vernacular built environment
• Vernacular architecture and representation
• The meaning of home
• Symbolic intervention and interpretation of vernacularity
• The semiotics of place
• The politics of ethnicity and settlement
• Global tourism and its impacts on vernacular settlement
• Vernacular built form and aesthetics
• Technology and construction in vernacular built forms
• Vernacular language - writing and oral traditions
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Julie Nichols lectures in architecture and sustainable design. Julie is the founder of Vernacular Knowledge Research Group [VKRG] and executive member of the Australian Research Centre for Interactive Virtual Environments.
Julie’s main research interests link the fields of digital humanities, vernacular architectural history and theorythrough drawing and representation practices. Julie’s interdisciplinary research includes:multimodal methods for post-disaster management of built cultural heritage sites; re-conceptualising vernacular architecture; theories of spatial design in Australia and Indonesia.
Julie’s first monograph, Maps and Meanings: Urban Cartography and Urban Design (2014), traces changing roles of the map in the creation of settlements in Southeast Asian and European cities in 17th& 18th centuries.
Julie received commendation for End-User Engagement in 2017 for “The Aceh Method: digitally Distributed Architectural Ethnography in Trauma Mitigation for Post-disaster Reconstruction,” and two Australian DFAT Awards for documentation of vernacular architecture.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Reframing the Vernacular: Politics, Semiotics, and Representation
Editors: Gusti Ayu Made Suartika, Julie Nichols
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-22448-6
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-22447-9Published: 31 October 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-22450-9Published: 31 October 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-22448-6Published: 29 October 2019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 271
Number of Illustrations: 19 b/w illustrations, 120 illustrations in colour
Topics: Cultural Heritage, Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning, Building Construction and Design, Cultural Geography, Environmental Sociology, Semiotics