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Embodying Peripheries
This book combines approaches from the design disciplines, humanities, and social sciences to foster interdisciplinary engagement across geographies around the identities embodied in and of peripheries. Peripheral communities bear human faces and names, necessitating specific modes of inquiry and commitments that prioritize lived human experience and cultural expression. Hence, the peripheries of this book are a question, not a given, the answers to which are contingent forms assembled around embodied identities. Peripheries are urban fringes, periphery countries in the modern world-system, Indigenous lands, occupied territories, or the peripheries of authoritative knowledge, among others. No form can exist outside historical relations of power enacted through knowledge, political structures, laws, and regulations.
Icelandic Farmhouses
Icelandic Farmhouses. Identity, Landscape and Construction (1790-1945) retraces the history of Icelandic rural architecture between the late eighteenth century and the mid-twentieth century. Through the study of Icelandic rural buildings, this book narrates a very special history of architecture: one of adaptation and tradition, scarcity of building materials and transfers of knowledge with Europe. The history of Icelandic farmhouses is intermixed with construction issues, nationalistic debates, and a quest for a much-needed modernization of the standards of living. The book aims to retrace the role of modern building techniques in the development of Icelandic rural architecture and society.
Community/architecture
Il volume raccoglie i contributi di ricerca dell'International call for papers Community/architecture promosso dal Festival dell'Architettura nell'edizione 2009-2010. Cinquantasette eterogenei contributi provenienti da diversi Paesi del mondo sul tema generale del Festival e suddivisi sulla base di tre focus tematici: Città e quartiere, Il congegno tipologico e le forme di aggregazione, Composizione architettonica e nuove tecnologie: architetture eco-virtuose. Saggi di: Pierluigi Grandinetti, Raffaele Panella, Enrico Prandi, Carlo Quintelli Contributi di ricerca di: Shun Kanda (Usa), Angelo Torricelli (Italy), Cherubino Gambardella (Italy), Pasquale Miano (Italy), Sally Harrison (Usa), Mari...
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The Spirit Of Water
This book describes a research project begun by the author in 2015 and co-authored by the chiefs of the KhoiSan peoples living in the Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality, South Africa, aided by staff and students at Nelson Mandela University. The scope of the project was to investigate methods and procedures that could help re-establish the link between the Indigenous communities and their ‘forgotten’ heritage sites due to the colonial segregations. Making use of a participatory and interdisciplinary method we explored the tangible and intangible heritage of the Eastern Cape province, with particular attention to the remains of precolonial fish traps located along the shoreline. Included also are important testimonies from the KhoiSan chiefs who, alongside the author, led the project.
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