Vernacular Approach Research Articles

Wildlife in Vernacular as a Means for an Inclusive Environmental Sector and Community Engagement in South Africa

ABSTRACT South Africa has contrasts between integrative environmental law and pre-democratic social exclusion in the environmental sector. Communicating wildlife in vernacular, sharing wildlife knowledge in vernacular languages and consideration of wildlife according to vernacular contexts, contributes to inclusive environmental management. This wildlife in vernacular approach is based on seven years of mixed methods research which culminates in this paper on reflections of the possibilities attendant to communicating wildlife in vernacular languages. Firstly, community-level research and knowledge-sharing sessions resulted in the creation of an IsiZulu language field guide for frogs compiled specifically for the Zululand community. Subsequently, online surveys, conversational interviews, literature reviews, and DNA barcoding were used to expand on the studies of Indigenous cultural perspectives on herptiles (frogs and reptiles). Through this work, perspectives that are generally excluded from environmental decision making are revealed and capacity building for environmental management becomes linguistically accessible. This article discusses the untapped potential of often overlooked wildlife (frogs and reptiles) in marginalized vernacular languages and ways to achieve the largely unrealized environmental policy ambitions of being inclusive of all forms of knowledge, considerate of all perceptions of wildlife and affording everyone an opportunity to participate in environmental management regardless of their socioeconomic background. KEY POLICY HIGHLIGHTS Marginalized Indigenous cultural perspectives have conservation value. South African legislation provides for inclusion of cultural practices in environmental management. Communicating wildlife in vernacular increases social inclusion and community engagement in environmental management.

Vernacular urbanism in Central Asia

The article gives the definitions of such concepts as vernacular city, vernacular urbanism and vernacular approach in the study of the origin and development of the historic city. It considers the problems arising in urban settlements as a result of unrestrained spontaneous growth. The impact of uncontrolled multiplication of development of urban peripheries affects the functioning of the whole urban organism. The problems of spontaneous horizontal growth of the city’s territory are considered on the example of Bishkek, the capital of Kyrgyzstan.

“Lost in Translation”: How Colonialism Shaped Modern Sikh Identity

This article traces the interactions and influence of colonialism on Sikh identity. The specific focus will be between 1870-1920, when Sikh identity was reforming under the Singh Sabha movements. Arguing the “World Religion” understanding of “Sikhism” is a de-political, private, and colonial construct. Focusing on decolonisation of thought and advocating the understanding of Sikhi as a religious-political (Miri/Piri), decolonial, lived identity. This is done through tracing colonial scholarship, Sikh scholarship, and theories and understandings in Religious Studies. Tracing how colonialism affects Sikh identity through primary research focusing on the effects of texts, translations, ideas, language, and understandings from the colonial era and the issues that has for the Sikh diaspora. Arguing the translations of Sikh scriptures by Ernest Trumpp (1877) was catastrophic for understanding Sikh identity. It argues the needed reaction to the defamatory comments made by Ernest Trumpp has led to the modern formation of “Sikhism” in line with the Protestant model of religion. This idea of “Sikhism” is detrimental to Sikh identity as it separates the boundaries between religion and the secular. This article advocates use of a vernacular approach to the study of religion to advocate for decolonisation of Religious Studies through qualitative methods of research, investigating the effects of colonial language and texts of Sikh scriptures has on the Sikh diaspora. Calling for a process of decolonisation through presenting the affects the colonial period has on Sikh religion.

Exhibition, Marketplace, and Handicraft Development Building in Jepara Regency with Neo- Vernacular Approach

Jepara is known as the city of woodcarving. This reputation is attributed to the success of Jepara's carved furniture products in entering the international and global markets. In addition to woodcarving crafts, Jepara also produces various other crafts. The types of crafts in Jepara are diverse, including pottery, calligraphy, furniture, metalwork, sculptures, rattan weaving, batik, and woven textiles. These various crafts are concentrated in different areas within Jepara Regency. However, in its development, the number of craft practitioners in Jepara has decreased due to the development of several industrial areas in the regency, leading people to prefer working as factory employees rather than craftsmen. Therefore, efforts need to be made to preserve the crafts in Jepara as cultural heritage and potential for improving the community's economy in the creative industry sector. In this regard, the proposed solution is to establish an Exhibition, Marketplace, and Handicraft Development Building to preserve the crafts in Jepara as cultural heritage and economic potential in the creative industry sector.
 The Exhibition, Marketplace, and Handicraft Development Building can serve as educational facilities
 and economic activities related to crafts in Jepara Regency

North Sumatera Cultural Center with Neo Vernacular Approach

The interest of young generation towards traditional arts especially in North Sumatera is fairly low. This is affected by the globalization of medias and the lack of attention the government give for arts and culture despite the fact that this sector can bring more visitors to North Sumatera since the area are famous for their multi-cultural nature. Therefore it is required for North Sumatera to have a proper platform for the youth to better and prosper North Sumatera’s culture such as a Cultural Center. This cultural center can help to accommodate people needs for Art and Cultural platform. The location for this project is located at the old building of ‘Taman Budaya Sumatera Utara”. Qualitative methods are used in this research including collecting literature studies and buildings as a reference. Located in North Sumatera, a multi-ethnic province, the design of this building will focus on aspects of culture that can be applied in the design using the approach of Neo Vernacular Architecture. Having multi-cultural citizens, using neo vernacular architecture can be a way for architect to connect new art and old art. This building will be a new landmark for North Sumatera to describe it’s beautiful and rich cultures while also providing any needed facilities for arts and culture activities.

Konsep Desain Perpustakaan Umum Kota Sukabumi dengan Pendekatan Arsitektur Sunda

This research raised the design of the Library Building in Sukabumi City with a Sundanese Architecture approach. This Library Building has a function as an educational space that can increase public literacy interest, accommodate learning activities to find information and recreation for the community. The architectural design concept of this library refers to the locus design approach with traditional Sundanese architecture. The research method used is an exploratory qualitative method in order to get shape in architectural design. From the results of the discussion of the architectural design of the Sukabumi City Public Library building in accordance with the Neo Vernacular approach which applies the concept of mass composition of the Kasepuhan Ciptagelar Cisolok traditional settlement, starting from the foundation of Sundanese architectural cosmology.

Mualla Eyüboğlu’s Work in Village Institutes: A Hands-On Approach to National Architecture in 1940s Turkey

Turkish architect Mualla Eyüboğlu’s career started at the Village Institutes, which were established in the early Republican period (1923–present) to meet Anatolian villages’ needs for modern educational development through hands-on training. As the head and instructor of the Construction Section in the Hasanoğlan Village Institute in 1942, Eyüboğlu worked all over Anatolia, thereby taking part in the construction of modern Turkey. Eyüboğlu’s role as a tutor, designer, and construction supervisor at these Village Institutes was closely linked to broader discussions of national architecture. Since records on this period’s construction processes are rare, this article considers Eyüboğlu’s pedagogical practice, vernacular approach, and criticism of national architecture in the 1940s through the use of Eyüboğlu’s diaries, professional and personal notes, and original drawings from her personal archive. We argue that, despite her position within the Turkish architectural intelligentsia, Eyüboğlu’s experiences with the difficult realities of rural sites led her to question formal training. She did this through her criticism of contemporary architectural and construction practices, which she felt were detached from the concerns and conditions of the villages. Through a hands-on approach to the construction of the Village Institutes, Eyüboğlu believed that national architecture could embrace the needs of people within their geographical and social contexts, as well as regional technological possibilities.

Emergency: A Vernacular Contextual Approach

Abstract Security scholars have traditionally viewed emergency as a state of exception that triggers a struggle for survival, justifying the breaking of rules and excesses of state power. While there have been attempts to decouple security from its survivalist logic, emergency has remained an analytical blind spot in security studies. The dominance of an elite-centric, exceptionalist paradigm in the study of emergency has foreclosed the possibility of alternative conceptions of emergency and neglected the voices of structurally disempowered agents. This paper advances a vernacular contextual research agenda that is sensitive to the empirical diversity of emergency meanings and practices while foregrounding emergency claims made by non-elite actors. Challenging the idea of emergency as a form of “anti-politics,” the paper contends that emergency should be understood as an intrinsic part of politics. It then recovers an alternative, “emancipatory” conception of emergency as an extraordinary moment of spontaneous beginnings that can activate the collective agency of marginalized actors. The final section establishes conceptual foundations for actor-centered, grounded empirical research into emergency politics and suggests avenues for future research. Contextualizing emergency and attuning to the voices and experiences of everyday actors are crucial to remove the key variable that ties security to the logic of survival and exception.

Soulcraft: Theorizing Black Techne in African and American Viral Dance

This article proposes the notion of soulcraft as an alternative framing for the work that Africans and African diasporans imbue upon material culture and social projects. Through ethnographic encounters with the practitioners of Chicago Footwork and Afrobeats dance music, the author theorizes a Black vernacular approach to the concept of techne. This essay contributes to discourse in the philosophy of technology to document spirituality in viral dance practices and forms of digital embodiment, linking them to metaphysical understandings of “soul” in African and African American philosophical thought. Interviews and critical analysis of digital media help the author illustrate the ways that these African and diasporic media innovators elide the dualistic distinctions between material tech-making and spiritual strivings, in service of an emancipatory ethos for technology.

Adaptive reuse of old houses as coffee shop: Environmental and spatial aspects

Adaptive reuse is a transformation carried out on buildings to provide new functions both from aesthetic and functional aspects. For decades, adaptive reuse has been a panacea for bridging the conservation and current needs for development. In addition, adaptive reuse has been considered an environmentally friendly approach to architectural conservation practices regarding the reuse of building materials and spaces. Besides government-imposed conservation, the community initiated to conserve everyday buildings by spontaneously and informally reusing and adapting various types of buildings known as a vernacular adaptive reuse. This study examines this vernacular approach by analyzing the process and changes that occur because of its application. The case study examined three residential houses that were built in the late 1960s and have been transformed into coffee shops. A research method is an approach through interviews with coffee shop business owners and local government, site observations on the surrounding area of old houses, building measurements, as well as literature studies related to adaptive reuse. The results showed that the process of the vernacular adaptive reuse approach was carried out by the business owners in a creative and pragmatic way with minimal cost and without expert’s involvement. Its application has positive impacts on the surrounding environment, such as social and economic activities, and it reduces environmental impacts by reusing abandoned buildings. In the spatial aspect, the old houses are regenerated by using a new spatial organization that still utilizes some of the spatial organization from the previous function.

Pengaruh Citra Merek Dan Electronic Word Of Mouth Terhadap Minat Beli Produk Kecantikan Wardah

This research aims to find out how big the brand image and Electronic Word Of Mouth affect the buying interest in Wardah beauty products. The study used a descriptive and vernacular approach to sampling techniques using Nonprobability Sampling with respondents amounting to 135. Data were analyzed using path analysis with SPSS version 26. The result of the relationship between brand image and electronic word of mouth has a correlation coefficient of 0.498 and has a medium and direct relationship level due to positive values, the partial effect of brand image on buying interest is 24.7%, indicating that brand image has a positive influence with buying interest, the partial effect of electronic word of mouth on buying interest is 18.2%. It shows that electronic word of mouth on buying interest has a positive effect, the simultaneous effect of brand image and electronic word of mouth on buying interest amounted to 43.1%. This shows that the variable brand image and electronic word of mouth have a strong enough influence on buying interest Wardah beauty products. But there are still other variable factors not examined around 56.9%
 Keywords : Brand Image, Electronic Word of Mouth, Buying Interest.

Africas of the Mind: From Indigenous Medicine to Environmental Psychoanalysis

Africas of the MindFrom Indigenous Medicine to Environmental Psychoanalysis Brendon Nicholls (bio) In Africa, some say, no one ever truly dies.1 Where organisms end, the ancestors begin.2 Infant ogbanje return from the dead, plaguing grief.3 Human and animal blur nightly in therianthropic and anthropomorphic crossings.4 In Africa, the subject is endlessly mutable. In this sense, the curative impulses in psychoanalysis and in Western medicine evolve within a benevolent myopia. How do you diagnose a subject who morphs between creatures or life-states? How do you cure someone who is destined to live, regardless of what ails? And if what ails is a long history (say, slavery, or racism, or colonialism), how do you cure that? The talking cure, like justice, is always remotely articulated, and it always arrives too late. The belatedness of the talking cure, or of justice, means that its possibility is eternally present. The key precondition for its emergence is a plausible basis for dialogue. To that extent, an African psychoanalysis—a "decolonization of the mind," as it were—would need to speak in a vernacular idiom.5 My starting propositions outline—in extremity—certain conceptual limitations of Freudian theory. "Africa" in my usage is a provocation and not a descriptor. I invoke "Africa" as a ground-clearing move in order to mark—and ultimately dissolve—an internal limit within psychoanalysis. As Ross Truscott has insightfully observed, "To name Africa in the text of psychoanalysis is to begin an interminable analysis of a relation between psychoanalysis and its colonial conditions of possibility."6 Accordingly, my argument has opened with a critical ploy, mobilizing the sign "Africa" and some of its possible thought systems so as to inaugurate the project of revisionary psychoanalytic reading. My focus is, avowedly, on historically disqualified forms of subjugated knowledge—on animism, witchcraft, therianthropy, indigenous medicine—and on their lay practitioners. Where a conventional [End Page 52] anthropological approach might seek to marshal such material for reductive cultural explanation and stereotype, my postcolonial vernacular approach has an entirely different purpose. I am motivated to question a theoretical asymmetry. When Freud mobilizes Oedipus Rex, it is lauded as a universal psychology. When African communities invoke animism, witchcraft, therianthropy, the ancestors and revenants, these ways of knowing the world are disparaged as superstitious primitivism. Why, I ask, should classical European drama hold any more epistemic weight than African story? Accordingly, I seek to decolonize psychoanalysis and to submit it to nonanthropocentric critique by vernacular African thought systems. Despite all of the accompanying conceptual risks of staging that theoretical conversation, I want to test the potential that historically disqualified African thought systems might retain as environmentally inclined psychoanalytic theories. If some of their propositions remain true some of the time, then the theoretical yields are clear: it is possible to derive a psychoanalysis that does not stop at the boundaries of the body7 or the foreshortened temporalities of the lifespan—a psychoanalysis that includes the animal, the vegetable, and the environmental in its considerations. In my view, we now need an environmental psychoanalysis whose cure does not stop at the human subject. Additionally, we need a theory of mind that reckons with our perpetual placement in the fields of the political and the economic and that contemplates how we cohabit with the abiding and unrestful dead. In such a theory, questions of subject and psyche would be inseparable from history and its hauntings. Moreover, its cures would be adjoined to our embodied practices, to our lived ecologies, and to our habitual life-spaces. Psychoanalysis, at least as Freud conceived it, gestures toward such possibilities, but it finally falls short of them. In its regulatory or normative modes, psychoanalysis closes down the viability of magical categories, of aberrant dispositions, and of social disruption. In Freud's attempts to excavate the bases for perversity or deviance, he fails to see a larger racial and Imperial ancestry shaping his insights. Freud's thought is culturally bound to ethnocentric ideas about mortality and the individuated self and to anthropocentric ideas about the primacy and insularity of human categories. Further, Freud's gaze is limited by the immediate intellectual problems that he seeks to address...

Hotel Resort Paropo With Neo Vernacular Approach

Lake Toba is the largest lake in Indonesia, even in Southeast Asia. Lake Toba has excellent potential as a tourism area development in North Sumatra. On the outskirts of Lake Toba, especially Paropo, there are still many who do not have facilities for tourists, the large number of tourists who come to Paropo causes the Paropo area to need supporting facilities such as resort hotels as supporters of North Sumatra tourism development. Resort hotels are hotels located in tourist attractions, such as mountains, beaches, and lakes. The design of the Paropo resort hotel applies the Neo vernacular architectural concept. The problem with this design is "how to apply the neo vernacular architectural concept to the design of a resort hotel." The purpose of applying the concept of Neo vernacular architecture in buildings is one of the efforts so that it is inseparable from the surrounding culture and can also introduce regional culture to the tourists who come. Designing this resort hotel uses qualitative methods. This resort hotel brings the theme of Neo vernacular architecture that combines traditional Dairi/Pak-Pak architecture with modern architecture, where physical elements are applied/changed but also non-physical items such as cultural values, mindset, beliefs, layout, religion, etc. into the form of buildings and site design. The benefit of designing this resort hotel is the creation of resort hotels that can still preserve the elements of local culture with a layer of modernization and, if built, can develop the tourism area of ​​Paropo to attract tourists.

The Influence of Users’ Popular Traditions in Residential Design The Case of Mlalakuwa Settlement in Dar es Salaam City, Tanzania

It is mostly noted that the design for residential purpose is professionally considered universal, distinct and specific. The socio-economic, cultural and traditional aspects which affect the house users’ requirements and hence the residential designs seem to be considered by professionals’ standpoint as a mere user’s ignorance and lack of access to suitable designs. In this respect, the attributes of vernacular and traditional architecture are sought to unpack the intrinsic relevance to contemporary architecture of residential design within the local context. The case study has been conducted in Dar es Salaam city assessing the local residential house owners’ requirements aiming to understand the social, economic and cultural factors which impact the architecture of residential designs. The findings show that residential designs and use are dynamic and likely to transform based on the owners’ evolving socio-cultural, economic and spatial requirements which highlight the relevance of vernacular and traditional architecture. This trend raises the professional concern on the need for further interrogation of current residential architecture approach. Thus, it has been concluded that professionals perspective should opt for less control of residential requirements and emphasise the recognition of socio-economic and cultural aspects which aspire for flexibility of form, function and spatial organization and facilitate design control by the house owner. Such revelation indicate the validity of vernacular and traditional architectural approach which integrate the local knowledge, optimum utilization of resources, nature and built environment.

Application Of Neo Vernacular Architecture In Tongging Agrotourism Planning

Tongging is a village in the Lake Toba region that located in the District of Merek, Karo Regency. Tongging Village is famous for its panoramic beauty and the local potential of agriculture and fisheries. With various potentials owned by Tongging Village, a place is needed that can accommodate this potential. Tongging Agrotourism is a place to carry local potential in Tongging Village. Agrotourism is designed to attract more tourists while developing the local potential in Tongging Village. Design with Neo Vernacular Architecture approach to re-apply local cultural elements to optimize their potential. The neo vernacular architectural approach process uses transformation and modifications methods to the physical and non-physical aspects. The architectural aspect adopted as neo vernacular approach is the Karo settlement pattern, circulation, mass, and space program. Tongging Agrotourism has various facilities that support tourism activities at Tongging Village, including rice fields and fish cages, main buildings, cottages, restaurants, processing plants, and research and development areas.

The character and value of vernacular security: the case of South West Cameroon

ABSTRACTThis article reports the findings of field research into the vernacular understanding of security in South West Cameroon. It was found that security significantly contested; it is both objective and subjective; it is communal, whilst at the same time requiring individual l responsibility of personal security; it favours certainty and stability; it draws on a multiplicity of providers, and it goes beyond traditional conceptualisations. The findings make it clear that there are wide divergences between the typical state and donor driven security reform programmes, and people’s perceived security needs. The definition of security is challenged by popular understandings. In addition, though not rejecting the need for state security, it is evident that many more actors are engaged in security provision and personal safety than state actors, and that these actors need to be accounted for in reform programmes. Conclusion draw out advantages of the vernacular approach in security reform programmes.

Sensitivity in Residential Design Towards Sustainability - A Vernacular Approach

Vernacular design depicts a visual imagery of myriad layers of environmental, socio-cultural and economical ways of life. Initially, the development of Vernacular concepts originated with articulation of spaces to accommodate different forms of shelter appropriate to micro and macro climatic conditions across varied geographical locations.Later, it established an affinity for the place where the landscapes embraced these indigenous resources and practices and ensured compatibility between people, nature and human built environment. Hence, a reflexive relationship between nature and built environment which includes the necessity to create and adopt the right methodology evolved with time.Further, this pragmatic approach not only stands as an evidence to prove the positive impact it has on the environment but also holds the key to a sustainable development. An insight into diverse residential development patterns across different geographical locations in Indian subcontinent substantiates the above statement. The parameters that dictate the built form of these dwellings also contribute to the degree of design sensitivity towards the sustenance of that built form. This paper specifically analyses the factors that define the scope of residential planning across Peninsular India, North - Western regions and North -Eastern parts of India. This paper will also investigate the resilient nature of these factors which play a predominant role in the providing a conducive environment for sustainable development.

Community initiatives as a catalyst for regeneration of heritage sites: Vernacular transformation and its influence on the formal adaptive reuse practice

Over the past few decades, the adaptive reuse of buildings—transforming them to meet new functional and aesthetic needs and requirements—has become a highly specialized domain within architectural and conservation practice, and is becoming a field of scholarly study in its own right. However, in juxtaposition with this highly specialized practice, people reuse and adapt all sorts of buildings in spontaneous and informal ways in a process we call “vernacular adaptation.” This paper investigates such vernacular adaptation of built heritage, along with its specific characteristics, opportunities, and threats as well as its influence on more formal adaptive reuse practice. As methodology, we examine relevant literature to review historical and contemporary examples of vernacular adaptation and reuse. In conclusion, we present the vernacular approach as a valuable alternative to the “formal” or specialized, top-down method to managing existing built environment, especially for buildings and sites that possess compelling social value. Moreover, our study indicates that in practice, the division between the vernacular and the formal is not rigid, elaborating on the possibilities and risks of joined initiatives between local communities and private or public developers.

“Jean Barman — Vernacular Historian”

Over the past year, several excellent new publications focused on the histories of mixed-race French-Canadian communities in western Canada and the Pacific Northwest. Of these books, Jean Barman’s French Canadians, Furs and Indigenous Women in the Making of the Pacific Northwest merits special attention, because the author has successfully sought out, and integrated, vernacular voices as historical sources. And for this reason, Jean Barman is sometimes referred to as a “vernacular,” or grassroots historian. What is vernacular history? Is this genre a product of methodology or of one’s worldview? And can a vernacular approach to history help scholars navigate the increasingly politicised environment of indigenous studies? The author reflects on these questions, by sharing some of her personal experiences with Jean Barman that illustrate the complexity of the issues surrounding indigenous historical practice today.

DESIGNING COMMERCIAL COMPLEX WITH A VERNACULAR ARCHITECTURE APPROACH IN GILAN

This report deals with the importance of vernacular architecture in the development of commercial spaces by posing the question of the relationship between vernacular approach in commercial complex in architectural space and by examining and analyzing this relationship the importance and paying attention to vernacular architecture arises and the main objective of the implementation strategy for the design of commercial spaces and promoting it in a way so that is not just a mere business and included maintaining the local values and traditional products and revitalizing areas of traditional architecture. While expressing the existing general principles and rules in Gilan architecture, there will be an overview of the samples done in the area and qualitative and quantitative study compatible with background designs are to be introduced. The most important question in this article is addressing this issue i.e., why the use of vernacular and ecology-oriented architecture? And what is the importance of this issue in the design of commercial spaces? In response to these questions, the phenomenological analytical and descriptive methods used At the conclusion of the available principles found in Gilan architecture reached the principles in designing commercial spaces and suggestions of theoretical and practical approach for designing the spaces are provided and at the end of the research the questions are to be answered.