ISVS-8
International Seminar on Vernacular Settlements
Conversations with the Sea:
People, Places and Ideas of Maritime Vernacular Settlements
October 20-22, 2016
Gowa – Makassar, Indonesia
Call for Abstracts
Sea Saw
In many parts of the world, conceptions of national ideologies are often expressed in relation to a homeland, while in some others, they are expressed in relation to maritime spaces and things. In the Asian Pacific, the geopolitical notions of place, whether in colonial, national, and post-colonial or post-national settings include the seas in more explicit and territorialized ways. Generally, people see the sea as a division but often it is also seen as a connection and thus more like an ‘aqueous land.’ Living in and around the sea, their universe includes not only land but also the sea, as far as they could navigate, use and see. In other words, sea is seen as a place and a home rather than a gap between places, whereas the islands they live in, are perceived as the centers of that universe.
Sea Watched
Through seas and oceans, ideology, modernity, technology, and cultures have spread all over the world. In the past, Western countries and their colonies sought to reach their destinies in the economic demand and supply chain through the sea. For many, sea has been a source of living, a route for commerce, a network of communication, and an arena of power contest. For much of the history, modern civilizations have been occupied by the product of seaborne diaspora. Hence, unsurprisingly, intellectuals have often sought the root of modernity in areas related to coastal cities.
Sea Speaks
Vernacular settlements of the coastal areas, built to withstand the stormy waves and the strong winds have been proven as one of the Man’s achievements of many struggles against Nature for centuries. Those settlements have many common features as well as differences, and are great aesthetic creations of unassuming communities. Built on the foundations of strong intuition and amply accumulated knowledge of the peculiarities of land, maritime vernacular settlements fit well into the environments timelessly. Expansions and conflicts have provided continuous impulses of modernization, globalization and migration affecting coastal settlements and the societies that emerged there. Vernacular settlements develop as part of the complex tension between the center and the periphery, consolidation and division that encourages the spread of capital, culture, people, ideas, and power. Yet the recent water-front developments of many coastal Asia Pacific cities attempt to deny their surrounding vernacular settlements their rightful existence of. Furthermore, the rapid spread of information and communication technology has challenged those who inhabited vernacular settlements for centuries to rethink their living environments.
‘A conversation with the sea’ is an attempt to bring together people, places and ideas, of vernacular settlements in multi, inter, and cross disciplinary discourses for a better understanding of coastal settlements and their future developments. It proposes to examine the threats and opportunities of the sea for a more inclusive and equitable habitat. It invites scholars from all disciplines to engage in a fruitful examination of the multi-faceted issues of maritime vernacular settlements. Indeed, it challenges the academics to rethink the notions of the sea, maritime architecture and maritime settlements in the light of the thematic initiations of ‘sea-saw, sea-watched and the sea speaks’.
Following thematic divisions and their possible topics are proposed.
– The Vernacular and the Idea of “Global”
– Imagining the Sea: Ideals and Reality
– The Disappearance of Coastal Vernacular Settlements and Its Challenge
– Constructing the Future of Vernacular Settlements
– Submission Requirements
Interested colleagues are invited to submit a one-page abstract not to exceed 300 words. Please do not place your name on the abstracts but rather submit an attached one-page curriculum vitae with your address and name. Abstracts and CVs must be placed within the body of the e-mail and not as an attachment. E-mail this material to seminar.isvs2016@gmail.com. Authors must specify one or two of the above sessions when submitting abstracts. Proposals for complete panels are welcome. All papers must be written and presented in English and will go through a blind peer-review process. Papers may be accepted for presentation in the conference and/or publication in the Conference Proceedings. Selected best paper will be considered for publication in ISVS e-Journal. Please visit website of ISVS.
Conference Fee
International Participants
Professional : 240 USD (early bird) / 300 USD
Student : 120 USD (early bird) / 150 USD
Indonesian Participants
Professional : Rp. 1.000.000,- (early bird) / Rp. 1.250.000,-
Student : Rp. 500.000,- (early bird) / Rp. 750.000,-
Participation fees should be transferred to :
Bank Mandiri, No.152-00-1489547-4 a.n. Nurul Jamala B.,
Swift Code BMRIIDJA
Conference Schedule
April 11, 2016 Deadline for abstracts submission
June 6, 2016 Notification of accepted abstracts
August 22, 2016 Deadline for receipt of papers submission
Sept 6, 2016 Deadline for early bird registration
Oct 20-22, 2016 Conference Dates
Conference Venue
CSA Building
Universitas Hasanuddin
Fakultas Teknik – Kampus Gowa
Jalan Poros Malino Km.6 Bontomarannu,
Gowa- Makassar, 92171
South Sulawesi, Indonesia
Contact
website : www.eng.unhas.ac.id/
email : seminar.isvs2016@gmail.com
address : Universitas Hasanuddin
Fakultas Teknik – Kampus Gowa
Jalan Poros Malino Km.6 Bontomarannu,
Gowa – Makassar, 92171, South Sulawesi, Indonesia
phone : Afifah Harisah +62-81355094970
Marly V. Patandianan +62-81242249333
Steering Committee:
Gunawan Tjahjono, Universitas Indonesia
Ranjith Dayaratne, University of Bahrain
Pratyush Shankar, Universität Bonn, Germany and the Centre for Environmental Planning and Technology Ahmedabad, India
Hasan-Uddin Khan, Roger Williams University, USA
Hifsiye Pulhan, Eastern Mediterranean University, Cyprus
Miki Desai, The Centre for Environmental Planning and Technology, Ahmedabad, India
Johannes Widodo, National University of Singapore
Lai Chee Kien, Singapore University of Technology and Design
Yandi Andri Yatmo, Universitas Indonesia
Yulia Nurliani Lukito, Universitas Indonesia
M. Nanda Widyarta, Universitas Indonesia
Ria Wikantari, Universitas Hasanuddin, Indonesia
Sutrisno Murtiyoso, LSAI Indonesia