Call for Papers: Architecture and Anthropology
Register/Submit Deadline: Wednesday, Oct 14, 201511:41 PMEDT
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The relationship between anthropology and architecture can be analysed in multiple situations that involve people and constructed spaces. Social relationships, the symbolism of institutions, memory of the past, the representation of policies, and the discourse of order in a community are some of the phenomena that can materialise in architecture. A cultural perspective on these relationships manifests the way in which architecture can be a symbol of the society, of its organisational structure, of the cosmos, of the collective imagination, and of the gender relationships particular to a society.(1)
Architecture and its interventions depict material culture. In each moment of history, and for each society, architecture can be interpreted and analysed as a reflex to the existing state of time and space. Moreover, it is possible to observe how architecture is transformed and adapted by the changing relationship of people with their environment. In this constructed space the elements that conform it, or that are inserted in it can behave as mediators. In other cases, however, there is an element of metamorphosis through the architecture, which reorders and reorganises the relationship with the world. To live is the action of coexisting, and the building behaves as the mediator with its surroundings.(2) In addition, peoples’ behaviour and their way of relating to a place can be affected by constructed space, which can establish limits, or open connections. Architecture has an ability to make sense of man’s surroundings and establish relationships between them.(3)
Within the framework of these musings the journal Dearq is opening a call for papers that address the relationship between Architecture and Anthropology. It is our desire to offer an interdisciplinary space for dialogue in order to approach the different perspectives that each one of these diverse areas of knowledge can provide on the relationship between people and their built surroundings.
Guest Editor:
Santiago Giraldo Peláez, PhD
Director, Programme of Cultural Heritage in Colombia - Global Heritage Fund
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