Mapping Vernacular Terrains

The University of South Australia’s Vernacular Knowledge Research Group [VKRG] and The University of Adelaide’s Centre for Asian and Middle Eastern Architecture [CAMEA]   invite you to attend our International Conference to be held in Adelaide, Australia.

Mapping Vernacular Terrains is a call for reflection on the scope, diversity, interconnectedness, and at the same time, diasporic nature of vernacular studies in 2024. It is an opportunity to consider cartographies as research tools that produce conceptual mappings to navigate the complex ‘terrains’ of the contentious and often ambiguous notion of what might be defined as the ‘vernacular’. ‘Mapping’ is an operative term, which may be interpreted as identifying, locating, representing, discursively conveying, re-constructing, and delineating the built and landscaped environments pertaining to the concept of the vernacular. While maps are considered static representations of an environment, mapping is a recognised process for investigation of time and space in cultural geography but is atypically utilised as a method in vernacular studies.