10:00 – 12:00
| Session 1: Wood Building Cultures’
Contributions to this session will focus on traditions of building with wood, exploring their cultural significance and discussing the nature and scale of present day difficulties and endangerments. They could also discuss the transmission and adaptation of wooden building techniques and practices in the context of these threats.
| Ayako Fujieda, Kyoto Seika University: Cultural Significance and Conservation of Traditional Wooden Architecture in Fiji. B. Devilat, F. Lanuza, N. Cruz, S. Bernales, L. Berg, U. Bonomo: Documenting the Heritage Churches of Chiloé. Rafiq Ahmad, Govt. College for Women Nawa Kadal: Building Traditional Log Houses and the Dilemma of Continuing an ‘Original Way of Life’ in Gurais, Kashmir. Emily Otuvwede Akpomedaye, Akpo re Ufuoma Development Initiative: Poverty as Medium of Preserving Traditional Knowledge of Urhobo Vernacular Architecture. | Trevor Marchand, Emeritus Professor of Social Anthropology, SOAS
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13:30 – 15:10
| Session 2: The cultural context of wooden buildings
Contributions to this session will explore the ethics of working with the communities that own, inhabit and look after endangered wooden architecture. It will discuss appropriate ways of engaging with communities and provide examples of innovative ways of involving them in documentation projects. The session provides an opportunity to discuss examples of good practice, as well as the challenges inherent in such community involvement.
| Magda Minguzzi, Lucy Vosloo, Chief Margaret Coetzee, Nelson Mandela University: Exploring an Indigenous Methodology in Working with the First Indigenous Peoples of South Africa, in Baviaanskloof. Jigna Desai, Saatvika Pancholi, CEPT Research and Development Foundation: Reconsidering the term 'Vernacular' in context of Wooden Havelis of Gujarat. Akemi Hijioka, Instituto Federal de São Paulo - Campus Registro (IFSP - Registro): The houses of Japanese immigrants in the Atlantic Forest of Brazil. Anila Naeem, Farida Abdul Ghaffar, NED University: The Last Surviving Cluster of Indus Houseboats - An Ethnographic Perspective on a Centuries Old Cultural Tradition. | Jorge Tomasi, Architect, CONICET, Argentina
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15.30 – 16:50
| Session 3: Recording wooden architecture
Contributions to this session will focus on the multitude of ways in which wooden architecture can be surveyed, from high tech to low tech and intermediary and hybrid approaches. Speakers are invited to reflect on the appropriateness of the methods in capturing the construction practices and unique character of wooden buildings.
| Carlos Castillo Levicoy, Constanza Pérez Lira, Corporación Memoria Austral: Improvements in the analysis and understanding of vernacular constructive forms and the inhabitation of the territory of Aysén, Chile. Yulia Nurliani Lukito, Universitas Indonesia: Documenting Vernacular Architecture of Wae Rebo Village, Manggarai, Indonesia. Tubi Otitooluwa, James Cubitt Architects: Implementing ISO 16739 standard in Heritage wooden building survey, towards preservation, conservation and management of asset Hrvoje Tomić, University of Zagreb: Challenges of documenting traditional wooden architecture in the Banovina/Banija, Pokuplje, and Posavina regions (Croatia, EU). | Elizabeth Lee, VP for Programs and Development, CyArk
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