This paper address the question: given the ethical imperatives of today’s world, could traditional building heritage realistically make any fresh contributions to an alternative development model? The above questions are explored via a dialectics between the traditional earth building methods and modernity as widely understood in Uganda. Heritage is conceptualised as constitutive of interactions between processes, products and people, and the environment. The paper tests the conjecture that, claims to culture and its preservation, constitute a multi-layered veil which advertently or inadvertently obstructs Ugandans from comprehending and making the deep structural changes required to re/produce their desired architecture and lifestyles.Key ...
The Shared Heritage Africa (SHA) project focused on the rediscovery of modern university campuses an...
Whilst vernacular built traditions may have a strongly regional basis the generic culture as appropr...
... when the modern world finds that the eclecticism of the present is barren and fruitless, and tha...
Abstract: This paper address the question: given the ethical imperatives of today’s world, could tra...
This paper examines alternatives to top-down approaches to heritage management and development. One ...
Since the 1990s architectural historians discovered Modern architecture in Africa as part of a cultu...
Culture has been consistently underrepresented in the sustainability debate and often perceived as a...
What is modernity and why do Africans aspire to arrive at it? Do African cultures embrace the values...
In essays like these, it is tempting to write from a turning point: to describe how, going forward, ...
The Modern Heritage of Africa [MoHoA] programme was set up to support an equitable and sustainable h...
Heritage conversation has continuously elicited genuine concern from stakeholders, evokes controvers...
Globalisation has had both negative and positive impact on the cultural heritage development and pre...
As yet, what has been experimented with to achieve development in Africa has yielded nothing other t...
Globalisation is one of the key terms used to describe actual trends as positive, but there are many...
[EN] In the age of globalization, it becomes necessary to assess the possibilities for the conservat...
The Shared Heritage Africa (SHA) project focused on the rediscovery of modern university campuses an...
Whilst vernacular built traditions may have a strongly regional basis the generic culture as appropr...
... when the modern world finds that the eclecticism of the present is barren and fruitless, and tha...
Abstract: This paper address the question: given the ethical imperatives of today’s world, could tra...
This paper examines alternatives to top-down approaches to heritage management and development. One ...
Since the 1990s architectural historians discovered Modern architecture in Africa as part of a cultu...
Culture has been consistently underrepresented in the sustainability debate and often perceived as a...
What is modernity and why do Africans aspire to arrive at it? Do African cultures embrace the values...
In essays like these, it is tempting to write from a turning point: to describe how, going forward, ...
The Modern Heritage of Africa [MoHoA] programme was set up to support an equitable and sustainable h...
Heritage conversation has continuously elicited genuine concern from stakeholders, evokes controvers...
Globalisation has had both negative and positive impact on the cultural heritage development and pre...
As yet, what has been experimented with to achieve development in Africa has yielded nothing other t...
Globalisation is one of the key terms used to describe actual trends as positive, but there are many...
[EN] In the age of globalization, it becomes necessary to assess the possibilities for the conservat...
The Shared Heritage Africa (SHA) project focused on the rediscovery of modern university campuses an...
Whilst vernacular built traditions may have a strongly regional basis the generic culture as appropr...
... when the modern world finds that the eclecticism of the present is barren and fruitless, and tha...