A Multidimensional Model for the Vernacular: Linking Disciplines and Connecting the Vernacular Landscape to Sustainability Challenges
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Department of Architecture, Aalto University, 02150 Espoo, Finland
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Department of Environmental Sciences, Wageningen University, 6708 Wageningen, The Netherlands
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Sustainability 2020, 12(16), 6347; https://doi.org/10.3390/su12166347
Received: 16 June 2020
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Revised: 25 July 2020
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Accepted: 3 August 2020
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Published: 6 August 2020
(This article belongs to the Special Issue The Exploration of Sustainability in Traditional Rural Buildings)
After developing a systematic analysis of the vernacular phenomenon in different disciplines, this paper presents a flexible model to understand the multiple factors and the different degrees of vernacularity behind the many processes that lead to the generation of material culture. The conceptual model offers an open, polythetic and integrative approach to the vernacular by assuming that it operates in different dimensions (temporal, socio-political, sociological, locational, epistemological, procedural, economic and functional), and that the many attributes or characteristics included in those dimensions are all relevant but not strictly necessary. The model is intended to facilitate a more methodical and rigorous connection between the vernacular concept and contemporary discourses on sustainability, resilience, globalization, governance, and rural-urban development. In addition, and due to its transdisciplinary character, the model will enable the development of comparative studies within and between a wide range of fields (architecture, landscape studies, design, planning and geography). A prospective analysis of the use of the model in rural landscapes reveals its potential to mediate between the protective approach that has characterized official planning during the last decades and emergent approaches that advocate the reinterpretation of the vernacular as a new form to generate new collective identities and to reconnect people and place.
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Keywords:
sustainable development; sustainable landscape; landscape planning; globalization; rural landscapes; landscape governance; material culture; cultural landscapes; vernacular design; vernacular architecture; place-making
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Galan, J.; Bourgeau, F.; Pedroli, B. A Multidimensional Model for the Vernacular: Linking Disciplines and Connecting the Vernacular Landscape to Sustainability Challenges. Sustainability 2020, 12, 6347. https://doi.org/10.3390/su12166347
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Galan J, Bourgeau F, Pedroli B. A Multidimensional Model for the Vernacular: Linking Disciplines and Connecting the Vernacular Landscape to Sustainability Challenges. Sustainability. 2020; 12(16):6347. https://doi.org/10.3390/su12166347
Chicago/Turabian StyleGalan, Juanjo, Felix Bourgeau, and Bas Pedroli. 2020. "A Multidimensional Model for the Vernacular: Linking Disciplines and Connecting the Vernacular Landscape to Sustainability Challenges" Sustainability 12, no. 16: 6347. https://doi.org/10.3390/su12166347
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