Arjun Sanyal’s Post

📣 This is the classic weekly reminder that I am due to do! 📣 With Give Back Giovani Aree Interne we launched a #Call for #Contributions, for all the specialists, scholars, but also political and social stakeholders who contribute to the topic of rural policies, the debates on the future of #rural #spaces, and who simply want to improve the condition of these areas. The #handbook we are projecting is divided into two sections you can contribute for: comments (2000 words) and articles (6000 words). An abstract is due for the 30th of September if you want to participate! ⏳ It is an opportunity to create a space of discussion, accessible to everyone, with the aim to generate new reflections on the role of #people and rural spaces in the contemporary #political, #social and #geographical space. Here is the call! 👇 👇 👇 Send a proposal in an abstract of no-more than 300 words to our mail: mailto:info@giovaniareeinterne.it! We will wait for all of you to propose something! 🔊

Urban graphic heritage is a fascinating domain where the global north and south experience unique challenges and employ different methodologies. In the global north, preservation often focuses on advanced technological methods and stringent regulations. Conversely, the global south grapples with rapid urbanisation and limited resources, fostering innovative, community-driven solutions. Notably, south-south conversations are flourishing, enhancing the exchange of knowledge and practices in urban graphic heritage. Cities like Johannesburg and Rio de Janeiro are leading the way in collaborative efforts, highlighting the importance of inclusive, culturally sensitive approaches to preservation. Together, these dialogues are reshaping our understanding and preservation of urban graphic heritage globally. I enjoy the experiment that we've endeavoured on for the last year. More on this here - https://lnkd.in/dvhYxdF9 #UrbanHeritage #GlobalNorth #GlobalSouth #GraphicHeritage #SouthSouthCooperation #UrbanPreservation #CulturalExchange

'Race and the Built Environment in the Iberian World, c. 1400-1800' a roundtable that I have edited for the Sept 2024 issue of the Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians is currently open access until 15 October. Since its publication the roundtable is also among the 'most read' pieces in the journal 🎉 more below

I’m raising funds to purchase archival supplies for the library of the Tangier American Legation. We are just $366 from our goal. Will you help us? $2000 is urgently needed to purchase housing containers and preservation supplies for the collection of the Tangier American Legation's Library, temporarily housed in a remote location because of the structural instability of the library. Earlier this year, concerns about one of the library's exterior walls caused by the eminent collapse of an adjoining building obliged us to close our library, moving the books to offsite storage. This had to be done quickly, so the Legation staff quickly sprang into action, securing offsite storage, arranging the space, and moving the library's collection there. During this process it became clearly that archival and conservation supplies were needed to ensure safe storage of the books, ephemera, and other material in the collection, part of which remains in used corrugated cardboard boxes while additional shelving is constructed. These boxes were all that was available at at the time, but they are vulnerable to insects, mice, and other pests. But even more problematic given the damp climate of Tangier, cardboard boxes can collect moisture, allowing the growth of mold. Moreover, they are not available to researchers while stored in boxes. Heavy rainfall and shorter days between December and February compound the risks to material still in boxes. Heavy rainfall and shorter days between December and February compound the risks to material still in boxes. Approximately $2,000 is needed for so that all the books and other material can be taken out of the boxes and put in more appropriate containers or shelved in adherence with best practices for libraries and archives. The Legation's library is a highly specialized collection with material that is difficult to find elsewhere. Because of this, it is an invaluable resource both for Moroccan and international scholars. Please help us to get all of our books onto shelves or in safe containers so that they can be used by researchers and and less vulnerable to the elements or pests. Thank you for considering this request!

We invite your contributions to this Special Edition of Landscape Review. Please get in touch if you'd like to discuss. Landscapes and Seascapes of Connectivity in Moana Oceania Call for submissions Landscape Review https://lnkd.in/gwHKJwTn This special edition of Landscape Review calls for contributions that extend contemporary understandings of the collective and relational qualities of landscape and seascape from within and across vast and fluid Moana Oceania. Our aim is to foreground the ways in which situated landscape-based practices operate as a gathering force for stories, peoples, living materialities, and world-views. We invite papers that address the multiple convergences and shifting qualities of relation emerging with landscapes and seascapes whether they be either regenerating, sustaining, or subduing of plural life-worlds. Landscape Review welcomes creative and/or critical research including articles, interviews, designs, critiques or reports along with professional practice commentaries. We particularly encourage an expanded range of mediums for expressing and communicating knowledge, including but not limited to photographic and videographic work. Please contact either Hannah Hopewell hh795@cornell.edu, or Gillian Lawon Gillian.Lawson@lincoln.ac.nz if you'd like to discuss a submission. Submission Deadline: 01 November 2024 Contributions should be submitted online at https://lnkd.in/gynxBuyn by registering and logging in to the web site. Once you are registered, go through the five step process to complete uploading your contribution. All submissions are checked by an editor before being peer reviewed through a double blind process. Please visit the submissions web site before submitting your work. There is a preparation checklist to follow for submissions. Written contributions should be formatted according to the author’s guidelines template. There is no charge for article processing.

Builders may have some big misconceptions when it comes to maintaining historical structures; this guidebook aims to change that.

Maurilia: as it used to be Pencil on Bristol Paper. (30cm x 40cm) June 2024. — “The old postcards do not depict Maurilia as it was, but a different city which, by chance, was called Maurilia, like this one.” Calvino, I (1997) Invisible Cities, p.27 Vintage. Mongolia can have a strange allure to a foreigner. The large, sparse, landlocked country whose empire once expanded from Hungary to the sea of Japan, thought of infrequently and incorrectly as only a land of nomads and unbound steppes, is yet home to array of traditions, cultures and lifestyles. Realities that feel somewhat neglected by the wider consciousness of rest of the modern world. From my research into modern day Mongolia I found that, despite the country’s many shifts and turns, most of it’s citizens’ sense of identity is entwined in heritage. Undoubtably, any population will be shaped by it’s landscape and the socio-political threads that run through it. Yet even as the passage of time forces Mongolians to recall the memory of their cultures with diminishing clarity there still seems to be strong sense of self remaining. There is a fear or feeling towards the future that I wish to summarise here with a simile: much like how the source for this artwork was found within the British Library’s, Endangered Archives Program, could it not be that, eventually, an entire nation’s worth of culture and self identity, likewise, could become endangered too? This piece was inspired and based off of unpublished glass plates digitised by The Endangered Archives Program or the EAP. The original images fall in the public domain in both Mongolia and the UK. This piece was created with the acknowledgement of the EAP.

Dears We are waiting for your invaluable contribution to this outstanding book, which will be published by Springer: https://lnkd.in/degthPUe

The new issue on 'Monumuments and counter-monuments. Collective construction of located memory' of the Urban Matters Journal is out! I'm glad to contribute with my article 'Spaces for resistance, places for remembering: The anti-monumenta in Mexico City', discussing the rise of anti-monuments in Mexico City and some implications for urban-related disciplines. [with the stunning photos of Jesus Medina]. Thanks to Mateo Villamil-Valencia, PhD (guest editor), Adriana de la Peña and the editorial team at the Institute for Urban Research (IUR) at Malmö University for editing this issue.

Join us for our third research seminar of the summer season with Louis P. Nelson from the University of Virginia Wednesday 5 June 2024 from 5pm Global Houses of the Efik Much of the scholarship on the globalised house of the early modern period privileges colonisers creating a false impression that globalisation was unidirectional. A more responsible examination explores the ways colonised communities also engaged in acts of collection, reinscription and identity construction. Unlike many African communities, the Efik in Old Calabar (now modern Nigeria) never gave Europeans land rights to build the trading forts that slowly became the huge slave castles now dotting the West African coast. Forbidding European development allowed Africans far greater control over the landscapes of exchange along the waterline, where British ships’ captains would purchase enslaved Africans from Efik traders. Visitors’ descriptions include lavish accounts of the ways wealthy Efik traders donned British costume, swords, cocked hats and umbrellas. But even more surprising for many were the traders’ houses. These took the common form of a raised two-storey house with a gallery on all sides. Over generations, some of these trading families stockpiled extraordinary collections of English material goods including gilt pier glasses, sofas, marble sideboards, engravings, clocks and handsome dining tables. Years of negotiations while dining onboard with ships’ captains also meant that these traders could easily navigate both African and British dining practices. It was common practice for Efik traders to order not just objects but whole houses. This paper explores this practice and offers preliminary frames for interpretation. Respondent: Shaheen Alikhan, PhD student in the Interdisciplinary Constructed Environment Doctoral Program at the University of Virginia School of Architecture. Book a free ticket here: https://lnkd.in/eqxUYYKj Image caption: Carl Wadström, “Design for a House in a Tropical Climate”, from An Essay on Colonization (London, 1794).