IASTE 2006: Hyper-Traditions
Thammasat University, Bangkok, Thailand—December 15-18, 2006
CONFERENCE PROGRAM
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 15, 2006
7:45 AM-8:45 AM—REGISTRATION
Secretariat Room, Second Floor Mezzanine
8:45 AM – 9:30 AM— OPENING SESSION
Queens Park Grand Hall, Second Floor
Opening Addresses
Nezar AlSayyad
University of California, Berkeley, U.S.A.
Vimolsiddhi Horyangkura
Thammasat University, Bangkok, Thailand
Welcome Remarks
Surapon Nitikraipot
Rector of Thammasat University, Thailand
On the Conference Theme: Hyper-Traditions
Nezar AlSayyad
University of California, Berkeley, U.S.A.
9:30 AM-10:00 AM— KEYNOTE ADDRESS: THE URBAN TRADITION
Queens Park Grand Hall, Second Floor
Michael Sorkin, City College of New York, U.S.A.
10:00 AM – 10:15 AM
COFFEE BREAK
10:15 AM – 12:15 PM —PAPER SESSIONS
A.1 HYPER-ARCHITECTURE, VIRTUAL SPACES, AND PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE
Queens Park Room 4, Second Floor
Chair: Harrison Fraker
University of California, Berkeley, USA
Mindscapes, “Affordance,” and Virtual Ecosystems
Maurizio Forte
Istituto per le Tecnologie Applicate ai Beni Culturali, Italy
Recoding Architecture: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Hesham Khairy Abdelfattah and Ali Abd Alraouf
Cairo University, Egypt and University of Bahrain, Bahrain
Wireless Sites: British Architecture in the Space of Radio (1927-1945)
Shundana Yusaf
Princeton University, Princeton, USA
Traditional Architecture in the Era of the Web 2.0: Using Online Participative Tools to Develop an Internet Database of Traditional Buildings
Gabriel Arboleda
University of California, Berkeley, USA
Virtual Interventions: The Impact of Interactive Soundscapes and Visual Stimulation on Physical Architectural Spaces
Nadia Mounajjed, Chengzhi Peng, and Stephen Walker
University of Sheffield, UK
B.1 HERITAGE SITES AND THEIR CONTESTED MEANINGS
Queens Park Room 5, Second Floor
Chair: Mrinalini Rajagopalan
University of California, Berkeley, USA
Hyper-Tradition and World Heritage: A Question of Cultural or Economic Sustainability?
Christine M. Landorf
University of Newcastle, Callaghan, Australia
Heritage of Disappearance? Shekkipmai and Collective Memories in Posthandover Hong Kong
Cecilia Chu
University of California, Berkeley, USA
Hyper Tradition versus Cultural Interpretation in Phuket Town
Yongtanit Pimonsanthean
Thammasat University, Bangkok, Thailand
Choosing Cultural Heritages: Memories of Two Groups of Tibetan Monasteries in Central China and Their Re-Construction
Liu Dan
Chinese University of Hong Kong, China
The Use of Hindu, Buddhist, and Animist Symbolism in the Globalization of Chiang Mai City
Thosaporn Sodabunlu
King Mongkut’s Institute of Technology Ladkrabang, Bangkok, Thailand
C.1 IDENTITY POLITICS, TRADITIONS, AND EMERGING NATIONALISMS
Queens Park Room 6, Second Floor
Chair: Chee-Kien Lai
National University of Singapore, Singapore
From Radical Innovation to Hyper-Tradition in Seventy Years: Synthesizing Past and Present in Italy’s Fascist-Era “New Towns”
Mia Fuller
University of California, Berkeley, USA
Por Ahora: The Nuances of Neo-Populism in Venezuela
Carmen Rojas
University of California, Berkeley, USA
Struggling with Chaos: The Residence of Dr. Zhang Yunpen, China
Kuang-Ting Huang
University of Washington, Seattle, USA
NGO Webmasters as Agents of a Kutchhi Pan-Nationhood
Azhar Tyabji
Urban Design Research Institute, Mumbai, India
12:15 PM – 1:15 PM
LUNCH
Lunch will be provided for all Imperial Queen’s Park Hotel guests in the Rainbow Room on the 5th Floor.
1:15 PM – 2:55 PM —PAPER SESSIONS
A.2 NEW MODERNITIES AND THE URBAN IMAGINARY
Queens Park Room 4, Second Floor
Chair: Greig Crysler
University of California, Berkeley, USA
Hyper-Traditions and Third World Modernism: The Case of Hanoi
Duanfang Lu
University of Sydney, Australia
The Urban Imaginary in Modern Egypt and Hyper-Subjectivity
Mona El-Sherif
University of California, Berkeley, USA
Altered Traditions and Borrowed Modernities: Experiencing the Edge of the Hyper-real in Kenya
Tadd Andersen
University of California, Berkeley, USA
The Cultural Industries Cluster and the Re-making of Urban Place in the London City Fringe
Nolapot Pumhiran
University of London, UK
B.2 PRAXIS, PRESERVATION, AND POWER
Queens Park Room 5, Second Floor
Chair: Gunawan Tjahjono
University of Indonesia, Depok, Indonesia
Recolonizing Asia: Transnational Politics and the Praxis of Preservation
Montira Horayangura Unakul
UNESCO, Bangkok, Thailand
The Surfaces of Memory in Berlin: Rebuilding the Hohenzollern City Palace
Didem Ekici
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA
“Displaying the Orient” in the “Orient”: The Wholesale Textile Mall and the Politics of Space in Jakarta
Herlily
University of California, Berkeley, USA
Old Buildings, New Landscape: Redeveloping Historic Neighbourhoods – A Case Study of Xin Tian Di, Shanghai, China
Fengqi Qian
Deakin University, Burwood, Australia
C.2 HYPER-TRADITION, MIGRATION, AND PLACE-MAKING
Queens Park Room 6, Second Floor
Chair: Vimalin Rujivacharakul
University of Delaware, Newark, USA
Chinese-Built Western Towers: The Hyper-Tradition of the Overseas Chinese’s Fortified Towers in the Cantonese Counties of Kaiping and Taishan
Ho Yin Lee and Lynne DiStefano
University of Hong Kong, China
Connection to Place, Migration and the Transformation of Tradition in the Wellesley Islands
Paul Memmott, Ian Lilley and Cameo Dalley
University of Queensland, Australia
The Complex Relationship Between Identity, Heritage and Migration of the ‘Using’ – A Traditional Community at the Eastern End of Java
Endang Darjosanjoto
Sepuluh-Nopember Institute of Technology, Surabaya, Indonesia
The Place of Asmaalti: A Narrative of Migration, Identity and Heritage in Cyprus
Hifsiye Pulhan and Ibrahim Numan
Eastern Mediterranean University, Famagusta, North Cyprus
2:55 PM – 3:10 PM
COFFEE BREAK
3:10 PM – 4:50 PM —PAPER SESSIONS
A.3 HYPER-TRADITIONS AND THE AMERICAN “EVERYDAY”
Queens Park Room 4, Second Floor
Chair: William Bechhoefer
University of Maryland, College Park, USA
Hyper-traditions in The Historic American Town: The Fundamentalisms of Historic Preservation
Thomas Merrigan
Chiang Mai University, Thailand
The Village Ideal: The Dialectic of the Real and the Imaginary in Modern Planning
Susanne Cowan
University of California, Berkeley, USA
Making the Familiar Strange: Mythologies of the Everyday Environment in Springfield, U.S.A.
B.D. Wortham
University of Maryland, USA
Spatial Construction of a Sense of Identity
Arief B. Setiawan
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA
B.3 TRADITIONS OF LABOR AND MIGRATION
Queens Park Room 5, Second Floor
Chair: Howard Davis
University of Oregon, Eugene, USA
“Vocational Migrants” and a “Tradition of Longing”
Trevor Marchand
University of London, UK
The Empty House: Architecture and Identity in Michoacán, Mexico
Catherine Ettinger and Salvador Garcia
Universidad Michoacana, Morelia, Mexico
Baan Farang: Living the Dream in Isan, Northeast Thailand
William Wormsley
North Carolina State, Raleigh, USA
A Living Exhibition: Labor, Desire, and the Marketing of American Indian Arts and Crafts in Santa Fe
Matthew J. Martinez
Ohkay Owingeh, USA
C.3 DETERRITORIALIZATION AND THE PRODUCTION OF SPACE
Queens Park Room 6, Second Floor
Chair: Duanfang Lu
University of Sydney, Australia
Han Rambutan Orchard, Singapore: A Site for Overseas Chinese Place-making
Chee-Kien Lai
National University of Singapore, Singapore
2020: The City Deterritorialized
Diane Wildsmith and James N. Rosenau
University of Indonesia, Depok, Indonesia and George Washington University, Washington DC, USA
Diversity and Joint Organization of Gypsy Populations in Turkey
Emine Incirlioglu
Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey
Lost: Cultural Heritage and Globalization in Modern China
Luo Pan
Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China
4:50 PM – 6:30 PM–PAPER SESSIONS
A.4 DISPLAYING TRADITION: THE SPACE OF THE MUSEUM
Queens Park Room 4, Second Floor
Chair: Yasser Elshestawy
United Arab Emirates University, El-Ain, UAE
Comparative Alterities: Native Encounters, and the National Museum
C. Greig Crysler
University of California, Berkeley, USA
Re-assessing the Story of Mark Twain’s Hometown
Regina Faden
Mark Twain Museum, Hannibal, USA
Recognizing Change in the Replication of the Barnes Foundation
Tricia Stuth
University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA
Under (the Looking) Glass: Perspectives on the Preservation and Display of Cultural History
Anne Toxey
University of California, Berkeley, USA
B.4 MOBILIZING THE SPECTACLE OF TRADITION
Queens Park Room 5, Second Floor
Chair: Mark Gillem
University of Oregon, Eugene, USA
Circus City : Debunking Culture-led Regeneration in Montreal
Anne-Marie Broudehoux
University of Quebec, Montreal, Canada
Religion Moves to the Mall: Plaza Mexico and the Mobilization of Hispanic Religiosity in California
Clara Irazabal and Macarena Gomez-Barris
University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA
Migration, Power and the Line: Ceremonies of Collective Transgression in the Spatial Archteypes of Elias Canetti
Michael Chapman and Michael Ostwald
University of Newcastle, Cooks Hill, Australia
Creating New Worlds with Hyper-Traditional Living Spheres in Japanese Migrations
Izumi Kuroishi
Aoyama Gakuin Women’s Junior College, Tokyo, Japan
C.4 THE PRODUCTION OF ETHNICIZED SPACES
Queens Park Room 6, Second Floor
Chair: Emily Gottreich
University of California, Berkeley, USA
Little Indonesia in the Dutch Polder: Migration, Old Age and Tradition in the Netherlands
Marcel Vellinga
Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, UK
Investigating the Cultural Core: Spatializing the Process of Acculturation for Hmong and Lowland Laotian Immigrants in Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Lynne Dearborn
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA
Little India: Spaces of Ethnicity, Exchange and Boundedness
Limin Hee
National University of Singapore, Singapore
The Forming of Chinese Identity – A Case of Chicago’s Chinatown
Chuo Shannon Li
University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, USA
7:00 PM – 9:00 PM
OPENING RECEPTION
Queens Park Grand Hall, Second Floor
SATURDAY, DECEMBER 16, 2006
8:30 AM – 10:30 AM— PAPER SESSIONS
A.5 URBAN REAL ESTATE AND THE COMMODIFICATION OF TRADITION
Queens Park Room 4, Second Floor
Chair: John Stallmeyer
University of California, Berkeley, USA
Reality/Television: Hype, Tradition and Everyday Life in Rural Thailand
David O’Brien and Kim Dovey
University of Melbourne, Australia
A Noble Life: Commodification of Traditions in Modern Hong Kong
Lynne DiStefano and Debbie Wong Tak Yee
University of Hong Kong, China
Tradition of Celebration: Redefining Selves and Reclaiming Identity of Chinese Indonesians in the Post-New Order Era
Gunawan Tjahjono
University of Indonesia, Depok, Indonesia
Comparative Assessment of Traditional Architecture and Invented Tradition: The Greek Island of Folegandros and its Promotion via the Internet
Eleni K. Aga
National Technical University of Athens, Greece
The City as the Mirror Image of the Development Company: Kelapa Gading
Evawani Ellisa
University of Indonesia, Depok, Indonesia
B.5 TRADITION AND THE HYPER-MODERN
Queens Park Room 5, Second Floor
Chair: Anna Rubbo
University of Sydney, Australia
Hypertraditions and Hyperreality: The Old and New in Japan
Nelson Graburn
University of California, Berkeley, USA
A New Type of Medical Tourism Emerges: Real Physical Change, Neither Hyper-Virtual Nor Traditional-Colonializing
Robert Mugerauer
University of Washington, Seattle, USA
Transitory Sites: Mapping Dubai’s ’Forgotten’ Urban Public Spaces
Yasser Elsheshtawy
United Arab Emirates University, El-Ain, UAE
Exploring Hyper-Traditions through Urban Morphology in Mumbai
Debabardhan Upadhyaya
University of Sheffield, UK
The Cultural Double Helix of Hyper-Modernization and Hyper-Tradition
Sidh Sintusingha
University of Melbourne, Australia
C.5 RE-IMAGINING ARCHITECTURAL HERITAGE AND CULTURAL IDENTITY
Queens Park Room 6, Second Floor
Chair: Montira Horayangura Unakul
UNESCO, Bangkok, Thailand
Painting the Mouth: Identity, Heritage & Migration
Paul Oliver
Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, UK
Hyper-Identity and Kuwaiti Architecture
Yasser Mahgoub
Kuwait University, Kuwait
Yemen’s Cisterns at High Altitudes
Morna Livingston
Philadelphia University, Philadelphia, USA
Merging Old and New: Saifi Village, Beirut City Center
Sofia Shwayri
New York University, New York, USA
Staged Authenticity: Dakshinachitra Museum of Arts and Crafts, South India
Sushmita Prabhakar
University of Cincinnati, USA
10:30 AM – 10:50 AM
COFFEE BREAK
10:50 AM – 12:50 PM
PLENARY SESSION: HYPER-TRADITIONS/SIMULATED REALITIES
Chair: Nezar AlSayyad
University of California, Berkeley, U.S.A.
CinemaRealities
Dietrich Neumann
Brown University, Providence, U.S.A.
Glocalizing Jerusalem: Hyper-Traditions at the Foot of Temple Mount
Alona Nitzan-Shiftan
Technion, Haifa, Israel
Discussant:
Mia Fuller
University of California, Berkeley, USA
1:30 PM – 7:30 PM
BANGKOK CITY TOUR
Buses will depart from the lobby of the Imperial Queen’s Park Hotel at 1:30. Please gather in the lobby in advance of the departure time.
8:30 AM – 10:10 AM—PAPER SESSIONS
A.6 MEDIATING RELIGION
Queens Park Room 4, Second Floor
Chair: Mia Fuller
University of California, Berkeley, USA
Hyper-Hinduism: The Internet and the Re-Making of ‘India’
M. Reza Pirbhai
Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, USA
Xena Meets Krishna: Putting Gods on Television
Gail H. Sutherland
Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, USA
Vodun Art and The Hyper-Visualization of Africa
Peter Sutherland
Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, USA
Fatwas on the Mainframe
Reem A. Meshal
Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, USA
B.6 HYPER-TRADITIONS AND POSTCOLONIAL LEGACIES
Queens Park Room 5, Second Floor
Chair: Anne-Marie Broudehoux
University of Quebec, Montreal, Canada
Hong Kong: Postmodern Habitus of Parenthetical Identity
Surajit Chakravarty
University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA
Hyped or Hyper?: The Productive F(r)ictions of Tropical Architecture in Postcolonial Singapore and Malaysia
Jiat Hwee Chang
University of California, Berkeley, USA
The Impact of Hyper-Tourism on Colonial Built Heritage and its Traditional Environment
Robert Ian Chaplin
Macau Polytechnic Institute, Macau
Partition and its Aftermath: The Search for Delhi’s Hindu Past
Mrinalini Rajagopalan
University of California, Berkeley, USA
C.6 CREATING AND CONTESTING EXCLUSIONARY ARCHITECTURES
Queens Park Room 6, Second Floor
Chair: Robert Mugerauer
University of Washington, Seattle, USA
There’s No Reality Like Hyper-Reality
Lineu Castello
Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
The Configuration of a Cross-Cultural Theory of ‘Architecture’ – Exploring the Treatise
Paul Memmott and James Davidson
University of Queensland, Australia
Gendering the Space of Differences
Wijitbusaba Marome
Thammasat University, Bangkok, Thailand
Housing Enclaves: Between Reality and Imagination
Eka Permanasari
University of Melbourne, Australia
10:10 AM – 10:30 AM
COFFEE BREAK
10:30 AM – 12:10 PM—PAPER SESSIONS
A.7 FILM, CULTURE, AND THE PRODUCTION OF TRADITION
Queens Park Room 4, Second Floor
Chair: Dietrich Neumann
Brown University, Providence, U.S.A.
Between Sadhus, Cyber-Gurus and Bollywood Stars: Exotica and Postcolonial Power Gaps in Contemporary Western Representations of India
Paolo Favero
Stokholm University, Sweden
Imaging the (Un)real: Space in Bollywood Films
Vandini Mehta
University of California, Berkeley, USA
Re-imagining Mythic Constructions: Banaras through Satyajit Ray’s Aparajito
Rohit Raj Mehndiratta
Brooklyn, USA
Blissfully Yours: Reading the “Real” Tradition of Illegal Immigrants
Soranart Sinuraibhan
Khon Kaen University, Thailand
B.7 TOURISM AND AUTHENTICITY
Queens Park Room 5, Second Floor
Chair: Nelson Graburn
University of California, Berkeley, USA
Tourism, Authenticity, and Hyper-Traditions: the Case of Kafr Al-Gouna, Egypt
Khaled Nezar Adham
United Arab Emirates University, El-Ain, UAE
Mount Athos: Notes on the Authenticity of “Fake”
Mohamed Elshahed
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA
Learning from Las Vegas! The Recent Development of Macao’s Mega-Casino/Resorts
Chung Man Carmen Tsui
University of California, Berkeley, USA
Local Culture in the Global Village: Authenticity in a Tai Tourist Town
Sirima Na Songkhla
University of Melbourne, Australia
C.7 FIXING IDENTITIES IN SPACE AND PLACE
Queens Park Room 6, Second Floor
Chair: Clara Irazábal
University of Southern California, Los Angeles, USA
The Invention of a Neo-Uyghur Style: A Contemporary Place-Bound Architecture
Jean-Paul Loubes
Ecole Nationale Superieure d’Architecture de Bordeaux, Talence, France
Sites of “Chineseness”: Re-constructing the Imagery of the Chinese Garden in Contemporary Chinese Art and Architecture
Chan Yuen Lai
Chinese University of Hong Kong, China
Spatial Forms of Cultural Heritage
Nadia Charalambous
Metsovio Polytechnic, Athens, Greece
Space as “Public Relations”? Urban Morphology and Ethnic Identity in Macao
Paula Engrácia Martins
University College London, UK
12:10 PM – 1:30 PM—LUNCH and IASTE ADVISORY BOARD MEETING
The IASTE Advisory Board Meeting will take place in the Saithip Room on the 3rd Floor. Lunch will be provided to all attendees.
Lunch will be available for all Imperial Queen’s Park Hotel guests in the Rainbow Room on the 5th Floor.
1:30 PM – 1:40 PM
PRESENTATION OF THE JEFFREY COOK AWARD
Queens Park Grand Hall, Second Floor
1:40 PM – 3:40 PM
PLENARY SESSION: “REAL” PLACES: DEATH OR BARE LIFE
Queens Park Grand Hall, Second Floor
Chair: Nezar AlSayyad
University of California, Berkeley, USA
A Ghost in the Machine: Death, Memory, and Modernism in the Mexican City
Gareth Jones
London School of Economics, UK
Professionalism as Universalism, Neutrality as Identity: Ethics and Solidarities Among ICRC Workers
Liisa Malkki
Stanford University, USA
Discussant:
John Lie
University of California, Berkeley, USA
3:40 PM – 4:00 PM
COFFEE BREAK
4:00 PM – 6:00 PM —PAPER SESSIONS
A.8 HYPER-TOURISM AND CULTURAL CHANGE
Queens Park Room 4, Second Floor
Chair: Michael Robinson
Leeds Metropolitan University, Leeds, UK
Reinterpreting Tradition: The Canals as Visitor Attractions
Julia Fallon
Welsh School of Hospitality, Tourism and Leisure Management, Cardiff, UK
More than Paradise: Dilemmas of Authenticity in a World Music Festival
Stephen McElhinney
Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia
Representing the Legacies of Confucius: Modern Meanings of an Ancient Heritage Site in China
Hongliang Yan
Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield, UK
Chinese Tourists in Thailand: The Invention of a Tourist Experience
John Walsh and Pawana Techavimol
Shinawatra International University, Bangkok, Thailand
Travel, Self, and Other: Exploring Travel as Ritual, Ego Loss and Reconstruction
Emily Kearns
Emerson College, Boston, USA
B.8 ARCHITECTURAL MANIFESTATIONS OF GLOBAL CHANGES
Queens Park Room 5, Second Floor
Chair: Nadia Alhasani
American University of Sharjah, UAE
Houses of Guangzhou: Shifting Identities Amid Morphological Warfare
Howard Davis and Matthew Brown
University of Oregon, Eugene, USA
Spirituality and High Technology Combined: The Swaminarayan Akshardham Complex at Gandhinagar, India
Renu Desai
University of California, Berkeley, USA
From Destructive Creativity to Amazing Reality: Hyper-Traditions in Thai Heritage Conservation and Development
Karin Klinkajorn
King Mongkut’s Institute of Technology Ladkrabang, Bangkok, Thailand
Disjointed Jakarta: Hyper-Traditional Planning Attitudes vs. Rhizomatic Growth in a Post-Colonial City
Dewi Susanti
Universitas Pelita Harapan, Jakarta, Indonesia
Kampong Tua Tunu: Hyper-Tradition and Power-Space-Place Making
Undi Gunawan
Universitas Pelita Harapan, Tangerang, Indonesia
C.8 GLOBAL TRANSFORMATIONS AND LOCAL TRADITIONS
Queens Park Room 6, Second Floor
Chair: L. Keith Loftin III
University of Colorado, Denver, USA
Globalization and Hybridization in a Post-Nomadic Native Community: The Case of Vashra’ii K’oo, Alaska
Steven C. Dinero
Philadelphia University, Philadelphia, USA
Muscat—Rethinking its Heritage
Mohamed El Amrousi
United Arab Emirates University, Dubai, UAE
Ascending Dragons of the Mekong: Continuity and Change in the Built Environment in Cambodia, Laos and Vietnam
Joseph Aranha
Texas Tech University, Lubbock, USA
A Village in the Garrigue: Competing Visions for the Midi of Cézanne and the Artists
Elizabeth Riorden
University of Cincinnati, USA
The Frontier of a Theme Park: A Case Study of Community Development in Bowang
Liang-yi Yen
Feng Chia University, Taiwan, China
MONDAY, DECEMBER 18, 2006
8:30 AM – 10:10 PM —PAPER SESSIONS
A.9 SELLING THE PRODUCTIONS OF TRADITION
Queens Park Room 4, Second Floor
Chair: Marcel Vellinga
Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, UK
For Export Only: Ayahuasca Tourism and Hyper-Traditionalism
Daniela M. Peluso and Miguel Nomikós Alexiades
University of Kent, Canterbury, UK
Made in China: A Cypriot Village in Transition
Rosemary Latter
Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, UK
Architectural Tradition as a Product of Tourism: Reproducing Aborginal Built Environments in the 21st Century
Tim O’Rourke
University of Queensland, Australia
The Loss of Vernacular References: Private Housing Development in Kota Wisata, Indonesia
Triatno Yudo Harjoko and Peter Yogan Gandakusuma
University of Indonesia, Depok, Indonesia
B.9 HYPER-SPACES OF DETENTION, EXCEPTION, AND TRANSGRESSION
Queens Park Room 5, Second Floor
Chair: Dell Upton
University of Virginia, Charlottesville, USA
Beyond the Spectacle: Al-Saha Heritage Village, Beirut
Mona Khechen
Boston, USA
The State and its Others: Challenging the Double Perception of A-Locality
Oryan Shachar, Alona Nitzan-Shiftan, and Rachel Seba
Technion, Haifa, Israel
Between Nation and the World: Transforming Space and Identity through the Refugee Experience
Romola Sanyal
University of California, Berkeley, USA
The Seduction of Destruction
Aarati Kanekar
University of Cincinnatti, USA
C.9 THE HYPER-TRADITIONS OF DOMESTIC SPACE
Queens Park Room 6, Second Floor
Chair: Steven Dinero
Philadelphia University, Philadelphia, USA
Authority in Maya Domiciliary Transformation: A History of Hyper-traditions
James Davidson
University of Queensland, Australia
Hyper Architecture and Lost Traditions? Dwelling Transformations on Pongso-no-Ta’u
Jeffrey Hou
University of Washington, Seattle, USA
Houses Where Ghosts Dwell: Ghostly Matters in Contemporary Thai Homes
Nuttinee Karnchanaporn
King Mongkut’s University of Technology Thonburi, Bangkok, Thailand
Coexistence of Parallel Universes: A Survival Tradition in Dwellings of Northeastern Thailand
Nopadon Thungsakul
Khon Kaen University, Khon Kaen, Thailand
10:10 AM – 10:30 PM
COFFEE BREAK
10:30 AM – 12:30 PM —PAPER SESSIONS
A.10 ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, TRADITIONAL ECONOMIES, AND GLOBAL CHANGES
Queens Park Room 4, Second Floor
Chair: Timothy Duane
University of California, Berkeley, U.S.A.
Hybrid Urbanism in Bahrain: From Pearl Hunting to Pearl Making – The Story of Iconic Development
Ali Abd Alraouf and Hesham Khairy Abdelfattah
University of Bahrain, Bahrain, and Cairo University, Egypt
From Moonshine to Sunshine: Landscapes of Local Industry in Rural Ireland
Gareth Doherty
Harvard University, Cambridge,USA
New Silicon Valleys: Informatization, Globalization and Tradition in Bangalore, India
John Stallmeyer
University of California, Berkeley, USA
The Migration of Industries from the Central Core of the City of Santiago, Chile
Marcela Pizzi
University of Chile, Santiago, Chile
Stealth Gentrification: Camouflage & Commerce on the Lower East Side
Lara Belkind
Harvard University, Cambridge, U.S.A.
B.10 TRADITION IN ARCHITECTURAL PRACTICE
Queens Park Room 5, Second Floor
Chair: Mui Ho
University of California, Berkeley, USA
The Transformation of Towers
Jacqueline Victor and L. Keith Loftin III
University of Colorado, Denver, USA
The Regeneration of ‘Ban Suan Rim Khlong’: Steps Towards Sustainability for Thai Communities
Cuttaleeya Noparatnaraporn
Kasetsart University, Bangkok, Thailand
The Earth = The Site: From the Enriching Diversity of Built Forms to the Essential Understanding of Their Kinship
Andre Casault
Universite Laval, Quebec City, Canada
Hyper-Tourism in the Mediterranean Riviera of Turkey
Ebru Aras Miroglu
Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey
The Role of Hyper-Tradition in the Contemporary Architecture of Malaysia: A Discussion of Identity, Cultural Heritage and Immigration
Parisa Shahmohamadi and Nahid Nikkah
Tehran, Iran
C.10 MODERN SITES OF CONSUMPTION
Queens Park Room 6, Second Floor
Chair: Annie Tennant
Sydney, Australia
The New Main Street: Hyperconsumption and the Lifestyle Center
Mark Gillem
University of Oregon, Eugene, USA
The Production of Consumption Spaces and the Uses of Tradition in Branding the Thai Nation
Rachadaporn Kanitpun
Thammasat University, Bangkok, Thailand
New Delhi’s Shopping Malls: Spaces of Multiple-Consumptions
Varun Kapur
University of California, Berkeley, USA
State Constructs of ‘Culture’ and Tourist Imagery for the Malay–Indonesian Districts of Singapore: Ethnic Stereotypes in the Reinvention of Traditional Environments
Imran Bin Tajudeen
National University of Singapore, Singapore
InMerica: Traditions in Hyphen-nated Hyper America
Sabir Khan
Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, USA
12:30 PM – 1:30 PM
LUNCH
Lunch will be provided to all Imperial Queen’s Park Hotel guests in the Rainbow Room on the 5th Floor.
1:30 PM – 3:10 PM —PAPER SESSIONS
A.11 MEDIATED SPACES AND THE NATIONAL IMAGINARY
Queens Park Room 4, Second Floor
Chair: Marcela Pizzi
University of Chile, Santiago, Chile
Created Traditions: The Case of the Estrada Real (King’s Road), A Cultural Route in Brazil
Leonardo Castriota and Alex Ribeiro Gomes
Universidade Federal De Minas Gerais, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Critiques on “Wat Nai Hang”: Re-thinking the Strategy of the Ministry of Culture
Sant Suwatcharapinun
Chiang Mai University, Thailand
The View from the Minaret: Appropriating Mosques for a Hindu Banaras
Madhuri Desai
University of California, Berkeley, USA
Nationalist Chronotopes: Freedom Park and the Struggle for ‘National Identity’
Mpho Matsipa
University of California, Berkeley, USA
B.11 THE IMAGINARY VERNACULAR AND THE NEW TRADITIONAL
Queens Park Room 5, Second Floor
Chair: Hesham Khairy Abdelfattah
Cairo University, Egypt
Mediterranean Architecture Styles in Indonesia: Architecture Style Migration Versus the Adaptability of the Chinese Ethnic in Indonesia
Freddy H. Istanto
Petra Christian University, Surabaya, Indonesia
The Conveyor-Belt Vernacular: Hyper-Tradition in the Grameen Bank Housing Program in Bangladesh
Adnan Morshed
Catholic University of America, Washington DC, USA
Changes in Thai Vernacular Housing: Emphasizing, Eliminating and Enclosing an Aquatic Environment
Wandee Pinijvarasin
Kasetsart University, Bangkok, Thailand
Hyper Cypriot Architecture: The Transformation of Local and Global Values
Ozlem Olgac Turker and Hifsiye Pulhan
Eastern Mediterranean University, Famagusta, North Cyprus
C.11 THE CHANGING MEANINGS OF TRADITIONAL ARCHITECTURE
Queens Park Room 6, Second Floor
Chair: Joseph Aranha
Texas Tech, Lubbock, USA
New Traditions and Old Realities – Old Traditions and New Realities: The Emergence of Post-Maoist Park Design in China
Mary G. Padua
University of Hong Kong, China
Revealing Heritage and Desire through Istanbul’s Avenues and Alleyways
Alison Snyder
University of Oregon, Eugene, USA
Place and Hyper-place in Chiang Mai: Meanings of Sacred Architecture in the Secular Age
Pranom Tansukanun
Khon Kaen University, Khon Kaen, Thailand
Hyper Traditions/Hip Villages: Urbanite Villagers of Western Anatolia
Sebnem Yucel Young
Izmir Institute of Technology, Izmir, Turkey
3:10 PM – 3:30 PM
COFFEE BREAK
3:30 PM – 5:30 PM — FINAL PLENARY PANEL:
HYPER-TRADITIONS
Queen’s Park Grand Hall, 2nd Floor
Moderators:
Nezar AlSayyad, University of California, Berkeley, U.S.A.
Vimolsiddhi Horayangkura, Thammasat University, Bangkok, Thailand
Discussant:
Hasan-Uddin Khan, Roger Williams University, Lexington, U.S.A.
Panelists:
Gareth Jones, London School of Economics, London, U.K
Liisa Malkki, Stanford University, Stanford, U.S.A.
Alona Nitzan-Shiftan, Technion, Haifa, Israel
Dietrich Neumann, Brown University, Providence, U.S.A.
Michael Sorkin, City College of New York, New York, U.S.A.
5:30 PM – 11:10 PM
CLOSING RECEPTION/EVENING EXCURSION
Buses will depart from the hotel at 5:45 PM. Please gather in the lobby in advance of the departure time.
Organizing Committee
Nezar AlSayyad, Conference Director, University of California, Berkeley
Vimolsiddhi Horayangkura, Conference Local Director, Thammasat University
Stacey Murphy, Conference Coordinator, University of California, Berkeley
Thavanan Tanesdechsunthorn, Local Conference Coordinator, Thammasat University
Pimpan Vessakosol, Local Conference Advisor, Thammasat University
Montira Horayangura Unakul, Local Conference Advisor, UNESCO
Mark Gillem, Conference Advisor, University of Oregon
Wannaluk Pasomkusolsil, Local Conference Administrator
Sessions Advisory Committee
Hesham Khairy Abdelfattah, Nadia Alhasani, Joseph Aranha, William Bechhoefer, Anne-Marie Broudehoux, Greig Crysler, Yasser Elsheshtawy, Mark Gillem, Mui Ho, Montira Horayangura Unakul, Clara Irazábal, Gareth Jones, Hasan-Uddin Khan, Anthony King, Chee-Kien Lai, L. Keith Loftin, Duanfang Lu, Robert Mugerauer, Alona Nitzan-Shiftan, Marcela Pizzi, Mike Robinson, Vimalin Rujivacharakul, Gunawan Tjahjono, Dell Upton
Local Advisory Committee
Vimolsiddhi Horayangkura, Richard Engelhardt, Arak Sunghitakul, Khemchat Thepchai,Pisit Charoenwongsa, Suprabha Mooleeratanond, Trungjai Buranasomphob, Yongtanit Pimonsathean, Jarunee Pimonsathean, Warinporn Yangyuenwong, Thavanan Tanesdechdunthorn, Jaturong Pokharatsiri, Maadi Tungpanich, Rachadaporn Kanipun, Wannaluk Pasomkusolsil
Conference Sponsors
Thammasat University, Bangkok, Thailand
College of Environmental Design, University of California, Berkeley, U.S.A.