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dc.contributor.author Bharat, G
dc.contributor.author Khanwalkar, S
dc.date.accessioned 2022-08-30T07:54:31Z
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dc.date.issued 2010-12
dc.identifier.issn 2012-6301 en_US
dc.identifier.uri http://dl.lib.uom.lk/handle/123/18763
dc.description.abstract An eco-semiotic perspective explains how it exists and gets transformed in four stages: stage zero being wilderness, one - interpreting, identifying, describing, nature two - material interpretation, translation, and production of nature, and three - virtual nature (as represented in the classical and formal arts for instance). A vernacular tradition may be understood as situated in stage one, wherein people convert the physical proximity to nature into a space replete with meaning and association. In a recent interdisciplinary workshop at CEPT University, India we explored the semiotically constructed notions of space and geography in villages on either side of the Sabarmati River in Gujarat. The presence of the river has particular topographical and spatial impacts on the region, and a number of myths and stories have been developed around its presence. What is interesting is that the river has been dammed, has now nearly dried and patterns of life and livelihood along its banks have significantly changed. The myths however remain, and have become ingrained in the settlement and landscape through built symbols such as temples, shrines and other religious iconography or more elusively, in the oral narrative traditions of the local people. These icons and narratives on nature take on the responsibility of being repositories of a vernacular worldview constructed around associations with the river, even when the essence of the myths i.e. the river is no longer present en_US
dc.language.iso en en_US
dc.publisher Faculty of Architecture University of Moratuwa en_US
dc.title The Sabarmati Story: Memory Of Water And Notions Of Place en_US
dc.type Article-Full-text en_US
dc.identifier.year 2010 en_US
dc.identifier.journal Research Journal of the Faculty of Architecture en_US
dc.identifier.issue 01 en_US
dc.identifier.volume 02 en_US
dc.identifier.pgnos 176-182 en_US


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