Heritage, semiotics<i>and</i>innovations: architectural space, object-designs, meanings and implications in sustainable development

Saidi, Umali

doi:10.1080/10350330.2018.1443584

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“…Hence, visiting newly created villages in the cities is thus in some cases symbolic journeys to their villages as well as their past. Further engaging the above, Saidi [30] observed that, Repackaging "Traditional" Architecture of the African Village in Zimbabwe DOI: http://dx.doi.org /10.5772/intechopen.81450 Given that Africans have for long battled with cultural erosion and identity crisis, African people exhibit and continue to reflect effects of spiritual tension with their culture and environment. Their connections to "mother earth" have over the years been loosened.…”

Section: The African Village "Reconstructed": Architecture and Namingmentioning

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“…For Zimbabwe, therefore, the vernacular architecture has come to play this conservation role of culture as the landscape heavily came under construction within terrains far removed from natural sites where international legislature may force the country to protect the landscape. It is also important to note that what is being conserved here are not the buildings per se but the traditional architectural designs, activities, relations, and cultural identities of spaces, thereby promoting consumption as well as "visualization, representation, and symbolization" ( [30], p. 13) of Africa's habitant heritage.…”

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Repackaging “Traditional” Architecture of the African Village in Zimbabwe

Saidi¹

2019

Urban and Architectural Heritage Conservation Within Sustainability

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Repackaging is being done through construction of buildings with connections to traditional architecture as well as respective traditional naming of such symbolizing a return to African values. Naming of spaces and buildings is closely tied to the architecture of African heritage. This chapter explores the architecture of selected outdoor spaces in Zimbabwe. It is argued that the new places symbolize, represent African culture in terms of homage, food, hospitality, and cultural security. Furthermore, it is argued the spaces offer an eyrie of cultural values as housed in the architecture as well as names of the spaces thus communicating African sensibilities, aura of the traditional village at the same time sustainably conserving the architecture authored as by African heritage. One of the conclusions made is that the urban landscape can store and communicate African heritage; interestingly, requisite architecture can be used in this endeavor. Data were gathered qualitatively, and participant observations, interviews and extensive desktop research were involved.

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Section: The African Village "Reconstructed": Architecture and Namingmentioning

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Section: The African Village "Reconstructed": Architecture and Namingmentioning

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Repackaging “Traditional” Architecture of the African Village in Zimbabwe

Saidi¹

2019

Urban and Architectural Heritage Conservation Within Sustainability

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“…Semiotics, focused on the human activity of generating meaning, is a useful approach to debate representation and signification in a communicative context in as far as heritage in general is concerned (Peirce 1960 ; Ikegami 1991 ; Sebeok 2001 ; Saidi 2019 ). This has been attempted for geoheritage, in particular for the paleontological heritage, by Henriques and Pena dos Reis ( 2019 ).…”

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“…Key to semiotics is the meaning-making process in the wider sphere of communication. Humans are cultural beings whose operations and basic survival in all aspects of their lives are centered on evaluating things as well as on assigning meanings to them (Saidi 2019 ). Ikegami ( 1991 ) talking about language, a key human trait, calls this phenomenon ‘meaning-generating potentiality’.…”

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Walking on Geodiversity: the Artistic Stone-Paved Sidewalks of Lisbon (Portugal) and Their Heritage Value

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2022

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Sidewalks are not a trivial topic. They are a fundamental element of streets, the main public spaces in urban environments. In modern cities, paving materials are mostly artificial. In Portugal, stone-paved sidewalks are still prevalent and quite characteristic. Walking down a street, you do not need to lift your eyes off the ground to know you are in Portugal. In nineteenth-century Lisbon, a new type of pavement was introduced, the calçada portuguesa , the Portuguese artistic pavement mainly made with white and black limestone or basalt. This pavement is examined herein. More than simply highlighting its geological components, the different meanings and values of the calçada will be discussed from a semiotic perspective. It will also be debated how this geocultural heritage asset became key in shaping the city’s image. How it boosted Lisbon’s memorability, thus generating a strong sense of place among its inhabitants. So much so that these days the calçada patterns are everywhere, from table ware to post stamps, and even on socks. And yet, the long-term survival of the artistic pavement may be in peril. To ensure its preservation, the calçada portuguesa was recently included in the Portuguese Cultural Heritage list, a crucial step towards UNESCO world heritage status. However, in the document ratifying its newly attained status, the geological component of the pavement is mostly neglected. To maximize the conservation effort, the many meanings and heritage values of the calçada , namely the geological ones, should be actively involved, this work hopefully contributing to this end.

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“…Thus, symbolism in architecture makes a turn different from other arts, and the shape of a building is not formed only according to a need for some benefit or functional, material, and economic influences, but it also works together with it affecting the social heritage of architecture, and so symbolism in architecture is not a goal but a result. According to Ball, "designs are embodied in ways that go beyond their function or even symbolism, and comically or critically reflect cultural meaning" (Saidi, 2019).…”

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Heritage, semioticsandinnovations: architectural space, object-designs, meanings and implications in sustainable development

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Repackaging “Traditional” Architecture of the African Village in Zimbabwe

Repackaging “Traditional” Architecture of the African Village in Zimbabwe

Walking on Geodiversity: the Artistic Stone-Paved Sidewalks of Lisbon (Portugal) and Their Heritage Value

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