The 10th ISVS with the theme ‘Re-domestication of the World after the Pandemic: A Re-visit to the Origins and Manifestations of Domesticity in Vernacular Settlements’ is to be held at the School of Planning and Architecture (SPA) Bhopal from February 12 to 14, 2021. This three-day seminar will be held online looking into the Covid-19 situation.
The three-day-long seminar is divided into six sessions i.e. Manifestations of Domesticity in Vernacular settlements, House Home and Sense of Belonging: Vernacular concepts and conceptualisations, Earth as Sacred Abode: Vernacular Conceptualisations of Nature, Vernacular Practice of Negotiating Nature's Adversities and Pandemic, Origins and Manifestations of vernacular culture and Transformations of vernacular settlements.
On the first day Keynote speaker Prof. Gunawan Tjahjono, Professor of Architecture at the University of Pembangunan Jaya, Jakarta, Indonesia will discuss ‘Redomestication of Humans: Spatial Change to Live by the Pandemic With Wisdom of Vernacular Settlements’. The second-day keynote speaker Velika Ivkovska is an engineer, architect, and architectural historian.
She is an Assistant Professor at Bahçesehir University (BAU) Istanbul will discuss on 'Resurgence of the Vernacular in the Era of Covid19 in Macedonica'. On the third day in the valedictory function Prof. Miki Desai former Professor of Architecture at the CEPT University, Ahmedabad, India will discuss 'We the Modern (Architect)'.
The theme of the seminar is focused on the human settlements after the covid19 situation as it has changed the way of living in the home that was turned into an office for many of the people, as well as they also started focusing on the self-reliant in their daily needs, therefore the need of the vernacular settlements come to mind, in which the earth was treated with a sense of reverence, due care and acceptance of human subservience to Nature. As informed by Prof. Sanjeev Singh, Professor, SPA Bhopal, and seminar chairperson.
The International Seminar on Vernacular Settlements (ISVS), which is organized by the International Society for the Study of Vernacular Settlements every two years is a confluence of people from academia, research, profession, and students that take place intending to promote research into Vernacular Settlements to contribute to the knowledge of vernacular settlements around the world and establish the meaningfulness and relevance of vernacular traditions, and cultural practices in the contemporary world. Till-date seminars have been organized every two years in countries like Indonesia, India, Sri Lanka, Cyprus, and Turkey. Nearly 600 participants from more than 25 countries have participated in these conferences/ seminars.