Reframing the Vernacular: Politics, Semiotics, and Representation

Gusti Ayu Made Suartika is Head of international programs at the Department of Architecture, Planning & Development, Udayana University, Bali; Head of The Centre for Cultural Communication and Space (CCCS); and also Head of the Smart City Research Centre. Her research interests in urban planning in developing countries are revealed in her publications. Books include Morphing Bali-The State, Planning, and Culture and Vernacular Transformations-Architecture, Place and Tradi tion. She has a wide range of academic publications including journals such as Space and Culture, Habitat International, the Journal of Urban Design and the Wiley Encyclopaedia of social Science . Current research includes vernacular architecture and culture, the public realm in Indonesia, and smart city concepts applied to developing countries. She is enthusiastic in dedicating her academic endeavours, research activities, publications, and public works to facilitate the Commons in the formation of physically and socially liveable towns and their built form.
Julie Nichols lectures in architecture and sustainable design. Julie is the founder of Vernacular Knowledge Research Group [VKRG] and executive member of the Australian Research Centre for Interactive Virtual Environments.
Julie's main research interests link the fields of digital humanities, vernacular architectural history and theorythrough drawing and representation practices. Julie's interdisciplinary research includes:multimodal methods for post-disaster management of built cultural heritage sites; re-conceptualising vernacular architecture; theories of spatial design in Australia and Indonesia. Julie's first monograph, Maps and Meanings: Urban Cartography and Urban Design (2014), traces changing roles of the map in the creation of settlements in Southeast Asian and European cities in 17th& 18th centuries.Julie received commendation for End-User Engagement in 2017 for "The Aceh Method: digitally Distributed Architectural Ethnography in Trauma Mitigation for Post-disaster Reconstruction," and two Australian DFAT Awards for documentation of vernacular architecture.