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Contextualizing a Culture in the Diasporic Contemporary

Sivakumar, Anjana
http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4672-5192
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1522165271448484

Abstract Details

2018, MARCH, University of Cincinnati, Design, Architecture, Art and Planning: Architecture.
We live in an increasingly diverse world, where diaspora is the norm and the exposure to immigrant cultures is a part of daily life. Immigrant groups rely on third places, as defined by Ray Oldenburg, to connect and collect the members of their cultural groups. This need exists among both the elder members of these communities and the younger members born here, in the United States. As they exist now, the third places for diasporic Indian communities raise two issues: they are exclusionary, and fall into two tropes: the co-opt and the transplant. These third places are often affiliated with religion, dividing members of cultural groups and rendering themselves as exclusionary spaces, fundamentally violating the basis of Oldenburg’s definition of the third place. Additionally, neither of these tropes adequately responds to the dual identities and values of Indians living in America today, begging the question: what is a cultural architecture that both respects its roots and responds to its current context? This thesis posits that an architecture that houses specific cultural activities must be performative, creating the conditions or environments that support the cultural behaviors and values that inform its design. Through an analysis and distillation of Indian culture, a corresponding student cultural center will be created to provide a place that is both culturally specific and inclusive for the Indian student organizations at the University of Texas at Austin to gather, celebrate, and share their culture with the larger student community.
Aarati Kanekar, Ph.D. (Committee Chair)
Michael McInturf, M.Arch. (Committee Member)
96 p.
Architecture
performative architcture; Indian culture; Indian diaspora; student cultural center; architectural identity

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  • Sivakumar, A. (2018). Contextualizing a Culture in the Diasporic Contemporary [Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1522165271448484

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Sivakumar, Anjana. Contextualizing a Culture in the Diasporic Contemporary. 2018. University of Cincinnati, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1522165271448484.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Sivakumar, Anjana. "Contextualizing a Culture in the Diasporic Contemporary." Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati, 2018. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1522165271448484

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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