NOTES: Beynon, D., (2007) ‘Centres on the Edge: Multicultural Built Environments in Melbourne’, Everyday multiculturalism conference poceedings, Maquarie Univrsity, Sydney.
NOTES:
Beynon, D., (2007) ‘Centres on the Edge: Multicultural Built Environments in Melbourne’, Everyday multiculturalism conference poceedings, Maquarie Univrsity, Sydney.
NEGOTIATING:
- Insertion of new types of buildings
- Within existing urban environments
- Contestation
o Judged on degree of their departure
o Interventions of recent immigrant groups
Problematic
Overt religious or cultural content
Within ‘priveladge’ of anglo celtic original
- “The architectural impact of non-anglo-celtic societies and cultures on melbourne have thus been mainly considered in terms of how built others might be assimilated into existing environments rather than how they might transform them.
o Edge condition
o Recent developmets in greater Dandenong
o Statistically most ethnically diverse
Inc. Keysborough
Springvale South
o Buddhist temples
o Orthodox churches
o Mosques
- Immigrants to alter the social fabric of the city
- Ghassan Hage: “has contended, the degree to which whiteness can continue as the unspoken centre of Australian identity and the benchmark from which social interactions, products or spacial relationships should be juged (Hage 1998: 18)
- Examination of the australian built environment constitutes a vital understanding in the australian identity
- ‘the raw materials of architecture... that seemingly furnish the conclusion of a discourse, a project, a plan, a building, a city, are merely material points of departure” (chambers 2001: 418
- Space is rendered into place, is transformed into historical practices and cultural apertures: into an irrepressible series of languages, bodies, acts, and provication.” (chambers 2001: 418)
- What is proposed by a building in its design is not the same as its physical and spacial reality.
- Buildings are performative
- Within the scope of their interaction is how they are understood.
- Active constituents as pposed to autonimous objects.
- Architecture intervenes, maps and signifies.
- Constructs identities
- Helps to shape how we know the world by the mediating power
- Social relations
- Cultural values.
- Context is critical
o Provides the armature of this space
o Form and its image
- The urban environment is an arena where issues such as vaues, identity, and difference are played out in tangible ways everyday
- Buit environment
o Society is developing
o Do not arise out of the mouths of polititians
Lobbyists
Media barons
But from australian poeple
o Develop a clearer picture for what might develop for the nations multicultural future.
o Become a centre for the settlement of:
Vietnamese
Chinese
Greek
Italian
Bosnian
Cambodian
Lao
Sudanse
Afghan
Low income groups
o Rubrc of australian multiculturalism has a tendancy to use ‘culture’ as a trope through which all aspects of ethnic community life are understood.
o Obvious signs of multiculturl settlement in the buit environment is the existance of shops and other businesses
Indian
Pakistani
Fijian
o Phenomenon is the presence of temples in the municipalities residential areas
o Sometimes subtle and sometimes emphatic transformations
- Cultural characteristics which could constitute another study
- Until the last 10-15 years remained as undeveloped or rural land
o Now being transformed into new build cultural centres
o Demographic changes have lead to the need for new types of buildings
- While residentially zoned
- Area has experienced substantial religious buildings
- Vitnamese buddhist temple
- Chinese buddhist temple
- Cambodian buddhist temple
- Existing uses in this area include market gardening
- Horse agistment
- Remnant farming uses
- New religious buildings for different communities
o Sri Lankan Buddhist Temple
o Turkish Mosque
o Polish Catholic Church
o Serbian Orthodox Church
- Fascinating patchwork of religious and ethnisized spaces
- All these buildings represent particular ethnic and theological consituents
- National supra-religious spaces
- Coexist collectivley
- Implications for demographic change on local planning
- Transition of architectural symbols
- Marginality of siting these new buildings is significant
- Commercial zone within cities might be relativley amenable to cultural shifts
- Established residential or institutional areas tend to be more resistant
- Alterations that are unobtrusive both visually and in terms of usage tend to be permitted
- Perceptions of habitus
- Remnant land becomes habitable due to
o Fewer competing demands
o Weaker sense of habitus
o Less prone to be seen as confrontational
o Term as tactical
o Resist the strategies of the hegemonic
o Imagine alternatives that may co-exist with them (de Certeau 1998)
o Rights to a particular place for those not ‘naturally’ belonging to that place remain provisional (Gunew 2004: 96)
o ‘third world looking buildings’ (hage 1998: 18, Beynon 2005)
o Considered to belong elsewhere
o Elsewhere outside the civilisational lineage
o Comment on the placeof these buildings within the australian architectural framework/landscape/environment
o Complete lack of interest in them from writers and critics on australian architecture
o Users and inhabitants
- Symptomatic of a tendancy to regard the impact of non-anglo-celtic societies and cultures upon australia
o Mainly in terms of how others may be integrated into a pre-existing and presumably homogenous society rather than how they might transform it
o The appearance of ethnically based shops
o Businesses
o Places of worship
o As a co-option for other parts of australia
o Superficially the realm of the ‘oriental exotic’
o Connotations of both excitement and threat
o Places of worship is significant
o Use of overt symbolism
o Distinctive forms
o Allegience to not just a particular set of ideal yt also to a particular place
o Precence of communities of whom both qoitidian and spiritual points of reference are different
o Presents a greater challenge to the status quo
- Positions imply a particular positionality
o ‘authentic’
- Australian identity is in a position to judge other identities as being ‘un-australian’
- Increasing precense hasn’t really shifted perceptions of what it means to be australian.
- Whiteness and particular forms of christianity
- Core of austrlianness
o Conditional to their deferral to the implied characteristics of this core
o Suggesting not only that there is a homogenous (and white) centre of knowledge, belief and social interaction, but that the centre has attributes not shared by others
o Demography suggests that this is not something that can be assumed
o No single ethnic group constitutes more than 10% of the population
o Architectural or cultural identity
We may ask whose?
Multiplicity of cultural histories at work in every building, alteration, and land subdivision.
Central to the way in which this part of cultural suburbia is evolving.
Progressive view:
• Embrace diversity of modern cultural built form as a sign of multicultural diversity
• Constitute a multicultural architecture in the making
o Hage Arab Australians 2000: narrow territoril definition of identity is inadequate when population derives a large part of their history from other places
o Towns from origination of multicultural australia
‘provide ingredients that constitute the multicultural presence just as much as any built local built heritage (Hage 2000 12)
• Reveals a rich mix of local and immigrant built sources
o Stylistic
o Structural
o Material
o Spatial
o Mixtures of traditional typologies and local materials
Meet ritual and practical needs
• national, ethnic religious histories
o allegiances belonging to both past and present
o more importantly
o which the histories of other places, other cultures are being imprinted onto the australian landscape
CASE STUDY: Dhamma Sarana Sri Lankan Buddhist Temple, Keysborogh
- unremarkable small building
- rendered walls
- pitched metal deck roof
- scale and constructuion similar to local residential areas
- distinguished by certain elements
- octoganol front pavillion
- large white stupa
- Dhamma reference to the truth and law as taught by the buddah
- Sarana three refuges of buddhism
- each embodied with components of the temple
- vihara temple monestary
- stupa the law made visible, the mystical, architectonic body of the buddah (eliade 1985: 135)
- Patimagarah image house
o it is the ecclesiastical part of the vihara
monks assemble
worship
meditate
consult textx
preach
o preach the dhamma
- patimaghara is usually square as representation as the houseing space of the buddah
o in this instance the octogon references a royal pavilion from the preeminant sri lankan temple Dalada Maligawa
Temple of Tooth Kandy
o Closely linked with the image of sri lankan nationalism and sinhalese ethnicity
- Other buildings in this area could be analysed to discover insights into the disparate ingredients that make up the local built environment
- Exist within a local context
- Together they form a continuous built landscape which is identified by their unique systems of representation and belief.
- Adopt elements of new environment in sync with representation of the old.
- Shifts the identity of place due to the influence of immigrant requirement, thus, altering the austrlian landcape.
- Not a simple adaption from one cultural identity to another
o Nor is it the loss of ‘australia’
o Neither is it one hegemonic group, but rather, disparate groups seeking unity within their like-community.
Notes by: Thomas J. Barker, Arch.Angle.Studios
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
Beynon, D., (2007) ‘Centres on the Edge: Multicultural Built Environments in Melbourne’, Everyday multiculturalism conference poceedings, Maquarie Univrsity, Sydney.
NEGOTIATING:
- Insertion of new types of buildings
- Within existing urban environments
- Contestation
o Judged on degree of their departure
o Interventions of recent immigrant groups
Problematic
Overt religious or cultural content
Within ‘priveladge’ of anglo celtic original
- “The architectural impact of non-anglo-celtic societies and cultures on melbourne have thus been mainly considered in terms of how built others might be assimilated into existing environments rather than how they might transform them.
o Edge condition
o Recent developmets in greater Dandenong
o Statistically most ethnically diverse
Inc. Keysborough
Springvale South
o Buddhist temples
o Orthodox churches
o Mosques
- Immigrants to alter the social fabric of the city
- Ghassan Hage: “has contended, the degree to which whiteness can continue as the unspoken centre of Australian identity and the benchmark from which social interactions, products or spacial relationships should be juged (Hage 1998: 18)
- Examination of the australian built environment constitutes a vital understanding in the australian identity
- ‘the raw materials of architecture... that seemingly furnish the conclusion of a discourse, a project, a plan, a building, a city, are merely material points of departure” (chambers 2001: 418
- Space is rendered into place, is transformed into historical practices and cultural apertures: into an irrepressible series of languages, bodies, acts, and provication.” (chambers 2001: 418)
- What is proposed by a building in its design is not the same as its physical and spacial reality.
- Buildings are performative
- Within the scope of their interaction is how they are understood.
- Active constituents as pposed to autonimous objects.
- Architecture intervenes, maps and signifies.
- Constructs identities
- Helps to shape how we know the world by the mediating power
- Social relations
- Cultural values.
- Context is critical
o Provides the armature of this space
o Form and its image
- The urban environment is an arena where issues such as vaues, identity, and difference are played out in tangible ways everyday
- Buit environment
o Society is developing
o Do not arise out of the mouths of polititians
Lobbyists
Media barons
But from australian poeple
o Develop a clearer picture for what might develop for the nations multicultural future.
o Become a centre for the settlement of:
Vietnamese
Chinese
Greek
Italian
Bosnian
Cambodian
Lao
Sudanse
Afghan
Low income groups
o Rubrc of australian multiculturalism has a tendancy to use ‘culture’ as a trope through which all aspects of ethnic community life are understood.
o Obvious signs of multiculturl settlement in the buit environment is the existance of shops and other businesses
Indian
Pakistani
Fijian
o Phenomenon is the presence of temples in the municipalities residential areas
o Sometimes subtle and sometimes emphatic transformations
- Cultural characteristics which could constitute another study
- Until the last 10-15 years remained as undeveloped or rural land
o Now being transformed into new build cultural centres
o Demographic changes have lead to the need for new types of buildings
- While residentially zoned
- Area has experienced substantial religious buildings
- Vitnamese buddhist temple
- Chinese buddhist temple
- Cambodian buddhist temple
- Existing uses in this area include market gardening
- Horse agistment
- Remnant farming uses
- New religious buildings for different communities
o Sri Lankan Buddhist Temple
o Turkish Mosque
o Polish Catholic Church
o Serbian Orthodox Church
- Fascinating patchwork of religious and ethnisized spaces
- All these buildings represent particular ethnic and theological consituents
- National supra-religious spaces
- Coexist collectivley
- Implications for demographic change on local planning
- Transition of architectural symbols
- Marginality of siting these new buildings is significant
- Commercial zone within cities might be relativley amenable to cultural shifts
- Established residential or institutional areas tend to be more resistant
- Alterations that are unobtrusive both visually and in terms of usage tend to be permitted
- Perceptions of habitus
- Remnant land becomes habitable due to
o Fewer competing demands
o Weaker sense of habitus
o Less prone to be seen as confrontational
o Term as tactical
o Resist the strategies of the hegemonic
o Imagine alternatives that may co-exist with them (de Certeau 1998)
o Rights to a particular place for those not ‘naturally’ belonging to that place remain provisional (Gunew 2004: 96)
o ‘third world looking buildings’ (hage 1998: 18, Beynon 2005)
o Considered to belong elsewhere
o Elsewhere outside the civilisational lineage
o Comment on the placeof these buildings within the australian architectural framework/landscape/environment
o Complete lack of interest in them from writers and critics on australian architecture
o Users and inhabitants
- Symptomatic of a tendancy to regard the impact of non-anglo-celtic societies and cultures upon australia
o Mainly in terms of how others may be integrated into a pre-existing and presumably homogenous society rather than how they might transform it
o The appearance of ethnically based shops
o Businesses
o Places of worship
o As a co-option for other parts of australia
o Superficially the realm of the ‘oriental exotic’
o Connotations of both excitement and threat
o Places of worship is significant
o Use of overt symbolism
o Distinctive forms
o Allegience to not just a particular set of ideal yt also to a particular place
o Precence of communities of whom both qoitidian and spiritual points of reference are different
o Presents a greater challenge to the status quo
- Positions imply a particular positionality
o ‘authentic’
- Australian identity is in a position to judge other identities as being ‘un-australian’
- Increasing precense hasn’t really shifted perceptions of what it means to be australian.
- Whiteness and particular forms of christianity
- Core of austrlianness
o Conditional to their deferral to the implied characteristics of this core
o Suggesting not only that there is a homogenous (and white) centre of knowledge, belief and social interaction, but that the centre has attributes not shared by others
o Demography suggests that this is not something that can be assumed
o No single ethnic group constitutes more than 10% of the population
o Architectural or cultural identity
We may ask whose?
Multiplicity of cultural histories at work in every building, alteration, and land subdivision.
Central to the way in which this part of cultural suburbia is evolving.
Progressive view:
• Embrace diversity of modern cultural built form as a sign of multicultural diversity
• Constitute a multicultural architecture in the making
o Hage Arab Australians 2000: narrow territoril definition of identity is inadequate when population derives a large part of their history from other places
o Towns from origination of multicultural australia
‘provide ingredients that constitute the multicultural presence just as much as any built local built heritage (Hage 2000 12)
• Reveals a rich mix of local and immigrant built sources
o Stylistic
o Structural
o Material
o Spatial
o Mixtures of traditional typologies and local materials
Meet ritual and practical needs
• national, ethnic religious histories
o allegiances belonging to both past and present
o more importantly
o which the histories of other places, other cultures are being imprinted onto the australian landscape
CASE STUDY: Dhamma Sarana Sri Lankan Buddhist Temple, Keysborogh
- unremarkable small building
- rendered walls
- pitched metal deck roof
- scale and constructuion similar to local residential areas
- distinguished by certain elements
- octoganol front pavillion
- large white stupa
- Dhamma reference to the truth and law as taught by the buddah
- Sarana three refuges of buddhism
- each embodied with components of the temple
- vihara temple monestary
- stupa the law made visible, the mystical, architectonic body of the buddah (eliade 1985: 135)
- Patimagarah image house
o it is the ecclesiastical part of the vihara
monks assemble
worship
meditate
consult textx
preach
o preach the dhamma
- patimaghara is usually square as representation as the houseing space of the buddah
o in this instance the octogon references a royal pavilion from the preeminant sri lankan temple Dalada Maligawa
Temple of Tooth Kandy
o Closely linked with the image of sri lankan nationalism and sinhalese ethnicity
- Other buildings in this area could be analysed to discover insights into the disparate ingredients that make up the local built environment
- Exist within a local context
- Together they form a continuous built landscape which is identified by their unique systems of representation and belief.
- Adopt elements of new environment in sync with representation of the old.
- Shifts the identity of place due to the influence of immigrant requirement, thus, altering the austrlian landcape.
- Not a simple adaption from one cultural identity to another
o Nor is it the loss of ‘australia’
o Neither is it one hegemonic group, but rather, disparate groups seeking unity within their like-community.
Notes by: Thomas J. Barker, Arch.Angle.Studios
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
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