Across the globe, heritage sites are not preserved solely through policies or monuments; they endure through ritual, longing, and lived emotional connection.
Event details
Time: 8:30-10:00am WIB // 12:30-2:00pm AEDT
Join in-person: McDonald Room, Menzies library, ANU
Join online: bit.ly/ISG_indonesiaproject
About the seminar
Across the globe, heritage sites are not preserved solely through policies or monuments; they endure through ritual, longing, and lived emotional connection. This paper explores how spaces imbued with memory, blessing, and spiritual continuity challenge formal heritage and urban planning systems rooted in materiality, regulation, and state control. It examines how acts of ziyarah (pilgrimage) and haul (commemoration) sustain sacred cultural landscapes that resist rationalized interventions and colonial logics of space. Building on critiques of authorized heritage discourse and expanding beyond Western-centric understandings of space, the paper proposes the Landscape of Emotion and Memory as a conceptual framework for negotiating tensions between technocratic planning and humanities-informed interpretations of sacred urban landscapes. Sacred Islamic graveyards are examined as emotional landscapes that defy linear historicism. This research identifies and analyses three critical types of boundary negotiation observed within emotional landscapes: crossing disciplinary boundaries to recognize memory and ritual as legitimate urban knowledge; carefully navigating epistemological divides between technical data and lived experience; and respecting spiritual boundaries.
Event Speakers
Karina Tucunan
Karina explores Islamic Historic Urban Landscapes (HUL) in Indonesia, focusing on the spatial, morphological, and socio-cultural evolution of historic urban environments. Through a comparative study of six case studies across five cities, she aims to establish a conceptual framework for understanding and managing Islamic urban heritage in contemporary urban planning.