Vernacular

The universe of what we classify as vernacular is illusory and often inconspicuous: it is part of our daily social life, the landscapes we traverse, and the places where our lives revolve. However, this proximity tends to camouflage it, only regaining importance when threatened with disappearance, and alarms sound about what we are about to lose.

Vernacular is part of a past/present we can still reach, but tends to fade away amongst the dynamics of the present, while taking with it a piece of our cultural identity. In fact, vernacular is, above all, identitarian, portrayed in all humanised landscapes, the ones Carlos Alberto Ferreira de Almeida named "sacralized", but is also incorporated into the whole of our material and immaterial social life. Landscape is the anchor for the three-way interaction with process and with time, thus being the core for the theme of this congress Genius Loci. Genius Loci.

Vernacular unfolds across broad and varied themes that can be viewed through critical and multidisciplinary perspectives, which this section of the congress is keen to welcome.