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Name and Affiliation

Name: Jilly Traganou
University: University of Westminster (London, U.K.)
Department: Architecture

Contact Information

Address:
2901 SW 13th Str., Apt. 241
Gainesville, Fl-32608, USA

59 Tsiller Str.
Athens 111 44
Greece

Phone: 352 846 5004
Email: jillyt@grove.ufl.edu

Project Description

Title: Modern Landscapes in Japan - Tokaido: Revisited
Supervisor(s): Dr. Tanis Hinchcliffe
Date Begun: September 1994

Degree: Ph.D.
Format: HTML

Description:

Field of my research is the transformation of the landscape in Japan, during the passage of the country into Modernism. The research is attempting to register differences and transformations on the notion and use of the landscape between distinct stages of Japanese modernity:

a.Edo Period (early Modernism, 1600-1868),
b.Meiji (1868-1912)- Taisho (1916-1928) period,
c.Post-War Japan.

The research's interest lies in investigating how landscape transformations have been 'inscribed' on both the geographical and visual field, or else, the intersection of the landscape as both a physical and cognitive entity. Aim of the research is to investigate the relation between the geographical imagery and the dominant ideology- national identity of each time. It will analyse the way the landscape has been perceived, depicted or debated, through the particular issues, fantasies or epistemological frameworks, that each historical period has addressed.

URL: http://www.ucet.ufl.edu/~miodrag/jilly/