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Seminar Themes and Topics
Mapping and naming as ways of defining and
understanding place
Paths to and within the Palouse (trails "then
and now," Highway 95)
Landscape as place: geology, meaning of this
landscape to American Indian, farmers, photographers, poets,
retirees from elsewhere. Environmental issues and
activities: PCEI, county zoning, organic vs. traditional
farming.
Schitsu'umsh
Continue themes of mapping and naming, landscape as
place (landforms and storytelling), and environmental concerns.
New themes: the "landscape" as created by
the First Peoples (e.g., Coyote, Crane, Rabbit, and Chief Child
of the Yellow Root), as known through a participatory
epistemology ("heart knowledge"), and as perpetuated
through the oral traditions (stories, songs and spirituality),
i.e., relationship of “landscape” to human communities,
to architecture, to community planning, to foods such as the
water potato, and to the powwow (dance, regalia, music, ceremony,
and photography); and issues of sovereignty and autonomy in
maintaining place/community (Lake Coeur d'Alene, the family
powwow, and the gaming/entertainment initiatives of the Coeur
d'Alene Casino/Motel).
Silver Valley
Continue with photography, geology, environmental
concerns, human communities and their relationship to
architecture and planning; trails, highway, railroad; issues of
sovereignty and autonomy: the community vs. the EPA.
New themes: change of community identity:
mining and timber to tourism; political manifestations. Song as
celebration of place: worker songs (and relate this to
Bukvich/Mihelich Butte project). The creation of a new
place “out of nothing.”
The Columbia
Continue with geology, environmental issues, song,
storytelling, naming and mapping, song and storytelling, creation
of new places (Richland? Maryhill?). Food (salmon, wine?)
The narrative of the Columbia: Lewis and Clark,
Celilo Falls, the WPA, (Hanford?)
Seattle
Continue examination of planning and architecture.
Creation of new place: gated and theme communities; the new
urbanism. Redefining place: docks (Duamish River) to World’s
Fair to high tech communities; Pike Place Market (also ties to
planning and architecture). Transportation and connections
(highways, paths, ferries). Food.
New (mostly): neighborhood—a way of achieving
autonomy and defining place within a diverse city. Include
American Indian (Health Center; neighborhood?), Japanese-American
?), Alki/West Seattle, Ballard? Artistic
representations/responses to place—sculpture, painting,
music.
Pulling things together: Northwest art
(Euro-American and American Indian) at museums (galleries/museums
as markers of artistic and urban place). Traditional
culture (song, storytelling) at the Folklife festival.
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