23/12/2025
Reframing Vernacular Architecture for a Decolonised World
February 26–27, 2026
CEPT University, Ahmedabad, India
Last date to register: 31 January 2025
Reframing Vernacular Architecture for a Decolonised World invites scholars, practitioners, and researchers to critically rethink inherited definitions of vernacular architecture and to challenge the colonial frameworks through which it has historically been understood.
The conference brings together four interconnected thematic areas:
- Language & Meaning: interrogating terminology, etymologies, and architectural language;
- Production & Use: examining processes of making, craft, materials, knowledge systems, and contemporary adaptations;
- Documenting & Archiving: questioning disciplinary methods, digital futures, and ethics of authorship and representation;
- Valuing, Conserving & Adapting: critically engaging with conservation doctrines, sustainability narratives, and practices of transformation.
Jointly hosted by Oxford Brookes University, UK, and CEPT University, Ahmedabad, India, the conference seeks to foster a global dialogue that brings together diverse scholarly, professional, and practice-based perspectives. The Scientific Committee, comprising internationally recognised scholars and practitioners, will guide the intellectual direction of the conference, reflecting a wide range of approaches to unpacking the complexities of vernacular architecture, its reinterpretations, and its contemporary relevance.
The conference is expected to culminate in a critical edited publication, curated by experts appointed by both organising institutions.
Join a global dialogue that brings together scholars and practitioners from diverse disciplines and geographies.
Register soon and be part of the conversation shaping how vernacular architecture is understood today.
For more information, visit here - https://crdf.org.in/event/reframing-vernacular-architecture-for-a-decolonised-world
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Center for Heritage Conservation
CEPT Research and Development Foundation
Faculty of Architecture, CEPT University
Master's in Conservation and Regeneration Program
Jigna Desai
