Ran Tu

Digital Heritage as Pedagogy: Fostering Cultural Identity through the Preservation of Guizhou Dong and African Vernacular Architecture

This paper undertakes a comparative examination of two geographically distant but conceptually convergent traditions of vernacular building: the timber architecture of the Dong ethnic minority in Guizhou, China — epitomised by the drum tower (gulou) and wind-and-rain bridge — and the earthen and painted vernacular form...