Gardens beyond borders : rethinking UNESCO's approach to Persianate Gardens through transnational and multimodal lenses
department or school: Creative and Critical Studies, Faculty of (Okanagan)
data provider: DSpace
degree campus: UBCO
creator: Saffari, Sepideh
issued: 2024-09-26T23:11:54Z
issued: 2024
related degree: Doctor of Philosophy - PhD
degree grantor: University of British Columbia
description: Persianate Gardens possess an interconnected history across current countries of Central Asia, Iranian and Deccan plateaus. The gardens’ shared history, embodied in their consistent design, spanned diverse geographical locations (Archi-scape) that are currently framed by modern national borders. Despite Persianate gardens’ transnational reach, most scholarship adopts national lenses while concentrating on documentation and forms. This nation-based outlook has deeply shaped the representation of Persianate Gardens, and this view is disseminated by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), arguably the world’s most significant cultural heritage organization. UNESCO’s nation-based outlook, which obscures the gardens’ fluid and dialogic nature, was further reinforced by UNESCO’s logocentric documentation and reports. Using visual data as ornamental materials conceals a holistic picture that can only be explored through visual and multimodal aspects of cultural heritage. Therefore, UNESCO’s interpretation of the Persianate Garden encourages a fragmented narrative of its history and development caused by its content and representation format. To address these gaps, this research investigates the commonalities of Timurid, Safavid, and Mughal gardens through a transnational lens while exploring multimodal approaches to argument and representation. The study employs visual-centric methods, namely cognitive mapping, and content analysis (with a focus on visual comparative evaluation), alongside semi-3D modeling and graphical analysis for case studies assessment. A visual-centered methodology is imperative to examine the visual datasets of spatial layouts and heritage information. The study applies a new set of criteria to explore the potential for diminishing the significance of the gardens’ national classification while unfolding their connections and consistency. Rather than imposing an external set of universal principles for heritage e…
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note: GARDENS BEYOND BORDERS: RETHINKING UNESCO'S APPROACH TO PERSIANATE GARDENS THROUGH TRANSNATIONAL AND MULTIMODAL LENSES by Sepideh Saffari A DISSERTATION SUBMITTED IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE OF DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY in THE COLLEGE OF GRADUATE STUDIES (Interdisciplinary Studies) (Digital Arts and Humanities) THE UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA (Okanagan) September 2024 © Sepideh Saffari, 2024 ii The following individuals certify that they have read, and recommend to the College of Graduate Studies for acceptance, a dissertation entitled: GARDENS BEYOND BORDERS: RETHINKING UNESCO'S APPROACH TO PERSIANATE GARDENS THROUGH TRANSNATIONAL AND MULTIMODAL LENSES submitted by Sepideh Saffari in partial fulfillment of the requirements of the degree of Doctor of Philosophy . Dr. Hussein Keshani, Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies Supervisor Dr. Aleksandra Dulic, Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies Supervisory Committee Member Dr. Karis Shearer, Faculty of Creative and Critical Studies Supervisory Committee Member Dr. Neha Gupta, Irving K. Barber Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences Supervisory Committee Member Dr. Susan Crichton, Okanagan School of Education University Examiner Dr. Stephen Whiteman, The Courtauld Institute of Art External Examiner iii Abstract Persianate Gardens possess an interconnected history across current countries of Central Asia, Iranian and Deccan plateaus. The gardens’ shared history, embodied in their consistent design, spanned diverse geographical locations (Archi-scape) that are currently framed by modern national borders. Despite Persianate gardens’ transnational reach, most scholarship adopts national lenses while concentrating on documentation and forms. This nation-based outlook has deeply shaped the representation of Persianate Gardens, and this view is disseminated by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), arguably the world’s most significant cultural heritage organ…
has type: Thesis/Dissertation
date issued: 2024-11
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0445461
language: eng
degree discipline: Interdisciplinary Studies
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: University of British Columbia
rights: Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
rights URI: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
scholar level: Graduate
contributor: Keshani, Hussein
type: Text
identifier URI: http://hdl.handle.net/2429/89308