Inventing Sacred Places: Wooden Sculptures and Placemaking of Contemporary Landscape

This article describes some characteristics of modern vernacular architecture as placemaking models and presents the biographies of two monuments – the energy pillars. The paper also examines the connection between the concept of earth power and the cosmopolitan views of earth energies. These monume...

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Main Author: Mare Kõiva
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: ELM Scholarly Press 2018-12-01
Series:Yearbook of Balkan and Baltic Studies
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Online Access:https://www.folklore.ee/balkan_baltic_yearbook/YBBS/article/view/11/8
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description This article describes some characteristics of modern vernacular architecture as placemaking models and presents the biographies of two monuments – the energy pillars. The paper also examines the connection between the concept of earth power and the cosmopolitan views of earth energies. These monuments are used to highlight the religious, folkloric, and healing potential. In the expository part, I shall address the attitudes towards the structures and discuss to what extent they can be regarded as creative innovations.
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spelling doaj.art-0802315a099f457e887dd3e57c29b4572022-12-22T03:26:55ZengELM Scholarly PressYearbook of Balkan and Baltic Studies2613-78442613-78522018-12-0111617610.7592/YBBS1.05Inventing Sacred Places: Wooden Sculptures and Placemaking of Contemporary LandscapeMare Kõiva0Estonian Literary MuseumThis article describes some characteristics of modern vernacular architecture as placemaking models and presents the biographies of two monuments – the energy pillars. The paper also examines the connection between the concept of earth power and the cosmopolitan views of earth energies. These monuments are used to highlight the religious, folkloric, and healing potential. In the expository part, I shall address the attitudes towards the structures and discuss to what extent they can be regarded as creative innovations.https://www.folklore.ee/balkan_baltic_yearbook/YBBS/article/view/11/8energy pillarsgeopathianew religious movementsplacemakingwooden monuments
spellingShingle Mare Kõiva
Inventing Sacred Places: Wooden Sculptures and Placemaking of Contemporary Landscape
Yearbook of Balkan and Baltic Studies
energy pillars
geopathia
new religious movements
placemaking
wooden monuments
title Inventing Sacred Places: Wooden Sculptures and Placemaking of Contemporary Landscape
title_full Inventing Sacred Places: Wooden Sculptures and Placemaking of Contemporary Landscape
title_fullStr Inventing Sacred Places: Wooden Sculptures and Placemaking of Contemporary Landscape
title_full_unstemmed Inventing Sacred Places: Wooden Sculptures and Placemaking of Contemporary Landscape
title_short Inventing Sacred Places: Wooden Sculptures and Placemaking of Contemporary Landscape
title_sort inventing sacred places wooden sculptures and placemaking of contemporary landscape
topic energy pillars
geopathia
new religious movements
placemaking
wooden monuments
url https://www.folklore.ee/balkan_baltic_yearbook/YBBS/article/view/11/8
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