Site and Space in Southeast Asia explores the intersections of urban space, art and culture in three cities—Yangon, Penang, and Huế—through collaborative, site-based research.
With major funding from the Getty Foundation and partners from within and beyond the region, Site and Space in Southeast Asia seeks to support innovative research in the art and architectural histories of the region, foster professional networks among early career scholars, and expand engagement with an ever more global field.
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This digital publication presents cultural narratives of art and architecture, as told by scholars, curators and artists.
Their projects range from art histories and heritage studies to explorations of sense memories and cultural mapping; their work spans historical periods, crosses disciplines, and is presented here in multiple formats and languages.
Roam the immersive map or filter via the content index to encounter individual videos, recordings, images, field notes and site reports in each of the three cities, or explore whole projects from roundtable discussions, to essays and storymaps.
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Yangon
Yangon, formerly known as Rangoon, is the largest city and former capital of Myanmar (Burma). It is home to 7.3 million people.
Penang
Penang is a separate state of Malaysia and home to 1.7 million people. The old city was founded as a trading post of the English East India Company in the eighteenth century, in the area still known as Georgetown.
Huế
Huế was formerly the royal capital of the Nguyen Dynasty of Vietnam. The present city was founded at the beginning of the nineteenth century, but the city is built on an ancient fort and port of what was once one of the principal cities of Champa.