Cultural Anthropology
leonido.gines@email.ucr.edu
Jun is a Ph.D. student in cultural anthropology. His interest is in looking at how the ‘vernacular' is being reconstructed in Philippine architectural practice and how it is becoming part of national consciousness of Filipinos to help articulate ideology, identity, memory and spatiality or locationality. Drawing from his experience as an architect and his participation in museum projects, he looks at the Tagalog hegemonic construction, production and reproduction of spatiality. Within this domain, he asks how people move within, respond to and configure into the complexities of urbanized dwelling and living in the Philippines.