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ItemEcotourism in the architectural imagination(Channel View Publications, 2007)Ecotourism is a burgeoning sector of the tourism industry offering a relatively guilt-free environment in which to satisfy the desire for travel and adventure. The discourse is firmly entrenched within the dominant conception of sustainability, which posits nature as a privileged ‘other’ free from human intervention. Images of ecotourism destinations celebrate this ideology through the promotion of ‘pristine’ environments. However, a more complex image question arises in relation to the infrastructure that supports the tourists’ encounter with this idealised natural environment. This paper is concerned with unpacking the identities and ideologies that are embedded within images of ecotourism resorts and within the broader field of sustainable tourism. Through the lens of the premier global sustainable tourism certification program, Green Globe, three ‘images’ that correspond to three typologies of tourism destinations are identified. The ‘hyper-real’ is embedded within the mass-market arena of sustainable tourism, while the niche ecotourism market engages in a process of architectural ‘absence’. The third typology of place-based tourism mediates between these two extremes. While it can result in a tendency towards undifferentiated ‘background’ architecture, at its most productive it is conceived as a form of architectural ‘camouflage’ by maintaining a dynamic process of emergence and disappearance. When this typology is extended beyond the limits of the image, it offers even greater potential as a form of spatial liminality between traditional representations of human/environment relations as alternatively undifferentiated or ontologically distinct. The paper concludes by arguing that the design of ecotourism facilities should be focused on more than minimising impacts and that architecture has a productive role to play, particularly in relation to the education imperative of ecotourism.
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ItemCreativity in Spatial Design Processes - Establishing a Non-Routine Design Approach(The Design Society, 2010)
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ItemLehmwickel and the German Diaspora(Brandenburg University of Technology, 2009)
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ItemSustainable organic building materials for housing: the case of post-disaster reconstruction in Indonesia(School of Architecture and Design, University of Tasmania, 2009)
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ItemGlobality, Locality, and Freedom in the India of Satellier(Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand (SAHANZ), 2007)
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ItemFrom Art to the Everyday: Robin Boyd and the 'Windowall'(University of Technology Sydney Press, 2007)
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ItemLost in Translation: Language and Landscape in Bi-cultural New Zealand(Polytechnic University Publishing House, 2007)
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ItemVision and Visuality in the Museum: Lighting for Rational Recreation and Places of Resort(Society of Architectural Historians, Australia and New Zealand (SAHANZ), 2007)
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ItemContesting significance: the case of the modern Australian hospital 1930-1950(Society of Architectural Historians Australia and New Zealand (SAHANZ), 2006)
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ItemVirtual Heritage: mediating space, time and perspectives(The University of Hong Kong, 2006)