George Steve Jaramillo
Research Associate
Design-Institute of Design Innovation
Research Interests
Architecture, Heritage, Cultural Geography, Rural Landscapes
Research Profile
I am an architect and heritage specialist by training with interests in rural landscape, industrial material culture, and ruins. My research focuses on the fragmentary and distributed cultures of the Highlands and Islands where I explore themes of landscape attunement, heritage futures, and new ways of making through the cultures of co-creation, and the artefacts created from that co-production. I am interested in the way that these material cultures are intersected through the digital and analogue forms and their relationship to the person. I am motivated to recover the tenuous connections with these artefacts and their labour to understand the people’s identity and makeup. The aim is to bring forth a co-productive understanding of the social and historical lives of the people of the Higmore...
I am an architect and heritage specialist by training with interests in rural landscape, industrial material culture, and ruins. My research focuses on the fragmentary and distributed cultures of the Highlands and Islands where I explore themes of landscape attunement, heritage futures, and new ways of making through the cultures of co-creation, and the artefacts created from that co-production. I am interested in the way that these material cultures are intersected through the digital and analogue forms and their relationship to the person. I am motivated to recover the tenuous connections with these artefacts and their labour to understand the people’s identity and makeup. The aim is to bring forth a co-productive understanding of the social and historical lives of the people of the Highlands and Islands, and promote creative futures of the region.
Qualifications
2001, Bachelor of Architecture, Cornell University
2003, Masters of Architecture, Syracuse University
2005, MSc in Historic Preservation, Columbia University
2016, PhD, Geography, University of Edinburgh
