As an Introduction to Landscape Stories, the first part of this this lecture posits ‘landscape narratives’ as a trope to revisit the nomadic histories of Inner Asia, thereby developing a framework to study buildings, landscapes and cultures. It suggests how this narrativized viewing of landscape remains critical to the understandings of landform, terrain, centering, de-centering, and bordering conditions – as substantially framed by the trials and tribulations of a peripatetic existence. It questions why nomadic populations have historically moved across the landscapes of Inner Asia, in response to a seasonal, time-bound, and cyclical set of cultural practices that continued well into the pre-modern era.
Building on the diversity of Inner Asian landscapes, the second part of this lecture establishes how mobile populations moved across the expansive Inner Asian terrain – their identity making and social choreographies emerging from what were routine practices and associations with terrain and geography that effectively translated to symbolic ‘constructions’ of space, meanings, values, and power structures. This second part also details the geographical, cultural and artefactual changes experienced by the steppe landscape - in specific signs and traces that were left behind through the cultural process – not necessarily only architecture, but a range of interventions that recognized the nomadic appreciation of the primordial landscape.
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