Still Standing By Adom Philogene Heron Photographs by Marica Honychurch ISBN: 9781838041588 Original paperback Price: £21.50 Publication: October 2022 This beautifully illustrated book is a celebration of the vanishing vernacular architecture of Dominica. These small wooden homes, ingeniously crafted and carefully adapted to their environment, have withstood hurricanes and earthquakes since their emergence in the post-emancipation period. While many modern, concrete homes …

CLACS, School of Advanced Study University of London Seminar Online presentation introducing the Ti Kai Project Chair: Oscar Webber (CLACS, IMLR) Speakers: Adom Philogene Heron (Goldsmiths, University of London)Marica Honychurch (Photographer and President of Dominican Society for Heritage, Architectural, Preservation and Enhancement, SHAPE)Jeanne Royer (Dominican architecture student, Havana)Polly Patullo (Author, publisher, and co-founder of Papillote Press)    

[Cover image credit ©Dora Papp] Surviving Storms | CCC team members have been busy working to establish the ti kai collective a group of Dominican architects, vernacular heritage campaigners and architecture students who will undertake the first ever survey of Dominica’s distinctive ti kais (‘small houses’). The collective is made up of Dr Adom Philogene Heron (CCC lead researcher), Olive …

  As a project team we draw heavily on the work of Dr Lennox Honychurch, Dominica’s foremost public scholar, who has written and presented widely on Dominica’s history, architecture, maroons and distinctive creole and indigenous culture. Over the years Lennox has distinguished himself is an anthropologist whose rich historical knowledge Dominicans repeatedly turn to in bid ground their present. Here …