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gmut/GAMUT: The Spatial and Generational Mapping of Trees and Vegetation of the Solon House (96787)
Session Chair: Alberto M. Albuquerque
This presentation will be live-streamed via Zoom (Online Access)
Saturday, 8 November 2025 15:05
Session: Session 3
Room: Live-Stream Room 2
Presentation Type:Live-Stream Presentation
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GAMUT identifies and explores the trees and vegetation at the Solon House post-World War II. The Solon House refers to family, architecture, and estate deeply rooted in Mabolo, a village in Cebu City, the Philippines. Maps (historical, DENR cadastral, and subdivision survey plans), legal documents, and old photographs help locate and support the study. The Quantum GIS application is utilized to map the trees and vegetation across generations. Rooted in autoethnography and phenomenology, the researcher’s own experiences, together with the lived experience narratives of family members, are collected and thematically coded to extract recurring vegetal metaphors. Trees and vegetation are active participants in memory and meaning-making. For example, a dakit tree planted sometime in the 1940s as a boundary marker kept alive the folklore of ada (engkanto) from the ancestors to descendants’ own lived experiences. The paper also explores the Cebuano word gamut, its metaphorical essence, and relationships with words in Filipino and English, informing the significance of vernacular language heritage. Apart from serving as one of four vital articles for the family’s second book project, the paper also informs Filipino notions of kinship and place, as well as Plant Humanities in Southeast Asia.
Authors:
Kathleen Solon-Villaneza, Global Educators Network, Inc., Thailand
About the Presenter(s)
Dr. Kathleen Solon-Villaneza currently serves as an adviser to the Global Educators Network, Inc., an international organization based in Thailand.
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