VALUE OF HANDMADE ART IN THE CULTURE OF VOLGOGRAD: COMMUNITY AND PRACTICE

2016 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 76-82
Author(s):  
Екатерина Елистратова ◽  
Ekaterina Elistratova ◽  
Наталья Шипулина ◽  
Natalya Shipulina
Keyword(s):  
Urban Space ◽  
Cultural Policy ◽  
City Image ◽  
City Community ◽  
Modern Cities ◽  
City Culture ◽  
Urban Planning And Development ◽  
New City ◽  
Main Component ◽  
The City

According to the opinion of the authors, the main component of the urban culture of Volgograd is realogic identity. They argue the idea that being and existence of things in connection with the life of citizens, which is expressed in the creation, exchange, representation of material objects in handmade art format can serve as an important resource for gaining the new city image and culture of the city status. The article reveals the cultural function as a specific phenomenon of handmade artisan creativity and its importance as a special form of activity of the creative community in the culture of modern cities on the example of Volgograd. In addition to the universal (in the urban sense) creative functions and upcycling (empowering new life of old things in the so-called “repair society” by hand makers), as well as self-realization and self-handmade-presentation, the article highlights such previously unexplored handmade functions as communicational, consolidating and accumulative and representational functions associated with the ability to combine creativity handmade urban master craftsmen in community and even the community, successfully contributing to promote the image of the city of Volgograd as a culture and to express the identity of the city, acting as a symbolic and realogic brand Volgograd. They explore the basic directions of handmade in Volgograd in the aspect of micro-urbanism, as well as ways and forms of existence of real practices, folding in the city community and environment in real and virtual cultural and urban space. The authors analyze the handmade practice and Volgograd community, linking them to the specific characteristics of the modern city culture, urban identity and opportunities for urban planning and development in the field of regional cultural policy and tourism and, ultimately, with the prospect of Volgograd become a city of culture on the basis of use realogic resource handicraft handmade creation.

scholarly journals Changes in the national composition and symbols of Zhovkva’s urban space as a result of the Second World War

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
pp. 77-87
Author(s):  
Vasylyna PASTERNAK
Keyword(s):  
Urban Space ◽  
Second World War ◽  
Ethnic Composition ◽  
World War ◽  
Interethnic Relations ◽  
Symbolic Space ◽  
Original Culture ◽  
New City ◽  
The City ◽  
Second World

Before the war, urban symbolic space of Zhovkva was divided between several national groups – Ukrainians, Poles and Jews, who created the culture and history of the city. The foundations for such cohabitation were laid during the construction of the city by the Field Crown Hetman Stanisław Żółkiewski, and survived until the start of the war, as evidenced by the memories of its inhabitants. Therefore, the article explains how the ethnic composition of the city’s population has changed and its further influence on the symbolism of the urban space. Subsequently of the dramatic events of the Second World War and the processes of resettlement of the population, two of the national groups disappeared from the urban space. The Jewish community was physically destroyed during the war, and the Poles were evicted from Zhovkva to Poland in 1944–1946. The destruction of the Jews meant the death of the whole subethnos with original culture and history. The resettlement of Poles from Zhovkva, from their homes, was extremely difficult psychologically, because they were saying goodbye to their hometown, where they lived for several generations, were deprived of their homes, property that belonged to the ancestors, they were allowed to take out only 2 tons of items social household consumption. Soviet soldiers and functionaries, peasants from the surrounding villages, who got used to living together and rebuilding Zhovkva, became “new” city dwellers. The “new” residents of the city, in cooperation with the Soviet authorities, changed the symbolic space of the city, starting with the change of name from Zhovkva to Nesterov, in honor of the Russian pilot Peter Nesterov, who died near the city in 1914. The city was built on the socialist urban model, which destroyed the historical and architectural environment of Zhovkva, founded in the XVI century. Architectural sights that testified to the multinational of Zhovkvа were destroyed or completely changed their purpose. Polish churches and monasteries were turned into warehouses or barracks for soldiers, and icons, paintings, statues, religious things were destroyed or exported abroad. Keywords Zhovkva, Stanisław Żółkiewski, Jan ІІІ Sobieski, socio-demographic processes, Poles, Jews, interethnic relations, symbolic space.

Ecological Research on Public Facilities of the New City Region

2014 ◽  
Vol 1065-1069 ◽  
pp. 2740-2743
Author(s):  
De Ping Jiang
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Rapid Development ◽  
Ecological Research ◽  
City Region ◽  
The Public ◽  
Public Facilities ◽  
City Culture ◽  
New City ◽  
The City ◽  
Public Environment

New city region as the extension of city economic development and progress of science, In the future, new city region will gradually replace the old city became the new center in the city. Rapid development of the new city region and progress of the requirements from the objective need aset of system belong to the city itself, public facilities is one of the contents, Therefore, the public facilities will mark the inherent cultural characteristics of the city,Culture, intelligence and technology will become the ultimate direction of the development of city public environment facilities.

Home in Biblical and Antwerp City Poems – A Journey

2017 ◽  
Vol 52 (1) ◽  
pp. 161-182 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karolien Vermeulen
Keyword(s):  
Urban Space ◽  
Hebrew Bible ◽  
Poet Laureate ◽  
New City ◽  
Home Space ◽  
The City ◽  
At Home

AbstractSince 2003, the city of Antwerp has a poet laureate. Following the classical and Renaissance models, the Antwerp poet laureate writes, performs, and materializes poems for the city. Also in the Hebrew Bible, texts occur that qualify as city poems avant-la-lettre, even though the writers remain anonymous and the texts are part of a larger corpus with a different purpose. This article reads three Antwerp city poems alongside with biblical Psalm 137, in search for the poems’ constructions of cities as homes. The selected texts each introduce the city (i. e., Antwerp for the Antwerp city poems; Jerusalem and Babylon for the psalm) and its possible identification with a home place in ways that are conceptually and stylistically similar. The poems only differ in their final portrayals of the home, themselves connected to the different context of each poem. Throughout the texts the poets explore and question the spatial categories of ‘city’ and ‘home.’ The analysis reveals that being at home both in biblical and Antwerp city poems is connected to childhood, which allows redefining the urban space. The poems conceive cities as a mobile category that is internalized if being defined as home space. Stylistic interventions, in particular the use of inclusios and contrast, help creating and establishing the city-as-home-space in the selected city poems. The juxtaposition of old and new city poems sharing the same topic offers new insights into the textual construal of cities as homes, a process that proves to be similar for the three Antwerp city poems and the biblical psalm.

Public Art and Contemporary Urban Culture – Research of Embodiment of Core Value of Urban Public Art in the Construction of Urban Culture

2014 ◽  
Vol 919-921 ◽  
pp. 1634-1637
Author(s):  
Zhi Guo Li ◽  
Jing Sun
Keyword(s):  
Urban Space ◽  
Public Art ◽  
Urban Culture ◽  
City Image ◽  
Cultural Interpretation ◽  
The Public ◽  
City Culture ◽  
Core Value ◽  
The Masses ◽  
The Relationship

As the cultural interpretation and the most intuitionist expression vector, urban public art explain the urban space morphology, aesthetic function by the visual art, construct contemporary aesthetic culture and the public service system of the masses, manifest characteristics of urban culture value and the trend in period of social transition increasingly. It explained the relationship between public art and urban culture core value and construction of Public art in city culture construction in detail. In the end, it presented the realization of culture value taken from public art and the creation of city image by public art.

scholarly journals Territorial and Temporal Factors of Urban Identity

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Ozerina ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Urban Space ◽  
Psychological Research ◽  
Place Of Birth ◽  
City Image ◽  
Urban Identity ◽  
City Brand ◽  
Cognitive Component ◽  
Temporal Factors ◽  
Student’S T ◽  
The City

The formation of the urban identity of an individual resident and of the urban community as a whole is multi-determined. In socio-psychological research, perceptions of the main factors of its formation can be summarised through geographical, historical, spatial, individual-personal and socio-cultural characteristics. The objective of our study was to describe the role of territorial and temporal factors (place of birth and the duration of dwelling in a city) in the formation and manifestation of emotional, cognitive, motivational and behavioural parameters of the urban identity of residents. The City questionnaires and the Tomsk City Identity Questionnaire adapted by the authors were used to collect empirical data. The data was processed by means of a single-factor analysis of variance and the Student’s T-test. As a result, specific traits of city image formation in the vision of newcomer residents, and its indigenous residents were revealed, which confirms the relevance of the factors under study. It has been established that the image of the city and perceptions of its potential depend largely on the territorial and temporal indicators of the respondent’s residence in the urban space. Place of birth determines the cognitive component of urban identity to a greater extent, while the length of residence determines the emotional and motivational component. The findings allow the temporal and spatial context to be considered in the development of the city brand and the modernisation of urban space. Further researches are planned to include sample differentiation based on the place of birth by settlement type.

scholarly journals “Inte­resting” in the Aesthetic Landscape of the City

2018 ◽  
Vol 15 (6) ◽  
pp. 693-707 ◽  
Author(s):  
Olga N. Astafyeva ◽  
Natalia V. Kuzmina
Keyword(s):  
Urban Space ◽  
Cultural Landscapes ◽  
Interdisciplinary Approach ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Cultural Environment ◽  
Subject Field ◽  
Modern Cities ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
Cultural Reality ◽  
The City

The article examines the aesthetic category of “interesting” as a dominant of urban environment development. The authors try to comprehend this category from the point of view of cultural know­ledge. The article includes a theoretical section, where, basing on well-known concepts, the authors outline the principles of embedding the “interesting”, as something aesthetics and artistic, in the postmo­dern fabric of modern megacities. The analytical part of the article is based on specific examples represen­ted by urban cultural landscapes, by the post­modern clash of art and non-art in urban space, by event communications and other forms of urban culture representation. The study resulted in designation of one of the main problems of modern cities: as a result of their excessive saturation with “interesting”, there can be observed a gro­wing cultural and aesthetic insensitivity to the “inte­resting” among their citizens.From the methodological point of view, the study revealed that, in interpretation of modern phenomena of socio-cultural reality, it is not enough to proceed from the basic principles of a particular science. So, the interdisciplinary approach, as a methodolo­gical resource in demand today, allows revealing, by the example of the concept of “inte­resting”, the interconnection and interdependence of the methodological approaches of aesthetics and culturology for stu­dying the cultural environment of modern cities.The authors analyze the “interesting” as an instrument of influencing on the cultural environment of the city and the perception of its text. As a result, the “interesting” intensifies the nonlinearity and fractality of urban space. On the example of Russian ci­ties development, the article reveals that the formation of a new cultural environment is always connected not only with changing of artistic design solutions or/and aesthetics trends. The authors prove that the need for “interesting” widens the frames of the subject field of aesthetics. The “interesting” is moving to the cen­ter of interdisciplinary cultural studies.

scholarly journals Cities of Mordovia: identity in media discourse

2020 ◽  
pp. 328-343
Author(s):  
Iraida A. Pakshina ◽  
◽  
Elena S. Rus’kina ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Identity Formation ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Print Media ◽  
Urban Life ◽  
Negative Evaluation ◽  
Subjective Perception ◽  
City Image ◽  
Urban Identity ◽  
Internet Communities ◽  
The City

Nowadays, the city with its unique local and historical features is placed into the focus of the modern urban media. Media text verbalizes the results of a person’s subjective perception of the surrounding urban space and represents the identity of the city. The purpose of this article is to identify the representation of the «urban identity» concept in the media of the Republic of Mordovia — both in city and republican newspapers and social networks. The authors conducted content analysis of the articles published in city newspapers and the comments to the posts of local Internet communities regarding their ideas about the city. Analysis of the print media deduced that the municipal authorities realize the urgency of the urban identity formation under the competition for human, informational and economic resources. The editorial boards of newspapers do a lot to create a positive image of the city. Local urban Internet communities, which has recently appeared in the regional media space, have a powerful influence on public opinion. Their communication is built mainly around the private problems of everyday urban life and is accompanied by negative evaluation of those. It was established that active discussion of problems leads to active post-discussion, post-provocation, post-hype, post-photography, post – criticism of the authorities, post – dialogue with a representative of the authorities, post – question and post-game. There is an asymmetry in the representation of the city image created, on the one hand, by the print media, and, on the other hand, by the participants in the Internet communities. The study identified the markers that can be significant for the citizens. It also detected the dependence of the construction of the Mordovia’s cities identity and its representation and the communicative practices of the urban population.

Urban Planning and Design Under The Strategy of Fusion of Visual Semantic Theory and Urban Cultural Brand Image

2021 ◽  
Vol 7 (5) ◽  
pp. 3485-3492
Author(s):  
Hui Huang ◽  
Junjian Liu
Keyword(s):  
Urban Planning ◽  
Brand Image ◽  
Visual Image ◽  
Semantic Theory ◽  
Intangible Asset ◽  
City Image ◽  
Image Integration ◽  
Urban Planning And Design ◽  
New City ◽  
The City

Objectives: the city cultural brand image is to excavate from a city’s depth, integrate the city’s history, culture, economic development and other urban planning, and create a new city image under the strategy of city cultural brand image integration. Methods: A good city image is an intangible asset for a city, which can enhance the core competitiveness of the city. Results: Based on the theory of visual semantics and the strategy of urban cultural brand image integration, this paper proposes the overall planning of Nanchang brand design and the application design of urban visual image after the specific analysis of Nanchang. Conclusion: so as to enhance the cultural identity of urban residents and strengthen the economic connection with the city.

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