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The words “national costume” are used here to denote a novel costume expressing affiliation to a certain cultural heritage in visual form. The creation of the national costume began in many European countries in the 19th century. Since then, the topicality of the costume in European countries has changed. In Latvia, the tradition of the national costume usage continues to this day with the Song and Dance Celebration tradition being one of factors preserving it. In Latvia, there is a historically established notion...

Social responsibility can be defined as a personal investment in the well-being of others. In my opinion the social responsibility is linked with the social inclusion issue. So the social responsibility culture means the society of tolerant citizens. The paper is analyze of poems by Kholoud Charaf, who is a poet, art critic and social activist from Al-Mjemr in the south of Syria. Charaf becomes a quest writer in Krakow City of Refuge in March 2018 as part of the International Cities of Refuge Network (ICORN). Her ...

The world is undergoing rapid urbanization and Malaysia is not an exception with more than 75 percent of its population currently living in urban centres. This brought about numerous urbanization concerns that must be addressed comprehensively and aligned to the United Nation’s target of Sustainable Development Goal 11 of Sustainable Cities and Communities. One approach of tackling urbanization challenges is with institutions producing competent urban planners with the industry contributing significantly in the de...

The present study captures the outstanding personality of Carlo Broschi, called Farinelli, whom I consider to be the etalon singer of the eighteenth century. His vocal-solo career spanned between 1720 and 1737, quite short, but very intense, with about 70 opera roles of extraordinary success, being invited to all the great lyrical stages of the time. Besides being a perfect artist, he also held important political and administrative functions. Between 1747 and 1759 he chose the "second plan", being named the Direc...

Humankind was born in optimal conditions for itself, in the sun, however, as the civilization developed and the population of people on Earth increased, man was forced to leave them in pursuit of new places to live and, as a result reached even the least friendly areas of our globe. The expansion embraced all continents with very diverse geo-climatic conditions and now we are trying to colonize an even newer environment, i.e. seas and oceans. Living on the high seas or oceans is actually an attempt to master one o...

The idea of creating a story or a short novel, in which the hero-artist would have appeared as the modern Faust, occupied the mind of T. Mann at the beginning of his literary career. The realization of this bold plan was postponed for almost half a century, but the novel “Doctor Faustus” (1947) with all its genre ambiguity is primarily Kunstlerroman, revealing three main typological signs of the works of this kind: its plot-composition center is the life story of the hero-artist, the novel contains a lot of reason...

This paper aims to briefly present the ways of communication and promotion of Romanian banks through the online environment. The underlying motivation of this work is the particular importance of virtual communication. This is a defining feature of contemporary societies, being preferred by organizations, especially thanks to the technological means of communication. They use all existing media, from traditional to unconventional events. Today, organizations increasingly rely on online communication (social networ...

The paper presents possibilities of adaptation and re-use of historical harbour areas with a focus on the area of Winter Harbour in Bratislava. The aim is to help to identify the aspects that are necessary to consider to propose the most sustainable future for this part of port that still contains some interesting structures of industrial heritage, currently inaccessible to the public. The research methods consisted on one hand, of a standard historical research to evaluate the built heritage of the Winter Harbour...

In the 19th century, urbanization and transport in European cities contributed creation of industrial territories, reducing areas of natural greenery, but changes at social life altered the attitude towards nature: the natural environment has been replaced by man-made cultivated roadside and walking allees provided a functional link between green areas of various significance, uniting parks and squares into one system. In the mid- 19th century, functional issues at European largest cities as Berlin, Paris, Vienna,...

This article aims at looking at two centres of modernity, seen in space, time and metaphorical representation, in the early twentieth century as illustrated by the Irish writer James Joyce in Ulysses (1922) and the Romanian novelist Cezar Petrescu in Calea Victoriei [“Victory Avenue”], published in 1929. The analysis is based on recent research that has entangled the representation of space in cultural and fictional texts with the geographic spaces of the respective historical periods, the reason being that, since...

Article is written on the basis of reconsideration artily – the esthetic principles and fundamentals of philosophy in works so far, search is national – art thoughts of modern Kazakh literary criticism. Fiction, now based on new views of human nature, puts special attention discussion of a subject on personal human aspirations, in its height spiritually – a psychological phenomenon, the relations of the person with the true phenomena through criterion of philosophy. In 70 – 80 years of the XX century caused a stir...

The author of this paper made an attempt to determine the optimal shapes and sizes of the functional areas in different types of theatre buildings. There is no ideal shape and size of a theatre. But there are some indicators that can help to define the best possible relation between the facilities in theatres. Buildings for the performing arts are intended for drama, opera, classical or modern music, ballet, dance or other performances where a performing artist communicates with the audience. Each type of a produc...

Industrial heritage provides one of the most important records of social progress and urban development and continues to have international potential for education and development as confirmed by the joint ICOMOS – TICCIH Principles for the Conservation of Industrial Heritage Sites in 2011. A global problem is young persons’ decreasing interest in studying natural sciences, architecture and engineering, knowledge of which is a prerequisite for further technological progress and socio-economic development. This pap...

Confronted with the Western culture and architecture the Iranian society in general and building designs in particular underwent significant transformations in the Qajar period, although the earliest influences can be traced back to the Safavid era. With the advance of industrial developments and the import of technology from the West, concurrent with the reign of Naser al-Din Shah Qajar in Iran, Persian architecture began to enter its own period of Neoclassicism, as a symbol of Modernism and development, which th...

The study is devoted to “Lilja”, Icelandic Christian drapa dated 1300 c; attempt is made to comprehend and interpret highest artistic merits of the text which persuaded Icelanders in its spiritual power and influenced Icelandic poetic tradition. The endeavor to identify the poetic moves and principles of composition which contribute to “Lilja”’s artistry and its intrinsic magnetism implies attention to the nature of interaction between local traditions (both, eddic and skaldic), and, on the other hand, Christian l...

London is an ambivalent space, a site of renewal and tradition, dissonance and harmony, fragmentation and unity, destruction and rebirth. This paper aims to investigate the mapping of London as a city prone to regeneration, constructed as a sum of factual and fictitious experiences and perceptions of the urban milieu in a transcendent spatial continuum. In this respect, geocriticism will be used as a theoretical point of departure in order to investigate London as a real and imaginary city, whereas psychogeography...

Chrzanow is one of the many Polish cities and towns that found themselves on nineteenth-century maps of the Austrian and Austro-Hungarian empire. It is located in southern Poland, near Krakow, and its history dates back to the Middle Ages. The most important Austrian maps to be made in the nineteenth century include: The Map of Western Galicia (the so-called Heldensfeld's map, the First Military Survey), the Map of Galicia and Bukovina from the years 1861–1864 (the Second Military Survey), and the Map of the Austr...

The article considers the problems of the influence of modern migratory processes on the formation of mass youth consciousness, sociocultural consequences of the transformation of communicative space of contemporary civilization in the global migration crisis; the need to carry out regular monitoring of youth value mind on the issues addressed is justified. On the basis of the data obtained from the carried out monitoring, the authors analyze the dynamics of studying youth's axiological conscious in their relation...

Thesis and antithesis, Stravinsky and Schoenberg, two complex personalities that marked the evolution of universal music, establish the subject matter of this article. The music on psalm texts signed by the two great composers can be considered valuable hints for the construction of the musician's profile by emphasising the origin of the musical choices, projected in the sound reality through the thorough imposing appearance of the two personalities. The differential typologies we will discuss relate to musical at...

The aim of our research was to find out, to what extent are university students of humanities at the University of Presov theoretically prepared for intercultural communication. The research was conducted at three faculties of this university: Greek-Catholic Theological Faculty, Faculty of Orthodox Theology and Faculty of Education. We have chosen the quantitative method of survey, which consisted of twelve questions related to topics of family and reproductive health in Islam. We have formulated three research hy...

Mies van der Rohe?s approach to architecture through a poetic structural skeleton, abstractly refined to become a universal prototype of the essence of form and spiritualization of space, can be best seen at the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin. This unique modern temple recently under restoration work by the subtle pencil of David Chipperfield [1] will soon have to be prepared to receive the extra additional space designed by the winner competition office leaded by Herzog & De Meuron [2]. Despite the rebirth of the...

Although this paper acknowledges within its theoretical framework seminal ideas put forward by Dominick LaCapra and Cathy Caruth, refashioning Freud’s descriptions of ways of experiencing and coping with trauma, it moves in a different direction. It explores the intertextual pattern used to create unexpected, ‘artificial’ responses to trauma. The most common labels used to refer to such texts as Foer’s 2005 novel are ‘9/11 Literature’ and ‘The Literature of Terror,’ with strong reliance on trauma theory. If in a t...

In the 19th century, urbanization and transport in European cities contributed creation of industrial territories, reducing areas of natural greenery, but changes at social life altered the attitude towards nature: the natural environment has been replaced by man-made cultivated roadside and walking allees provided a functional link between green areas of various significance, uniting parks and squares into one system. In the mid- 19th century, functional issues at European largest cities as Berlin, Paris, Vienna,...

In the context of the global crisis (linked to rapid depletion of natural resources, climate change, polarisation of living standards, an increase in inequalities, etc.) experienced in the early 21st century, culture is considered a resource of unlimited sustainability potential. Therefore, the policy documents of Latvia state that the future of Latvia should be based on a core of values that do not require intense utilisation of physical resources. In such a situation, the value of human capital is at the forefro...

The anthropology of exile is the new field of research of the present with Europe becoming a fortress with high walls and gloomy gates through their very opening. The accommodation of the exiled is just an appearance, is a terrible joke, dimensioned by the camps' fences in which they are "housed". It is true, they can see the sea through these fences, but it has become a border rather than freedom. Caught in a purgatory space, migrants have no place to take refuge but into themselves, in that self-culturally and i...

In the vast majority of the situations, the scientific papers related to the Romanian folklore have had as main topics types of traditional customs which are interpreted by ensembles and have a somewhat spectacular character in relation to other folkloric categories; which accounts for the fact that they are the ones which are best known both internally and abroad. Songs and “doinas” sung in concerts with audiences, presented with orchestral accompaniment and with literary lyrics (thus, easy to understand by the p...

The aim of this study was to identify a change in the attitude and behaviour of secondary school students from “Fine Arts High School” of Timi?oara, Romania, after their optional involvement in the refurbishment of their classroom. Students could experience ‘design thinking’ and learn steps necessary to put their creative ideas into a project, and then implement the project: “Classroom of my dreams”. 20 students filled in a 22 points questionnaire for the post occupancy evaluation, five months after the inaugurati...

The present study aims to achieve a morphogenetic theory application in the field of artistic form, thus expanding the applicability domains of this theory and in the area of interest of the arts . An interesting approach to the concept of form (studied in the biological, chemical, physical forms) and then extrapolated to any systems in which, form is involved as a fundamental notion is Rupert Sheldrake 's morphic resonance theory. He argues that not all phenomena of life are explicable in terms of physical and ch...

In Poland, the transformation period, initiated in 1989, brought a huge development of academic education. The number of studying youth has increased many times. This process forced building investments in higher education in Poland at an unprecedented scale. Still lively "old" traditional university centers have been developing dynamically, yet at the same time many new ones have been created. Wroclaw University of Science and Technology is the largest university in Lower Silesia and one of the best technical uni...

Josef Frank (1885-1967) certainly occupies a prominent place in the central European architectural scenery of the early twentieth century. His work is entirely devoted to living and of course, in addition to having designed furniture, furnishings and beautiful fabrics, Frank designs and creates architectures. The furniture and objects of furniture that he produces in Vienna at the beginning of the twenties, born on the idea of English furniture from which he takes inspiration to reinterpret the models and adapting...

The design process is a complex, multi-aspectual set of actions and decisions that go toward achieving a concrete aim. In the history of the development of design as a professional field, an essential role has been played by an expanding number of methodological tools, created to support the effective execution of the design process. The diversity of the tools and methods to support design is often overwhelming. Instead of offering more tools, the KMP WFP team has attempted to develop a device whose main goal is t...

Dioscuri is the name given to the two twin brothers, Castor and Pollux, sons of Zeus (Dios), born of his union with Leda. They had Helena and Clytaemnestra as sisters. But as Leda was the wife of mortal Tyndareus, the king of Lacedaemon, her children were also called Tindaris. And because Leda had met the same night with Zeus, who had taken the appearance of a swan, and with her husband, the two pairs of twins who came out of her eggs were assigned both to Zeus and to Tyndareus: Helena and Pollux - born with Zeus ...

The article deals with the history of Spanish art exhibitions in Russia from the 19th century up to nowadays. The turning points of this history are closely related to the social, cultural and political situation both in Russia and in the world. It proves the relevance of one of the basic principles of art studies about the certain dependence of art research on the general cultural and ideological policy of the state. The article describes the first Spanish art exhibitions in Russia in the 19th – the early 20th ce...

The theme of lecture is postcolonial novel in Slovak literature which is a new kind of novel in the Slovakia as the self-colony of Ex-Soviet Union. The lecture analyses the term postcolonial novel as it is defined by prof. Tibor Zilka from Faculty of Central European Studies Constantine the Philosopher University in Nitra. Postcolonial novel is more precisely defined in the example of the novel Krajina zabudnutia (2000, The Land of Forgetting) written by Anton Balaz, who, on the basis of personal testimonies of su...

The given article is devoted to describing main lines and particular features of epigrammatic art development in European literature, beginning from Ancient Greek-Roman period (VII-VI cc.) up to XX century. In this connection the authors try to give a general review of epigrams specific features and diverse manifestations in the works of world known writers and poets, such as: Martial, N. Boileau, C. Marot, F. Villon, J.G. Byron, I.W. Goethe, A.S. Pushkin and others. They come to a conclusion that modern epigramma...

The universe of Hejduk’s, is a unitary and undivided ‘reality’ of a trinitarian form, where poetry, painting, and project are interconnected and undistinguishable worlds. His is a deeply dramatic architectural universe; a sort of reliquary inhabited by angels and demons and adorned with fantasy characters, animals, machines and anthropomorphic figures. A world completely infused with a poetic soaked of a profound sense of the sacred. This tight connection between architecture and literature, in addition to marking...

Starting from the words of Ludovico Quaroni (as architect and educator), the paper aims to highlight the importance of social content for the purpose of good planning and architecture. With reference to the Vitruvian triad - utilitas, firmitas, venustas – Quaroni insists on the necessary integration of the three components, clearly stressing how, in the education process, it is fundamental to start from the social question - what he defines as "content" or "structure of the contents" of the design – and not from a...

The purpose of the paper is to show the changes taking place in the burial culture in Poland and to explain their conditions. Although the burial culture can still be considered in the light of tradition, it is currently undergoing significant and visible changes. These are due to a number of reasons, including the professionalization and commercialization of funeral services, as well as the marketisation of the funeral industry and the adoption of Western cultural models. The change in traditional funeral pattern...

During the “Wilhelmine” era in the German Empire (1871-1918) several large-scale prisons were planned. The evolution of those structures started in the first part of the 19th century with “castellated style”, neo-Gothic architecture of prisons (Breslau, Ratibor, Beuthen). Large prison structures (Wohlau, Gross-Strehlitz, Siegburg, Herford, Kassel, Wittlich, Neumuenster, Berlin-Tegel, Breslau - Kletschkau Strasse, Wronke, Freiendiez, Stuhm,) were also adorned with architectural neo-style costumes, related to the of...

The article is an analysis of the contemporary shape of special economic zones in Poland. The attempt presents the complexity of spatial and landscape interactions observed at the interface between privileged areas and urban and suburban spaces. Special economic zones had a strong influence on changes taking place in the Polish economy, labor market, social processes and spatial transformation of the city and regions. Currently, SEZ have become one of the symbols of the Polish political transformation. They are no...

Walking is the most primary form of transporting. It is the socially equitable mode most accessible to the masses. However, transportation technology primarily the car has caused the desertion of the pedestrian space. Consequently, the phenomenon created a degradation of the pedestrian environment. In many cities the abandonment of the pedestrian space has created a socially unfriendly environment. Some studies have shown that more crimes are committed in areas where only few pedestrians are present on the street....

The present article studies the evolutionary process of a set of designs, interconnected among themselves, according to the guidelines of the artistic model Unplugged Evolutionary Algorithms (UEA). Therefore, an indivisible set consists of sixty images structured in ten generations, so that each generation is composed of six images. This generational process allows us to study the evolution of images and their meaning, analyzing the whole of a single work. The Horizon Project - Emotion in Lines project has been de...

There is an ongoing debate in the contemporary studies on religion and society on whether religion is an evolutionary adaptation or a by-product of our human evolution. Taking the most convincing pros and cons into consideration I come to the conclusion that religion is both: as a set of universal norms and ethical regulations it is an adaptation functioning as a cybernetic homeostat; as a set of beliefs and imagined spiritual beings it is a culturally dependent by-product that enables the implementation of behavi...

The purpose of the article is a sociological analysis of female issues in modern Korean art-house cinema. The ultimate goal is to study films of Lee Chang-dong, a South Korean film director, on the basis of the theoretical and methodological opportunities provided by sociology of culture. The attention is focused on “Poetry”, which won the prize for the best script at the Cannes Film Festival in 2010. The theoretical sources for interpretations include the ideas of the Birmingham School for Cultural Studies and th...

Urban sustainability has been a topic of keen interest to both the scientific community, as well as practitioners around the world. However, despite increased efforts in recent years, the debate continues over its clear definition and especially its measurement and monitoring. As the concept of urban sustainability is deeply rooted in its physical context and the territory scale taken into consideration, a wide variety of studies, diagrams, graphic models or value maps have been proposed, as each researcher and na...

Feliks Nowowiejski (1877-1946) was an eminent Polish composer, organist-virtuoso, conductor and pedagogue whose years of activity coincided with significant historical and socio-cultural changes in Europe. They had a tremendous impact on the artist and his creative path. Originating from the aesthetics and style of Romantic and particularly German – music, Nowowiejski came to international fame at the beginning of the 20th century as the author of the oratorio Quo Vadis ? Op. 30, a piece that became well-known not...

Architecture works with signs and symbols, the key to reading it always depending on the cultural environment and historical time. Today, as in the past, the architectural forms of Orthodox churches are governed by tradition. In the construction of a church, the expressive variations of contemporary constructive systems are often ignored, being considered as not conforming to tradition. What is tradition? Where does tradition begin and where does it end? What is and what is not traditional? These are just a few of...

The aim of my essay is to introduce a key feature of Miklos Erdely’s oeuvre originating in conceptual art: the modelling of repetition, remembering, and time-travel. While the most salient oeuvre of Hungarian neo-avantgarde is categorized by art historians according to the media technologies applied in the artworks, Erdely’s allround life-work can be best understood through this continuously modified intellectual horizon. Following these range of ideas will lead us to the recognition of the extraordinary character...

Festivities are one of the most stable forms of spiritual culture which undergo significant transformations as the result of globalization. Not only the spectrum of festivities, their functions, and traditions, but also the attitudes of people and their knowledge about festive culture are changing. The influence of festivities, having originated in Western Europe (St. Valentine’s Day, Halloween, etc.), is another significant trend that has become evident in contemporary Latvia. The research analyses the specificit...

The paper is aimed at critically approaching key theoretical contributions, research insights, academic commentary and debates in Latvia in relation to cultural literacy, cultural identities and cultural interactions in the context of cultural policies of Latvia. The article analyses the studies on the importance of cultural literacy for the transmission of the traditional cultural heritage and discusses the issue of people’s national and cultural identity, national self-respect, and sense of belonging to the Latv...