Essays about: "Public Monuments"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 13 essays containing the words Public Monuments.

  1. 1. Local History Awareness : And its Influence on Young People in a Post-Communist Region

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för kulturvetenskaper (KV)

    Author : Marwan M. Hassan; [2024]
    Keywords : local history; place attachment; regional affiliation; regional pride; civic engagement; social trust; regional identity; mobile learning; mobile website; post-communist communities; retrospective qualitative interviews; Eberswalde; East Germany;

    Abstract : This project explores the impact of a mobile website (MWS) designed to enhance knowledge and interest in local history among residents of Eberswalde as a sample for an Eastern German post-communist city. It aims to strengthen the sense of regional identity and attachment, potentially affecting their decision to remain in or leave the region. READ MORE

  3. 2. In the Shadow of Monumentum... The War on Statues

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Avdelningen för konsthistoria och visuella studier

    Author : Anna Fernsten Nilén; [2023]
    Keywords : Public Monuments; Affective Economy; Iconoclasm; Cultural Memory; Statue Trashing; Black Life Matter; Arts and Architecture;

    Abstract : In the Shadow of Monumentum... the War on Statues explores the last decade's violent protests on colonisation and institutional racism leading to the vandalisation, defacing and in some cases removal or toppling of public monuments. READ MORE

  4. 3. Actions of Care(ss) : Being Responsible and Response-Able in Human Spaces – An Exercise to Engage Emphatically with Public Sculptures

    University essay from

    Author : Lisa-Marie Riemer; [2023]
    Keywords : sculptures; monuments; radical empathy; care; feminism; space; responsibility; response-ability; commemoration;

    Abstract : The text explores the concept of shared spaces and the role of spaces in caring for everything inhabited. It highlights the need for us humans to rethink spaces and engage with them. This thesis uses two sculptured objects in Malmö to illustrate the responsibility and response-ability objects and humans hold towards their places. READ MORE

  5. 4. Industriminnet i framtiden : timmerrännans potential

    University essay from SLU/Dept. of Landscape Architecture, Planning and Management (from 130101)

    Author : Björn Sundberg; [2021]
    Keywords : timmerränna; flottning; kulturarv; bevarande; vattenanknutna kulturmiljöer; ny användning; log flume; log driving; cultural heritage; conservation; cultural water environments; new use;

    Abstract : Flottningen i Sverige formade om landskap och vattendrag, och var en grundsten i den svenska ekonomien under lång tid. Idag är flottningen utdöd men monumenten som berättar historien finns kvar, däribland timmerrännan. READ MORE

  6. 5. New Urban Monuments: Critical Urbanism as Curatorial Practice

    University essay from Malmö universitet/Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS)

    Author : Sophia Persson; [2020]
    Keywords : Critical Urbanism; Cultural Planning; Designed Living Environments; Gestaltad Livsmiljö; New Genre Public Art; Social Turn; Urban Curatorship; Statens Konstråd;

    Abstract : New Genre Public Art was originally defined by Suzanne Lacy in 1991 as an activist approach to the public; it was a type of public art that was often created outside the institutional structure which brought the artist into direct engagement with the audience, while addressing social and political issues. In 1993, the public art exhibition ’Culture in Action’, curated by Mary Jane Jacob, marked a conceptual shift from static to dynamic public art. READ MORE