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The exclusive collective landscape
No full textInclusion is the experience that transforms a state of inequality into
equality. To understand the discourse regarding an Inclusive landscape,
it is necessary to dismantle the incentives generating the desire or the
drive for exclusivity. Furthermore, the linguistic paradox proves that the
expressions ‘inclusion’ and ‘inclusive’ have a similar meaning and can be
freely used as synonyms, whilst their antonyms are presenting radically
different approaches.
The adjective ‘exclusive’ creates an alluring feeling and the connotations
attached to it are positive, meanwhile ‘exclusion’ is conceived as an
adverse concept, associated with rejection. Its etymology derives from
medieval latin ‘ex-claudere’, meaning to shut out.1
The psychology behind this craving is to create the conditions solely
available to a small number of people to elevate themselves to a certain
status, distinguishing themselves from the rest. Exclusiveness is an
attractive concept that creates desire. Its realm includes cars, properties,
and jewellery. Exclusive landscapes are embodied in the unique
representation, being at the same time a combination of luxury, and
beauty, however, remaining beyond the reach. Therefore, the Exclusive
landscape represents the one belonging to the realm of fantasy, ambition,
and craving. Exclusive landscape means the one a majority do not have
access to, the landscape to which there is limited access, and the one that
is out of reach.
The perception of the Exclusive landscape will differ among people. For
some, it will mean the view from the apartment of the luxurious property
or the imagined scenery of a long-awaited vacation. Others will mean the
view of inaccessible nature, distant and unreachable for the majority of
people immersed in an urban structure. For certain groups, it will mean
taking a walk in the woods while being, in actuality, enclosed in the
four walls of a hospital, or prison, totally-excluded. In other words, the
exclusive landscape is something to which most would not have equal
admission, and to which access is obstructed. Exclusivity is connected to
the realm of limitation and desire, concentrating goods and power in the
hands of the few. Inclusion, on the other hand, is dispersing the goods and
allocating them to collective, ubiquitous use. Open access to an Exclusive
landscape which would available to many will become the most desirable
form of Inclusion. This virtual form of belonging and participation could be expressed in the form of a collective Exclusive landscape. Invoking
the feeling of exclusivity, and recognizing how attractive it can be, the
application of Virtual Reality and its immersive technology has the potential
to remodel inclusion
Virtuality of landscape. Atlas of artistic manifestations from real to imaginary
Get PDFAcademic debates concerning landscape convey a number of different definitions, varying by the discipline in which the term is used. This dissertation attempts to shed light on the understanding of what encompasses landscape in artistic projects. Using the notion of virtuality as an alteration to what has been established so far, the research will open the debate on what architects and designers can learn from artists and their way of thinking. Through the analysis of literature from the fields of art history, philosophy, sociology, and architecture, the research focuses on examining artistic practice in relation to landscape. This shift in perspective enriches the design process and is, at the same time, complementary to the study process of architects and designers. Virtuality, as potentiality transcending its technological aspect, is an idea borrowed from the field of philosophy—deriving from the theories of Gilles Deleuze—that appears as part of the problematics within the theories of emergence. Landscape, as a social construct, is analysed from the perspective of Henri Lefebvre's theory of The Production of Space, along with the perceptual theories of Lucius Burckhardt and John Berger, which will be applied here to comprehend the phenomenon of nature as seen by the artist. The research endeavors to challenge existing paradigms and explore alternative narratives of the relationships between humans and nature, which are subsequently mirrored in selected case studies of contemporary art. In this context, virtuality functions as a catalyst for transformation, creating a platform for diverse perspectives—a phenomenon of seeing certain things differently. This process supports a deeper focus on the artistic understanding of landscape and how it resonates with society at large in times marked by climate change, systemic risk, uncertainty, and its attendant apparatuses of power in the contemporary world. To grasp the multiplicities of today's landscape, there is a need to examine the volatile context of the 21st century, where technology and digitalisation establish the knowledge-based economy system to which we have access. Landscape, scientifically, is considered an objectified perspective on territory that is, at any time, under threat of turning into a product of capitalism and power. These issues are present in contemporary art, which often serves as a reference. The sciences, with their various forms of representation, encompass landscape in different ways—from cartography through representation to descriptive definitions. The goal of this research is to show the possibilities that arise from learning from all of these perspectives. As a product of artistic manifestation, landscape can take forms borrowing from all of these disciplines
The Pixelscape Project
No full textLe pointillisme, a pictorial technique developed at the end of the nineteenth century, allowed the landscape to be rendered through swarms of colored dots arranged on the pictorial surface. Based on scientific discoveries relating to visual perception, a partnership was created between art and science to represent the landscape of the time. The word pixel, contained in the calembour that gives the name to this idea, reinterprets the postulate underlying this pictorial technique by making a direct reference to a new precision agriculture method called Pixel Farming. This, in addition to the use of the most recent technologies, is based on a principle of punctual colonization of the territory, which can be divided into minimum units. A new vision of agriculture is initiated, sparking significant reflection on the existence of total territoriality, overturning the concept of No-Stop City with the idea of No-Stop Countryside. The design experiment launched with the New Species of Agriculture seminar in Maccarese was a privileged opportunity to research new city-countryside relationships and, at the same time, investigate how a technological and high-precision agricultural system can enter into dialogue with the existing living communities. The postulate questions how much forestry, hydrological systems, and natural irregularities can interact with a controlled production system through a hierarchical agricultural infrastructure. The text takes this question as the cornerstone of a theoretical reflection that sees a significant operational perspective in a specific model of agriculture. Exactly as done by the neo-impressionists, the attitude pursued in pixel farming allows the territory to be redesigned through sets of dots at variable scales, which blend together through the principle of proximity, actively interpreting the complex territorial palimpsest. A new type of agriculture that would represent the possibility of restaging Un dimanche après-midi à l'Île de la Grande Jatte, where the natural environment achieves aesthetic harmony with the most modern uses of the time
Design in the Meta.space: A speculative investigation into the spatial perception at the virtual-analog frontier
No full textThe concept of the metaverse, a virtual world that runs parallel to our own and represents the next stage of the internet, has sparked intense debates since the blockchain craze began. However, the ability to construct and shape worlds by manipulating social, real, and imaginary spaces has arguably been a crucial aspect of artistic and scientific creativity throughout history. Accompanying an exhibition at the Francisco Carolinum in Linz, the scientific anthology Meta.space—Visions of Space from the Middle Ages to the Digital Age explores this multifaceted history from an art-historical perspective. Featuring seventy-five positions in analog, digital, and inter-media art, it provides a foundational contribution to ongoing discussions about the metaverse. The anthology covers a range of topics, including early painterly solutions to pictorial space problems in the fifteenth century, how works of sculpture create spaces, and the sensory, scholarly, and technological practices involved in charting spaces. Additionally, the book critically examines the dystopian and utopian potential of cutting-edge metaspace concepts
First person – Justyna Meissner
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First Person is a series of interviews with the first authors of a selection of papers published in Journal of Cell Science, helping early-career researchers promote themselves alongside their papers. Justyna Meissner is the first author on ‘The ARF guanine nucleotide exchange factor GBF1 is targeted to Golgi membranes through a PIP-binding domain’, published in Journal of Cell Science. Justyna is a postdoctoral fellow in the laboratory of Dr Elizabeth Sztul at University of Alabama at Birmingham, USA, investigating the structure and function of large GEFs.</jats:p
Author response
No full textThe ability of the adult brain to undergo plastic changes is of particular interest in medicine, especially regarding recovery from injuries or improving learning and cognition. Matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs) have been associated with juvenile experience-dependent primary visual cortex (V1) plasticity, yet little is known about their role in this process in the adult V1. Activation of MMPs is a crucial step facilitating structural changes in a healthy brain; however, upon brain injury, upregulated MMPs promote the spread of a lesion and impair recovery. To clarify these seemingly opposing outcomes of MMP-activation, we examined the effects of MMP-inhibition on experience-induced plasticity in healthy and stoke-affected adult mice. In healthy animals, 7-day application of MMP-inhibitor prevented visual plasticity. Additionally, treatment with MMP-inhibitor once but not twice following stroke rescued plasticity, normally lost under these conditions. Our data imply that an optimal level of MMP-activity is crucial for adult visual plasticity to occur
Open House London in the background of architectural literature studies
No full textThe article refers to the international scientific symposium which took place in 2019 in the UK capital during the Open House London. The meeting of scholars from Warsaw and London was devoted to the assumptions of architectural literature studies and possibilities of developing this approach for research on Polish emigration in London. In the first part of the article Aleksandra Wójtowicz – an author of the approach of architectural literature studies – presents its assumptions and possibilities of implementation. She recalls the features of ‘difficult places’ – a category developed by Warsaw’s interdisciplinary team. She also mentions the principles of ‘re-imaginary architecture’ – Justyna Gorzkowicz’s proposal – referring to the category of reading identity places in exile. The second part of the article is devoted to the specics of Open House London. Justyna Gorzkowicz presents the characteristics of two Polish places that the symposium participants could get acquainted with during their visit to London: PUNO’s headquarters and Cezary Bednarski’s Vertically Detached Houses
(No)Motion and Silence of a Picture-Thought According to JLG
No full textRecenzja książki Barbary Kity Obraz zatrzymany. Praktyka i teoria późnego Godarda (2013). Justyna Budzik przedstawia strukturę wywodu naukowego Barbary Kity, komentując i opisując metodologię przyjętą przez autorkę. Recenzentka omawia problematykę refleksji podjętej przez badaczkę oraz wyjaśnia trzy główne kategorie, które stosuje ona w interpretacji późnej twórczości Jean-Luca Godarda: obraz zwolniony/zatrzymany, obraz malarski (kadr) oraz fotografię. Recenzentka zwraca również uwagę na kontekst współczesnej teorii obrazu (Georges Didi-Huberman, Gilles Deleuze), w który wpisują się rozważania podjęte przez Barbarę Kitę.A review of Barbara Kita’s book Obraz zatrzymany. Praktyka i teoria późnego Godarda [Freeze Frame: Practice and Theory of Late Godard] (2013). Justyna Budzik presents the structure of Barbara Kita’s scientific argument, and describes and comments on the methodology adopted by the author. The reviewer discusses the problem of reflection taken up by the author and explains three main categories which she applies in her interpretation of the late work of Jean-Luc Godard: slow motion/stop motion image, art painting (film frame), and photography. The reviewer also gives some attention to the context of contemporary theory of image (Georges Didi-Huberman, Gilles Deleuze) which inform Barbara Kita’s work
Teatr i wychowanie (Theatre and Upbringing) Authors: Krzysztof Homa, Justyna Sprutta, Weronika Pudełko, Katarzyna Skulska
Get PDFThe book Teatr i wychowanie (Theatre and Upbringing) by Krzysztof Homa, Justyna Sprutta, Weronika Pudełko and Katarzyna Skulska presents the history of the theatre, its essence, typology, as well as the role of the theatre in upbringing and therapy, especially for children. This book demonstrates, among others:
• Greek mysteries as the beginning of the European theatre,
• the history of the theatre in the world and Poland,
• the school theatre in the past and present,
• the essence of the theatre, as well as theatrical and paratheatrical genres.
Moreover, in this book examples of paintings presenting the theatre are displayed. The reviewed book is a multi-author monograph
„My vision of reality seems to be blurred”
No full textArtykuł jest zapisem rozmowy z Katarzyną Jakubiak (ur. 1973), pisarką, tłumaczką, wykładowczynią, przeprowadzonej przez Justynę Sobolewską i Sławomira Iwasiowa w ramach Festiwalu Literatury Kobiet „Gryfia” w czerwcu 2013 roku w Szczecinie. Autorka była nominowana w tym roku do Literackiej Nagrody „Gryfia” za tom prozy Nieostre widzenia. Zarówno książka, jak i rozmowa, która toczyła się wokół poszczególnych tekstów z tego zbioru, dotyczą takich zagadnień, jak emigracyjność, literatura akademicka czy reprezentacja w utworach literackich. Pisarka, opowiadając o kolejnych etapach powstawania zbioru Nieostre widzenia, mówiła także o swoich doświadczeniach emigracyjnych, podróżach oraz pracy na uniwersytetach w Stanach Zjednoczonych i Europie. To tematyka, którą interesują się prowadzący rozmowę: Justyna Sobolewska jest uznaną krytyczką literacką, znawczynią współczesnej literatury polskiej, współpracującą z najważniejszymi mediami opiniotwórczymi (m.in. z tygodnikiem „Polityka”), natomiast Sławomir Iwasiów bada związki najnowszej prozy z takimi kategoriami, jak podróżowanie czy tożsamość.The article documents a meet-the-author session with Katarzyna Jakubiak (born in 1973) – polish writer, translator and academic teacher. The interview took place in Szczecin on June 2013 during the cultural event Festiwal Literatury Kobiet Gryfia and was moderated by Justyna Sobolewska and Sławomir Iwasiów. This year the author got nomination to award Literacka Nagroda Gryfia for collection of short stories entitled „Nieostre widzenia”. The debate between Jakubiak, Sobolewska and Iwasiów was focused on certain issues such as: emigration, academic literature and representation in prose. Jakubiak told the audience about the process of writing but also talked about emigrational experience, traveling and teaching at the American and European universities. Those are the subjects that were interesting for the interviewers: Justyna Sobolewska is a recognized literary critic, a connoisseur of modern-day Polish literature who works for major opinion leaders in media (such as weekly magazine Polityka), while Sławomir Iwasiów is a literary scholar who explores the latest Polish prose and its relationships with such categories as travel and identity
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