Terrain-Specific: Contemporary Landscape Architecture in Canada

The Canadian landscape has typically captured a global imaginary of a pristine wild, but how might its urban designed landscapes be distinctly understood? Foregrounded by the landscape transformations accelerated by climate change, the book Innate Terrain: Canadian Landscape Architecture, edited by Professor Alissa North from the University of Toronto, highlights landscape architecture projects situated on the unique Canadian terrain. Providing further provocation on Canadian landscape architecture, Innate Terrain seeks to fill the literary gap on contemporary landscape perspectives, distinguishing Canadian landscape architecture from global practice, and particularly, its well-documented American counterpart. Landscape architecture in the Canadian context has evolved and established its own distinct identity, one imbued with national and local sensitivities. Informed by diverse environmental and cultural contexts, Canadian-designed landscapes reflect and refer to the prevailing ecosystems of Canada’s innate terrain. Contrary to the preceding International Style, landscape architecture projects in Canada have adopted the ethos of Critical Regionalism in the second half of the 20th century. Contemporary Canadian practitioners are designing landscapes that are deeply informed by their surrounding geographical context while emphasizing cultural specificity. Central to this cultural specificity, addressed by a new generation of landscape architects, is the increasing recognition of Indigenous Traditional Knowledge within the discipline. Canadian landscape architects have collaborated with First Nations, Inuit, and Métis communities, including the keepers of this knowledge, to develop land management strategies and design landscape interventions.     

AssetCollector: a system for managing collections of cultural assets

In this paper, AssetCollector is presented, which is a system for managing collections of cultural assets. AssetCollector covers the needs of collection curators towards defining, populating and searching a collection in a flexible way, while supporting them in generating reports based on the collection’s assets and reusing them in order to build web sites and CD-ROMs. In order to support the above functionality, the system provides the content structuring subsystem, the content input subsystem, the search subsystem and the report subsystem. The use of the subsystems is straightforward and requires no technical skills from the curators. AssetCollector has been successfully applied for organizing various collections of cultural assets in Greece, such as archaeological sites, museums and published books. In the future, an evaluation procedure is planned in order to further refine the use of the system according to the targeted users’ needs. Furthermore, more import and export facilities will be provided, which will make the system compliant with widely accepted standards.     

生态公路概念浅析

通过对生态公路概念的分析,深入剖析了生态公路的内涵,总结了生态公路的特征,从宏观上科学地把握了生态公路的思想精髓,从而进行总结,为生态公路的进一步发展奠定了理论基础。     

对建设中国先进文化的几点认识

充分认识文化和先进文化的本质特征,领会“三个代表”重要思想中关于“代表中国先进文化前进方向”的深刻内涵,研讨我国先进文化建设面临的新课题,努力实践“三个代表”,积极发展先进文化。     

中国传统装饰艺术在数字绘画艺术中应用初探

数字绘画技术主要应用在商业插画、科普插画、少儿插画、游戏人物及场景设定等方面,其中又是在动画与游戏中应用最广,让数字绘画艺术更好地为我国的文化创意产业服务,向世界展示出具有本民族特色的文化艺术产品,中国的传统装饰艺术将是其取之不尽的艺术宝库。     

关于工业设计学生国学知识使用情况的调查

在工业设计创作过程中,设计者将自己的理念充分地融合进物中,物也从各个层面直接或间接地表现设计者的想法。在这一发展过程中,国学作为一座丰富的宝库越来越受到重视。很多设计者都在发掘传统文化的魅力,探索如何将其与现代设计有机结合,形成具有独特的中国风格的设计。文章以工业设计专业学生的毕业创作为范本,通过考察他们创作中所选择和使用的国学知识,了解工业设计与国学知识的关系,以期对大学生国学教育提供助益。     

教育的生命底色：回归历史与文化融合的艺术教育情感价值诉求

在艺术学的视野中,艺术教育在叙事意蕴、情感伦理、文化追溯都显示出相当的现代世界生活的深刻性和独特性。作为人类心灵中的情感呼唤和文化精神的体验者,艺术已经消解个人层面的本土民族化的焦虑,回归基于现实与理想逻辑阐释的历史时空观中。无论艺术教育经历的宏达叙事还是对当下教育理念的重新剥离,人类都将通过艺术创造、接受和欣赏等精神释放层面的高级文化教育途径。将其深深融合进人类的心灵世界。     

寿州窑瓷器造型文化研究

江淮名窑寿州窑,创烧于我国南北朝时期,兴盛于隋唐,衰落于五代宋。在其悠长的发展历程里,寿州窑烧制了许许多多的陶瓷用品,大致可分为饮食器、盛储器、酒具、文具、寝具、玩具、建筑用瓷等,釉色崇尚黄、黑釉,造型浑厚饱满,古朴沉稳,姿态万千,多样的的造型符号传递了当时的社会文化背景、瓷器制作水平和审美文化,为深入研究中国古陶瓷文化提供了珍贵的资料,对当今的文创产品开发也大有裨益。     

对军民融合式装备保障的认识

军民融合式装备保障是新世纪新阶段我军装备保障建设发展的必由之路。介绍了军民融合式装备保障产生的背景和基本概念,分析了军民融合式装备保障的特征、地位和作用,提出了加强军民融合式装备保障建设发展应重点把握的6个问题。     

江南水乡民俗服饰的文化内涵对现代服装设计的启示

简要阐述了江南水乡民俗服饰的形制以及其所传达的文化内涵,分析了江南水乡民俗服饰形制的特点,旨在通过对江南水乡民俗服饰文化的传承和弘扬,为现代服装设计理念赋彩增色。