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.     

空间的塑造--厦门海湾公园设计

海湾公园利用植物、地形、大海与湖泊的周边环境等景观要素,运用隐喻、对比的手法,创造丰富、神秘、变化的空间,注重空间灵活的使用功能及其良好的人性化.     

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。     

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。     

追忆性:牌坊建筑现象的文化指向

牌坊作为一种无实用性功能的门洞式结构,是中国建筑史上具有特殊文化意义的公共建筑,文章采用建筑艺术史研究方法,从"纪念碑性"、建筑材质的演进、雕刻纹饰三方面对牌坊建筑进行研究,认为牌坊建筑在文化学上具有重要的"追忆性"功能.     

浅谈和谐企业构建过程中的思想政治工作

如何适应构建和谐企业的新要求,是当前企业思想政治工作面临的一个崭新课题。为此,我们应深入研究,积极探索,不断加强和创新企业思想政治工作,为创建和谐企业提供强有力的思想保障和精神支撑。     

徐州民间虎纹样文化探析

虎纹样文化作为民间传统文化中的重要组成部分,历史积淀深厚。徐州民间虎纹样形拙神真、粗放质朴,反映了当地的民俗民风、人文历史。文章从徐州民间虎纹样的表现载体入手,对其文化内涵、审美特征进行分析论述。这将对今后虎纹样的应用、研究以及保护都起到一定的促进作用。     

高校图书馆的文化育人功能及其对策研究

图书馆作为一种社会机构,它以收藏与贮存的文献为媒介,以传递为手段,具有社会性、学术性、教育性、服务性的基本性质和多种职能,其中文化育人职能在高校图书馆显得尤为重要,和谐社会的建设离不开校园文化的发展,因此在目前的社会背景下,高校必须把图书馆建设与和谐校园文化建设紧密结合起来,使高校图书馆在构建社会主义和谐社会,建设社会主义和谐文化,特别是在文化育人过程中发挥积极的作用。