Kobe: Guardian of an American Cultural Institution

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Thomas Mills ◽  
DeMond Shondell Miller
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Institution

Always Tomorrow Now

2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 180-185 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stuart Candy ◽  
Luiz Alberto Oliveira
Keyword(s):  
Rio De Janeiro ◽  
Cultural Institution

Museu do Amanhã (the Museum of Tomorrow) opened in Rio de Janeiro in December 2015 and welcomed more than one million visitors within nine months. This interview of the museum’s curator (Luiz Alberto Oliveira) by its first fellow (Stuart Candy) looks at the story and thinking behind a cultural institution of foresight dedicated to questions rather than answers, experiences rather than artifacts, and multiple possible futures rather than an unalterable past.

scholarly journals The Value of Zoos for Science and Conservation

Oryx ◽  
1967 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 127-136 ◽  
Author(s):  
Caroline Jarvis
Keyword(s):  
Endangered Species ◽  
Breeding Programme ◽  
Research Station ◽  
Wild Animals ◽  
Cultural Institution

For too long zoos have been regarded as places of entertainment where people go to laugh at the animals. But the modern zoo has important functions to fill and must take its place as a scientific and cultural institution beside the museum and the research station. The author, editor of the International Zoo Yearbook, suggests that zoos have three main functions: firstly, educational, where their opportunity is enormous — 150 million people a year go to see the half-million vertebrate animals in the 500 zoos and aquaria listed in the Yearbook; secondly as repositories of data about wild animals; thirdly, as breeding centres for endangered species. She believes that a united organised breeding programme, using large units and with each zoo specialising in certain animals, could save many endangered species.

scholarly journals The Personality of the Influencers, the Characteristics of Qualitative Discussions and Their Analysis for Recommendations to Cultural Institutions

Heritage ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 239-253 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vassilis Poulopoulos ◽  
Costas Vassilakis ◽  
Angeliki Antoniou ◽  
George Lepouras ◽  
Anastasios Theodoropoulos ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Experimental Evaluation ◽  
Cultural Institutions ◽  
Experimental Procedure ◽  
Media Usage ◽  
Cultural Institution ◽  
Cultural Organization ◽  
The Social ◽  
Funded Project ◽  
Museum Experience

Social media usage is affecting peoples’ views through opinion sharing, a fact that has started to attract cultural institutions, as it is possible that this procedure can possibly be a part of a museum experience. As the main goal of a cultural institution is the maximization of senses stimulation, the device that is offered to the visitors’ hands everyday and every moment, becomes an important tool for the art spaces. In this notion we perform research on issues that can be of great importance for the museum’s online presence and attraction. We focus on establishing the personality of influencers related to culture, as well as the characteristics of qualitative discussions on the social media. Crosscult Project is an EU funded project, that aims to spur a change in the way European citizens appraise History, and sets that basis of our research as the experiments are conducted within its scope of. Through the experimental procedure, we collect information in order to define the character of the influencer and the substances of a “serious” conversation. “Serious” conversations are regarded the ones in which a cultural organization can participate actively and benefit from the participation. We present the results of our experimental evaluation and analyze how cultural institutions can benefit from the outcomes of our research.

scholarly journals Biblioteki miejskie jako „miejsca trzecie” a deglomeracja kultury. Wnioski z badania sieci bibliotek miejskich w Krakowie

2018 ◽  
Vol 62 (3) ◽  
pp. 47-62
Author(s):  
Jacek Gądecki
Keyword(s):  
Social Role ◽  
Third Place ◽  
Cultural Institution ◽  
Joint Activities ◽  
The Social ◽  
City Space ◽  
The City

This text addresses the significance and potential of municipal libraries. The author considers the results of research conducted to evaluate the network of municipal libraries in Kraków (a UNESCO City of Literature) and to prepare a strategy for a new cultural institution, the Kraków Library. He considers libraries in terms of “place.” The notion of “place” here involves both the urban dimension of a library (that is, its role and location in the city space) and the architectural sense (its interior and attractiveness). He attaches great importance to a library’s city-forming and culture-forming roles, and to the social role of the library as a “third place,” a place that is neither home nor work and in which diverse participants can undertake joint activities.

Social Practices of the Organization of Recreation and Health Improvement of Orphaned Children and Pupils in Inpatient Institutions in Moscow (From the Experience of GAUK «MOSGORTUR»)

2020 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
pp. 83-90
Author(s):  
Yu.G. Karpova ◽  
◽  
A.Yu. Fodorya ◽  
G.V. Zayarskaya ◽  
◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Health Services ◽  
Best Practices ◽  
Social Practices ◽  
Current Situation ◽  
The State ◽  
Health Improvement ◽  
Orphaned Children ◽  
Cultural Institution ◽  
Recreation And Tourism

the article briefly describes the stages and methods of Organization by the state Autonomous cultural institution of Moscow “Moscow Agency for recreation and tourism” (GAUC “MOSGORTUR”) of providing recreation and health services to orphans and children placed in stationary institutions in Moscow. The authors present data on monitoring one of the best practices in the field of recreation and health improvement for children of this category, adapted to the current situation (the COVID-19 epidemic).

Turf Tussle

2016 ◽  
pp. 103-133
Author(s):  
Ashli Que Sinberry Stokes ◽  
Wendy Atkins-Sayre
Keyword(s):  
Southern History ◽  
Southern Identity ◽  
Cultural Institution ◽  
Different Types

Chapter four examines how barbecue is a Southern cultural institution that sends rhetorical messages about Southern history, gender, race, class, ritual, and fellowship. Barbecue is a type of cultural synecdoche that continues to bring different types of people together, telling stories that simultaneously shape and express contemporary Southern identity. If Southern food helps shape identity, barbecue provides a perfect example of this process because its rhetoric and ritual incites profound identification with regional styles. Tussling about which barbecue is best engages identity forming behavior that serves a rhetorical purpose in gradually knitting groups of people together over their shared love of a particular food tradition. Barbecue conveys identificatory messages of authenticity, masculinity, and rurality, stretching casuistically to still be descriptive of the South’s character. The chapter explores how (and whether) perceptions of traditional Southern foods like barbecue stretch to broaden and deepen the narrative about Southern food.

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