scholarly journals The Great East Japan Earthquake and cultural heritage: towards an archaeology of disaster

Antiquity ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 87 (335) ◽  
pp. 258-269 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katsuyuki Okamura ◽  
Atsushi Fujisawa ◽  
Yasuhisa Kondo ◽  
Yu Fujimoto ◽  
Tomokatsu Uozu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Japanese Government ◽  
Great East Japan Earthquake ◽  
Initial Assessment ◽  
Seismic Events ◽  
Present Contribution ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future

The earthquake that struck Japan on 11 March 2011, named the Great East Japan Earthquake by the Japanese government, was one of the largest seismic events the world has seen for generations. Akira Matsui reported his experience of visiting the areas devastated by the earthquake and tsunami soon afterwards, outlining the initial assessment of damage caused to museums and cultural heritage assets, and the plans for their rescue (Kaner et a/ 2011; Matsui 201 I a). The present contribution reports how far the implementation of these plans has been successful, the prospects for the future, and situates all of this in a broader context of archaeological response to earthquakes.

scholarly journals Improving Capacity Development for Threatened Maritime and Marine Cultural Heritage Through the Evaluation of a Parameter Framework

2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 409-427
Author(s):  
Katherine Recinos ◽  
Lucy Blue
Keyword(s):  
Middle East ◽  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
North Africa ◽  
Capacity Development ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
Development Initiatives

Abstract Maritime cultural heritage is under increasing threat around the world, facing damage, destruction, and disappearance. Despite attempts to mitigate these threats, maritime cultural heritage is often not addressed to the same extent or with equal resources. One approach that can be applied towards protecting and conserving threatened cultural heritage, and closing this gap, is capacity development. This paper addresses the question of how capacity development can be improved and adapted for the protection of maritime cultural heritage under threat. It asserts that capacity development for maritime cultural heritage can be improved by gaining a more comprehensive and structured understanding of capacity development initiatives through applying a consistent framework for evaluation and analysis. This allows for assessment and reflection on previous or ongoing initiatives, leading to the implementation of more effective initiatives in the future. In order to do this, a model for classifying initiatives by ten parameters is proposed. It is then applied to a number of case studies featuring initiatives in the Middle East and North Africa region. This is followed by a discussion of how conclusions and themes drawn from the examination and evaluation of the case study initiatives can provide a deeper understanding of capacity development efforts, and an analysis of how the parameter model as a framework can aid in improving capacity development for threatened maritime cultural heritage overall.

Old Gibellina: the map, the world, the Aleph

2019 ◽  
Vol 27 (2) ◽  
pp. 317-323
Author(s):  
Giovanni Messina
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Land Art ◽  
Present Contribution ◽  
Full Size ◽  
Specific Reading ◽  
The World ◽  
Literary Subject

The present contribution intends to propose an epistemological reflection on the links and relationships that interweave the map, cultural heritage, landscape and places. I have identified an interpretative horizon that intersects the scientific geographic debate with the literary subject and proposed a specific reading of the site of Old Gibellina in Sicily, Italy, where reality and representation seem to converge. In 1968, Gibellina was razed to the ground by an earthquake. Then the site of Old Gibellina was covered by the ‘Grande Cretto’: the work of Land Art made by the artist Alberto Burri. In my perspective, the Cretto represents a unique place: it is a full-size map, it is landscape and it is world at the same time. What happens, then, when reality and representation coincide in a place?

scholarly journals Perancangan Batik di Sekolah Menengah Kejuruan

JURNAL RUPA ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 14
Author(s):  
Sari Yuningsih
Keyword(s):  
High School ◽  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Formal Education ◽  
Daily Activities ◽  
Vocational School ◽  
Vocational High School ◽  
Literature Study ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
The Right

Batik has been known as a cultural heritage as an oral and non-artistic culture typical of Indonesia. The recognition of batik as one of the cultural heritage faces a challenge that is how the effort of preservation and regeneration of batik in the future. Batik preservation is not just applying batik in daily activities, but it needs conservation in the context of science and skills. In order to preserve Vocational High School (SMK) is the right tool in regenerating batik as insight, knowledge and skill. For that need special attention to continue to foster vocational school in order to continue to exist in the competition. This study contains descriptive description of vocational school of textile craft that holds batik subjects as a form of batik preservation in the world of formal education. Writing method in this study using literature study, observation, interview and documentation at one school in Bandung. With this exposure is expected to provide an overview of the implementation of batik subjects and can be used as a reference in the study of batik development in vocational school.

Overview of the World Bosai Forum Public Cultural Event: “Pre-WBF Festival – Learning from the Disaster, Bridging to the Future: Held in Partnership with the Science Agora”

2018 ◽  
Vol 13 (7) ◽  
pp. 1234-1246
Author(s):  
Natsuko Chubachi ◽  
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Yuichi Ono ◽  
Kiyoshi Ito ◽  
Fumihiko Imamura
Keyword(s):  
Public Relations ◽  
Disaster Risk ◽  
Great East Japan Earthquake ◽  
Public Event ◽  
Cultural Event ◽  
Disaster Experience ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
First World

This study overviews “the Pre-WBF Festival – Learning from the disaster, bridging to the future: held in partnership with the Science Agora” (the Pre-WBF Festival), and recounts its achievements. This was a cultural, admission-free public event, held as the opening event of the first “World Bosai Forum/International Disaster Risk Conference in Sendai” (WBF). The Pre-WBF Festival was planned primarily by academics with a view towards “passing on experiences of the Great East Japan Earthquake,” “bridging the divide between academia and society,” “success of the WBF,” and so on. Parties involved in media provided advice on onstage presentations and public relations activity. The event, which had 662 participants from inside and outside of Japan, was a success. An analysis of the results of a questionnaire demonstrates that the participants understood the intentions of the event and reacted very favorably. Although participation of younger generations remains an issue, the Pre-WBF Festival is thought to be an effective method to connect academia and citizens. In addition, if such an event is held regularly, it can successfully pass on disaster experience in the future.

Identifying Challenges and Barriers in Collecting, Documenting and Digitizing Palm Leaf Manuscripts in Eastern Sri Lanka

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (4) ◽  
pp. 13-19
Author(s):  
Gayathiri Navirathan ◽  
Oshanithi Sivarasa
Keyword(s):  
Sri Lanka ◽  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
History Of ◽  
Successive Generations ◽  
Crucial Part ◽  
Rich History ◽  
Palm Leaf

The palm leaf manuscripts are the sources of the cultural heritage of our ancestors. It is a very crucial part of the librarians or archivists or curators to conserve and preserve them from passing the information and knowledge to successive generations. Palm leaf manuscripts indicate previous documentary heritage and conservation, preservation and made them available shortly is a challenging and demanding task at present. Sri Lanka has a rich history of documentary heritage comprised of valuable palm-leaf collections. In eastern Sri Lanka, the palm leaf manuscripts are spread everywhere as personal holdings.There are many countries all over the world that put much effort into preserving them for the future. One of the potent methods of preserving those endangered documents like manuscripts is digitization. At this point, there is an urgent need to find the suitability of preserving those palm leaf manuscripts in the facets of digitization techniques.As the palm leaf manuscripts are shown as endangered through ages while tackling them to collecting and documenting them, several challenges were faced. Therefore identifying the solutions to overcome those challenges and barriers is important to further the documentation and digitization process of palm leaf manuscripts. The study aims to find the challenges and barriers in collecting, documenting and digitizing those palm leaf collections in eastern Sri Lanka.

Reputation and image recovery from the Great East Japan Earthquake A long journey with high hopes

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kaede Sano
Keyword(s):  
Financial Crisis ◽  
Economic Impact ◽  
World Wide ◽  
Tohoku Earthquake ◽  
Tourism Industry ◽  
Japanese Government ◽  
Great East Japan Earthquake ◽  
Image Recovery ◽  
The World ◽  
Japanese Yen

Tourism is considered one of the more important industries in the world, contributing economically to many countries’ development (Huang et al., 2008). The Japanese government has actively promoted inbound tourism since the launch of the ‘Visit Japan’ campaign in 2003, by implementing various policies, such as relaxing tourist visas, building a tourist-friendly environment, implementing a tax-free policy and so on. As a result, 28,691,073 international tourists visited Japan in 2017, compared to 5,211,725 in 2003 (JNTO, 2018a, 2018b). Undoubtedly, the booming tourism market brought a significant economic impact to Japan. According to data from the Japan Tourism Agency (JTA, 2017), the economic impact of tourism in 2015 amounted to 25.5 trillion Japanese yen (approximately USD 234 billion), and tourism accounted for four million jobs or 6.7% of nationwide employment (JTA, 2017). However, the tourism industry is also more fragmented and vulnerable to crises and disasters (Faulkner, 2001; Ritchie, 2004), and the industry often finds it difficult to rebound quickly from crises and disasters that have damaged the image of a destination (Cassedy, 1992). Although the number of international tourists to Japan has continually increased since 2003, the industry was greatly affected by the world-wide financial crisis in 2009 and the Great East Japan Earthquake (also called the 3.11 Earthquake and Tohoku Earthquake) in 2011.

The Possible

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vlad P. Glăveanu
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Everyday Life ◽  
Counterfactual Thinking ◽  
Human Action ◽  
Wide Field ◽  
Present Contribution ◽  
The Real ◽  
New Meanings ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future

This book explores an eminently human phenomenon: our capacity to engage with the possible, to go beyond what is present, visible, or given in our existence. Possibility studies are an emerging field of research including topics as diverse as creativity, imagination, innovation, anticipation, counterfactual thinking, wondering, serendipity, the future, social change, hope, agency, and utopia, among others. The present contribution to this wide field is represented by a sociocultural and pragmatist account of the possible grounded in the notions of difference, position, perspective, dialogue, action, and culture. Put simply, this theory proposes that our explorations of the possible are enabled by our human capacity to relate to the world from more than one position and perspective and to understand that any perspective we hold is, at all times, one among many. Such an account transcends the long-standing dichotomy between the possible and the real, a sterile separation that ends up portraying possibility as separate from and even opposed to reality. On the contrary, the theory of the possible advanced in this book goes back to this notion’s etymological roots (the Latin possibilis—“that can be done,” from posse—“to be able”) and considers it as both a precondition and outcome of human action and interaction. Exploring the possible doesn’t take place outside of or in addition to our experience of the world; rather, it infiltrates it from the start, infuses it with new meanings, and ends up transforming it altogether. This book aims to offer conceptual, methodological, and practical tools for all those interested in studying human possibility and cultivating it in education, the workplace, everyday life, and society.

Trends in digital cultural heritage in Japan, 1980-2012

2013 ◽  
Vol 38 (2) ◽  
pp. 11-16
Author(s):  
Norio Togiya
Keyword(s):  
Semantic Web ◽  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Great East Japan Earthquake ◽  
Digital Content ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Tablet Devices ◽  
Leading Role ◽  
Research Institutes ◽  
Digital Cultural Heritage ◽  
The World

In Japan, many different organisations have played a part in creating the digital content that we now see being shared on the internet. Starting in the 1980s, developments in digital cultural heritage took place mainly in five kinds of institution: museums, libraries, archives, university and research institutes, plus the world of business. Museums and libraries played a leading role in the 1980s, and they were joined in the 1990s by universities and commercial enterprises, which developed digital content in a variety of ways. In the 2000s archival institutions became involved, and museums, libraries and archives began to form networks to enable seamless retrieval of digital cultural heritage. In the 2010s, the focus moved to the sharing of data and specifically the need to establish a common approach for the exchange of metadata for the ‘Semantic Web’. Creating content for tablet devices also became important, as did the question of standardising technology. The Great East Japan Earthquake of 2011 brought a keen awareness of the need to create digital records to preserve and share memories of disasters.

The Network University of the World-Class Research and Academic Center “Kuzbass” as a Regional Strategy on Capacity Building through Infrastructure and Human Capital

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (1) ◽  
pp. 66-75
Author(s):  
Aleksander Prosekov
Keyword(s):  
Industrial Revolution ◽  
Initial Assessment ◽  
Professional Activity ◽  
State University ◽  
University Campuses ◽  
Academic Center ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
World Class ◽  
Post Industrial

Introduction. The paper introduces the concept of the Network University on the basis of the World-Class Research and Academic Center “Kuzbass”. It is one of the largest projects aimed at improving the scientific and academic landscape of the Kemerovo region. The digital twin technology can increase the current efficiency of the Kemerovo State University and develop its resources. The research objective was to assess this potential. Study objects and methods. The Network University project presupposes establishing a number of interacting Kuzbass campuses that will prepare competitive post-industrial production specialists able to solve various administrative, analytical, and economic problems that the region is currently facing. Results and discussion. The research involved an urban planning analysis of the future Network University campuses. It resulted in several infrastructure solutions in the context of digital education and the Fourth Industrial Revolution (Industry 4.5). Conclusion. In case of network universities, higher education does not equal qualifications: education provides each student with a conscious choice and a development pathway in the world of digital economy. A successfully operating link between education and professional activity makes this pathway attractive for investments. The author gave an initial assessment and defined the infrastructure solutions for the future campuses. All these issues are part of research on the capacity of the Kuzbass Network University and integrate the project into Priority 2030, which is the former Strategic Academic Leadership Program.

scholarly journals Twelve Symbolic Objects of Tangible/Intangible Culture

Res Mobilis ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (11) ◽  
pp. 46-64
Author(s):  
Juan Fernando De Laiglesia González
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Key Words ◽  
Language Use ◽  
Research Question ◽  
Intangible Cultural Heritage ◽  
The Past ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
Tangible Culture

Design as Cultural Heritage is a 2018 European proposal; this draws on Tangible and Intangible Cultural Heritage regarded as ‘our heritage: where the past meets the future’. This paper aims to answer the research question about the nature of the space between the human been and the world. Therefore, it will analyse certain processes that occur in their thickness, focussing on ‘authenticity criteria’ employed by UNESCO to define tangible culture in order to identify different language use of ‘culture’. From these, both criteria and usage, this paper evaluate the four main reasons multidisciplinary background to support the late correlation between ‘tangible and intangible culture’. Eventually, this paper proposes four sequences of symbolic objects which embody tangible culture contents. Key Words: Culture, Tangible, Intangible, Authenticity.

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