The Landscape of Węgajty Theatre

2021 ◽  
Vol 46 (3) ◽  
pp. 303-321
Author(s):  
JUSTYNA BIERNAT
Keyword(s):  
Natural Environment ◽  
Community Building ◽  
Rural Landscape ◽  
Rural Settlement ◽  
Experimental Art ◽  
Rural Space ◽  
Humanistic Geography ◽  
Alternative Culture

The alternative culture in Poland formed between the late 1970s and the second half of the 1990s. In this period many artists were moving from cities into the countryside in order to find space for independent and experimental art. Among these new settlers were Erdmute and Wacław Sobaszek, who made their home in a small rural settlement of Węgajty in the 1980s. The Sobaszeks converted an abandoned farm into a stage and soon their undertaking became one of the most prominent alternative theatres in Poland. This article explores intersections of the Sobaszeks's art and rural landscape through the lens of humanistic geography, anthropology and philosophy. The purpose of the article is to reveal a deep attachment of the artists to local, rural space and to examine how it shapes their performances and community building. In the article, the Węgajty Theatre is recognized as ‘landscape theatre’, a term which attempts to emphasize a bond between the theatre and the natural environment.

scholarly journals Rural urbanization under Xi Jinping: From rapid community building to steady urbanization?

2019 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
pp. 187-207 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elena Meyer-Clement
Keyword(s):  
Rural Community ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Community Building ◽  
Rural Landscape ◽  
Policy Learning ◽  
Local Policy ◽  
Xi Jinping ◽  
Rural Land ◽  
Rural Urbanization

‘Rural community building’ is one of the most prominent policies of rural urbanization and village renovation in China. Since the nationwide implementation of this policy within the scope of the programme ‘Building a new socialist countryside’, the large-scale construction of new residential complexes has accelerated the transformation of the country’s rural landscape. However, extensive demolition and relocation have drawn increasing criticism, and the policy has become synonymous with the seizure of rural land resources by local governments. When Xi Jinping came to power, the new leadership initially appeared to abandon the policy but has eventually revived it. This article studies the implementation and evolution of the rural community building policy as a case of policy learning. The analysis of national and local policy documents and implementation practices in four provinces highlights a new framing of the policy, more intensive hierarchical controls over rural land use, and the state’s increasing reach into village governance, as well as new incentives for local governments to continue with demolition and relocation projects. These changes reveal a mode of policy learning in the context of an authoritarian regime whose goal is to improve policy implementation in the face of growing public criticism and social tension.

scholarly journals Rural Landscape as a Value of Cultural Heritage

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maria Wieruszewska
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Cultural Landscape ◽  
Physical Space ◽  
Human Experience ◽  
Rural Landscape ◽  
Rural Space ◽  
A Value ◽  
European Landscape Convention ◽  
The World

The Author – ethnologist and anthropologist of culture – defends the thesis that rural landscape is an important component of cultural heritage. Virtual “cyberspaces” as - sume the role of an alternative life environment. Physical space loses the basis for explaining the world and for shaping human experience. The degraded rural cultural landscape is the proof of erroneous conceptions and rural space gathers the effects of a deficit of sensibility to “long continuance”. In opposition to postmodernist assessments the Author objects to the attempts at destabilising culture. Culture is significant. The protection of rural landscape as a particularly sensitive and valuable quality has a sense. In the conclusion of her article the Author suggests that a more thorough humanistic reflection is needed to make it possible to optimally implement the recommendations of the European Landscape Convention.

scholarly journals Problemi suvremene socio-geografske preobrazbe otoka Oliba

Geoadria ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 35 ◽  
Author(s):  
Damir Magaš ◽  
Josip Faričić
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Rural Landscape ◽  
Way Of Life ◽  
Half Century ◽  
Spatial Mechanism ◽  
Rural Space ◽  
Socio Economic Development ◽  
Mediterranean Island ◽  
The Mediterranean ◽  
Main Factor

The island of Olib, one of the small Croatian islands, is a rural space of striking depopulation and economic regression. Centuries-long development dynamics within the framework of the Mediterranean polycultural production has been seriously disrupted by the deagrarianism and an intensive emigration. It has considerably weakened the demographic basis, which is the main factor of the socio-economic development. In the recent half-century period the way of life has changed radically, which, among other things, manifested also in the changes of island (rural) landscape. Arable areas are fewer and fewer, social fallow dominates, and the physiognomy of the only island settlement has also significantly changed. The appearance and functions of a traditional Mediterranean island settlement have been replaced by an urbanely nuanced "spatial mechanism", where newbuilt weekend houses and renewed old village homes, primarily intended for rest and recreation, have predominant importance. 

scholarly journals The design and reconstruction of the geographical landscape is realized in the rural fragile space

2020 ◽  
Vol 189 ◽  
pp. 03011
Author(s):  
Ding Fanzhuo ◽  
Zhang Jixiao
Keyword(s):  
Soil Erosion ◽  
Natural Environment ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Landscape Design ◽  
Rural Landscape ◽  
The Face ◽  
Land Desertification ◽  
Planning And Construction

In the face of the two-way threat of the deteriorating natural environment and accelerating urbanization progress, the countryside has obvious landscape fragile characteristics, such as water and soil erosion, land desertification and industrial ruins left, some of spaces are even harder to remedy. It is of great significance and value for the planning and construction of rural areas to study the fragile space of rural landscape, identify the cause of its fragile and carry out landscape design and reconstruction.

Roman Rural Landscape Occupation in Present-Day Germany

2015 ◽  
pp. 115-144
Author(s):  
Thomas Maurer
Keyword(s):  
Landscape Archaeology ◽  
Rural Landscape ◽  
Rural Settlement ◽  
Spatial Studies ◽  
Settlement Archaeology ◽  
History Of Research ◽  
History Of ◽  
Roman Germany ◽  
Upper Rhine

This chapter deals with spatial studies concerning Roman settlement within the area of present-day Germany, paying special attention to the parts of the provinces of Germania Inferior and Germania Superior, as well as the parts of the province of Gallia Belgica and the northern part of the province of Raetia that lie within Germany’s modern borders. It begins with a brief survey of the history of research in ‘rural settlement archaeology’ in general and ‘landscape archaeology’ in particular in Roman Germany from the later 1980s to today. It then considers Roman settlement archaeology in the Lower and Middle Rhine regions, the Moselle region, the northern Rhine region, and the southern Upper Rhine and Neckar region. The chapter concludes by assessing settlement archaeology in northern Raetia.

scholarly journals Crisis of the city as an idea on the example of structural transformation of housing development. Urban agriculture as an antidote for suburbanization

2018 ◽  
Vol 49 ◽  
pp. 00055
Author(s):  
Justyna Kleszcz
Keyword(s):  
Rural Landscape ◽  
Urban Living ◽  
Rural Space ◽  
Urban Structures ◽  
Living Space ◽  
Self Sufficiency ◽  
Urban Rural ◽  
External Conditions ◽  
Dense Tissue ◽  
The City

The paper aims to present the phenomenon of transgression of contemporary urban living space as the main manifestation of the crisis of urbanity idea through forming new spatial units defining the city in relation to extra-urban functions. Due to the rapidly progressing process of urbanization, cities are beginning to occupy every available space in large parts of the world. That is why the idea of a closed city is becoming rapidly outdated, and open forms adopted by them and connected with the rural landscape have caused the problem of defining a new concept of contemporary urban-rural space. Although often reasons for this phenomenon are seen only in the progressing suburbanization interrupting the continuity of urban structures, this problem is much more complex and related to the search for an alternative to the outdated form of the city. The paper includes an analysis of the phenomenon, one of the manifestations of which is the emergence of downtown and suburban housing estates that combine urban features with food production. Examples of implementation illustrate the analysis of transformations, which gave rise to the new idea of urban living. The designed estates are both an element disrupting the city's dense tissue, but also becoming a determinant of the next level of self-sufficiency of urban inhabitants - both structural, functional, energetic and also nutritional from potentially adverse external conditions.

scholarly journals El espacio rural en la enseñanza secundaria : hacia un enforque más integrador y dinámico

1998 ◽  
Author(s):  
José Sánchez Sánchez
Keyword(s):  
Rural Landscape ◽  
Rural Space ◽  
Educational Capacity ◽  
Rural World

La Geografía debe aprovecfiar al máximo la capacidad educativa que encierran sus contenidos disciplinares. Aplicando este principio a la enseñanza del espacio rural, en este artículo se propone que se aplique un concepto más integrador y dinámico que tiaga más atractivo y eficaz el aprendizaje de conceptos, procesos y problemas relacionados con la evolución y diferenciación del mundo rural. Para fijar conceptos, potenciar el método indagatorio y desarrollar la sensibilidad de los alumnos es de gran utilidad la interpretación del paisaje rural que constituye un excelente recurso didáctico.Geography must make the most of the educational capacity of its disciplinar contents. Appiying this principie to the teactiing of the rural space, this article proposes a more integrating and dynamic concept that will make more attractive and effective the learning of concepts, processes and problems related to the evolution and differentiation of the rural world . The interpretaron of the rural landscape, which forms an excellent didactic resource, is very useful to fix concepts, to foster a methodology based on investigation and to develop the sensitivity of students.

scholarly journals Evolução da exploração agrícola no Rio Grande do Sul

1983 ◽  
Vol 5 (5) ◽  
pp. 45
Author(s):  
Vera Maria Favila Miorin
Keyword(s):  
Natural Environment ◽  
Rio Grande ◽  
The State ◽  
Rio Grande Do Sul ◽  
Historical Process ◽  
Rural Space ◽  
Space Organization

The geographical studies of rural space in recent years are above all directed towards agrarian organization. The present work approaches the question of the process of accupation of the territory of Rio Grande do Sul trying to capture the dynamics of space organization through an analysis of the evolution of agriculture in the State. The relationships that results from the natural environment and from the historical process are understood as determinant elements of the structural and conjunctural transformations that were estabilished in recent years, separating the Old Rio Grande from the New Rio Grande.

scholarly journals From behind stall doors

Focaal ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 (88) ◽  
pp. 103-116
Author(s):  
Amy Leigh Field
Keyword(s):  
Natural Environment ◽  
Agricultural Production ◽  
Major Part ◽  
German Economy ◽  
Animal Husbandry ◽  
Economic Globalization ◽  
Rural Landscape ◽  
Nonhuman Animals ◽  
Urban Rural ◽  
The Subject

Animal husbandry, a major part of the contemporary German economy, is the subject of politically and morally charged discourses about the effects of the industry on the nation’s landscape and its role in economic globalization. German politicians and activists often discuss industrialized animal husbandry practices as abusive and polluting. This article analyzes how these debates are imbricated in forms of concern about nonhuman animals that tend to be differentiated geographically by urban-rural boundaries. I argue the privileging of animals as moral entities causes interpersonal friction between those who rely on animals for a living and those who do not, and expresses fundamental tensions about the rural landscape as a space of industrialized agricultural production, as opposed to a space dedicated to the conservation of the natural environment.

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