The Dilemma of Representation Through Facades

2016 ◽  
Vol 41 (1) ◽  
pp. 6-13
Author(s):  
Duygu Koca
Keyword(s):  
Financial Market ◽  
First Century ◽  
Social Structures ◽  
Communication Tools ◽  
Value System ◽  
Exterior Surface ◽  
Visual Appeal ◽  
Architectural Element ◽  
Visual Pleasure ◽  
Technology And Communication

The exterior surface of a building -façade- as a communicative ground reflects the burdened meaning of its structure. Besides communicative capacity of façade, its independency, individuality and image dominancy can define exterior surface as an autonomous architectural element in terms of both physical and moral freedom. However, in the twenty-first century, this autonomy has undermined by globalization, technology and communication tools which are among the rapidly increasing activities of the century. Location of architecture in economic transactions and financial market has caused a loss in its internal dynamics and value system. The endeavor of providing the visual appeal only through the façade formation has caused the transformation in the dependency of exterior surface being devoid of content and context. The surfaces have been treated as changeable and renewable advertisement grounds concentrating on the visual appeal of the product, whether the aim is marketing, advertising or commercializing. Thus, the link between architecture and social structures has weakened through the commodification of the end product. In this framework, aim of this paper is (a) to make the description of façade, (b) to define the autonomy of façade through its physical and moral independency by examining cases and (c) to put forward a logical argument on the aspects which make façade an element pursuing only the visual pleasure by oversimplifying its significance in the generation of architectural idea.

THE DEVELOPMENT DESIGN MODEL IN THE COMPETITIVENESS OF INTELLIGENT BUSINESS ORGANISATIONS

2007 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 271-280
Author(s):  
Christian Stipanović ◽  
Suzana Bareša
Keyword(s):  
High Growth ◽  
First Century ◽  
Design Model ◽  
Employee Empowerment ◽  
Past Century ◽  
Value System ◽  
Business Organisation ◽  
System A ◽  
New Development ◽  
New Generation

Croatian hotel and tourism companies are failing to keep abreast of modern tourism trends in the globalised marketplace of the twenty-first century. The imperative is to innovate the development design model based on a new value system. A precondition to success is transforming sluggish, inert companies that live according to the mindset of the past century into high-growth intelligent organisations capable of actively creating the future.The intelligent business organisation, founded on a new generation of managers, employee empowerment, software solutions and expert systems, needs to manage data and information to generate new development trends. The aim is to valorise intellectual capital and information in making innovations and creating new solutions in order to be able to stand up to rivals and more fully meet the needs of clients.

scholarly journals The extent of inclusion of the skills of the twenty-first century in the Arabic language book for the sixth grade in Jordan The academic year 2018-2019 is a model: مدى تضمين مهارات القرن الحادي والعشرين في كتاب اللغة العربية للصف السادس الأساسي في الأردن العام الدراسي 2018-2019 أنموذجاً

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
SAAD LWYEN ALSIBIEH
Keyword(s):  
21St Century ◽  
Team Leadership ◽  
Sixth Grade ◽  
Arabic Language ◽  
First Century ◽  
Information Culture ◽  
Basic Stage ◽  
Language Courses ◽  
Technology And Communication ◽  
Academic Year

The present study aimed to identify the extent to which the 21st century skills were included in the Arabic language book for the sixth grade in Jordan. To achieve this objective, the researcher used the descriptive analytical method using the modified content analysis form by the researcher. (7) areas: - Critical thinking and problem solving - Innovation and creativity - Collaboration and work in the team - Leadership - Understanding multicultural culture - Communication, information and information - Culture of computing and information technology and communication - Profession and self-reliant learning. Study in the book of the Arabic language for the sixth grade the first two chapters and the second academic year 2018/2019, and data analysis was used) Hambleton repetitions and percentages, averages, and the expense of honesty has been applied Hampelton equation. And Alpha Kronbach. The results of Test-Retest showed that the method of retest was applied In the light of the results, the researcher recommended reviewing the content of the Arabic language courses for the basic stage in terms of dealing with the skills of the 21st century, in view of their importance in preparing the learner Capable of coping with the challenges and addressing the problems that may be faced.

scholarly journals Strategies in Applying the Religious Character of Students to Distance Learning

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aldiyah Mellawati
Keyword(s):  
Qualitative Research ◽  
Online Learning ◽  
Distance Learning ◽  
Data Collection ◽  
Learning Strategy ◽  
Communication Tools ◽  
Changing Times ◽  
Data Collection Technique ◽  
Technology And Communication ◽  
Morning Prayer

The purpose of this study was to determine the strategy of SMP Muhammadiyah 5 Tulangan in applying the religious character of students in distance learning. This study uses descriptive qualitative research methods. The data collection technique in this study was through interviews, documentation and observation, while the triangulation used in this study was technical triangulation. In online learning, SMP Muhammadiyah 5 Tulangan has implemented an online learning strategy using the help of technology and communication tools. Religious character is needed by students in dealing with changing times and moral degradation. Kemuhammadiyahan lessons are considered strategic to be disseminated to every student in Muhammadiyah schools. Morning activity is an activity that is routinely carried out every morning by reading the Qur'an or usually referred to as the morning prayer and dhuha prayer as an effort to strengthen the value of the religious character of the students of SMP Muhammadiyah 5 Tulangan.

Contingent Motion

2021 ◽  
pp. 19-42
Author(s):  
Jordan Schonig
Keyword(s):  
Critique Of Judgment ◽  
Visual Appeal ◽  
Digital Animation ◽  
Visual Pleasure

This chapter examines fluttering leaves, swirling dust, and rippling waves as one of cinema’s earliest and most significant forms of motion. While most theorists maintain that such phenomena attracted early spectators because their unplanned appearance flaunted the indexical realism of cinema’s indiscriminate recording, this chapter shows how this attraction is part of a broader visual appeal of “contingent motion” that precedes the cinematic image and persists in the age of digital animation. Specifically, the chapter juxtaposes phenomenological insights about such phenomena in Kant’s Critique of Judgment, early spectators’ reactions to such phenomena in “wave films,” and contemporary spectators’ reactions to synthetic versions of such phenomena in computer-generated cartoons like Frozen (2013). In revealing a phenomenological consistency across these three different ways of encountering such phenomena, the chapter shows how early spectators’ astonishment at fluttering leaves and rippling waves cannot be explained with theories of the photographic index. Instead, this chapter argues, the visual reproduction of contingent motion involves its own logics of visual pleasure distinct from the marvels of the photographic process.

Basic Rights and Climate Change (2020)

Basic Rights ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 181-198
Author(s):  
Henry Shue
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Fossil Fuels ◽  
First Century ◽  
Social Structures ◽  
Ordinary People ◽  
Global Energy ◽  
Rapid Climate Change ◽  
Energy Regime ◽  
Basic Rights ◽  
Change Climate

This chapter addresses the greatest threat to basic rights in the twenty-first century: uncontrolled climate change. Climate change is a threat not only to widely acknowledged basic rights but also to all other rights, the protection of which depends on fulfillment of basic rights. The basic right to subsistence is obviously threatened by the global energy regime of fossil fuels. The most dangerous effects for humans of the combustion of fossil fuels come indirectly by way of the dynamics of rapid climate change and the effects of climate change on the fundamental interests that basic rights are intended to safeguard—on none more than on the food at the heart of subsistence. The chapter then highlights the danger that economic and political agreements made by others will make it impossible for ordinary people to provide such elements of subsistence for themselves by trapping them inside social structures that conflict with their fundamental interests. One might say that climate change is a threat that humanity is imposing upon itself.

scholarly journals Interpretative Pros Hen Pluralism: from Computer-Mediated Colonization to a Pluralistic Intercultural Digital Ethics

2020 ◽  
Vol 33 (4) ◽  
pp. 551-569
Author(s):  
Charles Melvin Ess
Keyword(s):  
First Century ◽  
Internet Research ◽  
Communication Styles ◽  
Cultural Attitudes ◽  
Ethical Pluralism ◽  
Digital Ethics ◽  
Computer Mediated ◽  
Attitudes Towards Technology ◽  
Ethical Norms ◽  
Technology And Communication

Abstract Intercultural Digital Ethics (IDE) faces the central challenge of how to develop a global IDE that can endorse and defend some set of (quasi-) universal ethical norms, principles, frameworks, etc. alongside sustaining local, culturally variable identities, traditions, practices, norms, and so on. I explicate interpretive pros hen (focal or “towards one”) ethical pluralism (EP(ph)) emerging in the late 1990s and into the twenty-first century in response to this general problem and its correlates, including conflicts generated by “computer-mediated colonization” that imposed homogenous values, communication styles, and so on upon “target” peoples and cultures via ICTs as embedding these values in their very design. I contrast different kinds of ethical pluralisms as structural apparatus for understanding what differences may mean and allow for, as these emerged in the 1990s forwards with EP(ph). As interwoven with phronēsis, a form of reflective judgment and virtue, EP(ph) more radically preserves irreducible differences and so fosters positive engagements across deep cultural differences. I show how EP(ph) emerged in the context of empirical research on “Cultural Attitudes towards Technology and Communication” (CATaC) beginning in 1998, and then in specific applications within Internet Research Ethics (IRE) beginning in 2000. I summarize its main characteristics and trace how it has further been taken up in ICE, IRE, Intercultural Information Ethics, and virtue ethics more broadly. I respond to important criticisms and objections, arguing that EP(ph) thus stands as an important component for a contemporary IDE that seeks an ethical cosmopolitanism in place of computer-mediated colonization.

scholarly journals Levels of Narrativity in Scandinavian Bronze Age Petroglyphs

2019 ◽  
Vol 29 (3) ◽  
pp. 497-516 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michael Ranta ◽  
Peter Skoglund ◽  
Anna Cabak Rédei ◽  
Tomas Persson
Keyword(s):  
Bronze Age ◽  
Rock Art ◽  
First Century ◽  
Social Structures ◽  
Master Narratives ◽  
The Past ◽  
Narrative Representations ◽  
State Of Affairs ◽  
Point Of Departure

In Europe, Scandinavia holds the largest concentration of rock art (i.e. petroglyphs), created c. 5000–first century bc, many of them showing figurative and seemingly narrative representations. In this paper, we will discuss possible narratological approaches applied to these images. We might reasonably distinguish between three levels of pictorial narrativity: representations of (i) single events, understood as the transition from one state of affairs to another, usually involving (groups of) agents interacting; (ii) stories, e.g. particular sequences of related events that are situated in the past and retold for e.g. ideological or religious purposes; and (iii) by implication, master-narratives deeply embedded in a culture, which provide and consolidate cosmological explanations and social structures. Some concrete examples of petroglyphs will be presented and analysed from narratological and iconographical perspectives. We will as a point of departure focus on (i), i.e. single events, though we shall also further consider the possibility of narrative interpretations according to (ii) and (iii).

scholarly journals The ancient Mediterranean values of honour and shame as a hermeneutical procedure: A social-scientific criticism in an African perspective

2001 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 85-101 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. Mahlangu
Keyword(s):  
New Testament ◽  
First Century ◽  
Value System ◽  
The Bible ◽  
Mediterranean World ◽  
The New Testament ◽  
African Context ◽  
African Perspective ◽  
Social Scientific ◽  
People Today

The life of modern people evolves around economics and all that goes with it, such as labour, production, consumption and possessions. These things do not only motivate many peoples' behaviour, but claim most of their energy and time. Therefore, the organising principle of life of people today is instrumental mastery - the individual's ability to control his or her environment, personal and impersonal, to attain a qualityorientated success: wealth, ownership, "good looks" proper grades, and all countable indications of success. But, in the first century Mediterranean world, economics was not the be-all and end-all. People worked primarily to conserve their status and not to gather possessions. Thus, the pivotal values of the first century Mediterranean world was honour and shame. This article looks at how social-scientific critics have attempted to show how the understanding of these values would lead to an understanding and interpretation of the New Testament. In this article the author approaches this paradigm from an African perspective. It is shown that the African interacts and transacts with the New Testament with his/her own value system in which these values are also encountered. This, therefore, makes the reading of the Bible in an African context possible.

Is Nothing Sacred? 1 Timothy and Clergy Sexual Abuse

2021 ◽  
Vol 75 (4) ◽  
pp. 317-327
Author(s):  
Marie M. Fortune
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Abuse ◽  
Church Leaders ◽  
First Century ◽  
Social Structures ◽  
Early Church ◽  
Clergy Sexual Abuse ◽  
Current Discussion ◽  
Pastoral Letters ◽  
Women And Children ◽  
A Current

1 Timothy and the Pastoral Letters appear to be efforts to codify structure and roles in the early church. These efforts largely reflected the patriarchal social structures of the time and as such are not relevant to the twenty-first-century church. But some of the concerns identified herein, for example expectations of church leaders, are useful for a current discussion. What is missing is any acknowledgement of the potential for identified church leaders to take advantage of vulnerable congregants, particularly women and children. How might the writer of 1 Timothy have addressed this serious problem in the churches?

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