scholarly journals THE ROLE OF MUSEUM’S ARCHITECTURE IN ISLAMIC COMMUNITY: MUSEUM OF ISLAMIC ART, DOHA

2012 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ali A. Alraouf

<p class="Keywords">As we are heading through the second decade of the 21<sup>st</sup> century, architecture of the Islamic communities is still an unresolved dilemma. In this context, the impact of iconic buildings which claim to represent Islam or provide a contemporary approach to Islamic architecture is crucial on different levels. Therefore, a year after Museum of Islamic Art (MIA) opening in Doha, Qatar, an evaluative perspective of the institution’s development story needs to be sketched. In this essay I will use MIA, Doha as a springboard for a discussion related to the museums of the 21<sup>th</sup> century. Then, I will try to exploit the findings of this discussion in the assessment and critical review of the museum itself. The assessment will include the ability of contemporary architecture to credibly represent Islamic cultural identity. This essay will analyze how and why community participation in museums is a significant factor in bridging the gap and improving relationship between the two institutions. The social inclusion leads to trust, understanding, a sense of identity, and creating a museum that is more relevant to the community. This essay also give some suggestions on how to build bridges between museums and communities, to provide an opportunity for the people living in such communities, like Gulf ones, to find out about their own heritage and to help them realize that it is through their active participation in museum activities that heritage is kept alive. Considering Qatar’s thrive into a post-oil paradigm where knowledge economy might be the generative force for development, an examination of how MIA is contributing to Qatar’s new vision becomes so relevant.</p>

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonatan Almagor ◽  
Stefano Picascia

AbstractA contact-tracing strategy has been deemed necessary to contain the spread of COVID-19 following the relaxation of lockdown measures. Using an agent-based model, we explore one of the technology-based strategies proposed, a contact-tracing smartphone app. The model simulates the spread of COVID-19 in a population of agents on an urban scale. Agents are heterogeneous in their characteristics and are linked in a multi-layered network representing the social structure—including households, friendships, employment and schools. We explore the interplay of various adoption rates of the contact-tracing app, different levels of testing capacity, and behavioural factors to assess the impact on the epidemic. Results suggest that a contact tracing app can contribute substantially to reducing infection rates in the population when accompanied by a sufficient testing capacity or when the testing policy prioritises symptomatic cases. As user rate increases, prevalence of infection decreases. With that, when symptomatic cases are not prioritised for testing, a high rate of app users can generate an extensive increase in the demand for testing, which, if not met with adequate supply, may render the app counterproductive. This points to the crucial role of an efficient testing policy and the necessity to upscale testing capacity.


2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 105
Author(s):  
Gloria Mayen Umukoro ◽  
Veronica Ebi Odey ◽  
Mamina Mba Ndifon

This research focuses on the impact of migration on the Cultural identity of Francophones in the diaspora. It explores the fascinating role of Culture and identity in national and regional integration. Examining the experiences of francophone immigrants from the diaspora, the study shows how ‘otherness’ affects immigrants’ capability to self-assert and adapt to reclaim their Africaness in the homeland. Two sets of immigrants are presented; the forced immigrant (Slavery), with a forced culture and the liberal immigrant, with liberal culture. Drawing from interviews, and individual experiences, the study emphasises the role of the immigrant, the community and the institutions in successful cultural integration in the homeland.


Author(s):  
Rehab Abdelwahab Askar

According to the theoretical framework, this chapter examines the role of cultural capital in achieving social inclusion in creative cities and discussing the impact of creative cultural economy and cultural diversity in achieving knowledge-based urban development requirements. The author relies on showing the tangible and intangible forms of cultural capital represented by the urban and cultural assets possessed by the new administrative capital of Egypt (study model). The author then submits an analysis of the strategic urban cultural policies in an attempt to predict a set of preliminary indicators related to the possible forms of social and cultural inclusion and the anticipation of the social, cultural, and economic impacts of cultural creativity on the quality of life and Human security in creative cities.


2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 153
Author(s):  
Muhammad Ali ◽  
Erwin Asidah ◽  
Husmiati Husmiati

Abstrak: Secara geografis Indonesia merupakan negara kepulauan yang terletak pada pertemuan empat lempeng tektonik yaitu lempeng Benua Asia, Benua Australia, lempeng Samudera Hindia dan Samudera Pasifik. Pada bagian selatan dan timur Indonesia terdapat sabuk vulkanik (volcanic arc) yang memanjang dari Pulau Sumatera-Jawa-Nusa Tenggara-Sulawesi, yang sisinya berupa pegunungan vulkanik tua dan dataran rendah yang sebagian didominasi oleh rawa-rawa. Kondisi tersebut sangat berpotensi sekaligus rawan bencana seperti letusan gunung berapi, gempa bumi, tsunami, banjir dan tanah longsor. Metode penelitian yang digunakan adalah pendekatan deskriptif kualitatif. Metode yang digunakan adalah metode wawancara, observasi dan dokumentasi. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa peran Pemerintah Daerah terhadap penyelesaian permasalahan korban bencana gempa di Dinas Sosial Kabupaten Lombok Barat berjalan cukup baik, walaupun masih terdapat hambatan yang terjadi terhadap penyelesaian permasalahan korban bencana gempa. Peran Dinas Sosial yang dilakukan terhadap korban bencana gempa yaitu, melaksanakan bantuan sosial (dengan fokus untuk dampak bencana temporer), melakukan rehabilitasi sosial (dengan fokus untuk dampak bencana permanen) dan melakukan pemberdayaan sosial (berbentuk penguatan dan pengembangan dengan fokus untuk dampak bencana berkelanjutan). Faktor penghambat Dinas Sosial terhadap penyelesaian permasalahan korban bencana gempa di Kabupaten Lombok Barat yaitu akses jalan yang rusak dan sempit yang berada di perbukitan menjadi kendala yang dihadapi dalam pendistribusian logistik, dan kurangnya kesadaran masayarakat yang melakukan penggalangan dana untu meminta izin terlebih dahulu terhadap Dinas Sosial, dikarenakan jika melakukan penggalangan dana tanpa izin Dinas Sosial bisa saja terjerat hukum karena dianggap pungutan liar. Abstract Geographically Indonesia is an archipelago located at the confluence of four tectonic plates, namely the Continent of Asia, the Continent of Australia, the plate of the Indian Ocean and the Pacific Ocean. In the south and east of Indonesia there is a volcanic arc that extends from the island of Sumatra-Java-Nusa Tenggara-Sulawesi, whose sides are old volcanic mountains and lowlands which are partly dominated by swamps. These conditions are very potential and prone to disasters such as volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, tsunamis, floods and landslides. The research method used is a qualitative descriptive approach. The method used is the method of interview, observation and documentation. The results showed that the role of the Regional Government in solving the earthquake victims 'problems in the West Lombok District Social Service went well, although there were still obstacles that occurred in solving the earthquake victims' problems. The role of the Social Service carried out on earthquake victims is to implement social assistance (with a focus on the impact of temporary disasters), carry out social rehabilitation (focusing on the impact of permanent disasters) and carry out social empowerment (in the form of strengthening and development with a focus on the impact of sustainable disasters) . The Social Agency's inhibiting factor for resolving earthquake disaster victims in West Lombok Regency, namely access to damaged and narrow roads in the hills is an obstacle faced in the distribution of logistics, and a lack of awareness of the people who raise funds to seek prior permission from the Office of Social Affairs. because if raising funds without permission, the Social Service could be caught in a law because it is considered a illegal levy.


2020 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
pp. 158-174
Author(s):  
Evelin Janó

The population of Hungary has to deal with both the economic and social crisis following the coronavirus epidemic. In the present study, with the second analysis of the literature, I first aim to examine how the crisis situation can affect the development of networks, how the role of strong and weak bonds can change. With months of isolation, how will friendships develop and to what extent will our value preferences change. The other main topic I touch on in my work is the possible influencing effect of the epidemic on social stratification and social mobility. And how the expected shift in the social hierarchy can be corrected by harnessing the power of relationships. In my work, I assume social consequences along the impact of expected changes at the level of individuals. My observed subjects are given by the life stories of fi ve high school young people in the future. My research question encompassing the study is how human relationships can become an asset after COVID-19, what role the network can play in dealing with a crisis in an individual’s life situation, and what behaviors and actions can become if “ceiling bourgeois” become a “floor poor” on behalf of the people.1 And what impact can this complex phenomenon have on social integration. In addition to the latest research findings, I also use the topicality of the content elements of my favorite dystopian novel, Katharine McGee: The thousandth floor, to prepare my paper.


2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jonatan Almagor ◽  
Stefano Picascia

Abstract A contact-tracing strategy has been deemed necessary to contain the spread of COVID-19 following the relaxation of lockdown measures. Using an agent-based model, we explore one of the technology-based strategies proposed, a contact-tracing smartphone app. The model simulates the spread of COVID-19 in a population of agents on an urban scale. Agents are heterogeneous in their characteristics and are linked in a multi-layered network representing the social structure - including households, friendships, employment and schools. We explore the interplay of various adoption rates of the contact-tracing app, different levels of testing capacity, and behavioural factors to assess the impact on the epidemic. Results suggest that a contact tracing app can contribute substantially to reducing infection rates in the population when accompanied by a sufficient testing capacity or when the testing policy prioritises symptomatic cases. As user rate increases, prevalence of infection decreases. With that, when symptomatic cases are not prioritised for testing, a high rate of app users can generate an extensive increase in the demand for testing, which, if not met with adequate supply, may render the app counterproductive. This points to the crucial role of an efficient testing policy and the necessity to upscale testing capacity.


Author(s):  
Gulbarshyn Chepurko ◽  
Valerii Pylypenko

The paper examines and compares how the major sociological theories treat axiological issues. Value-driven topics are analysed in view of their relevance to society in times of crisis, when both societal life and the very structure of society undergo dramatic change. Nowadays, social scientists around the world are also witnessing such a change due to the emergence of alternative schools of sociological thought (non-classical, interpretive, postmodern, etc.) and, subsequently, the necessity to revise the paradigms that have been existed in sociology so far. Since the above-mentioned approaches are often used to address value-related issues, building a solid theoretical framework for these studies takes on considerable significance. Furthermore, the paradigm revision has been prompted by technological advances changing all areas of people’s lives, especially social interactions. The global human community, integral in nature, is being formed, and production of human values now matters more than production of things; hence the “expansion” of value-focused perspectives in contemporary sociology. The authors give special attention to collectivities which are higher-order units of the social system. These units are described as well-organised action systems where each individual performs his/her specific role. Just as the role of an individual is distinct from that of the collectivity (because the individual and the collectivity are different as units), so too a distinction is drawn between the value and the norm — because they represent different levels of social relationships. Values are the main connecting element between the society’s cultural system and the social sphere while norms, for the most part, belong to the social system. Values serve primarily to maintain the pattern according to which the society is functioning at a given time; norms are essential to social integration. Apart from being the means of regulating social processes and relationships, norms embody the “principles” that can be applied beyond a particular social system. The authors underline that it is important for Ukrainian sociology to keep abreast of the latest developments in the field of axiology and make good use of those ideas because this is a prerequisite for its successful integration into the global sociological community.


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