scholarly journals "Re-collecting" Caravan: an Architecturalisation of the New Zealand Cultural Relic

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Shelly Clement
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Design Process ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Culture Media ◽  
Vernacular Architecture ◽  
Recent Past ◽  
Final Design ◽  
History Of ◽  
Cultural Relic

<p><b>“Re-collecting” Caravan re-interprets caravaning as the basis of a 21st century New Zealand vernacular architecture. Two themes run through this thesis: the caravan as an article of nostalgia, and the caravan in architecture as marginal. The final design outcome is a new typology of holidaying vessels within New Zealand’s camping grounds. This thesis begins with the specific history of the caravan within New Zealand and the facts that surround the reality of caravaning in today’s society: the caravan has become a celebrated cultural relic of our recent past of which is now continually used as a symbol or icon of New Zealand. A fear for the loss of the caravan as a living holiday reality sparked a cultural nostalgia and the foundations for this research. To prevent the loss of the adored functional domestic vessel, the caravan was next analysed for its compositional and phenomenal attributes of which could later help inform an architectural response. It was the ‘retro’ aesthetic combined with the fact that ephemeral cultural artefacts (such as the caravan) do not typically ‘belong’ in the architectural realm that bought about the second theme. Kitsch as a by-product of a re-interpreted retro artefact is addressed before moving on to the design process and final design.</b></p> <p>Although orientated specifically toward the caravan, this thesis addresses the wider issues of celebrating and liberating the architectural influences of the margins. It deals with kitsch, lifestyles, nostalgia, miniature, popular culture, media, tourism, mobility, and iconism.</p>

scholarly journals "Re-collecting" Caravan: an Architecturalisation of the New Zealand Cultural Relic

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Shelly Clement
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Design Process ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Culture Media ◽  
Vernacular Architecture ◽  
Recent Past ◽  
Final Design ◽  
History Of ◽  
Cultural Relic

<p><b>“Re-collecting” Caravan re-interprets caravaning as the basis of a 21st century New Zealand vernacular architecture. Two themes run through this thesis: the caravan as an article of nostalgia, and the caravan in architecture as marginal. The final design outcome is a new typology of holidaying vessels within New Zealand’s camping grounds. This thesis begins with the specific history of the caravan within New Zealand and the facts that surround the reality of caravaning in today’s society: the caravan has become a celebrated cultural relic of our recent past of which is now continually used as a symbol or icon of New Zealand. A fear for the loss of the caravan as a living holiday reality sparked a cultural nostalgia and the foundations for this research. To prevent the loss of the adored functional domestic vessel, the caravan was next analysed for its compositional and phenomenal attributes of which could later help inform an architectural response. It was the ‘retro’ aesthetic combined with the fact that ephemeral cultural artefacts (such as the caravan) do not typically ‘belong’ in the architectural realm that bought about the second theme. Kitsch as a by-product of a re-interpreted retro artefact is addressed before moving on to the design process and final design.</b></p> <p>Although orientated specifically toward the caravan, this thesis addresses the wider issues of celebrating and liberating the architectural influences of the margins. It deals with kitsch, lifestyles, nostalgia, miniature, popular culture, media, tourism, mobility, and iconism.</p>

The power ballad

Popular Music ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 31 (3) ◽  
pp. 437-459 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Metzer
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Popular Music ◽  
Culture Media ◽  
The Other ◽  
Music Genres ◽  
History Of ◽  
The 1960S

AbstractThe power ballad has become a mainstay of popular music since the 1970s. This article offers a history of the songs and discusses their place in the larger field of popular music genres. The songs are defined by the use of both a musical formula based on constant escalation and an expressive formula that combines the euphoric uplift created by rousing music with sentimental themes and ploys. Contrary to views that power ballads first appeared in 1980s rock and are primarily rock numbers, the songs emerged in the 1970s pop recordings of Barry Manilow and others, and from early on crossed genre lines, including pop, rock and R&B. These crossings result in an exchange between the fervour of the power ballad and the distinct expressive qualities of the other genres. This article also places the power ballad in the larger history of the ballad. The songs are part of a shift toward more effusive and demonstrative styles of ballads underway since the 1960s. In addition, the emotional excesses of the power ballad fit into a larger change in the expressive tone of works across different popular culture media. With those works, emotions are to be large, ecstatic and immediate.

The Sustainable Waterfront

2013 ◽  
pp. 1683-1700
Author(s):  
Matthew Bradbury
Keyword(s):  
Real Estate ◽  
Urban Ecology ◽  
Design Process ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Environmental Remediation ◽  
Ecological Health ◽  
Waterfront Development ◽  
New Model ◽  
History Of

This chapter discusses how a methodology for the development of a sustainable waterfront might be shaped through an understanding and consideration of environmental remediation technologies. The chapter begins by considering the history of waterfront development in Europe and America and how this model has become codified into a generic real estate process. The author develops a critique of this model from an environmental perspective. The use of sustainability as an ideology to provide a framework for critique but also strategies and techniques for moving towards a new model of waterfront development are explored. The development of a possible hypothesis for the design of a sustainable waterfront is developed, followed by a speculative case study of a waterfront project that explores how the design hypotheses might be tested. The chapter concludes by speculating on the ways in which a study of urban ecology, in particular urban biodiversity, could enhance the finding of the case study towards the development of a waterfront design process that could contribute to the ecological health of the 21st century city.

scholarly journals Opera as Comics: Richard Wagner’s The Ring of the Nibelung in Craig P. Russell’s Graphic Adaptation

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michaela Weiss ◽  
Miroslav Urbanec
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
21St Century ◽  
American Music ◽  
Cultural Impact ◽  
German Immigrants ◽  
History Of ◽  
Ring Cycle ◽  
The 19Th Century ◽  
Political Opinions ◽  
Or History

The paper discusses P. Craig Russell’s graphic adaptation of Richard Wagner’s dramatic tetralogy The Ring of the Nibelung. Originally, the series was released monthly by Dark Horse Comics (2000-2001), in 2014 it was published as a two-volume paperback. Wagner’s music has entered the American cultural scene in the second half of the 19th-century, predominantly due to the notable influence of German immigrants, and its impact is still vivid in the 21st-century. Despite the fact that American acceptance of Wagner was not universal and his political opinions are still disputed, his work has significantly affected the development of American music, poetry, and popular culture. Though Russell does not belong to the greatest formal innovators in comics, his merging of opera and comics turned out to be not only original but also a critically acclaimed format. Russell interprets the Ring Cycle as an essential predecessor of American superhero comics, thereby making the complex work feel familiar to wide audiences. His Ring Cycle adaptation includes behind-the-scenes production art, notes of the artist, or history of the opera itself. Drawing on the hybridity of both comics and opera, the paper discusses the visual aspects of the adaptation and the transmedial methods which Russell used to adapt opera and its effects into graphic novel. The main focus will on the illustration style and its cultural impact on the unifying social function of the comics medium, and, more importantly, the methods of transmission of sounds into the silent medium, with special attention paid to the meaning and visual form of the Wagnerian leitmotiv.

Marigolds and Poppies

2018 ◽  
pp. 39-50
Author(s):  
Peter Stanley
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
South Asia ◽  
Great War ◽  
Historical Events ◽  
Daily Newspaper ◽  
The Past ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Great War

India is a nation in which paradoxically, the past is omnipresent but the age of any given structure can be annoyingly indeterminate. It is a place where the past can be both absolutely present and frustratingly remote; in which versions of the past co-exist; in which they can contend without necessary contradiction, though sometimes bringing risk of denunciation, controversy and even death. It is a culture in which layers of meaning and significance accrete around historical events – even historical events recorded in the daily newspaper. India takes its many pasts seriously – but can ignore aspects of its history in ways unthinkable in other societies. The Great War of 1914-1918 is an inescapable part of the history of Australia or New Zealand, and even in Britain remains a part of the currency of everyday speech and popular culture. In the nations of South Asia, by contrast, the Great War remains obscure and unimportant....

scholarly journals The History of Sharing Video Content in Poland: Analog copies of the 1980s as a Factor of Digital Peer Re-production in the 2000s

2018 ◽  
Vol 9 ◽  
pp. 60-77
Author(s):  
Mirosław Filiciak ◽  
Piotr Toczyski
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Eastern Europe ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Technological Progress ◽  
Historical Data ◽  
Video Content ◽  
Historical Experience ◽  
History Of ◽  
Historical Trajectory

We depict practices of Polish audiences in communist Poland and the transition of these practices after the fall of communism. In Eastern Europe, digital distribution of video content has been built on semi-peripheral culture of VHS tapes copying and sharing. Although the unique Polish 20th century historical trajectory contains the experience of being excluded from Western popular culture, the first decade of 21st century brought unlimited digital access to audiovisual content. Peer re-production, a non-creative mode of participation increased. Our article provides new historical data illustrating this specificity both in terms of historical experience and globalizing technological progress.

scholarly journals Hotel Resort Tongging with Approachment of Neo Vernacular Architecture

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 18-29
Author(s):  
N. V Rahman ◽  
D.I. Kaban
Keyword(s):  
Design Process ◽  
Building Materials ◽  
Vernacular Architecture ◽  
Study Data ◽  
Site Location ◽  
Literature Study ◽  
Indoor Space ◽  
Final Design ◽  
The Right ◽  
Resort Hotel

This journal is about the design process of Resort Hotels located in Tongging by adopting a Neo Vernacular design approach into the building. The problem in this design process is how to apply the Neo-Vernacular architecture approach to this Resort Hotel building. How to create comfortable outdoor and indoor space for visitors to the tourist area?. How to choose the right material according to the current temperature and conditions, so that it can support the character of the building. The purpose of this design is to apply the Neo-Vernacular Architecture approach to the Tongging Resort Hotel building by looking at the locality context, and designing the out and inside spaces that are comfortable for visitors by uniting indirectly between both areas. Choose the right material according to the temperature and existing conditions, to support the building's character. The methodology carried out in this design was location survey (physical data collection), comparative study, literature study, data processing, conceptualization, schematic and arrived at the final design. The discovery in this design is to design a building that is in an area that has strong locality must do research and analysis to get the concept that is suitable and can be received by the surrounding community and visitors. The author also found that the selection of building materials should source from the site location. For general people, this design is useful as a reference to help similar design buildings.

The Sustainable Waterfront

2011 ◽  
pp. 274-292
Author(s):  
Matthew Bradbury
Keyword(s):  
Real Estate ◽  
Urban Ecology ◽  
Design Process ◽  
21St Century ◽  
Environmental Remediation ◽  
Ecological Health ◽  
Waterfront Development ◽  
New Model ◽  
History Of

This chapter discusses how a methodology for the development of a sustainable waterfront might be shaped through an understanding and consideration of environmental remediation technologies. The chapter begins by considering the history of waterfront development in Europe and America and how this model has become codified into a generic real estate process. The author develops a critique of this model from an environmental perspective. The use of sustainability as an ideology to provide a framework for critique but also strategies and techniques for moving towards a new model of waterfront development are explored. The development of a possible hypothesis for the design of a sustainable waterfront is developed, followed by a speculative case study of a waterfront project that explores how the design hypotheses might be tested. The chapter concludes by speculating on the ways in which a study of urban ecology, in particular urban biodiversity, could enhance the finding of the case study towards the development of a waterfront design process that could contribute to the ecological health of the 21st century city.

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