Local Food and Fitness

2018 ◽  
pp. 144-169
Author(s):  
Sabine Ursula Ohara ◽  
Ashley D. Milton ◽  
Tia D. Jeffery
Keyword(s):  
Local Food ◽  
Community Gardens ◽  
Washington Dc ◽  
College Of Agriculture ◽  
Public Park ◽  
Anacostia River ◽  
Cultural Aspects ◽  
The Arts ◽  
The Social ◽  
Raised Bed

The 11th Street Bridge Park is an ambitious project that will connect Washington DC Wards 6 and 8 by replacing a retired bridge across the Anacostia River. The new 11th Street Bridge will be the city's first elevated public park built on the piers of the old bridge. The Bridge Park will feature local food, recreation, health, and the arts. The UDC College of Agriculture, Urban Sustainability, and Environmental Sciences (CAUSES) is a key partner in the project and has worked with community groups to anchor the bridge park through community gardens, food production workshops, and nutrition classes. Over 200 raised bed gardens have been built, and Ward 6 and 8 residents have learned to grow and prepare food. While the Bridge Park builds a physical bridge, the community work of CAUSES brings the social and cultural aspects of the project into focus. This chapter describes the transformative work of empowering urban residents to grow food and to use their local expertise in collaboration with CAUSES land-grant specialists to improve their economic condition and adopt healthier lifestyles.

scholarly journals ARCA TOKOH DEWA BERSORBAN DI MUSEUM NASIONAL INDONESIA

2021 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Ashar Murdihastomo
Keyword(s):  
Contextual Analysis ◽  
Community Environment ◽  
Cultural Aspects ◽  
Descriptive Research ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Arts ◽  
The Social ◽  
Arts And Culture ◽  
Depth Study ◽  
Head Covering

The National Museum of Indonesia has a unique statue of a god depicted wearing a turban. The museum manager named this statue Shiva Mahadeva based on the third eye’s presence on his forehead. Based on this uniqueness, a more in-depth study carried out by taking the question What is the meaning of the turban-shaped head covering the statue’s depiction? Is there a connection between the depiction and the arts and culture of the community? This study aims to know the meaning implied in depicting the turban and trying to find out the social picture of the statuemaking community. This study conducted using descriptive research methods with contextual analysis. This study indicates that the statue depicted is not a statue of Shiva Mahadeva but a combination of Shiva and Vishnu known as Hariharamurti. The turban’s meaning is similar to the crown carved on the statue, which shows the character’s dignity and majesty. The life of the community’s arts and culture influences the depiction of the Hariharamurti statue, which is synonymous with freedom without leaving religious rules. In general, the arts and cultural aspects of the community that affect the statue are indicated as a community environment closely related to the priest/rishi’s activities. Museum Nasional Indonesia memiliki arca tokoh dewa unik yang digambarkan mengenakan sorban. Pengelola museum memberi nama tokoh tersebut adalah Siwa Mahadewa berdasarkan pada keberadaan mata ketiga yang ada di dahinya. Atas dasar keunikan inilah maka dilakukan kajian lebih mendalam lagi dengan mengambil pertanyaan, apa makna penutup kepala berbentuk sorban dalam penggambaran arca tersebut? adakah keterkaitan penggambaran tersebut dengan kehidupan seni-budaya masyarakat? tujuan yang ingin dicapai dari kajian ini adalah mengetahui makna yang tersirat dalam penggambaran sorban dan mencoba untuk mengetahui gambaran sosial masyarakat pembuat arca. Untuk mencapai tujuan tersebut maka kajian ini dilakukan dengan menggunakan metode penelitian deskriptif dengan analisis secara kontekstual. Hasil dari kajian ini menunjukkan bahwa arca yang digambarkan bukanlah arca Siwa Mahadewa melainkan gabungan antara Siwa dengan Wisnu yang dikenal sebagai Hariharamurti. Pemaknaan sorban yang dikenakan oleh arca tersebut memiliki kesamaan dengan mahkota yang biasa dipahatkan pada arca yaitu menunjukkan kemuliaan dan keagungan dari tokoh tersebut. Kehidupan senibudaya masyarakat jelas mempengaruhi gaya penggambaran arca Hariharamurti tersebut yang identik dengan kebebasan tanpa meninggalkan aturan agama. Secara umum, aspek seni-budaya masyarakat yang mempengaruhi arca tersebut diindikasikan sebagai lingkungan masyarakat yang erat terkait dengan aktivitas pada pendeta/resi.

scholarly journals Curriculum Model for Indonesian Major at Busan University of Foreign Studies

2018 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 151
Author(s):  
Park Jin Ryeo ◽  
Emzir ◽  
Ninuk Lustyantie
Keyword(s):  
Lesson Plans ◽  
Language Competence ◽  
Equipment And Supplies ◽  
Cultural Elements ◽  
Cultural Aspects ◽  
Curriculum Model ◽  
Religious System ◽  
The Arts ◽  
The Social ◽  
Livelihood System

Indonesian Major at Busan University of Foreign Studies has no standardize curriculum in the program. Since the program was established in 1982, teaching process is given based on lecture’s lesson plans. This method berings to inconsistency in grading the language competence. This affect the language skill of the students in the working fields. The goal of the study is to develop a curriculum model that will relate the standard of competence, syllabus, and lesson plans with cross-cultural understanding, namely culture-based curriculum. The materials of the curriculum are compiled from selected cultural elements. Cultural aspects that can be utilized in the preparation of teaching materials are (1) a system of life equipment and supplies; (2) The livelihood system; (3) the social system; (4) language, (5) the arts; (6) the knowledge system; and (7) the religious system.

“Een stille, ongemanierde volksjongen”. Jos Verdegem (1897-1957), Wies Moens en “Ter Waarheid”

2007 ◽  
Vol 66 (2) ◽  
pp. 146-162
Author(s):  
Stefan Van den Bossche
Keyword(s):  
Working Class ◽  
Close Contact ◽  
Cultural Aspects ◽  
The Social ◽  
Human Failure

Het menselijke tekort in het algemeen, het rampzalige van de oorlog, de sociale en  culturele aspecten van de Vlaamse beweging, het Vlaams kunstleven aan de IJzer, het activisme, het frontisme: al die geladen thema’s komen rechtstreeks of onrechtstreeks aan bod in de bijdrage van Stefan Van den Bossche over Jos Verdegem (1897-1957). Deze minder bekende Gentse schilder uit het interbellum kwam eerst in nauwe betrekking met de expressionistische dichter en journalist Wies Moens en met andere vooraanstaande Vlaamsgezinde kunstenaars. Verdegems (tijdelijk) verblijf in Parijs en zijn huwelijk met een Française leidde er uiteindelijk toe dat hij vervreemde van het Vlaamsgezinde milieu. Daarenboven droegen zijn hoekige karaktereigenschappen er toe bij dat hij “eerder berucht dan beroemd” werd.________"A quiet, ill-mannered working-class lad". Jos Verdegem (1897-1957), Wies Moens and "Ter Waarheid"This contribution by Stefan Van den Bossche about Jos Verdegem (1897-1957) deals directly or indirectly with a variety of very meaningful topics such as human failure in general, the calamity of war, the social and cultural aspects of the Flemish movement, Flemish art life on the IJzer, activism, and frontism.This lesser-known painter from Ghent from the Interbellum period first came in close contact with the expressionist poet and journalist Wies Moens and with other prominent Flemish nationalist artists. Verdegem's (temporary) stay in Paris and his marriage to a Frenchwoman caused his ultimate estrangement from the Flemish nationalist environment. Moreover, his awkward characteristics contributed to his becoming "infamous rather than famous".

Marcel Mauss and the Turn to the Gift

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rebecca Colesworthy
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
Experimental Writing ◽  
Market Society ◽  
The Arts ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Gift ◽  
New Material ◽  
Anglo American ◽  
Leonard Woolf

Chapter 1 takes a cue from recent anthropologists who have stressed the influence of Mauss’s socialism on his sociological work. Returning to Mauss’s The Gift, the chapter argues that what links his essay to the experimental writing of his literary contemporaries is not their shared fascination with the primitive, as other critics have suggested, but rather their shared investment in reimagining social possibilities within market society. Mauss was, as his biographer notes, an “Anglophile.” Shedding light on his admiration of British socialism and especially the work of Beatrice and Sidney Webb—friends of Virginia and Leonard Woolf—as well as competing usages of the language of “gifts” in the social sciences and the arts, the chapter ultimately provides a new material and conceptual framework for understanding the intersection of largely French gift theory and Anglo-American modernist writing.

“Tradition,” Vernacularism, and Learning to Be a Folk Musician With Social Media

2020 ◽  
pp. 442-466
Author(s):  
Simon Keegan-Phipps ◽  
Lucy Wright
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Case Studies ◽  
Folk Music ◽  
Learning Mechanisms ◽  
Media Technologies ◽  
Arts And Humanities ◽  
The Arts ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Shaping

This chapter considers the role of social media (broadly conceived) in the learning experiences of folk musicians in the Anglophone West. The chapter draws on the findings of the Digital Folk project, funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (UK), and begins by summarizing and problematizing the nature of learning as a concept in the folk music context. It briefly explicates the instructive, appropriative, and locative impacts of digital media for folk music learning before exploring in detail two case studies of folk-oriented social media: (1) the phenomenon of abc notation as a transmissive media and (2) the Mudcat Café website as an example of the folk-oriented discussion forum. These case studies are shown to exemplify and illuminate the constructs of traditional transmission and vernacularism as significant influences on the social shaping and deployment of folk-related media technologies. The chapter concludes by reflecting on the need to understand the musical learning process as a culturally performative act and to recognize online learning mechanisms as sites for the (re)negotiation of musical, cultural, local, and personal identities.

scholarly journals Being-with: Access to Relation, Participation, and Togetherness in Contemporary Art

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Tony Valberg
Keyword(s):  
Contemporary Art ◽  
Social Space ◽  
Small Town ◽  
Art Practice ◽  
Research Project ◽  
Relational Practices ◽  
The Arts ◽  
The Social ◽  
Specific Setting

Being-with is an artistically based research project aimed at applying and studying participatory and relational practices within the arts as well as addressing the esthetical and ethical questions that such practices generate. The participants in Being-with – researchers and artists as well as children, parents, grandparents, siblings and other residents in the small town of Høvåg in Norway – gathered weekly for half a year to experience how aesthetic production may interact with social space and vice versa. The article reflects on what consequences such interaction may have for the conception of art, and its arenas and agendas … when we consider art not only as a reflection of our lives, but also as an agent shaping our lives and changing the social surroundings we are part of. The article relates discourses of aesthetics penned by continental philosophers over the last 50 years to a specific setting in a Nordic contemporary art practice.

scholarly journals Social Condition of England during the Wars of the Roses

1902 ◽  
Vol 16 ◽  
pp. 159-200
Author(s):  
Vincent B. Redstone
Keyword(s):  
Social Life ◽  
English History ◽  
Class A ◽  
The North ◽  
The Arts ◽  
The Social ◽  
Wars Of The Roses ◽  
Social Habits ◽  
North And South ◽  
Better Than

The social life of the inhabitants of England during the years of strife which brought about the destruction of the feudal nobility, gave to the middle class a new position in the State, and freed the serf from the shackles of bondage, has been for some time past a subject of peculiar interest to the student of English history. If we desire to gain an accurate knowledge of the social habits and customs prevalent during this period of political disturbance, we cannot do better than direct our attention towards that part of the country which was the least affected by the contest between the Houses of York and Lancaster, the eastern district of England, which since the days of King John had enjoyed a remarkable immunity from civil war. Here the powerful lords of the North and South found little support; the vast estates of the old feudal barons were broken up into numerous independent manors. Moreover the arts of peace, in the shape of the mysteries of trade, manufactures, and commerce, widely flourished among the inhabitants of these regions.

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