浅谈环境艺术中的色彩设计

环境艺术是一个城市物化的历史和文化，体现出城市的个性风貌与气质。同时人们从主观上也积极研究色彩的特性，并把研究的成果与人类的社会生活紧密联系，形成了丰富的色彩历史和色彩文化。现代的城市环境设计非常注重色彩与城市环境的关系，色彩是室内、建筑、环境设计的灵魂，体现现代生活的质量和品位。     

城市色彩设计与色彩应用

城市色彩设计与应用,是将现代色彩学原理运用到城市规划设计中而产生的一门新的色彩规划研究学科."城市色彩"这一用语诞生于20世纪60年代,对它的重视和研究是基于飞速发展的城市化进程带来的城市色彩混乱而展开的.为此,本文拟对城市色彩设计与色彩应用进行探讨,以期促进城市色彩设计在我国的进一步发展.     

语言文化差异与英语教学

文化无处不在、无所不包,是人类在特定环境里经过很长时间的历史累积,在群体中形成的社会现象.语言是文化的主要载体,语言的历史和文化的历史是并行的,任何一种语言都反映与其相应的文化.王德春说: "语义在反映概念的基础上增添了附加的民族文化色彩,离开民族文化背景,就难以理解语言单位的含义.     

论城市四维空间设计

城市是人类文化累积的产物,一个好的城市形态不仅仅局限于空间,还包含时间因素.但是,在现实中,许多城市遗留的时间因素(即历史因素),未能很好地被融入到空间中,为此,必须通过一定的设计,将城市的时间因素更好地整合在空间中,实现时间因素与空间因素的有机结合,创造出一个富有文化感的四维空间.     

城市历史街区“地方性”的居民感知调查研究——以广东潮州古城区为例

当前我国许多城市在现代化建设中,忽略了城市的地方特性,割断了城市发展的历史,出现了"千城一面"的现象。解决城市的"特色危机",重点就在于历史文化街区的保护与复兴,其关键就在于城市历史街区的地方性能否得到传承和延续,因此了解和分析作为城市地方性传承主体的地方居民对城市地方性的感知情况就十分必要。文章以广东潮州古城区为例,以抽样问卷调查为手段,调查和分析了潮州古城本地居民对潮州文化及其地方性的感知情况。     

有多少文物可以重来?

"秦中自古帝王都."陕西是中华民族和黄河文化的主要发祥地,素有"天然历史博物馆"之称.近些年,随着西部大开发的全面推进,陕西各地基本建设步伐明显加快.在一波高过一波的基本建设热潮中,由于许多建设单位和施工单位不遵守文物保护法律法规,使得许多文物在挖掘机下支离破碎,许多可解的历史之谜永远成了谜团……     

文化符号视角下的城市色彩形象规划研究——以安康城市色彩形象规划为例

本文通过文化符号理论的视角,以安康城市色彩形象规划为例,通过研究城市文化与城市色彩的关联,指出安康城市色彩是在传统文化文本作用下形成的文化符号,论述了作为文化符号的城市色彩的文化表达作用,并结合城市色彩规划设计实例,论证了城市色彩符号对于安康城市文化的再现和转译功能,探索了文化内涵通过色彩转译表达的策略方法。     

江南文化传承的全球城市路径与长三角城市群文化品牌建设

江南地区的城市发展构成了江南文化兴起、演进与繁荣的历史动力,并且后者的影响力因长三角城市体系的形成而不断扩大.在国家新型城镇化规划强调以文化品质彰显城市个性的总体导向下,上海的全球城市建设在应对竞争中需注重大都市战略空间迭代中的文化作用,在"地方空间"的层面依托根植性的文化创新助推内生增长,以此增强在"流动空间"运行体系中的全球资源配置功能.这意味着,上海的全球城市建设将面临文化发展与区域路径的深度融合趋势.江南文化的创新价值最终体现为"城市—区域—国家"的多层次品牌塑造能力,特别是从文化创造力到文化凝聚力的提升过程,涉及长三角城市群协同治理的深层次推进问题.因此,以江南文化为基底的文化品牌建设,应被视为长三角世界级城市群文化发展与创新、区域软实力基础设施建构的重点内容.     

文脉探源,重构美学——武星宽教授景观设计作品评论

在中国的城市化进程中,国内许多城市都在追求"国际化大都市"形象,从而制造了一系列呆板的、没有灵魂的、空盒子般的水泥森林,千城一面的现象日趋严重,城市的历史文脉被割断,生活在这一城市中的人们逐渐丧失了集体的记忆。越来越多的设计师意识到,照搬西方的设计,只会抹杀城市的个性,尊重当地历史,并将本土文化进行综合再创造已成为中国设计走向世界的必经之路。武老师的景观设计作品结合了当地的历史特征与自然特征,透过抽象的文化的隐喻符号来体现无形的文化内涵。     

试论青岛城市风貌的文化与美学价值

青岛是国务院批准的历史文化名城,但青岛毕竟是一座年轻的城市,它的文化表现在哪里?长期以来,由于缺少系统研究,人们对此并没有确切的认识。本文试图从学术角度对这个问题作出回答,并期待识家指正。 青岛城市风貌的文化价值 青岛开埠历史较短,只有百余年,这使人们习惯于称青岛是一座年轻的城市。青岛虽“隶属”古齐国,也有古代历史遗存,但那只是发生在青岛界域内的事情,并不关涉青岛市,这又使人们习惯于称青岛没文化,因为城市的     

Back and Forth and Beyond

The Journal invited Tom Andersen, author of major pioneering work on the reflecting team, and his colleagues, to offer comment on The Reflecting Team Process in Training. We thought such a north-south dialogue was in keeping with the spirit of reflecting teams, and the team members in Melbourne and Tromsø agree — Editor.     

Time and aging--mechanisms and meanings

A recent European Molecular Biology Laboratory Conference on Science and Society entitled "Time & Aging--Mechanisms & Meanings" fascinated scientists from different research areas as well as nonscientists. Topics discussed included not only the biological aging process but also the psychological effects of aging and social influences that affect this process.     

Arts and Crafts and Reconstruction

Abstract

This paper examines the role of arts and crafts in reconstructing communities after times of upheaval, their use in creating employment opportunities, and their impact on the nature of South African art history. It looks at craft initiatives during and after the Johannesburg World Summit on Sustainable Development in 2002, and draws parallels with early twentieth-century initiatives, particularly those of Florence Phillips, who founded the Johannesburg Art Gallery in 1910, Emily Hobhouse, who established Boer home industries, and the South African National Union, which promoted the manufacture and use of local products.     

Sexual Compulsivity and Sexual Behaviors Among Gay and Bisexual Men and Lesbian and Bisexual Women

Within the existing body of research, the information pertaining to sexual compulsivity (SC) among women, both homo- and heterosexual, remains rather limited in comparison to men. The aim of this study was to assess the prevalence of SC in a community sample of gay and bisexual men and lesbian and bisexual women and to identify differences in sexual practices based on classification as sexually compulsive within gender. Supporting previous research, the findings indicated that gay and bisexual men were significantly higher in SC when compared to lesbian and bisexual women. Similarly, sexually compulsive gay and bisexual men were more likely to report drug use with sex than their non-sexually compulsive peers, suggesting that “party n' play” may play a larger role for men with SC. In addition, the findings demonstrated empirical support for the proposition that lesbian and bisexual women with symptoms of SC were more likely to engage in specialized sexual behaviors in comparison to their non-sexually compulsive peers. These data suggest that SC manifests differently in gay, lesbian, and bisexual men and women.     

Evening and night work schedules and children's social and emotional well-being

ABSTRACT

An emerging body of evidence shows that parents’ non-standard work schedules have a detrimental effect on children's well-being. However, only a limited number of studies have investigated mediating factors that underpin this association. Likewise, only a few studies have examined the impact of fathers’ non-standard work schedules on children's well-being. Based on data from the Families in Germany Study (FiD), this study aimed to address these research gaps. The sample consists of parents and their children at ages 7–8 and 9–10 (n?=?838 child observations in dual-earner families). The data were collected in the years 2010–2013. Non-standard work hours were defined as working in evenings and or at night (every day, several times a week, or changing as shifts). Children's social and emotional well-being was measured with the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ). The findings show that both mothers’ and fathers’ evening and night work schedules are linked to an increase in children's externalizing and internalizing behavior and that this association is partially mediated by mothers’ and fathers’ harsh and strict parenting, with a stronger mediation effect for fathers parenting.     

History and the here and now

This paper explores the lesser-known histories and present-day realities of small towns and non-metropolitan areas in the internal provinces of South Africa. It is different inasmuch as it focuses on transformations that have taken place at the local level, and where possible, generalises from these, rather than following the normal route taken by social scientists – at least from 1994, which has been to examine them from the top down. One feature of such changes has been the growth of gated communicates across the length and breadth of South Africa, but there are many more. One reason for their anonymity is that their evolution has been gradual and corpuscular, that they have become unconsciously familiar and are left unexamined. Another is our collective preoccupation with the metropolitan areas rather than the smaller localities where such processes are subterranean and confined. This paper presents very briefly some of the results of the researchers of the Local Histories and Present Realities programme over the past five years, in 19 separate centres. It examines the history and present circumstance of chiefdoms of Ga-Mphahlele and reveals the surprise finding that much of recent and contemporary politics revolve around events 200 years old. An analogous situation has arisen in Venda as well as in Mpumalanga and elsewhere, where a combination of new legislation to revive chiefly powers, and land reclamation legislation have lent a new legitimacy to chiefly powers, and inspired hundreds of phantom – and time-consuming – quests. Another massive development which has gone on around us but whose internal dynamics have never been observed is the rise of game hunting and ranching all over the interior of South Africa. This is a monster subject which is likely to have influence on all of our lives into which our group is now in a position to offer insights. A change of equal proportions is the rise of mining all over the interior Bushveld Igneous Complex – Mokopane is a good example of this and the huge social consequences this has brought in its wake. One final theme which embraces all the communities that we have studied is the local histories of transformation – collectively the most important – since 1994. This is almost entirely hidden to a wider world, including the transformed positions of local Indian residents.     

Thinking and Speech and Protocol Analysis

Some form of verbal report—that is, a research participant' s concurrent or retrospective verbal account of thought processes during problem-solving activities—has been used throughout this century as the database from which psychologists have developed theories of human mentation. Newell and Simon (1972) and Ericsson and Simon (1980, 1993) have provided extensive justification for using one such method, protocol analysis, as a tool for investigating cognition from an information-processing (IP) perspective. Their arguments have characterized protocol analysis as a methodology capable of providing evidence of the ways in which people attend to information stored in short-term memory to solve problems, with the evidence providing them with the grounds from which to generate models of human cognitive processes. A different view of protocol analysis is available from the perspective of cultural-historical activity theory (CHAT) based on the work of Vygotsky (1987), Leont'ev (1981), and others, and its concern with the mediation of human development by culturally and historically grounded signs and tools. Because of its emphasis on culturally channeled development, a CHAT perspective views speech, including the speech that serves as evidence for cognition in psychological research, as a tool that potentially enables changes in consciousness. In this article I outline a CHAT perspective that accounts for protocol analysis along three key dimensions: (a) the relation between thinking and speech from a representational standpoint, (b) the social role of speech in research methodology, and (c) the influence of speech on thinking during data collection. The purpose of this discussion is not to refute the IP perspective on protocol analysis but to illustrate how this method can be viewed through a CHAT lens and to identify alternative assumptions that must be made to use it from a CHAT perspective.