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Projektowanie w regionach odmiennych kulturowo – dialog o tożsamości
Design in culturally diverse regions - a dialogue of identity

Author(s): Jan Wrana
Subject(s): Social Sciences, Architecture, Geography, Regional studies
Published by: Biblioteka Politechniki Lubelskiej
Keywords: multicultralism; local culture; tradition

Summary/Abstract: The second half of the twentieth century is a period of opening up previously inaccessible environments, caused by the explosion of national liberation movements, attempts to construct supranational identities (for example: European identity, while taking into account the centuries-old cultural distinctiveness of individual countries, and with the ever-growing migration, influencing the increasing relativism towards the cultural resources of the countries receiving emigrants The multilayered problem of local identity, derived from the tradition of "small homelands" with valuable and different resources of native tradition, begins to return.

  • Issue Year: 4/2009
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 115-123
  • Page Count: 9
  • Language: Polish