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»The Construction of mass utopia was the dream of the twentieth century. It was the driving ideological force of industrial modernization in both its capitalist and socialist forms. The dream was itself an immense material power that transformed the natural world, investing industrially produced objects and built environments with collective, political desire.« (From the Preface)
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Includes abstracts of the papers presented in the research conference on constructions, economy of constructions, architecture, urbanism and territorial development, 9th edition.
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White Charter of NIRD URBAN-INCERC in 2010-2011: research in civil engineering, architecture and spatial planning.
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History of NIRD URBAN-INCERC: research in civil engineering, architecture and spatial planning.
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“The teaching and the promotion of the Polish language in the world. Assessment – status – perspectives” is an indispensable item in the library of teachers, lecturers, instructors, Polonia activists, promoters of cultural activities, journalists and diplomats – to put it briefly, all people who are concerned about the prestige, the fate and the status of the Polish language in the world and all people upon whom the fate and the status of the Polish language depends. The publication was developed by the following team of authors: Władysław Miodunka, Jolanta Tambor, Aleksandra Achtelik, Romuald Cudak, Danuta Krzyżyk, Jan Mazur, Bernadeta Niesporek-Szamburska, Kazimierz Ożóg, Adam Pawłowski, Dorota Praszałowicz, Anna Seretny, Roman Szul, Agnieszka Tambor, Tadeusz Zgółka (collaborators: Małgorzata Smereczniak, Karolina Graboń). The authors at the same time constitute a team of experts appointed by His Magnificence Rector of the University of Silesia on the basis of an agreement with the Ministry of Science and Higher Education in January 2017 in order to develop a strategy of the teaching and the promotion of the Polish language in the world which was supposed to involve the following items:• the teaching of the Polish language as a foreign language in all age groups, at all levels, both in the system of non-higher education and higher education and in all forms;• the promotion of the Polish language in the world, along with an indication of the priority geographical areas and the areas of substance, as well as the instruments of promotion;• the coordination of the activities and the establishment of the tasks of the particular institutions;• the indication of the scope of the necessary legislative modifications and the means of financing.The work on the strategy was completed in July 2017, the book is going to be released in July 2018. The chronological distance is slight but it is quite eventful. Above all in October 2017 one established the National Agency of Academic Exchange, an institution which took over the tasks of the Bureau for Academic Recognition and International Exchange, but also of a number of other sections, divisions and departments. Before the publication of the work the authors attempted to introduce the necessary changes, which take into account the new situation. However, this was not always possible.The authors assess the current status of the teaching and the promotion of the Polish language in the world and they put forward the best solutions to solve the problems, they suggest the best solutions possible. We realise that prompt realisation of some of the changes which are proposed is not possible, for it would require huge system-related modifications – however, these are maximum plans, which indicate the ills of the current state of affairs and the things which are relevant to teachers, students, parents of children of Polish origin and foreigners who learn Polish for a variety of reasons (e.g. migrants, refugees, as well as re-emigrants, who enter the Polish system of education), things which are also relevant to the enthusiasts of Polish literature, Polish theatre, Polish cinema, to people who stay abroad where access to the products of culture is sometimes considerably limited; to Polish tourists, travellers, passengers who are hard put to receive Polish announcements in airplanes, Polish-language customer service in trains or Polish notices in such airports. Fragments of this publication will be useful for students who major in foreign language pedagogy, for post-graduate students who train to become teachers of the Polish language as a foreign language. The work should be consulted by teachers, lecturers as well as students. Inspiration from this work ought to be drawn by people who are responsible to introduce certain changes, to make certain decisions and introduce some solutions which are put forward.The work describes the status at the turn of 2018 – the status which remains the same system-wise. It furnishes a basis for re-thinking, it indicates the things that may be fixed quickly and easily, and the things which require a greater deal of effort. We would like to indicate clearly – and this is very important – that the work also presents all of the accomplishments, triumphs and the strong points of Polish-as-a-foreign-language education and the promotion of Poland and the Polish language.
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This text is a monographic study of live action role-playing games (commonly called larp games): a type of games played live, in physical space, and through the immediate, active interaction between players. The study explores two directions, elaborated in its two parts, each with its own specific focus, goals, and scope. The first part focuses on games in culture; the second, on games as culture. The first part presents the various types of role-playing games, their functions in cultures, and the cultural traditions inherited by them. The second part contains a detailed analysis of a local gaming culture—the Bulgarian one—through its constituting aspects of form (the game), processes (playing), and actors (players). The first part places role-playing games within the scope of anthropology and examines them through the comparative perspective typical of cultural anthropology. We deduce and substantiate six functions of larp games from a theoretical and philosophical standpoint. The ritual function breaks the quotidian rhythm of life, changes the commonplace structures and relationships, engenders a markedly “other” (albeit temporary) reality, which imposes uncommon types of behavior. The narrative function is an aspect of players’ subjective perceptions, of their direct involvement in the story, simultaneously creating it and experiencing it in an unmediated manner. The escapist function is portrayed, not only as a possible “escape from reality, ” but also as a romanticist criticism of modern reality. The educational function considers the uses of games for the practical acquisition and accumulation of knowledge and skills, but also for exploring ideologies, suggesting or provoking particular values, and shaping worldviews. The therapeutic function focuses on the notion of ‘catharsis, ’ as a healthy psychological and emotional release for both individual players and the group/community as a whole. The expressive function defines playing as a method for individual and collective expression, a medium with the potential to make art forms. We explore the evolution and varieties of the genre larp game as it has been interpreted and enacted on various regional playing scenes: in North America, Great Britain, France, Germany, Scandinavia. We examine the principles of avant-garde Nordic larp as a specific design ideology insistent on authentic experience, artistic storytelling, and topicality in the games it constructs. We describe the major traits of the Eastern European larp scenes, with an emphasis on the unique Russian larp culture. The second part defines Bulgarian larp culture through five groups off actors: 1) genesis and main trends; 2) basic structures and interactions established on a meta-gaming level; 3) values and norms shared by the players; 4) actual or latent conflicts and crises; 5) impact of other forms of games or other larp cultures. At first, we analyze the game as a jointly generated reality, consisting of various layers and levels: the material environment of objects and the language describing it; the individual perception and performance of a role; social structures and interactions. Next, we examine playing as a communication process: playing with meaning, the cultural “languages” of interaction, and the participants’ subjective interpretations of game events, expressed through stories. Finally, we present the social structuring of the Bulgarian larp scene as a community of clans and analyze the unique social world of larp players. The conclusion highlights certain significant sociocultural trends in the contemporary world, reflected in the culture of role-playing games: modern people’s propensity for ‘playing’ with reality, creating and inhabiting alternative worlds; the ever growing need to engage with the world actively and experience it fully, the increasing importance of direct personal experience; the specific attitude towards artistic content and art as a whole, the everyday need for artistic expression.
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Niniejsza książka ma formułować propozycję metodologicznego otwarcia groznawstwa,silnie akcentując rolę dyskursu i narracji już w dwóch tekstach otwierających:„Dyskursywne gry i dyskursy gier” Geralda Voorheesa oraz „Poza mitem i metaforą.Przypadek narracji w mediach cyfrowych” Marie-Laure Ryan. Podkreślenie roli narracjii dyskursu umożliwiło również umocowanie pozostałych rozdziałów książki w dwuwzajemnie się dopełniających paradygmatach: teorii i filozofii (w części zatytułowanej„Teorie”) oraz praktyce hermeneutycznej (w części zatytułowanej „Praktyki”), dostarczającychwspólnie narzędzi do krytycznej wiwisekcji uobecniających się w grachpostaw dyskursywnych oraz narracji o świecie, kulturze, religii, filozofii, teologii, ekonomii,płciowości, rasie czy polityce. (...) Problem dyskursów gier wideo oraz dyskursóww grach wideo ujawnia zatem nie tyle bałagan, co niesłychaną produktywność ujęćbadawczych, nieograniczonych sztywnymi normami pojęć, kategorii czy narzędzi teoretycznych,które równolegle odnajdują w grach wydarzenia, znaczenia, języki, komunikaty,idee, ideologie, hierarchie i struktury władzy oraz wykluczenia. Sploty problemowew grach jako formach komunikacji, tekstach czy obiektach kulturowych skłoniłynas do zastosowania formuły liczby mnogiej w określeniu „dyskursy gier wideo” –tak, by unaocznić zarówno potrzebę pluralizacji perspektyw badawczych, jak i odpowiadającejjej różnorodności uobecniających się w grach narracji o świecie, zarównotym nas otaczającym, jak i tym przez gry wytwarzanym.
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The Didactic Wall by the artist Mladen Miljanović is a subversive educational installation that focuses on the issue of migrants, refugees, displaced persons and apatrids, and the difficulties they face when moving towards their desired geographic objective. This is an engaged set of illustrations that address directly those who, in an “illegal” way, are trying to cross national borders to get to their “land of dreams”. The Didactic Wall is a kind of an instruction on how to overcome natural and artificial barriers an “illegal” person on the move may possibly come across. [...]
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