Landscape Theme Research Articles

Paisagem, Território e Cultura: Estudo de caso do grupo de dança de Siriri Flor de Atalaia

This article investigates the intersection between traditional cultural practices and the urban landscape, focusing on the cultural manifestations of Siriri and Cururu in the city of Cuiabá, Mato Grosso. The study highlights how these dance forms not only reflect but also shape the city's cultural and physical landscape, integrating in meaningful ways with urban life and local cultural heritage. The research specifically addresses the influence of these practices in public and free space, particularly in the courtyards used by the dance group Siriri Flor de Atalaia, which serve as vital stages for rehearsals and cultural presentations. The primary objective of this study is to analyze the transformations in the landscape of open spaces caused by the continuous interaction between the Siriri Flor de Atalaia group and its urban environment. This analysis seeks to understand how these spaces are used for the practice and dissemination of Siriri and Cururu culture, and how they contribute to the cultural dynamics of the city of Cuiabá. Through a detailed examination of physical and cultural changes in these places, the article explores the role of backyards and open spaces in perpetuating popular culture and forming a strong local identity. Methodologically, the study is based on a bibliographical review that addresses the themes of territory, open spaces, landscape and culture of the Siriri and Cururu dance. In addition, a case study of the courtyard of the dance group Siriri Flor de Atalaia is carried out, using direct observation and qualitative analyzes to capture the essence of cultural interactions and their impact on urban space. The results of the article provide an in-depth analysis of the cultural landscape formed around the Siriri Flor de Atalaia group, revealing how practice spaces not only serve as places for cultural activities, but also as elements that redefine the urban landscape. This investigation contributes significantly to debates about the importance of preserving and promoting cultural spaces within the urban environment, supporting the continuity of popular culture and informing public policies that value and promote traditional cultural practices in the city of Cuiabá. This study emphasizes the need for a more integrated and conscious approach to urban planning, which considers cultural practices as essential components of city development, not only for the preservation of heritage, but also as a vital strategy for enriching community life and strengthening local identity.

A Brief Analysis of The Application of Beijing Regional Color in Landscape Theme Illustration Design

A Brief Analysis of The Application of Beijing Regional Color in Landscape Theme Illustration Design

Reading W. B. Yeats and Seamus Heaney in a Postcolonial Context: Exploring Landscape and Identity

This article critically examines Ireland's postcolonial position, with a specific focus on the poetic works of influential Irish writers William Butler Yeats and Seamus Heaney. The exploration begins by delving into Ireland's historical and cultural context as a colonized nation, shedding light on the profound impact of English domination and the complexities of Irish history. Furthermore, the article draws parallels between the Irish experience and anticolonial movements in Third World countries, emphasising on the similar struggles in resisting colonization. The central argument posits that, having endured colonialism, both Yeats and Heaney actively contribute to the postcolonial discourse by employing themes of landscape and identity as distinct forms of resistance. Yeats, driven by a personal interest in mythology, mythologizes resistance against the colonizer through the revival of heroic deeds in his poetry. Conversely, Heaney engages in a subversion of the “us vs them” dichotomy, responding to the Empire through his works. The imagery of earth, depicted in his poetry, symbolises the connection between physical landscape to Irish identity. By situating Yeats’ and Heaney’s poetry within a postcolonial framework, this article seeks to acknowledge their collective contribution as a form of "writing back to the Empire," thereby enriching the discourse surrounding Irish postcolonialism.

The evolution and future of research on Nature-based Solutions to address societal challenges

Nature-based Solutions are recognised for their potential to address the biodiversity and climate crises, and less extensively, other societal challenges. However, this nature-society relationship is becoming more important as available food and water resources, income, and human health, are increasingly impacted by environmental changes. Here, we utilise the seven major societal challenges addressed by Nature-based Solutions according to the International Union for Conservation of Nature, to identify the primary themes of the Nature-based Solutions research landscape from 1990-2021. We evaluate how these themes, with respect to the societal challenges, evolved over time, and where. Our findings highlight the under-representation of four societal challenges across the research landscape: economic and social development, human health, food security, and water security. We propose six research pathways to advance the evidence for Nature-based Solutions in these societal challenges, and present opportunities for future research programs to prioritise the needs of society, the environment, and the economy.

Fragmented Landscape in Harold Pinter's "The Room": A Postmodern Study

This paper explores the theme of fragmented landscape in Harold Pinter's play, "The Room," through a postmodern lens. The analysis examines how the play reflects and critiques the socio-political context of the postmodern era and how this context shapes the fragmented nature of the play's landscape. The paper argues that "The Room" is an important work of postmodern literature that exposes the dehumanizing effects of a fragmented landscape. This paper briefly explains Postmodernism and fragmented landscape and how Harold Pinter depicted them in his play.

Catégories de la peinture chinoise et motifs dans la poésie de François Cheng

Abstract François Cheng’s poetry is steeped in traditional Chinese aesthetics, which is inseparable from the cosmology that gives it meaning. This article investigates the genesis of Chinese pictorial art in Cheng’s poetry by focusing on three sets of recurring motifs, linked to the major themes of nature and landscape in Chinese painting: trees and rocks; flowers and birds; mountains and water. Trees and rocks portray the outer form of nature and the inner impulses of the poet, and embody the dichotomy between heaven and earth. The symbolism of flowers gives praise to femininity and to yin, while birdsong evokes the eternal echoes that set nature in vibration. Mountains and water, with the clouds as an intermediary void, add contrast, rhythm, and musicality to the landscape and embody a universe in the making. In this way, the themes and motifs reflect the aesthetic beliefs of the poet-artist, who draws inspiration from Taoism and classical Chinese painting while embracing modernism. Cheng’s poetic art thus becomes ‘un art de vie, un art de vivre’.

Analysis of Drawings Results of Autistic Children in SLB Lentera Hati Kudus

Autism is a disorder that occurs in the brain's nervous system and disturbances in the development of motor sensors, which results in children having complex disorders in their social lives. Autistic children experience disturbances in cognition, interaction, and communication. Drawing is one of the tools for communicating with children with autism. Each child has a difference in the results of the picture. This study aims to describe how the drawings of children with autism at SLB Lentera Hati Kudus work. This study uses a qualitative approach and uses a case study method. The subjects in this study were four students who were diagnosed with autism. Data collection techniques in this study were observation, interviews, and documentation. The validity of the data in this study uses a triangulation technique. The result of this research is that the works of art contain themes, visual elements, and meanings. The average subject produces a natural landscape theme. The lines used are actual lines and virtual lines. The meaning of the four drawings is that students are happy with the theme of the scenery or the theme they like, for example, their favourite theme.

Application of AI Interaction Design in the Teaching Model of Landscape Topics Course

Abstract In this paper, we first define the limb node coordinates through the established limb node coordinate system and evaluate the behavior of the human body through the constructed posture sequence to analyze the human body’s body characteristics, such as the area of concern and the emotional level. Then, a new model of landscape theme course teaching was designed based on AI interaction design technology, the human-computer interaction learning needs were analyzed, and a human-computer interaction landscape course learning system was established. Finally, the differences in students’ cognitive ability, learning motivation, and learning emotion under the AI interactive teaching environment and traditional teaching methods were compared, and the advantages of AI interactive teaching were analyzed. The results show that the SD value of students’ behavioral attitudes in the teaching mode based on interactive technology is 27.78±2.34, which is more than the SD value of the ordinary teaching mode.2 In terms of goal attitudes, the SD value of the experimental class is about 4.05 more than that of the control class, and the difference is significant. The interactive teaching mode of AI effectively promotes students’ learning of the landscape topic course, and this study provides positive reference value.

Research on the segmentation method of a highway landscape corridor zone

Highway landscaping is an important part of highway construction, which plays a role in highway engineering to ensure traffic safety, alleviate visual fatigue, manifest culture, and many other roles. In the actual highway landscape design, the concept of highway landscape planning and design remains unclear, the content is complex, and the design lags behind the main construction of the problem. Different landscape themes should be set for different sections of the road to enable the motorway landscape to play its role, and the reasonable division of the highway landscape paragraph nodes and the determination of different landscape themes are the keys to the problem. This study collects natural and humanistic materials along the highway, arranges and classifies them through the cluster analysis method, and then divides the highway landscape into paragraphs through the fusion of cluster analysis and node control method. Then, the landscape resources in the paragraphs are integrated and refined to define the theme of the paragraphs, the landscape of the paragraphs based on the theme of the paragraphs is generated to bring out the regional cultural connotation, and a highway paragraph landscape theme division process is constructed. Finally, based on the survey of the landscape status quo of the Zhunxing Highway, the landscape theme division method is applied to verify its scientificity. The research results show that the highway paragraph landscape division method based on the cluster analysis method can effectively reflect the landscape characteristics of different road sections, enrich the road landscape design content, reflect the regional cultural characteristics, reduce the phenomenon of driver fatigue due to the landscape content of a single driving, and protect the traffic safety of the highway. This method can effectively guide the highway landscape paragraph planning and node design, has simple operation, and has strong practicality.

Fragments of Reality: Landscape and Sexuality in Arabian Nights (1974)

This article explores themes of sexuality and landscape in Pier Paolo Pasolini’s film . Utilizing an auteurist perspective and incorporating scholarly sources, archival images, critical reception, and the filmmaker’s writings, this article also examines the linkages between Pasolini’s biography and his formally challenging, politically conscious cinematic adaptation of the ancient Arabic anthology, One Thousand and One Nights.

The landscape theme of Han bamboo carving art

This paper examines the correlation between the form and surface visual narrative of Han bamboo-carved stationery and painting, with the purpose of comprehending how bamboo carving articulates the material and cultural universe of the Han people. During the mid-Ming and Qing dynasties, the Han literati possessed a large number of exquisite bamboo-carved stationeries with landscape motifs. The relationship between bamboo carving landscape motifs and landscape painting is a manifestation of the fusion of Confucian religions in the Han literati culture. We combine a discussion of the decorative motifs in bamboo carving work together with the brushstrokes, techniques and composition of landscape painting in order to explore the expression of culture in bamboo carving. Although bamboo carving art mainly represents the interaction between bamboo carving artists and the material pursuit of literati, it also exhibits the development relationship between painting and craftsmanship. The landscape motif theme of bamboo carving is the representative of craftsmanship and innovation across materials. This is also a valid reason for investigating how Han craftsmanship gradually became professionalized and artistic. The paper argues that bamboo carvings as utensils created a new stage for Han literati culture and facilitated contact with the private market.

A Molecular Landscape of Stress Urinary Incontinence in Women Suggests an Important Role of Beta-Catenin Signaling in Disease Etiology

Purpose: Stress urinary incontinence (SUI) represents a major health burden in women, but a thorough understanding of the underlying molecular mechanisms is lacking. Our aim was to further elucidate these mechanisms to ultimately find new treatments. Materials and Methods: This study integrated the most significant genes from 4 genome-wide association studies (GWASs) of SUI in women with other genetic, expression, and/or functional evidence from the literature into a molecular landscape. A network enrichment analysis of the top SUI GWAS genes was conducted, followed by an extensive literature search to identify interactions between the proteins encoded by the GWAS genes and proteins/molecules implicated in SUI through other evidence. Results: In total, 188 GWAS genes were used for network enrichment analysis that yielded 12 networks, of which 8 were overlapping, with beta-catenin as the central protein. Based on this finding and our literature search, we built a molecular landscape of female SUI that centers on beta-catenin signaling. Other important functional landscape themes are epithelial-mesenchymal transition, NANOG signaling, and female sex hormone signaling. Conclusions: The molecular landscape of female SUI that we built based on genetic data provides novel molecular insights that may be instrumental for better understanding the etiology of SUI and developing novel SUI treatments.

ENHANCING INTERNATIONAL COMMUNICATION THROUGH MODERN APPROACHES TO TEACHING VISUAL ART IN KINDERGARTEN AND JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL: EXPLORING LANDSCAPE THEMES AS EXAMPLES

This article examines the methodology of organizing classes on the updated program in kindergarten and junior high school, focusing on enhancing international communication through modern approaches to teaching visual art. The research specifically explores landscape themes as examples, aiming to stimulate creativity and promote understanding of different cultures and traditions. In recent years, innovative technology has emerged as an essential factor in improving the overall quality of education. The integration of these technologies into the teaching and learning process allows for the development of competitiveness among students, equipping them with all necessary skills to enter the global market. The study seeks to investigate the effectiveness of utilizing modern technology in teaching visual art, particularly in the context of landscape themes, and how it can foster cross-cultural understanding and communication. The article presents a comprehensive overview of the current state of visual art education in Kazakhstan, identifying key issues and challenges faced by educators and students alike. Additionally, it offers a thorough analysis of various style directions, techniques, and approaches used in teaching landscape themes in kindergarten and junior high school. The research encompasses both traditional and contemporary methods, highlighting their respective strengths and weaknesses and drawing on best practices from around the world to inform the development of a new, culturally inclusive curriculum. The presented research highlights the importance of childhood creativity and its impact on the development of cognitive, social, and emotional skills. The study emphasizes the need for educators to create an environment that encourages self-expression, experimentation, and critical thinking. By focusing on landscape themes, pupils can explore the cultural, historical, and geographical aspects of various regions and countries, broadening their understanding of the world and fostering empathy and appreciation for diversity. The article provides recommendations for implementing modern approaches to teaching visual art in kindergarten and junior high school. They include the adoption of interdisciplinary methods, collaboration between educators and artists, the integration of technology, and the establishment of international exchange programs. Additionally, the study highlights the significance of embracing innovation, technology, and cross-cultural understanding, the study hopes to pave the way for a more inclusive and globally connected education system that nurtures creativity and fosters international communication.

Regional interactions in the Chan Buddhist literature between Sichuan and Zhejiang in the Northern and Southern Song periods—Centering on the phenomena of “Sichuan Monks as Laju” and “Zhejiang Monks as Xiaosa”

In the history of Chan Buddhism, a special phenomenon emerged during the Song dynasty, wherein many Chan monks from Sichuan traveled downstream to the middle and lower reaches of the Yangzi River. Particularly during the Southern Song, Sichuan monks who went to Zhejiang enjoyed preeminent social status and brought political influence, giving rise to a situation in which Sichuan monks and Zhejiang monks were labeled as laju (“indecorous”) and xiaosa (‘unconstrained’), respectively, in Chan literature. From the perspective of regional literary interactions, the “indecorous” Sichuan monks were chiefly presented as having a fondness for beauty, curiosity, comedy, and humor, with a deep understanding of the nature of knowledge and language, all of which had an important influence on Zhejiang monks. The “unconstrained” Zhejiang monks, on the other hand, were described as having a fondness for using the word qing (“clear, pure”) or a “clear” style in the Buddhist landscape theme poetry, which likewise had a profound influence on Sichuan monks after their arrival in Zhejiang. Therefore, it was in the Southern Song capital Hangzhou in Zhejiang, where a new stage was set for literary interactions between Sichuan and Zhejiang monks in the Northern and Southern Song periods.

К вопросу о зарождении «горного пейзажа» в русской живописи XVIII – начала XIX века

This article discusses the genesis of the mountain landscape in the history of Russian painting, which is important for the history of fine arts in Russia and which has been rarely studied. The article connects the history of the origin of this landscape genre with the period of the 18th to early 19th centuries. At the turn of the 18th century, the art of landscape painting was born in Russia. It was at this time that the mountain landscape genre attracted the attention of Russian artists who had been trained in Italy. Therefore, the painting of Italian and French masters, working in the style of classicism, significantly influenced the landscape genre in the works of Russian artists, where the mountain landscape occupies a special place. As the history of this topic has not been given enough attention, the main task of this article is to provide a brief overview of the formation of this genre in Russia. The material studied are the works of the artists Semyon Shchedrin, Fyodor Alekseev, Fyodor Matveyev, and Vasily Petrov. The methodological basis of the study, along with general scientific approaches and methods, is represented by hermeneutic logic, which is a universal methodology for the entire spectrum of sciences in the humanities. The publication of this work assumes a series of articles on landscape themes in Russian painting.

Multiple Mnazi Mmoja

This paper argues for the appreciation of multiple identities present within cities in Africa by discussing the pedagogic experiment of an architectural design studio and the design projects of the studio between 2017 and 2019. Mnazi Mmoja is a Kiswahili phrase loosely translated to mean "one coconut tree"- oneness in a post-colonial context. This paper interrogates the problematic single-stroke description of African challenges, a continent with over 51 countries with diverse cultures, ethnicities, and urban morphologies. The paper argues that there are many Mnazi Mmoja. Unit15X’s design teaching strategy has been to challenge knowledge in architecture, landscape, and urban design by First taking students at the University of Johannesburg to other African countries to foster cultural awareness. Secondly, Unit15X’s studio utilizes landscape themes, allowing students to research complex relationships between urban inhabitants and their landscapes and their production to enhance critical awareness and move beyond aesthetic explorations. Our curiosity guides us to understand what it means to practice architecture, landscape architecture, urban design, and planning by interrogating public spaces on the continent. This paper discusses Unit15X's studio exploration of Larval (Emergent) Landscapes on the public space of the Mnazi Moja site of historical and cultural significance in Dar es Salaam in Tanzania through two students' speculative design projects.Two students’ projects, The Anti-Atlas, and The One Coconut Tree, explore the concept of Mnazi Mmoja- 'oneness' - to pause questions that challenge planning and design legislations and begin to speculate on how indigenous knowledge, multiple identities, and African material conditions can be (re)-applied to contemporary contexts in order to raise awareness of: identity; multiculturalism in cites; post-colonial urbanism within cities in an attempt to reinterpret the multiple representations of the concept of Mnazi Mmoja.

THE ORIGIN OF LANDSCAPE IN LATVIAN TEXTILE ART. RŪDOLFS HEIMRĀTS’S SCHOOL

The article provides insight into development processes related to professional education in Latvian textile art. Special attention was made to the textile artist Rūdolfs Heimrāts and his crucial role in the history of Latvian textile art. He was permanently leading the Textile art department at the State Academy of Arts of Latvian SSR for more than thirty years. Heimrāts established his original educational model based on a deep understanding of Latvian textile culture heritage. The new generation of artists educated by Heimrāts completely changed visual content and technical capabilities of textile artwork. It raised the Latvian textile art to an unprecedented level of artistic expression. Heimrāts’s unique personality, creative interests, and set goals influenced Latvian textile art development for several decades. Textile artists who had acquired education under the leadership of Rūdolfs Heimrāts created their special contribution to Latvian textile art known as Heimrāts’s School. One of the unifying features of Heimrāts’s School became the predominance of landscape theme in artists’ oeuvre. The article aims to analyse the phenomenon of Heimrāts’s personality, his educational method, and his contribution to the development of Latvian textile art. Special attention was paid to determine the circumstances that affected the topic selection of weavings. Research methods include the study of archival material and publications, formal analysis of the artwork, biographical analysis, interviews, historical research, and field notes.

Strategi Keberlanjutan Obyek Wisata Melalui Tata Lansekap Studi Kasus Desa Karangmalang Sragen

<p class="Abstract"><em><span lang="IN">This research focused on landscape design plan to improve the sustainability of a tourist object. The method used is a programmed design which includes determining the problem, collecting relevant data and information, analyzing design decisions and ending with the determination of a landscape design plan. The data and information obtained consist of factual data, namely tourism activity programs, village tourism potential, landscape constraints for tourism sustainability, as well as normative data, namely spatial planning of tourist objects, sustainability principles, and landscape governance principles. The results of the analysis consist of determining the landscape theme, determining the type of vegetation design, and determining the variation of plant placement by criteria of tourism attributes and sustainability aspects.</span></em></p>

Using social media photos and computer vision to assess cultural ecosystem services and landscape features in urban parks

Urban parks are important public places that provide an opportunity for city dwellers to interact with nature. In recent years, social media data have become a promising data source for the assessment of cultural ecosystem services (CES) and landscape features in urban parks. However, it is a challenging task to identify and classify the CES and landscape features from social media photos by manual content analysis. In addition, relatively few studies focused on the differences in landscape preferences between tourists and locals in urban parks. In this study, we used geotagged social media photos from Flickr and computer vision methods (scene recognition, image clustering and image labeling) based on the convolutional neural networks (CNN) and the Google Cloud Vision platform to assess the spatial preferences and landscape preferences (cultural ecosystem services and landscape features) of tourists and locals in the urban parks of Brussels. The spatial analysis results showed that the tourists’ photos were spatially concentrated on well-known parks located in the city center while the locals’ photos were rather spatially dispersed across all parks of the city. We identified 10 main landscape themes (corresponding to 4 CES categories and 10 landscape feature categories) from 20 image clusters by automated image analysis on social media photos. We also noticed that tourists paid more attention to the place identity featured by symbolic sculptures and buildings, while locals showed more interest in local species of plants, flowers, insects, birds, and animals. This research contributes to social media-based user preferences analysis and CES assessment, which could provide insights for urban park planning and tourism management.

САРА УОТЕРС И ВИКТОРИАНСКИЙ КАНОН

The article examines the specifics of the work of the modern British writer Sarah Waters with Victorian canon. The author’s forms of interaction with the Victorian text are investigated with references to the author’s revisionist stand of a professional historian, to her creative reflection on Victorian canon in the spirit of the historiographical novel, and interest in popular genres of Victorian era (Dickens’ socio-psychological novel, sensational novel, publications in the popular magazine “All the Year Round”). Waters’ novels use the Dickensian code and popular sensational plots in order to rethink class and gender issues, to show the social topography of Victorian era from today’s perspective, with its close interest in social marginalities and outsiders (travesty actors, representatives of non-traditional communities, criminals, spiritualists, the secret life of respectable classes). The writer shows that the dynamism of urban social topography, the complexity of cultural and gender self-determination of a person of Victorian era not only existed, but also had paramount importance for him/her. The role of Dickens’ text in understanding the theme of social and urban landscape in Sarah Waters’ novels is not limited to creating a postmodern pastiche. The connection between Waters and Dickens is genetic: the social basis becomes a necessary coordinate system for the development of the plot (sketches of the life of representatives of different strata, the creation of documentary sketches of urban life; attention to specific circumstances and environment, which form a particular character). Waters’ use of the plots and motives of the sensational novel is also associated with a broad picture of the social troubles, that provoke criminal plots of this genre.