Category: Arts – Social, Political and Community Agendas in the Arts
Sining Saysay a Philippine History in Art: Political Ideologies Contained in the Paintings During the Spanish Period
Sining Saysay is a permanent exhibit of the students and alumni of the University of the Philippines College of Fine …
Sining Saysay a Philippine History in Art: Political Ideologies of Its Selected Paintings in Gateway Gallery
Sining Saysay is a permanent exhibit of the students and alumni of the University of the Philippines College of Fine …
Social Cohesion in Education: The Benefits of Embedding Art and Design in a Learning Environment
This paper demonstrates the importance of art and design in education and how it has a positive impact on social …
The Evolution of the Architectural Awards Guiding Excellence in Profession
40% of the global greenhouse gas is emitted by buildings. The concurrently growing global population of 8 billion who inhabits …
The Body of Dissent: Political and Aesthetic in Contemporary Chinese Art
The body has had a prominent place in contemporary Chinese art since the founding of the PRC in 1949. Numerous …
Should Arts Be Politically Committed? A Case Study on the Criticism of “People’s Justice” Artwork in Documenta Fifteen
Documenta Fifteen in Kassel, Germany, curated by Ruangrupa, immediately became the world's attention after the boycott of an art installation …
Arranging Reserved Seats for Women in the Indonesian Parliament
In a democratic system, it is important to involve both women and men in policymaking and decision-making in order to …
Resident Perspectives on the Transformation of Tangible and Intangible Heritage in the Development of Traditional Villages
The tourism development within China’s traditional villages marks a significant cultural shift, impacting both tangible and intangible cultural aspects of …
Collision and Symbiosis of Multiple Cultures in Post-Industrial Heritage Renewal: An Autoethnographic Account
This paper explores the potential of post-industrial heritage renewal as a catalyst for cultural exchange and inclusive development, based on …
Exploring Cross-Cultural Understanding Through Chinese Paper-Cutting: An Observational Study in Welsh Communities
In the contemporary globalised world, cross-cultural communication has become a subject of widespread concern, with cross-cultural understanding being a key …
Community-Centred Design for Social Innovation: Bottom-Up and Government Initiatives in Shanghai
Insecurity has gripped our society. When we write these words, some countries may be experiencing war, hunger, and poverty. The …
Up Start: Community-Based Creative Industries
The article focuses on the Up Start – Creative Industries project, an initiative by the Aga Khan Foundation Portugal in …
The Quercetum Chorus Workshop
The Quercetum Chorus Workshop introduced students in the Cal Poly Pomona Interdisciplinary Paris Study Abroad Program (CPP IPSAP) to methods …
How Power Inequality Operates in the Gig Economy: Taking Chinese Food Delivery Platform Meituan as an Example
Sharing economy has become a buzzword in the world in recent years. Though it brings lots of convenience to individual …
East Versus East: The Failure of Ilya Repin’s Parisian Café at the 1875 Paris Salon
The 19th century in Europe was characterized by the canonization and de-canonization of various painters. My paper deals with the …
The Mediatization of Folk Art: -A Narrative Study of Paper-Cutting in Fujian, China
Paper-cutting in China is considered a culturally-based interpretation.With a paradigm of folk culture built within it, paper-cutting creates civilization and …
Liminality in Inclusivity: Faculty Perceptions Towards an Inclusive Educational Community
As Singapore lives with COVID-19, the notion of an inclusive educational community is imperative to enhance the engagement of persons …
Differences as a Source of Creativity: Friendship Between Wang Hui and Yun Shouping
The biography of Wang Hui (1632-1717), a famous seventeenth-century landscapist in China, has been written many times over. While the …
A SDT-SFBT Based Group Intervention on College Students’ Smartphone Addiction and Positive Smartphone Usage
Smartphone addiction/problematic smartphone usage has become a pressing issue, however, interventions aiming to arouse positive energy and inspire self-determination to …
Social Forums for a Different Democracy: Key Artistic Strategies of Chinese Socially Engaged Art in the 21st Century
It is the goal of this presentation to analyze how do some recent Chinese socially engaged art experiment a different …
Resisting Precariousness, Reclaiming Community: Contemporary Art, ‘Unitary Urbanism’ and Urban Futures
This paper will examine instances of contemporary art that have responded to the social urgencies of capitalist-urbanism, which force urban …
Anti-amnesia: the Viability of Millenary Weaving in a World of Acceleration
This paper presents a design research mediation process towards the sustenance of ancient weaving techniques in the Portuguese region of …
The Individual and the Arts in a Globalised Society
The topic for this presentation would be to make use of the social and political agendas in the Arts in …