The article examines the problem of relationship between historical monuments and memory. purpose article: to consider hermeneutical significance monuments. In this context, sculptural image is considered as a special way understanding past interpreting history. This approach involves use methodology in study monuments, which appear be assertion certain values ideas. ideas expressed connect wit...

Mathematical models for the description, in a quantitative way, of the damages induced on monuments by the action of specific pollutants are often systems of nonlinear, possibly degenerate, parabolic equations. Although some of the asymptotic properties of the solutions are known, one needs a numerical approximation scheme in order to have a quantitative forecast at any time of interest. In thi...

Big data, the mobile Internet, social media and the Internet of things (IOT) generate more information than ever but the aggregation of social intelligence remains far from realising it’s potential. Two exemplary works, mediated_moments and plasma_flow, exhibited at Beijing’s China Millennium Monument Museum of Digital Arts in 2012 model the scalable potential of urban media to weave itself int...