independently of historical and socio cultural contexts, does not exist (Barnard, 1998). But, even if designing, as any other activity, is constrained by the social and cultural role assigned to the designer in a given society (Dormer, 1990; Downton, 2003; Manzini, 1993), that does not mean that we cannot present a general So, although there are different areas of intervention for the designer,...

This article will introduce an approach to teaching legal research called Expansive Legal Research. The Expansive Legal Research perspective is based upon dissertation research on legal information behavior at a law school legal aid clinic. This approach is inspired by an educational perspective called Expansive Learning, which in turn has roots in the psychological theory called Activity Theor...

today, the tourism industry is a major source of income for many countries. but the tourism as an economic activity mentioned before, is a cultural phenomenon in nature and the main attraction of tourism development as well. given the special vulnerability and fragility of cultural heritage, tourism development, in some cases, can cause damage to indigenous cultural patterns. this is in relatio...

City growth and environmental difficulties last decades leads the art of urban design and development think more precisely and new approaches for conserving environment and developing urban areas have been evolved.The present study deals with concepts related to ecology in the city and in particular the theory of Ecological Urbanism and its criteria is expressed. Also theory and characteristics...

The author elaborates his proposition concerning the distinction of culturalhistorical and political identity by differentiating cultural-historical majorities and minorities from political winners and losers. He points out to a democratic paradox according to which a state is governed by political minorities of winners and not by political majorities of losers. In multi-ethnic societies, holds...

The concept of marking was discovered in phonology by Trubetzkoy and generalized to morphology and grammar by Jakobson. In a fundamental application to anthropology, Greenberg integrated a generalized concept of marking into a cognitivelinguistic theory of kinship universals. Greenberg’s theory is important for three reasons: (1) it leads to the discovery and explanation of cross-cultural unive...

Activity theory emphasizes the mediational role of the culture factors and the social factors in an activity system. Viewed from the perspective of activity theory, a problem-based learning (PBL) activity is an activity system, in which the cultural and social characteristics are different from that of traditional subject based learning. It is claimed that such distinction should be reflected i...

These journal articles relate to historical trauma, also sometimes referred to as intergenerational trauma, transgenerational trauma, or post traumatic slavery disorder in the professional literature base. Broad survey articles along with those focused on historical trauma in African American, American Indian and Canadian First Nations, Armenian, Australian Aboriginal, Burundian, Cambodian Refu...

Currently, cultural heritage portals limit their users to search only for individual objects and not for objects related to some historical narrative. Typically, most musea select objects for an exhibition based on the story they want to tell the public, but in digital collections this context can currently not be made explicit as the historical context is not part of the object annotations. Fr...