Projects / Programmes
Models and Practices of Global Cultural Exchange and Non-aligned Movement: Research in the Spatio-Temporal Cultural Dynamics
| Code |
Science |
Field |
Subfield |
| 5.12.02 |
Social sciences |
Architecture and Design |
Design (Industrial, Visual) |
| 6.01.00 |
Humanities |
Historiography |
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| Code |
Science |
Field |
| 6.04 |
Humanities |
Arts (arts, history of arts, performing arts, music) |
| 6.01 |
Humanities |
History and Archaeology |
Data Visualization; Non-Aligned Movement; Design; Art History
Researchers (11)
Organisations (4)
Abstract
The proposed international research is important because it will highlight the interplay of design, art history, cultural studies, sociology, history of political thought and their respective methodologies that will all be brought together with the use of digital, analytical and data-visualisation CAN_IS tool. The interdisciplinary research will be based on the hypothesis, according to which the accelerated process of decolonization in the 1960s, articulating the cultural needs and cultural policies of Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) countries, created new institutional mechanisms and new models/practices of cultural exchange, which resulted in a radical change within NAM in the global cultural and artistic fields. The purpose of the research project is to define the culture of NAM in terms of different and overlapping temporalities, rather than the idea of a chronological, linear time flow of dominant narratives of the period. We are fully aware of the fact that we are talking about a world of constant change, overthrows and conflicts, in which the art (in the wider context) can be recognized and interpreted as a mostly overlooked, but indicative, symptom. However, paradoxically, this symptom with an evasive nature can, on this basis, confront the existing and prevailing cultural and political narrations. The discussed critical/theoretical and socio-geopolitical interactions that came to the fore within NAM will be dealt with from three intertwined aspects: 1.) Creating a visualisation of archival data with the aim of identifying the origins, models, practices and influences of international cultural exchanges; 2.) Opening up different paths of NAM: strategies for negotiating the permeability of ideological and political borders with the aim of repositioning national and regional cultural identities; 3.) NAM as an overlooked space of potential emancipation theories: criticism of the institutional perspective of the bipolar world in the time of the Cold War. The research will be based on original archival materials from the archives of the former Yugoslav republics, France, Austria, Switzerland, Great Britain, etc. It will include methods that are fundamentally interdisciplinary, with the aim of adapting to new, diverse perspectives, requiring a complex treatment of the investigated topic. In this way, the research project will subtly respond to the current globalisation processes, to the changing general methodological and theoretical humanistic landscape, thereby contributing to the attempt to deconstruct the traditional dichotomy between the “centre” and the “periphery” and radically restructuring the territory, in which art history and design history established their canon.
