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Design of sustainable urban structure of the 21st century in the Czech Republic
Krčková, Zuzana ; Erben, Adam (referee) ; Pavlovský, Tomáš (advisor)
The topic of the thesis is a design of an urban structure fitting into the 21st century amidst former military barracks in Brno Černá Pole. The area is square-shaped and defined by the borders of the streets Provazníkova, Mathonova, Bieblova, and Generála Píky. The area is currently divided among three owners: Ministry of Defence & Armed Forces, Resort of Justice, and National Cyber and Information Security Agency (NÚKIB). The premise of the thesis is to build a new city quarter which would provide Brno's citizens with housing solutions, job opportunities, cultural and leisure centres not only for the new but also for the current inhabitants. The design includes also several blocks which aggregate multiple functions: housing, commercial premises, and administrative buildings. Generous volume of space has been given to public spaces, most prominently a square with a new town hall for Brno-sever, culture centre and a park. The examined area is situated between two busy roads which is why designing a suitable connection of the area and the overall traffic situation within the area was essential. This thesis aims to unify the area, cut short the traffic connections and create a compact city quarter close to the centre of Brno.
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Design of sustainable urban structure of the 21st century in the Czech Republic
Dubinová, Veronika ; Erben, Adam (referee) ; Pavlovský, Tomáš (advisor)
The objective of the diploma project was to repurpose the area of military barracks in the residential neighbourhood of Černá Pole in Brno. The thesis sets out to design a new urbanistic concept within the already existing structure, devise a new town square, a park and a town hall for the district of Brno-Sever. In this project, I aimed to fill in the chasm in the current construction and create a new lively neighbourhood. The selected area is to provide its residents with high standard of living and a rich selection of facilities. The essential aspect was to focus on different types of the residential development that surrounds the given perimeter. The eastern and the southern side reveals terraced houses and family houses, while on the west side the conservatory of the Mendel University is laid out and in the north high-rises can be seen. Through this project a new space emerges, activated through various types of residential development while blending with the residual structures. Also, another goal was to design a new town hall for Brno-Sever with a cultural centre, situate a new kindergarten in the area and construct a community centre with sports facilities. Due to the lack of more prominent town square in the city district Černá Pole, the positioning of this feature was highly significant in my project. The designed square should be multifunctional, enabling the residents or wider public a wide range of utilization.
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Spica/ Brno, Nove sady 49°11'20.3"N 16°36'29.4"E
Jelínková, Anna ; Magnusek, Pavel (referee) ; Nový, Vítězslav (advisor)
The bachelor's thesis first deals with the design of "micro-urbanism" on the brownfield, which is located near the center of Brno. This design deals with the right strategy for the development of the site, in regards to the architectural study of the new city district and in regards to the connection to the currently open city block. The main topic of the bachelor's thesis is the design of a new building of the Brno-Central townhall. The aim of the project is to 100% use the potential of the currently unused site and to design a new town hall building for the 21st century. In the project is also counted with the utilization of the adjoining site, which is now used as a not very effective parking lot. This site is located next to the area of the freight part of the Brno station "Mala Amerika", which has a cultural and historical value. The purpose of the project is to revitalize the place both culturally and architecturally and to create an imaginary entrance to the new South quarter of Brno.
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Causes of the current crisis of the Parti socialiste
Pavlíková, Klára ; Perottino, Michel (advisor) ; Brunclík, Miloš (referee)
This bachelor thesis focuses on causes of the contemporary crisis within the French Parti socialiste. The PS, as the hegemonic party of the French left until the last presidential and legislative elections in 2017, formed one of the foundational pillars of today's French Fifth Republic. After these elections, however, the party found itself in an unprecedented crisis. The debacle was also felt by other traditional parties of the French right-left continuum. It is clear that such a great crisis could not be solely caused by the unsuccessful presidential candidate Benoît Hamon. The research question of this qualitative study is therefore: How deeply rooted in the history of the Socialist Party are the causes of this contemporary crisis? Are the causes of the contemporary crisis of a long-term nature, which can be seen already in the 20th century? Or is the current state of the party conditioned by causes that arose only in the 21st century? The thesis captures and then analyzes the external and internal factors (both, in the 20th and 21st centuries) that could possibly cause this contemporary situation.
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Czech music magazines in the beginning the 21 century
Klézl, Tomáš ; Halada, Andrej (advisor) ; Hroch, Miloš (referee)
1 Annotation (abstract) The bachelor thesis Czech music magazines in the beginning of the 21st century focuses on printed music magazines which were published between the years 2001 and 2019 in the Czech Republic. The local music magazine market went through several different changes over this period. The objective of this thesis is to describe its evolution and to create profiles of the individual periodicals. The currently active music magazines are Fakker, Full Moon, Harmonie, Hudební rozhledy, Opus musicum, Rock & Pop and Spark. The thesis examines history, staff, publisher, circulation, specialization and internet activity of each these magazines and describes the content of one selected issue. The thesis also deals with the music magazines which were published during the selected era, but were cancelled or transformed into a digital format, that means Bbarák, Filter, Folk and Country, HIS Voice, Music, Report, Rock & All and XMag. The thesis examines the history, staff, publisher and specialization of each of these magazines and describes the content of one selected issue. The thesis also contains a brief timeline of the history of Czech music magazines and provides definitions of several journalistic terms.
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The end of the primary school of J. A. Komensky in Písek
PROCHÁZKA, Aleš
This Bachelor thesis focuses on the closing of the Jan Amos Komensky primary school in Písek. Six chapters describe the history of the Písek city, its education system, the establishment of an education institution in the Aleš square and important events that influenced the school from the beginning until the end of the 20th century. The thesis examines the reason behind the closing of the primary school J. A. Komensky but also describes the future of the school building which was rebuilt into a public library and into Písek´s center of education. This thesis mainly analyzes historical documents such as chronicles and official records.
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Dance, movement, photography
Peguero, Benjamin ; ŠIMŮNEK, Michal (advisor) ; JANOŠČÍK, Václav (referee)
The aim of the bachelor thesis is to introduce contemporary dance photography and Czech street dance culture. As a dancer and photographer, I have been interested in the ability of photography to reproduce dance as an artistic expression and, as a physical, emotional and in a given context, a deeply anchored experience. The work will be based on Benjamin's concept of aurativeness, through which I will consider the ability of photography to reproduce the dance, from the point of view of three direct participants in the dance event: the spectator watching the dance; the photographer who shoots the dance scene; and the dancer himself, who dances and moves most intensely. The work will be based on the observation of the Czech street dance scene and, in addition to the above, will give an overview of Czech and world dance photography with emphasis on street dance.
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FOTOPUBES
Smodej, Josip ; DVOŘÁK, Tomáš (advisor) ; JANOŠČÍK, Václav (referee)
In my thesis I want to explore the Slovenian contemporary photographic art focusing on the youngest artists who have recently graduated art schools and have started developing a new strain of fine art photography in Slovenian artistic space. Slovenia, not having a photography programme on any of it's art academies until recently, was always under influence of countries where Slovenian photography artists have studied, that being mainly Czech Republic and Serbia in the 90s and mainly UK, Germany, The Netherlands or France nowadays - the difference in the aesthetical and generally artistic expression is obvious. While most of the countries in Eastern Europe have seemingly lost the connection with the contemporary fine art scene, especially on the photographic field in the time of the post-digital art, Slovenia has kept it or rather gained it through the influence of its artists mainly studying abroad in the most developed western countries and not in Slovenia itself. On the other hand, the Slovenian photography scene has encountered an enormous problem as the artists studying abroad do not return to their motherland after finishing their studies - a trend that has gained on influence and popularity mainly in the last five years and is now almost becoming normality. The question therefore is if those artists can be counted as Slovenian or not at all, as example Aleksandra Vajd, who is one of the most influential Slovenian photography artists and at the same time one of the first ones who stayed in the country of her studies.
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The Age of Kittens: Aesthetics of Cuteness in Contemporary Art
Petrlová, Simona ; LEDVINA, Josef (advisor) ; JANOŠČÍK, Václav (referee)
Cuteness as an affect contains a group of visual and behavioral features which are capable of producing physical or emotional reactions in the body of a subject.
Speaking of cuteness as an aesthetic category this kind of response is manipulated for commercial purposes, in the context of artistic creation or as means of self-expression.
In my thesis I will be concetrating on the concept of cuteness and its use in the field of contemporary art.
First I will focus on the origin of the notion of cuteness from psychobiological, sociological and culturological point of view. I will describe briefly the origin of the english term ''cute'' and japanese term ''kawaii'' and its evolvement. Than I will concentrate on the aspects of cuteness in today's society, where it has become a tool for advancement of commercial and even political interests, which will be desrcibed on the specific examples.
Subsequently I will concentrate on the aesthetic aspects of cuteness in the context of contemporary artistic statements including sociological and lorenzian (biological) viewpoints. I will also describe these aesthetics and its usage in the field of hi-tech technologies.
Cuteness can be differentiated into many subcategories (e.g. ''creepy-cute'', ''torturer-cute'', ''sexy-cute'', etc.) when speaking of its aesthetics. These will be briefly described and showed in both the theoretical and exemplary sections of the thesis. As a whole the thesis will also lead to the discussion of the artistic positions of particular artists working with cuteness aesthetics in their art production.
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Czech translations and reception of Nigerian literature written in English
Exnerová, Nika ; Kalivodová, Eva (advisor) ; Šťastná, Zuzana (referee)
This thesis provides an overview of Czech translations of Nigerian literature written in English and their reception since 1960s. Its main focus are novels and other prose fiction, first in the context of Nigerian history, culture and postcolonial experience, factors that influence an author's creative choices, such as the choice of themes and appropriation strategies aimed at transforming English for specifically African purposes. The thesis then moves to the issue of Czech translations of Nigerian works; it considers the nature and changes in publishing policies before and after 1989 and the effect of official state ideology, censorship and market on the choice of literary texts and composition of peritexts. The thesis contains short analyses of translation strategies regarding the exotic elements in researched texts and related appropriation strategies employed by authors. The reception research is based on studying mainly literary magazines and aims to create a diachronic map of reception events consisting of periods of heightened readership interest.
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