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SocialMaps Manifesto
Škobrtal, Petr ; Leitgeb, Šimon (referee) ; Kubíková, Zuzana (advisor)
In the past two decades, a digital copy of the world has been created with perfect precision. It is an unprecedented achievement of the third modernity, and the speed of its creation is fascinating. We walk through it daily and are a part of it without reflecting on its existence, its nature and its unclear transactional relationship. We have come to see the various mapping services and applications as obvious innovations. A simple fragment of the quantum of functionalities of our devices. Calculator, clock, email, maps. But a digital copy of the world was not easy to build. And it was certainly expensive. Yet it is offered to us for our use without any restraints. The central motivation of the companies that have created this virtual space — in which the dramas of humanity are notionally played out — is to monitor it continuously and carefully. Our behaviour, activities and interactions are the desired compensation. They are constantly analysed and interpreted into data that can be traded. The loss of privacy is a tax we pay. An unspoken transactional relationship has been sealed without our knowing its exact terms and consequences; and the corporations that formulate them are rapaciously avoiding legislative-legal framework. Map applications, which are today the most important product of cartography, are the sneaking hegemony that reduces the world to a few categories whose primary imperative is profit. Many of them use the map as a platform in which places are inserted to represent a simple reflection of the capitalist perception of the world. Shops, hotels, bars, restaurants, businesses. Such maps manipulate our view of the world by how they portray it and what they present to us in a bounded way. And by our conformity, we unwittingly accede to these practices and help to preserve their status quo. We can easily decide not to use the digital map services and applications in place, but they are only the symbolic tip of an ambitious project of monitoring our privacy. Maps are hopelessly caught up in a tangled web of Big Tech, software and the Internet of Things. They are drained of their influence and limitless potential to serve a single purpose. It is therefore necessary to seek a ways forward for a paradigm shift affecting the form, nature and function of digital web maps. This manifesto offers some of them.
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The Creation and Development of Pilsner City Hall
Šimková, Martina ; Jarošová, Markéta (advisor) ; Zlatohlávek, Martin (referee)
This bachelor thesis is focused on an art and historical analysis of complex of buildings of Pilsen town hall. Central part of this komplex is renaissance building built on an order of town council by italian builder Giovani de Stazia in year 1555. It is set into the place of an older town hall's building so-called Big house. The same architekt built for an private purpose right part of so-called Imperial house (house number 290), which is also todayʼs part of town hall complex of buildings. Imperial house is a architectural work created by Giovanni Maria Filippi, who built it from two different houses in year 1609. Pilsen renaissance architecture is a great example of "Czech renaissance". Architecture forms, which were used, refers to contemporary demonstrations of renaissance in Czech, but first of all they reflect instigations of Italian renaissance. Pilsen town hall was reconstructed by Jan Koula in the years 1902- 1910.
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