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Symbiotic imprint
Kachtíková, Michaela ; Tkáčová, Lucia (referee) ; Houser, Milan (advisor)
The thesis entitled "Symbiotic Imprint" explores the symbiotic relationship between the physicality and the mind through a meditative practice that materializes in a site-specific installation inside the catacombs. The thesis reflects the artist's personal research into the inner mental space that is transformed into physical form. The author presents a space that, while familiar to her, is at the same time alien, and which is constantly transforming and evolving as a result of long-term care. This process leads to the creation of a unique dialogue between external and internal environments, where physical interaction and presence of body become key components for deeper understanding and self-knowledge. The site-specific installation attempts to connect the outer and inner worlds, the visible and the hidden, inside and outside.
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Isle of rats on the edge of rest area
Urbančok, Robert ; Maxmilián, Václav (referee) ; Janů, Valentýna (advisor)
In a work entitled Isle of rats on the edge of rest area, I process memories of childhood educational coercion into an environment that embodies the psychic space of experiencing one's position within the educational construct of parental expectations in an attempt to model the young person's personality through the politics of sport. Learning in the isolated and empathically emptied space of the tennis court, in a system of definitive rules, relationships and values based on a one-way construction of victory over failure, propagating active lifestyles and healthy bodies as a modern individualist religion, maintaining selective socialisation, limiting intuition, creativity and stigmatising otherness in order to class-legitimise personal growth and the representation of one's social position - at the expense of denying one's own identity. Through the appropriation of materials and the aesthetics of the tennis court, I create a space for the curiosity of these repressed childhood memories brought into the present, where I attempt to reflect on them, name the vague feelings, and internally come to terms with them.
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Need of intimacy of patients women 65+
NOVÁKOVÁ, Pavlína
The aim of this bachelor's thesis was to determine the status of the needs for intimacy and privacy of elderly women aged 65+ in a nursing home. Elderly women lose part of their privacy by entering such a facility. According to their degree of dependence on care, their intimate zone is violated during nursing care. I used the method of non-standardized interviews and direct covert participant observation to find out how the elderly women feel and cope in such situations. I collected data from 10 female clients and 4 members of the nursing staff of the Stachy-Kusov Nursing Home. The group of female clients was deliberately selected to represent seniors of different levels of self-care, mobility and care dependency. All nursing professions were represented among the staff. In the interviews, I explored how the clients felt in situations where they had to surrender some of their privacy and intimacy, how they coped with these feelings, and asked about their willingness and ability to communicate these topics. I investigated how nursing staff perceived these facts, their ability to empathize and communicate non-verbally with the elderly women in their care. From the data obtained, I drew conclusions regarding the saturation of the seniors' need for intimacy. It shows that individual approach with kindness and consideration is important to improve the feelings of care recipients. It is always necessary to act in the interest of preserving the dignity of the clients, to leave them the right to make decisions for themselves, not to reduce their capacity for self-care and to offer the possibility of relaxation through positive experiences or activities. In my research, the insufficient number of direct care workers to meet the individual needs of clients and the related lack of time that can be devoted to each client proved to be the limiting factor.
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Intimacy as a topic for preschool children
HLAVÁČKOVÁ, Eliška
The bachelor thesis addresses the issue of intimacy as a topic for preschool children in kindergartens. The theoretical part provides an insight into different conceptions of intimacy and the terms associated with it, which will be further used for the practical part. It also looks at the physical and mainly psychological development of the preschool child, particularly in relation to intimacy. It also focuses on three well-known theories of human needs, specifically according to Abraham Maslow, Zdeněk Matějček and the Pesso family. It then subjects these to comparison and finds connections between them and the themes of intimacy, demonstrating their interrelatedness and importance for the healthy development of the preschool child. The theoretical part also pays attention to whether the topic of intimacy finds its rightful place in preschool education and how it is included in the curriculum. The practical part presents the planning, implementation and evaluation of a week-long project that aims to sensitively introduce the topic of intimacy to preschool children using the principles of Philosophy for Children. The core element of this project is an original children's book, which is intended to serve as a suitable didactic material for kindergarten teachers in the field of the above-mentioned issue.
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The Body (Intimity)
Kojetská, Monika ; Pepe, Dita (referee) ; Hlavenka, Tomáš (advisor)
With this set I am following my previous work in which I was occupying with woman body. I catch body in intimate moments – but I encode it, so it is almost not obvious. I use light irony and exaggeration in my pictures. In this set I work with woman body as a object of voyer, who observes the woman with a peephole, lense, field glass or camera. But I keep it all in abstract and stylized position. I work with code, thanks to which we at first perceive the picture as colourful and shaped painting forms that gradually show womans body. I use bigger ammount of abstract, when forms of the body balance at the edge between figural and abstract. I enjoy the moment when there is not everything visible at the first sight in the picture. I want the viewer to look for the body, observe it and explore it. I do not aim for catching the beauty of the body or is real visual shape. I work with light irony of voyeur looks by using some deformations of the body parts.
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Side Effect / This could be us
Masevnina, Polina ; Pustaiová,, Zuzana (referee) ; Klodová, Lenka (advisor)
My bachelor thesis Side Effect / This could be us consists of a series of photographs and the texts in the form of a visual intimate diary and focuses mainly on self-reflection. As in my previous works, I reflect on romantic and sexual relationships, changes in my mental and physical condition, whether caused by love affairs, any kind of addiction, or by taking anti- depressants. The side effect of medical psychotherapy affecting sexuality is one of the top- ics I reveal in my project. By creating my self-portraits and writing explicit notes, I satisfy the obsessive need to share my intimate life - digital exhibitionism has a therapeutic meaning in this case, it helps to ex- perience and cope with my current state. I interpret intimacy from the perspective of sharing a personal space. I explore the physical and symbolic nature of the text as the way of ex- pression and my own body as a tool for preserving and living memories. Focusing on the body I materialise it as the map of touches, I turn my experiences into a physical form.
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Presentness
Šmerdová, Markéta ; Jezbera, Ladislav (referee) ; Ambrůz, Jan (advisor)
I aim to conclude my four-year study with the following thesis, which puts at work all the knowledge and experience that I have accumulated during my study of body art. Professor Jan Ambruz, who oversees Sculpture Studio 2, inspires a unique feeling of passion in his students, a feeling which every one of them utilizes in his or her own way. His studio provided me with a great deal of artistic freedom. I became inspired by Andrea Simotova’s work through my own personal experience. It was also doc. Pavel Korbicka who – as her close friend and colleague – acquainted me with her work and personality, while inspiring me to do in-depth research. As I studied her work, I discovered that the core of her artistic production lies in the exploration of femininity. I may scarcely compare my life to hers; however, the woman and her artistic production have touched me on a deeply personal level – especially through the measure of intimacy that she employs while exploring her own life. In my thesis, I would like to employ both my knowledge of the body and my feelings towards myself.
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Vitality in the architectonic environment
Eyer, David ; Horáček, Martin (referee) ; Hudec, Mojmír (referee) ; Kyselka, Mojmír (referee) ; Žabičková, Ivana (advisor)
More and more research studies are being conducted on the quality of architectural space as a factor affecting our mental, social and physical health. In the past, this topic was often overlooked in its complexity. The establishment of the specialized fields of building biology, biophilic architecture and the works of Christopher Alexander and Nikos Salingaros now allow us to consider various facets of this subject. This dissertation aims to analyse the topic of vitality in architectural space by studying the abilities and perceptions of its users. Therefore its aim is not to develop a new theory of “vitality-enhancing architectural space”, but to describe how this phenomenon is perceived by the users themselves. Users can provide feedback on which features of architectural space they see as the most important for the feeling of vitality. These features have been hierarchically organized based on their perceived importance, analysed and described in detail to allow their relatively easy application in practice. This dissertation will also allow a comparison with other existing works on the studied topic.
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Artistic influences and news Interaction and influence between artistic creation and news formats
Zandálková, Marie ; Solčáni, Ján (referee) ; Čermák, Aleš (advisor)
The bachelor's thesis deals with the production of an "intuitive" news format, the form of which responds to the general flood and information flood to which news recipients are exposed. The creative process consisted of recycling the published information for two reasons. The first was the intention not to contribute to information and sensory noise. The second was the intention to transform intelligence information into a form that takes away its intensity and the character of the "stressor". The creation of a personal "remix" of information was governed by procedures based on surrealist and Dadaist traditions. The key was not a pre-created concept, but intuition. The aim was to find a more intimate treatment of information, whether public or personal, to create a meditative medium from overwhelming. The work builds on an experiment with audiovisual and textual means of expression.
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The Students themselves - Student Center Poříčí
Veselá, Marie ; Látalová, Lucie (referee) ; Havliš, Karel (advisor)
The students themselves - Student Center Poříčí Waterfront with views of the city center, the hotel representative in the neighborhood and the traffic load over the streets of Vídeňská. Two opposites, which are daily faced a common corner. While I listened to the dialogue and decided to try to accommodate both "parties". The proposed building is therefore towards the river "looks" and along the streets of Vienna "running out". Horizontally curved strip of floor follow the flow of ambient life - throughout the building causing a glass surface feeling slowdown or stoppage, then head of the belts diverge and height glazing is reduced to the standard, so the speed increases and becomes a facade passerby more inaccessible. Containers with shaping gain more privacy and a wider cut views of the surrounding area. Broken facade indicates heart rate, not only outside but also the interior, where the dominant feature of the central corridor and provides insights into the other floors, the play of light and effectively slows down and speeds up the movement in the building. The unifying element is the central staircase cascaded current on all floors.
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