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Utopian Elements of Christiania: Search for an Ideal Society
Medová, Lenka ; Zandlová, Markéta (advisor) ; Heřmanský, Martin (referee)
Presented diploma thesis is based on seven-months fieldwork in the Danish commune of Christiania. It sustains a heritage of utopian ideas of a contraculture of the 60s on which it has been created. The thesis examines which aspects of utopia are presented here and asks about the character of these utopian visions. It focuses on the question how the dream, that locals wanted to implement, is still presented in their minds, and how they perceive its realization. I used examples of street art, that is plentifully presented here, as a mediator of ideological background of this community. Its symbolism allowed me to approach values, ideas and world-views of people who already have been living in this area for almost forty years. I used the principles of visual anthropology to reveal meanings contained in visual manifestations in a public space. My research is focused only on people who moved to Christiania in 70s that means those who were present here in the times of forming this community, and who were a part of revolting atmosphere of the 60s and of its ideals. Methods used during my fieldwork are a nonparticipant observation, informal, semi-structural and photographic interviews
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Times X
Němec, Jakub ; Jakalová, Zuzana (referee) ; Mikyta, Svätopluk (advisor)
Bachelor thesis time X is a creative science fiction story about a perfect society undefined future, which is built on the necessary global genocide in favor of the existence of life on the planet. The analytical work I examine the origin and development of the new company, global ecological changes, code of ethics and the position of art in this system. I apply the theoretical platform for the visual identity of a fictitious company.
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Brave New World and Island: The Analysis of the Utopian and the Anti-Utopian World in Aldous Huxley´s Novels
ERTELOVÁ, Jitka
The aim of this thesis is to analyse two novels written by Aldous Huxley an anti-utopian novel Brave New World (1932) and a utopian novel Island (1963). The examination of both Huxley´ s works is based on the analysis of literary genres. The thesis outlines difficulties concerning a precise definition of the terms "utopia," "anti-utopia," and "dystopia." The genesis of the genres is also briefly mentioned. The thesis also deals with both common and distinct features of the genres. Because of the purpose of the analysis regarding Brave New World and Island, the thesis includes Huxley´ s other works (essays and novels), dystopian novels Nineteen Eighty Four by George Orwell and We by Yevgeny Zamyatin and a utopian novel Men Like Gods by H. G. Wells.
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Bernard Bolzano and his conception of society
ŠŤASTNÁ, Kateřina
This Bachelor´s degree thesis "Bernard Bolzano and his conception of society" deals with the characteristic and the analysis of Bernard Bolzano´s philosophical views, mainly concerning the social issues. The first part introduces the biography of Bernard Bolzano and his significance to the history of social sciences. The next part focuses on the pedagogical activity and Bolzano´s lectures. The third part concerns Bolzano´s criticism of Immanuel Kant. The fourth part deals with the characteristic and the analysis of Bolzano´s social and political views. This part focuses on the formulation and meaning of Bolzano´s Supreme Moral Law, his view of the progress in the society and it also concerns with the analysis of social and political issues in Bolzano´s booklet On the Best State. The object is to depict the personality of Bernard Bolzano and characterize and analyse Bernard Bolzano´s philosophical views, mainly concerning the social issues.
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Inanimate Links
Slámová, Anna ; Janoščík,, Václav (referee) ; Zálešák, Jan (advisor)
"... The above-mentioned issues for me personally created the idea of a world in which the human race ceases to exist in the form of civilization known to us, and it is transformed back to its original collective consciousness, something that is "above" -above real physical presence, beyond basic animal processes , well above the world he created for himself, and through that killed himself. Through advanced technology and ultramodern materials, as well as minerals and vitamins, which arose from the original ancient building units, transforming the world into a new form of being. Remains of human existence in the form of countless objects and materials, which finally adapted to other forms of life (not already poisoned and weakened, but instead upgraded units) have gradually become the basic building block posthuman planetary culture. Archaeological site with an area of 510.1 million square kilometers slowly melt away in their embedded meanings and emotions seeped into polyvinyl chloride, which eventually engulfed simple cell clusters..."
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Living in Intensive Urban Structures
Zadražilová, Miroslava ; Urbášková, Hana (referee) ; Šimeček, Pavel (referee) ; Vitková, Lubica (referee) ; Menšíková, Naděžda (advisor)
As a result of changes in the society, such as the increasing mobility, increasing spatial demandindgness of inhabitants and the onset of digital technologies, the architects and urbanists have been searching for new ways of urban housing developments. One of these ways is densification, i.e. an intensive use of the urban space. An intensive urban structure uses up the potential of a place to its maximum, solves several issues simultaneously and is a functional hybrid, the home of potential suburbanizers and a place of social contacts. It comes from the efforts to solve the particular issue of an over-populated, collapsing city. The aim of the thesis is to show contemporary approaches to the issue of intensive urban structures and to map out both the built and unbuilt projects. The thesis creates a system of their categorization and taxonomy. There is always a mixture of functions in play from the functional perspective. One can distinguish five categories according to the spacial conception. These categories are as follows: multiplicity, porousness, hybridity, connectivity and verticality. The public and semi-public spaces thus move to the higher levels of the city, into the city level, urban balcony or the hybrid landscape. The built projects usually tend to be impulses, in relation to the original city, to develop and revitalize the devastated city areas, brownfields, even urban sprawls. Based on the findings of this thesis, diploma and pre-diploma project assignments have been created at the architecture department at FAST VUT in Brno and the approaches to the issue have been tested in the pedagogical process. The survey in the second part of the thesis looks for the answer to the question of whether the potential inhabitants of an intensive urban structure exist, and who these people might be.
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Plato´s Vision of the Ideal State and Dystopias in the 20th century
LACUŠKOVÁ, Petra
In this thesis I will deal with the comparison of Plato´s vision of the ideal state presented in his work Constitution to negative utopias in the 20th century. I will seek common invariants occuring in all presented works by using method of structural analysis formulated by Claude Lévi-Strauss. The subjects of my analysis are books Constitution, We, Brave New World, 1984 and movies Metropolis, Matrix and Equilibrium. In the end I will present my hypothesis that there is another invariant fact that all negative utopias are based on raising the economic character of a man in order to maximize effect of his work. This is done by suppression and destruction of John Dewey´s concept of an experience.
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Antiutopian Novels in 20th Century English Literature
VÁŇOVÁ, Michaela
The work should first define the concepts of utopia, antiutopia and dystopia in terms of literary genre. Then it should focus on three major works of literary dystopia: George Orwell's novel 1984, William Golding's Lord of the Flies and Aldous Huxley's Brave New World. The work should address the historical roots of the genre utopia (Thomas More, Utopia) and through literary analysis of these novels follow the modern and postmodern concept of utopia and dystopia.
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