The theme of the upcoming edition of the Art Style |Art and Culture
International Magazine is "Image Cultures, World Heritage, and Identities"
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In 1972, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural
Organization (UNESCO) in the General Conference approved the Convention
concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage,
identifying and protecting cultural and natural sites considered
outstanding universal value throughout the world. Today, the Convention
is UNESCO’s most widely disseminated and visible international
instrument, encouraging countries’ commitments to protect and enhance
their properties inscribed on the so-called World Heritage List.
Moreover, beyond maintaining the conservation of cultural and natural
heritage sites, UNESCO seeks to enhance building capabilities and
improve communication. Cities and places on the World Heritage List
assume responsibility for protecting World Heritage for present and
future generations. To this end, the principles of sustainable
development are necessarily part of the conservation process, relying
mainly on communication tools and strategies in their forms to raise
awareness and knowledge of World Heritage objectives. Each World
Heritage property communicates the values of each culture and its
identity. The benefits brought by the recognition as a World Heritage
extend from social, educational, cultural, and political advances to the
valuation of the assets in the areas declared World Heritages. The
attraction of contributions from private investors, the increase in
tourism, the generation of employment and income, and a more significant
international projection are among those advantages. Besides these
notions mentioned above that are necessary for the urban organization
concerning visual aspects, the focus is on their inhabitants’ perception
of urban environments and how they orient themselves and behave in the
face of everyday experience.
To this end, focusing on a city’s contemporary goals, one must primarily
consider the interactions in urban centers through digital technology.
However, urban interventions through digital technology need to have a
social meaning in their applications in visual settings, conditioning
the aesthetic aspects as new concepts and, mainly, the functionality to
serve everyone through a technicization of the organizational and
implementation processes. In this sense, the image configuration has its
practical, empirical significance in the daily life of society,
specifically in the visual project, due to its importance in solutions
for communicative and signaling systems in large cities. We know that
the visual project is essential to social representation today for
communication with focused objectives, interrelations, and expected
results. To synthesize, the understanding of the condition of the
cultural worldliness is indispensable to any reflection on the destiny
of world cultures in the face of globalization and the flow of
industrialized cultural goods, with attention to the development of new
forms and functions as the specificity of innovation in the
configuration of the contemporary image in large metropolises. In these
conditions, images produced as part of the urban culture and rhythm—art,
photographs, films, videos, advertising, design, architecture, etc—are
part of the complex system of the image cultures, world heritage, and
identities. Finally, this issue of Art Style, Art & Culture
International Magazine expects original proposals that may address the
urban society, cosmopolitan visual layout involving the aestheticization
of urban structures, their narratives, histories, identities, and, in
short, their cultural values.
You just need to follow the magazine’s author guidelines for information:
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submit your
extended essay or scholarly article for evaluation
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The deadline for submissions is November 30, 2023. We will get back to
you with acceptance or nonacceptance feedback after the reviewers have
evaluated your contribution. If your submission is accepted, we will
inform you about the publication schedule.
Editors:
Christiane Wagner
Dimitra Laurence Larochelle
Note: No payment from authors will be required.
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