Ural State Academy of Architecture and Arts

The article reveals the importance of purposefully following an established set of principles that determine the design developments direction in line with the “Green Architecture” development. It is noted that there is a need for the integrated use of the identified principles for the effective implementation of the “green facilities” experimental design goals and the design tasks. Examples of the experimental projects development carried out in the educational design framework in USUAA (UrGAKhU) are given. Special attention is paid to the principle called “A city under a roof”, as the most appropriate to the specifics of the design goals and objectives for the Russian Federation Arctic zone and the regions of the Far North of Russia conditions.

Purpose The purpose of this study is to investigate how landscape infrastructures and architectural tools can serve as intermediaries in reimagining olive grove farmsteads in the face of climate change. It examines how diversification through intercropping with Medicinal and Aromatic Plants (MAPs) facilitates new kinds of collaboration between smallholders, large landowners and agri-business stakeholders, with a focus on two estates in Laconia, Greece. Design is positioned as a catalyst for socio-ecological regeneration and adaptive transformation in Mediterranean rural landscapes by illustrating how “common enabling infrastructures” promote collective resourcefulness, ecological resilience and more-than-human relations through a research through design (RtD) methodology. Design/methodology/approach In order to investigate the spatial, ecological and social interdependencies within the diversification of olive groves in Laconia, Greece, the study employs a RtD methodology. Participatory mapping, diagrammatic representation and unstructured interviews with farmers, agribusiness stakeholders and local communities were all incorporated into the fieldwork. The study visualized intercropping and shared infrastructure scenarios through iterative “by-design” processes, which allowed actors to negotiate and revealed latent ecological and spatial potentials. The design tools – prototypes, maps and composite diagrams – acted as intermediaries, converting ecological, social and technical knowledge into workable frameworks for collaborative, climate-adaptive infrastructures in rural areas. Findings By visualizing shared infrastructures and more-than-human relations in olive grove diversification, the study shows how design can mediate local–global interdependencies within the framework of planetary ruralities. Intercropping with MAPs promotes ecological regeneration and allows for new partnerships between smallholders, large estates and agribusiness actors, according to field-based “by-design” procedures. The suggested common enabling infrastructures, like hybrid solar drying sheds, represent low-impact, collaborative ways to connect community agency and climate adaptation. These results demonstrate how architectural representation functions as a global instrument for navigating rural change and promoting robust, interdependent bioregional economies. Research limitations/implications The study captures context-specific socio-ecological dynamics that may vary among Mediterranean regions. Although transferable spatial principles were identified by the RtD approach, longer-term studies and comparative applications in various rural settings are necessary for wider validation. However, the results have important ramifications for reconsidering rural infrastructures as dynamic, community-focused systems. Within the larger context of planetary ruralities, they propose that design methodologies can help close the gaps between ecology, policy and practice, facilitating the shift to community-led, regenerative and climate-adaptive rural economies. Practical implications The study provides practical methods for incorporating design thinking into agribusiness innovation and rural revitalization. It offers a transferable model for encouraging collaboration between farmers, landowners and industry stakeholders by presenting infrastructures as shared, adaptable systems. The proposed common enabling infrastructures – such as hybrid solar drying sheds and intercropping layouts – demonstrate how low-cost, participatory design can enhance biodiversity, circularity and social equity. In the context of Mediterranean and global rural transitions, these strategies can help shape bioregional planning frameworks, European Union (EU) agri-environmental programs and rural development policies. They can also help create multipurpose landscapes that combine community empowerment and ecological resilience. Social implications The study emphasizes how, in rural communities dealing with economic and climate change, design can foster new kinds of social cooperation and collective agency. It encourages communication and mutual reliance between smallholders, migrant laborers and large landowners by illustrating shared infrastructures and intercropping systems. By encouraging fair access to resources and the sharing of knowledge, these cooperative frameworks upend established land ownership hierarchies. In the larger framework of planetary ruralities, the method helps to rethink rurality as a networked, relational field where human and non-human actors jointly generate resilience, solidarity and socio-ecological regeneration. Originality/value This study presents a new point of convergence between the developing concept of planetary ruralities, common enabling infrastructures and RtD. It illustrates how architectural representation can function as a negotiating tool, converting rural infrastructures from immobile structures into dynamic, collaborative and environmentally conscious systems. The study provides fresh perspectives on how design mediates interactions between people, non-humans and territorial processes by concentrating on the diversification of olive groves in Laconia, Greece. Redefining farmstead infrastructures as drivers of commoning, regeneration and multi-scalar connectivity across social, ecological and spatial domains is what makes it original within contemporary discourse.

Social and cultural parameters are an important part of understanding the sustainability of the vernacular. The elements of vernacular usually taken as ubiquitously “adaptable” to all built forms are those concerning architectural detailing, structural aspects, and passive strategies for thermal comfort. There are obvious limitations of these and other elements of the vernacular when it comes to urban applications. However, the “vernacular” needs to be understood with respect to more of its underlying values and ideologies in order to be learned, adapted, and applied. To do this, it is first essential to identify its relevance to the urban situation in terms of (a) its principles (b) resource management and community participation, and (c) purpose. This study aims to understand the adaptation of vernacular as the way forward for future urbanization. One of the cases in point is the Site and Services Scheme at Charkop in the suburbs of Mumbai where the plots with infrastructural essentials were given to LIG stakeholders who were then helped to build the houses with their resources. This demonstrated how “sweat equity,” an important aspect of the vernacular way of building has been successfully harnessed for an urban situation. The methodology for the paper consists of drawing parallels between the perceived needs of the vernacular and the urban environments and comparing both of these based on the three points stated above. This will help to identify the possibilities of adaptation and the percentage of adaptation possible of the former for the latter. Since the “urban” encompasses various purposes in its spectrum of applications, this study identifies and validates the adaptation of the “vernacular” for which the “urban” purpose of housing for lower-income groups can be valid and relevant. By doing this, we can try to bridge the vernacular and the contemporary to ensure self-sustainability, self-sufficiency, and resilience.

The article is devoted to the consideration of the concept of "art design". Within the framework of this work various definitions of the concept of "art design" are analyzed. The object of the study is the communication between the observer, the consumer and the designer. The purpose of this paper is to describe the characteristics of this communication. The methods used in the work include: generalization, comparative method, interpretation of the term, tabular forms of data presentation, literature analysis. As a result of this study, the characteristic of communication between the art designer and the consumer is given. The essence of art-design as a game activity is revealed. The concept of "art-design" that appeared in the epoch of postmodernism, contains a certain game element - the interaction of the external form of the object and the observer's expectations concerning the form based on the utilitarian function declared by the creator. The semantic component of the art design of objects can be designed by the designer, or be the result of the observer's subjective perception of the object. In both cases, the so-called "areas of non-identity" are the space for filling with meanings. The usefulness of art education in art-design activity is outlined. With regard to art-design activity the use of art education is expressed in "teaching the sense by a skill".

The article is devoted to the study of the mask phenomenon in the experience industry as a fashionable means of self-expression and an actual tool for the representation of cultural meanings. An attempt is made to analyze the meaning of the mask in archaic and modern culture, the novelty is associated with the study of the social mask and digital mask as a fashionable element of socio-cultural communication. The issue of the representation of a person through disguise is extremely acute today, due to the 2020 pandemic and the associated need to wear a mask in the life of every person as an object of daily use. The purpose of the study is to substantiate the role of the mask as a fashionable symbol of modern culture, combining the functions of a means of protection, a utilitarian and ritual object, decoration, image and communication code. Статья посвящена изучению феномена маски в индустрии впечатлений как модного средства самовыражения и актуального инструмента репрезентации культурных смыслов. Предпринята попытка анализа значения маски в архаической и современной культуре, новизна связана с изучением социальной маски и цифровой маски как модного элемента социокультурной коммуникации. Вопрос о репрезентации человека с помощью маскировки является на сегодняшний день чрезвычайно острым, что обусловлено пандемией 2020 г. и связанной с нею необходимостью ношения маски в жизни каждого человека в качестве предмета ежедневного использования. Целью исследования является обоснование роли маски как модного символа современной культуры, сочетающего в себе функции средства защиты, утилитарного и ритуального объекта, украшения, образа и коммуникационного кода.

The restoration of the barbarously destroyed Arc de Triomphe has symbolic significance for Syria and Russia. In a situation of significant destruction of the monument, there are opinions suggesting not to restore the monument, but to perceive its ruins as a historical reality. The reconstruction of even completely lost monuments is considered permissible with their important urban planning role. The development of the project for the restoration of the arch in Palmyra will be preceded by its graphic reconstruction, i.e. hypothetical reconstruction of the historical appearance of the monument existing in a ruined state.