An Analytical Approach toward Cultural Events Effects on Temporary Urbanscape

Subject Areas : architecture

Maryam cheshmeghasabani ¹ , Nooshin Karimi ²

1 - Faculty of Art and Architecture, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University.
2 - . Candidate, Department of Art and Architecture, Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad Univercity.

Received: 2011-05-16 Accepted : 2011-07-25 Published : 2011-12-22

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Abstract :

The appearance of landscape architecture is based upon a mutual relationship between the human being and the environment, which has been formed, based on a set of principles and logic and continued; however, it depends upon beauty, comprehensibility, function and identity. The relevant patterns applied in landscape designing are aesthetic, environmental patterns and social patterns as well as including conceptual values, socio-economic and political identity. Today, architectures and designers have found out the importance of social patterns in relation to forming landscape, especially from temporary landscape viewpoint accordingly.    What is mentioned as temporary landscapes has various dimensions that provide a background for it to be created. The mutual interaction between human being and environment may cause temporary landscapes to appear as the place events based upon social conditions, which can be programmed by the communities or they can react to their occurrence. Temporary landscapes can be accounted for places where various cultural events occurred.   Due to its role in specific social behaviors, temporary urbanscape idea is really important in the environment, providing a suitable field and situation for the citizen to have transactions; dealing with environment and having social relations with each others as well, which lead to some considerable results. It can be stated that temporary landscape and social behaviors of citizens are the two components which have mutual relationship. Therefore, as a suitable field of sociocultural events, temporary urbanscapes are potentials which in spite of their physical effects have a wide range of effects on promting and upgrading of citizen behaviors and their living settings quality. Using of descriptive method and based upon current texts and instances, this paper intends to find out and analyze the exact position and effects of cultural events on quality of temporary urbanscapes and its further applications. The major goal and ideal of this analytical article is to analyze any modern cultural events which may cause a temporary landscape and further special social behaviors, among which emotional behaviors resulted from different events and more relations between human being and the environment can be pointed to. Finally, it may lead to upgrading of life quality. The structure of this research has been established in three steps as follows: Theoretical basics (Generalities, Subject Background, Examining of Case Samples) The importance and necessity of temporary urbanscape, cultural events emphasizing on artistic aspect, surveying the effects of cultural events on quality of temporary urbanscape Conclusion (Results)   Finally, the effect of cultural events on quality of temporary urbanscape is presented as follows: Creation of sense of belonging and dependency to a place, collective memory and meaning creation through establishment a suitable field for further citizenship dealings with environment and each others promoting the meaning of citizenship and also persuading citizens to be  active members through providing suitable field to create further transactions among citizens  as well as  between them and their city. Supplying of safety and security in urban spaces through creating of deeper relations among families and close relations among citizens, as well.

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