Faith and Sustainable Development Education
(Re)Thinking Primitivism, Cubism and the Agency of the Mask: Three Forms of Improvisation
This paper calls for a reassessment of three forms of improvisation: primitivism, cubism and the agency of the African mask. Towards the end, this essay will investigate the symbolic and cultural forms, which can be found specifically in the space of the African mask. Secondly, the essay explores the dynamic relationships of space found in African architecture, for example, the tripartite relationships of cosmology, time and community life that exists in Dogon architecture.
Deconstructing the American Mosque: Space, Gender, and Aesthetics
In the United States, the design and interpretation of
If You Fly to Close to the Sun
Arguably the false consciousness, which is reflected in much of architectural theory and praxis over the last two decades, was perhaps foretold in Raphael’s fresco The School of Athens. To situate The School of Athens, it is important to realize that architectural theory and praxis has been split between two extremes: mimeses and meaning, which in my view inherits from Pantheism and the Promethean myth.
Locality, Leadership and Pedagogies for Entrepreneurship Education
Embeddedness and local cultures and contexts are key in the development of entrepreneurship. Embeddedness is cultural, territorial and networked. All these aspects have to appropriately translate into entrepreneurship education, training and curricula. Entrepreneurs must be able to understand and translate values and culture, as well as the knowledge of their territories, into their work and practices. After a literature review, this chapter showcases these principles through the example of