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Artifacts in Intercultural Encounters
Artifacts in Intercultural Encounters
Project Workshop, Iași, June 30-July 1
As part of our investigation into how intercultural encounters have been shaping the global world and may contribute to re-learning to be human for present and future times, this workshop will focus on artifacts and their role in the meetings between cultures. Artifacts are understood here as any objects, handmade or mass produced, that reflect a society or culture.
Culture, as an assembly of customs and habits regulating the behaviour and relations of a group of invididuals, materializes in objects; such objects may be works produced and displayed to illustrate a set of civic, artistic or spiritual values, or they may be goods manufactured with the local resources and skills. Be they traditional or modern, functional or decorative, religious or mundane, these objects re-present the culture to itself and to others.
Over time, cultures have communicated through the exchange and trade of such characteristic artifacts. In fact, the farther such objects came from, the more value they carried. That is because, beyond their material worth, the foreign items we buy and sell, from the spices of ancient times to the gadgets of present day, also carry a historical, social and cultural value.
On this background, the workshop aims to explore the role of artifacts as vehicles of culture and mediators or intercultural encounters. We are equally interested in approaching traditional and modern artifacts, from any cultural area, with a focus on their value in contemporary times.
Workshop in cadrul unui proiect al Centrului Iasi al Council for Research in Values and Philosophy, Washingtom D.C., intitulat Re-Learning to Be Human for Global Times: The Role of Intercultural Encounters.
Blogul proiectului: https://interculturalencounters.blog/.
Site-ul CRVP: http://www.crvp.org/
