Aleksandra Kostic

Adaptive reuse of industrial heritage-case of the textile factory “Kosta Stamenkovic” in Serbia

In order to enhance preservation practice of industrial heritage buildings, this paper attempts to investigate and to present applicable patterns of conversion of old factory buildings. Main focus is put on the conversion of the former textile industry complex „Kosta Stamenkovic“, situated in the city of Leskovac, in Serbia. With the intention to return the former architectural glory and to activate new function, it has been necessary to implement set of urbarchitectural intervention in accordance with the current legislation in the field of protection of cultural heritage. The general intention of this paper is to explore the opportunities and importance of adaptive reuse of industrial heritage in order to enable the sustainability of the urban centres culture, history and economy, and to form the reputable patterns.

Time for Time Perspective

Time is an asset we all wish to possess, the value of which cannot be compared to any other asset (Zimbardo & Boyd, 2008). Time is an essential part of life, a medium in which we spend our life. At the same time, it is one of several essential dimensions of our observable world that significantly influences the shaping of our existence. It is quite clear why time attracts and keeps the attention of scientists who wish to understand and explore nature, role, and significance of time during the human life cycle.

Hugging the Past: The Way We Were and the Way We Are

Our view of past experiences influences our view of present and future experiences. Considering that feelings caused by memories are actually current memories, our attitudes toward past experiences can simultaneously shape and color both our present and our future. As such, it is worthwhile to consider what determines these attitudes. This chapter attempts to assess past experiences, focusing on time perspective as the fundamental dimension of the subjective experience of time. It narrows the subject of interest to the past time perspective, believing that the past time orientation is key to understanding the individual and the social functioning of a person in his or her present and future life. An attempted integration of attachment, self, and personality is undertaken to understand the adopted past time orientation.

Emotional Recognition, Fear, and Nonverbal Behavior

Nonverbal communication plays a prominent role in human social behavior. It is defined as “communication effected by means other than words” since it goes without saying that words are the principal means of verbal communication (Knapp & Hall, 2010, p. 5). In most cases, this can be a useful definition although, in some ways, it reduces the role and importance of the numerous functions of nonverbal behavior. Those who wish to understand human social behavior must carefully “disentangle” and decode nonverbal signals given by the interlocutors (facial expression, gestures, posture, bodily contact, tone of voice, proximity), and then view these signals in the context of the entire communication, including verbal.

LED facades in urbarchitecture

Rapid development of electronic technologies at the beginning of this century resulted in intensive changes in urbarchitectonic formation of facade planes and physical structures. Advent of LED lights and LED panels made possible that the physical structures in urban agglomerations worldwide, old or new, have opened a new chapter for strategic urbarchitectonic design and different cultural illumination diversity of houses in space. The user relationship towards activities in physical environment, exterior and interior has been changed, and new visual-esthetic living style has been established, a new and more dynamic form of social communication behavior towards the identity of a place and total evaluation of environment characteristics. A new orientation in ivisual and functional creation of urbarchitectonic forms was born, in redefining of a concept of culture of walls, culture of house facades and in general of facade planes, whose life is active not only during daytime by around the clock. [Projekat Ministarstva nauke Republike Srbije, br. 36037: Construction of Student hostels in Serbia at the beginning of 21st century]