bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025 huggingface dataset:
МОДЕЛИРОВАНИЕ ГОЛОВКИ ПОРШНЯ С ПРИМЕНЕНИЕМ ГРАФИЧЕСКОЙ ПРОГРАММЫ КОМПАС
Authors: Григорьева Е.В.
Published: January 2025

В данной статье представлена работа по моделированию отдельных механизмов ДВС. В рамках данной деятельности рассмотрен подход к построению модели поршня. Для уточнения методик проектирования, перед курсантами по специальности «Эксплуатация главной судовой двигательной установки» была поставлена задача смоделировать отдельные механизмы реально существующего двигателя внутреннего сгорания. На основании имеющихся чертежей общего вида были смоделированы параметрические модели.
ВЕТРОВОЙ РЕЖИМ И ЗАГРЯЗНЕНИЕ АТМОСФЕРЫ Г. НОВОСИБИРСКА
Authors: Луговская А.Ю. , Анопченко Л.Ю. , Майманова Е.А.
Published: January 2025

Качество атмосферного воздуха города формируется в результате сложного взаимодействия природных и антропогенных факторов. В результате исследования установлено, что одним из главных факторов, влияющих на распределение загрязнителей по территории Новосибирска, является ветер, его направление и скорость. Фоновый ветровой режим при скорости ветра 4 6 м/с влияет на содержание пыли, диоксида серы, оксида углерода и диоксида азота.
ИССЛЕДОВАНИЕ ПАРАМЕТРОВ И ПОКАЗАТЕЛЕЙ КОМБИНИРОВАННОЙ СИСТЕМЫ РАЗРАБОТКИ ПОЛОГИХ МЕСТОРОЖДЕНИЙ В ЗАВИСИМОСТИ ОТ МОЩНОСТИ ЗАЛЕЖИ
Authors: Соколов И.В. , Антипин Ю.Г. , Никитин И.В. , Соломеин Ю.М.
Published: January 2025

Практика подземной разработки пологих месторождений бедных комплексных руд показала, что применение системы этажного принудительного обрушения с торцовым выпуском руды ведет к большим потерям и разубоживанию руды, что в свою очередь снижает рентабельность предприятия. Предложена комбинированная система разработки, сочетающая в одном добычном блоке этажно-камерную систему и систему этажного принудительного обрушения с торцовым выпуском руды. Разработаны три варианта комбинированной системы разработки, отличающихся конструкцией днища блока. Технико-экономическая оценка и сравнение вариантов комбинированной системы разработки при мощности залежи от 10 до 25 м, ширине камеры и междукамерного целика от 8 до 20 м и угле породной выпускной траншеи междукамерного целика от 55 до 65 градусов показало, что максимальная прибыль достигается при варианте, сочетающем камерную выемку с плоским днищем и этажное обрушение междукамерного целика на траншейное днище.

The practice of underground mining of flat deposits of low-grade complex ores has shown that the use of a forced level caving system with end release of ore leads to large losses and dilution of ore, which in turn reduces the profitability of the enterprise. A combined development system has been proposed, combining in one mining block a floor-chamber system and a system of forced level caving with end release of ore. Three variants of the combined development system have been developed, differing in the design of the block bottom. A technical and economical assessment and comparison of options for a combined development system with a deposit thickness of 10 to 25 meters, a chamber and inter-chamber pillar width from 8 to 20 m and an inter-chamber pillar rock outlet trench angle of 55 to 65 degrees showed that the maximum profit is achieved with the option combining a chamber recess with a flat bottom and a floor forced caving of the inter-chamber pillar onto a trench bottom.
РОЛЬ СИМПЛЕКСНОГО ПЛАНИРОВАНИЯ ЭКСПЕРИМЕНТА В СОВЕРШЕНСТВОВАНИИ ПРОГНОЗИРОВАНИЯ И ОПТИМИЗАЦИИ СОСТАВОВ МНОГОКОМПОНЕНТНЫХ СИСТЕМ РЕАГЕНТОВ-МОДИФИКАТОРОВ ПРИ ФЛОТАЦИИ МЕДНО-ЦИНКОВЫХ РУД
Authors: Хтет Зо.У. , Чжо З.Яа. , Горячев Б.Е.
Published: January 2025

Проведено изучение возможности повышения эффективности извлечения ценных металлов из медно-цинковых колчеданных руд при их флотации с применением композиций медного, цинкового купоросов и сернистого натрия. В работе предложен подход к совершенствованию технологии флотации медно-цинковых колчеданных руд на основе симплексного планирования экспериментов и последующего математического моделирования составов смесей реагентов-модификаторов. Установлено влияние композиций выбранных модификаторов на флотируемость минералов меди, железа и цинка в концентрат. Представлены результаты экспериментальных исследований флотации медно-цинковой руды, а также выполнено сравнение полученных данных между различными экспериментами. Предложены расчеты коэффициентов уравнения регрессии для построения математических моделей. Разработаны математические модели и определены оптимальные составы смесей реагентов-модификаторов данного процесса. Разработанные математические модели позволяют прогнозировать оптимальные составы смесей реагентов-модификаторов с целью максимизации извлечения меди и цинка при одновременной минимизации извлечения пирита в концентрат. Предложенный подход предоставляет инструментарий для улучшения технологических параметров процесса флотации медно-цинковых колчеданных руд и повышения его эффективности.

The potential enhancement of valuable metal extraction from copper-zinc pyrite ores through flotation, using compositions comprising copper sulfate, zinc sulfate, and sodium sulfide, has been studied. The paper presents an approach aimed at enhancing the flotation technology of copper-zinc pyrite ores through the application of simplex experimental design and subsequent mathematical modeling of reagent-modifiers mixtures. The effect of the compositions of the selected modifiers on the floatability of copper, iron and zinc minerals in the concentrate has been established. The results of experimental studies on copper-zinc ore flotation are presented, and the obtained data are compared across various experiments. Additionally, calculations of regression equation coefficients are provided for the development of mathematical models. Mathematical models have been formulated to determine the optimal compositions of reagent modifiers in the process. These models facilitate the prediction of optimal mixtures, aiming to maximize the recovery of copper and zinc while concurrently minimizing the recovery of pyrite in the concentrate. The proposed approach offers a systematic framework for enhancing the technological parameters of the copper-zinc pyrite ore flotation process and increasing its efficiency.
Cadmium sources, limit analysis, environmental mitigation strategy (review)
Authors:   Vyatka State University, Petukhov D. V. , Tovstik E. V. ,   Vyatka State University
Published: January 2025

The paper systematizes information on anthropogenic environmental pollution by cadmium, pathways of Cd distribution, toxicity, and strategies to reduce Cd content in soil and crop products. The relevance stems from the need to develop strategies to prevent long-term exposure to cadmium in the human body, which has significant consequences for public health and environmental safety. The paper analyzes in detail the sources and migration pathways of cadmium in the environment. It is shown that cadmium is one of the main air and soil pollutants in industrial regions. Its presence in the environment is aggravated by natural phenomena. Cadmium compounds are capable of traveling long distances with air currents, resulting in deposition in areas remote from pollution sources. Special attention is paid to the mechanisms of cadmium accumulation in the soil and its subsequent transfer to plants, which leads to its penetration into the food chain. Cd is non-essential element for plants. Cadmium has carcinogenic properties. Once in the human body, it blocks enzyme functions and can provoke serious diseases. Due to the high danger, cadmium content is normalized in soil (from 0.5 to 2.0 mg/kg), fertilizers (3 and 20 mg/kg P2O5), food (0.02–1.0 mg/kg), food grains (0.1 mg/kg), animal feed (0.3–0.4 mg/kg). Phytoremediation is an effective way to reduce the ingress of cadmium into the food chain. Lantana camara L., Brassica juncea (L.) Czern., Brassica napus L., Nicotiana tabacum L., castor oil are used as cadmium hyperaccumulators. Soil acidification, inoculation with endophytic bacterial strains, chelating organic additives, and transformation of hyperaccumulator plants with phytochelatin genes encoding the synthesis of metal-binding peptides have been used to enhance phytoremediation efficiency. Agronomic methods that regulate the absorption of toxic metal by agricultural crops can significantly reduce the effects of cadmium in the human body. Increasing the resistance of plants to cadmium stress and reducing the accumulation of toxic metal in them are among them.
Application of spectrophotometric method for antibiotic Cefotaxime detection in a model solution
Authors:   Kalashnikov Izhevsk state technical University, Abramova A. A. , Batueva A. M. ,   Kalashnikov Izhevsk state technical University, Grachova E. V. ,   Kalashnikov Izhevsk state technical University, Dyagelev M. Yu. ,   Kalashnikov Izhevsk state technical University, Isakov V. G. ,   Kalashnikov Izhevsk state technical University, Nepogodin A. M. ,   Kalashnikov Izhevsk state technical University
Published: January 2025

The number of studies on the detection of antibiotics in urban wastewater and in surface waterbodies is increasing every year, as the increase of antibiotic-resistance of microorganisms is one of the most urgent public health problems. This paper presents the results of study on the detection of the antibiotic Cefotaxime (CFX) in model solutions using the spectrophotometric method. In several series of experiments we determined the minimal CFX concentrations in the model solutions, which can be detected with the spectrophotometer PE-5400 UV. The optical density peak in the ultraviolet range at 300 nm is established. The shift of absorption spectrum from 300 to 280 nm in the model solution samples with increasing storage time of the solution was fixed. We determined the CFX peculiarities: increase of optical density peak in samples at pH shift to acidic medium, especially at pH values from 0.2 to 2.0 as well as reduction of the optical density peak with minimum pH values from 6.0 to 6.4 in the wavelength range from 280 to 300 nm. The effect of metal ions added to the model solution of CFX is considered in detail. The results of two series of experiments are presented, in which the possibility of complex compounds with Al3+, Zn2+, Cu2+, Pb2+ formation was determined by changing the concentration ratios of CFX and metal ions. There was an increase in optical density in samples with Zn2+, Cu2+, Pb2+ with increasing in metal ions content. In model solutions with Al3+ and Fe3+ there was no change in optical density. The obtained values of optical density and absorption spectra of CFX model solution can be used when developing methods of antibiotic detection in various media, including urban wastewater.
Integrated recycling of catalyst waste into composite materials
Authors:   Vyatka State University, Fuchs S. L. , Devyaterikova S. V. ,   Vyatka State University
Published: January 2025

The steam conversion of natural gas produces carbon monoxide and hydrogen. Hydrogen is used in the synthesis of ammonia and nitric acid. These products are used to obtain ammonium nitrate, which is used as a nitrogen fertilizer and a base substance for explosives. Natural gas is decomposed on the nickel catalyst. Due to the reactions of methane and carbon monoxide reduction to carbon, the catalyst granules are covered with a layer of carbon. Finely dispersed carbon penetrates the pores of the carrier and forms a layer on its surface that shields the catalyst granules and reduces its efficiency. The catalyst must be replaced. In Russia, the most common catalysts are nickel-based aluminum oxide catalysts. Attempts to restore the catalyst waste to its original characteristics do not yield positive result. In this regard, an urgent task is the development of technologies for the extraction and purification of components of spent catalysts. The object of the research was cylindrical granules of spent GIAP–8 catalyst, consisting of a porous carrier γ-Al2O3 with nickel oxide applied to its surface, covered with a layer of carbon. During the decomposition of GIAP–8 catalyst waste, three components were isolated: aluminum oxide, ultrafine carbon powder and nickel salts. Aluminum oxide was used to create plastic-based composites. The resulting plastic–aluminum oxide composite material has high impact strength, but is destroyed at a bending angle of 45–35 degrees. Therefore, its use can only be recommended for the manufacture of massive products. The nickel salts were used to prepare the plating electrolyte, aluminum oxide was used to obtain a coating of “nickel–aluminum oxide”. The maximum aluminum oxide content in the coating was achieved at 25 g/L dispersed phase concentration in the electrolyte. The optimal cathode current density was 2–3 A/dm2.
Deteсtion of trace cyanide in water by isonicotinic acid – pyrazolone – bispyrazolone polarography
Authors:   Liaoning Institute of Science and Technology, Li X. H. , Chen Y. ,   Liaoning Institute of Science and Technology,   Vyatka State University
Published: January 2025

To enhance the detection sensitivity of cyanide, a method was proposed for the determination of trace cyanide in water by using isonicotinic acid – pyrazolone – bispyrazolone polarography. Under optimized experimental conditions, cyanide reacted with chloramine T, isonicotinic acid, and pyrazolone, and bispyrazolone to form a stable blue dye, which produced a sensitive polarographic wave at a peak potential of -766 mV (vs. Ag/AgCl) on the dropping mercury electrode. The results showed that there was a good linear relationship between the cyanide concentration and the second-order derivative peak current (ip ) in the range of 0.32–60 μg·L–1, with an impressive detection limit of 0.08 μg·L–1. Bispyrazolone could effectively inhibit the decomposition of the blue dye and increase ip by 12%. The polarographic wave originated from the two-electron reduction of the carbonyl group on the pyrazolinone moiety of the blue dye, exhibiting an irreversible adsorptive characteristic. The method was successfully applied to the determination of cyanide in drinking water, groundwater, and surface water, with relative standard deviations of less than 4.5% and recovery rates ranging from 96.7 to 107%. The method significantly lowered the detection limit of cyanide and exhibited high precision and accuracy, making it suitable for the analysis of trace cyanide in water.
On the Margins of Memory
Authors: Ušić Eric
Published: January 2025

The article explores a specific historical graffiti-scape in the Northern Adriatic borderland, composed of antifascist, (pro)communist and pro-Yugoslav political inscriptions and symbols created during World War II and the immediate postwar period by antifascist and communist activists. Produced in a turbulent historical period that radically reshaped the broader region, these graffiti ‘survived’ and endured almost 80 years, transcending their original political function and historical context of production, as well as the postwar Yugoslav and socialist future that their messages articulated, imagined and projected in the landscape. Today, these historical notes and fragments, scattered across present-day Croatian, Slovenian and Italian territories, represent a singular and significant, but largely unrecognized and overlooked archive that transmits a set of political imaginations, ideological discourses, linguistic nuances and historical experiences that depict a complex and multifaceted picture of the 1940s context in the borderland. The aim of the article is to, first, introduce and (re)contextualize the historical material with an examination of the main features of the documented World War II graffiti corpus and, second, to analyze the graffiti’s contents and meanings in order to highlight their historical, archival, cultural and memorial significance as unfiltered and authentic texts that constitute a particular and unexplored layer of the borderland’s memory landscape and (auto)biography.
Exploring the Interaction of Cinema and City through Technology
Authors: Rincón-Borrego Iván , Alonso-García Eusebio , Perez-Barreiro Sara
Published: January 2025

This study examines the interplay between cinema, architecture, and emerging technology, focusing on the web application Cinemapp.net and its impact on the city of Valladolid. The application enables users to explore the cinematic ecosystem and architectural heritage of Valladolid, facilitating an interactive approach to experiencing the city’s rich cinematic history and architectural legacy. We analyze how digital technologies, such as augmented reality and graph-databases, reconfigure urban experiences and the perception of cinematic spaces.
The social and urban impact of Cinemapp is assessed in terms of its contribution to the public perception of Valladolid and its influence on tourism and urban planning. Additionally, this work explores how Cinemapp serves as a digital historical archive, preserving and documenting the cinematic and architectural heritage of Valladolid, underscoring the importance of digital platforms in cultural heritage conservation.
Our analysis suggests that the integration of digital technologies into the cinematic representation of cities not only alters the aesthetic and cultural experience of urban space but also provides new tools for urban regeneration and cultural tourism, creating a living archive that evolves alongside the city.
Factors affecting urban art development in the Mekong Delta, Viet Nam
Authors: Dang Pham Cam , Minh Vo Quang
Published: January 2025

The study's objective is to evaluate the state of art's development in Mekong Delta urban regions in Vietnam. The results from 150 interview forms identified two groups of factors, including type and historical-cultural value with 12 variables; order and community interaction with 9 variables. With a coefficient of KMO = 0.94 and a total variance of 67.02%, types include trees, lights, construction works, statues, and paintings, distributed in parks, squares, main roads, government agencies, and private establishments. There is a difference in people's interest in urban art in 3 types of cities. Urban art in urban areas is assessed to meet people's needs.
Evaluation of artistic installations in urban spaces in Kosovo
Authors: Muharremi Ilir Hivzi , Muharremi Merita
Published: January 2025

This paper deals with the art of installations in urban spaces in Kosovo. Evaluation of installations as art in relation to public spaces. How much do you decorate these spaces? How much does this art lose the value of architecture? Whether  installations in public places in Kosovo have  a real value? The paper is made  on these research questions, resulting in the fact that the installations of famous Kosovar artists express personal, social and real themes of the time.
Evaluation of graduate theses of landscape architecture with in the disaster-prone country of Turkey
Authors: Kalkan Nebahat
Published: January 2025

21st century: It brings disasters with increasing types, frequencies, and sizes.
Longitudinal photo-documentation:
Authors: Hansen Susan , Flynn Danny
Published: January 2025

This working paper advocates a methodological approach to the study of street art and graffiti that is based on the documentation of single sites over time. Longitudinal photo-documentation is a form of data collection that allows street art and graffiti to be examined as visual dialogue. By capturing everyday forms of public mark making alongside both more recognizably ‘artistic’ images, and more visually ‘offensive’ tags, we aim to attend to graffiti and street art’s existence within a field of social interaction. We describe a relevant analytic tool drawn from ethnomethodology and conversation analysis – the next turn proof procedure – which may be adapted in order to study street art and graffiti as a form of asynchronous, yet sequential, communication. This form of analysis departs from existent forms of analysis in that it is not concerned with the semiotics or iconography of decontextualized individual photographs of street art or graffiti. We present a worked analytic example to demonstrate the utility of longitudinal photo-documentation in making visible the dialogue amongst artists, writers and community members, and we employ the principles of the next turn proof procedure to illustrate the ways in which each party shows their understanding of the prior work on the wall via their own contribution to the ‘conversation.’
Street Art and related terms
Authors: Blanché Ulrich
Published: January 2025

This paper gives a short introduction and discussion of the term Street Art and related terms like Graffiti and Urban Art. A major part discusses my definition of Street Art and other definitions and the differences and commonalities of these terms. Street Art consists of self-authorized pictures, characters, and forms created in or applied to surfaces in the urban space that intentionally seek communication with a larger circle of people. Street Art is done in a performative and often site-specific, ephemeral, and participatory manner. Street Art is mostly viewed online. It differs from Graffiti and Public Art. I quote first and foremost German researchers that are not translated into English but in my opinion should be part of the international academic discussion
Methodologies for Reconstructing
Authors: Begault Larissa , Borowicz Julia
Published: January 2025

This working paper outlines a new methodology, actionable theory, for critically investigating the ‘public’ spaces produced within large-scale luxury developments in New York City. Actionable theory offers different means for intervening in such processes and new openings for a proposal that challenges the production of highly uneven urban landscapes, by shifting existing power dynamics within a development site. The proposal is a legislated body called Public Action Review Collaborative (PARC). PARC works to counter the stratification of publics along racial and class lines by moving past distributive notions of justice and offering institutionalized mechanisms in which a representational public can participate in the decision making process affecting their environment.
The concept of centre-periphery in the work of Daido Moriyama
Authors: Fernández Jose Maria Gutiérrez-Cuevas
Published: January 2025

This text analyses the concept of centre-periphery in the work of the photographer Daido Moriyama. The objective is to study how the binomial centre-periphery becomes blurred in postmodern society. The work explores how difficult it is to distinguish centre from periphery in the postmodern era, to know where one starts and the other finishes. It’s a Japanese vision on the theme, which sees beauty in darkness and shadows, unlike the western world, where aesthetics is typically built around light.
Hijacking Banksy:
Authors: Bengtsen Peter
Published: January 2025

In this article I examine the methodological and ethical rigor of a geographic profiling study and resulting article, published in 2016 in Journal of Spatial Science, which identifies by name a candidate for being the artist known as Banksy. I demonstrate that the article is characterized by a number of methodological flaws which fundamentally undermine the researchers’ basis for determining Banksy’s identity. On this background I argue that the researchers’ decision to include a specific name in the article is ethically problematic and I suggest that the main purpose for the inclusion has likely been to attract attention to the study. I further propose that the sensationalist approach to increasing academic readership exemplified by the inclusion of a specific name in the article without solid empirical evidence to back it up may adversely affect researchers who continue to work within the field of street art studies.
Anonymous Inscriptions in Rio de Janeiro
Authors: Júnior Hely Costa
Published: January 2025

Parallel to the moment graffiti becomes an integrated component, legal and regular part of the city walls of Rio de Janeiro (mainly owing to the laws and actions that legalize and legitimize a once transgressive practice) a new kind of artistic intervention in the city emerged. Phrases written with spray, stencil or even pasted on the walls have the power to surprise, to question and challenge the townspeople. Interventions that can be comprehended as what Certeau (1994) defines as strange practices in the geometric space of the big cities. Actions that refer to specific forms of operations, which provide new visibility in urban areas. If the space is a practiced place, as the author affirms, the written phrases on the walls transform not only the backing, but also the space in which they are written.
A Boneyard of Data:
Authors: MacDowall Lachlan
Published: January 2025

In the era of Instagram, graffiti and street art are increasingly produced as digital objects, shaped by the architecture of digital platforms and the aggregated responses of audiences, transmuted into data. This paper focuses on one aspect of this context: the complex temporal existence of graffiti and street art - their duration, speed and acceleration – across multiple time zones. It asks: how is the consumption of graffiti and street art as digital images affecting its production? Has digital culture accelerated the production of graffiti and street art, driving shorter, faster cycles of repainting, with a greater ephemerality matched by parallel and potentially infinite lives on digital servers and devices? Using data generated over a period of 500 days at a single suburban painting site dubbed ‘the Boneyard’, this paper attempts to track the accelerating rhythms of graffiti in digital culture. It uses a number of methods to map the duration of pieces on walls and their digital echoes, including Photographic recording, data visualisation and social network analysis. Ultimately, this research seeks to extend existing methods of longitudinal analysis and to make a broader argument about the effects of social media on graffiti’s aesthetic features.
From post-graffiti to contemporary mural art:
Authors: Gayo Elena García , Gayo Elena García
Published: January 2025

Works of art in public spaces are part of a type of art adrift because, throughout their existence, they face different attempts of appropriation. From the first instance of sales of graffiti in international fairs like ARCO to their involuntary arrival at auction houses, all of these intermediate actions can be understood as attempts at conservation, since there is a system of assessment in which their ephemeral nature is more questionable than their need for survival. This change of approach also influences the different self-organized artistic approaches that have given way to commissioned works of art, due to the professionalization of artistic activity, which has given rise to a legal change in works of art and, therefore, in the possibilities of their transcendence.
The myth of the “street artist”:
Authors: Bengtsen Peter
Published: January 2025

Among researchers within the field of street art studies, a discussion crops up repeatedly, both in publications and in conversations at conferences. It is usually set off by someone asking one or more interrelated questions, including the following: How do we define street art? Is it still street art if it is shown in a gallery or museum? And what, precisely, makes someone a street artist?
A City-wide Art Gallery
Authors: Sohrabi Narciss , Zojaji Negar
Published: January 2025

In Tehran, the capital of Iran, billboards bear two parallel responsibilities with, of course, di erent directions. Some of them have commercial functions, while others transmit moral messages and religious and political slogans. In the spring of 2015, billboards in Tehran suddenly transmitted a new message. A new urban project, called “A City-wide Art Gallery”, converted Tehran into a gallery using billboards. For many people, this was “a city-wide coincidence”. This was the rst time that the municipality of Tehran allocated billboards to a topic that followed neither a commercial nor an ideological purpose. The change that the project brought about in the city’s landscape has sparked debates among citizens and experts. The present study investigates the relationship of citizens with the images displayed in this project and compares this urban-scaled movement to people’s reference to art galleries and museums. Data for this study are collected using questionnaires and interviews. According to the results, the respondents were generally satis ed with the selection of artworks and their layouts. However, the size of the artworks and the size of the subtitle letters of the images were criticized. Data analysis also shows that this program has been able to partially create a discursive space among citizens and encourage people to visit museums and art galleries.
At work and play: an exploration of street and graffiti artists
Authors: Gilmore Charlotte
Published: January 2025

Identity work has been a dominant metaphor within the identity literature, while ‘identity play’ has yet to be fully developed. The purpose of this study is to enhance the understanding of the relationship between play at work and identity play. Contributions to date have proposed and outlined its theoretical potential principally by drawing upon work in other fields such as child development and relevant aspects of psychology and sociology. In contrast this study seeks to address a (creative) work situation directly, introduce empirical insights into identity play within the organisational and creativity literature, and deliver theoretical insights into the relationship between (identity) work and play. The empirical focus of this study is on an area where play is central to the work and identity, that of the lived experiences of street and graffiti artists, where there is a strong connection between the identities and the work (play) created. Using a life history methodology, I seek to explore creative (identity) work and play within the street and graffiti art context, and what (work and play) identity outcomes can occur as a part of their artistic practices.
Image versus writing:
Authors: Garcia Lisa
Published: January 2025

The 2010s have witnessed the rise of a new aspect of street art on the world stage: institutionalized murals. Downtown Madrid is no exception, though the mural scene there remains less developed than in some other European cities like Saragossa or Paris. Forsaking its graffiti forbear’s emphasis on writing, this new trend embraces instead the power of imagery. Meanwhile in the walls of central Madrid, the writers are showing a new resilience with a variety of strategies that will ensure that the written word survives the ascent of the image in street art. This leads to a plastic discord juxtaposed—graffiti and mural, illicit and sanctioned, word and image—in an urban art scene in constant flux.
Framing Poetical Expression in Urban Art:
Authors: Baltrusch Burghard
Published: January 2025

This study aims to revisit some hermeneutical aspects which are essential for a theoretical approach to the interrelated notions of the poetic and poeticity in public space. I will use examples of ephemeral poetic forms such as graffito or performance, but also some examples of poetic objects from linguistic fields such as English, Portuguese, Spanish and German. These reflections on a theoretical and methodological framework for poetry and translation in public space can be subsumed under the key concept of transit-translation. I will associate four poetic expressions from four related cultural areas, with non-lyric discourse in visual, verbo-visual and performance poetry, in public space. They will be distributed along four thematic lines which I consider crucial to the current description of the phenomenon: the intermedial-intermaterial transition, the transfer from the poetic-political to the commercial, the poetic-political multimedia project, and the conflict between the poetic and the public. Drawing from different theoretical backgrounds (Heidegger, Benjamin, Rancière, Badiou, Bhabha, Butler and Spivak), I propose that these forms of non-lyric poetry might represent the advent of a new public sphere, which is no longer exclusively formed by an idealistic, romantic tradition, but rather characterised by a hermeneutic ambiguity which suggests a reconfiguration of the subject and of poetic subjectivity.
This study has been carried out with the framework of the research project, “Contemporary Poetry and Politics: Research on Contemporary Relations between Cultural Production and Sociopolitical Context” (POEPOLIT, FFI2016-77584-P, 2016-2019, Ministry of Economy and Competitively, Government of Spain) and the Strategic Programme UID/ELT/00500/2013 of the FCT, Portugal. The text has been translated from Spanish by Feidhlim Hanrahan.
The “black-and-white mural” in Polytechneio :
Authors: Stampoulidis Georgios , Bitouni Tina , Xyntarianos-Tsiropinas Paris
Published: January 2025

The campus of the National Metsovian Polytechnic in central Athens has been a significant cornerstone in the socio-political landscape of the city. Within the history of modern Greece, Polytechneio is regarded as a symbol of resistance against the Greek military dictatorship (junta) in 1973. In March 2015 and during times of austerity politics, the west façades of the Polytechneio were covered by a “black-and-white mural” (Tziovas 2017: 45). This paper examines how and why this black-and-white mural has been discussed often controversially from different kinds of recipients, leading to an ardent public debate within Greek society from a cross disciplinary point of view: 1) semiotics, 2) design, and 3) cultural studies. For our analysis, we use data from primary and secondary sources. Primary data sources include photographic documentation of the field. Secondary data sources include photographic material and newspaper articles circulated online, as well as, relevant academic literature.
First, we examine how this mural was integrated into the constructions and intersubjective experiences of public space from the perspective of semiotization of space. Second, we discuss the practicalities involved for the fulfilment of this mural from the perspective of design-scope. And third, we advance the discussion around the issues of cultural preservation and heritagization of street art and graffiti. Our goal in this paper is to avoid binary interpretations, and instead, to induce in an intermediary way the significance of public dialogue, which this mural achieved to trigger.
What’s Up Doc:
Authors: Ross Jeffrey Ian , Kramer Ronald
Published: January 2025

Over the past four decades, most large urban settings around the world have experienced an increase in graffiti and street art. One of the consequences of this activity is an attempt to interpret this phenomenon. Not only have popular and scholarly articles and books catalogued, examined, and analyzed graffiti and street art, and the people who engage in and respond to this activity, but so too have documentary movies. In order to better understand this latter method of capturing and explaining graffiti and street art, this paper reviews and analyzes seventeen English language documentary films (produced between 1980-2014) drawing generalizations about the dominant themes that have been expressed in this body of work. This analysis includes a review of the settings, individuals interviewed, and provides a critical commentary on this body of work.
Street art and heritage conservation: From values to performativity
Authors: Nomeikaite Laima
Published: January 2025

The present study re-evaluates the relationship between street art and the value-based approach to heritage conservation. The research presents the limitations of the value-based approach, which relate to its conceptualisation of stakeholders, experts and tangible preservation, as well as its distinction between present and past, and tangible and intangible heritage. In response, the paper suggests a performative approach to street art heritage conservation theory and practice. First, the paper introduces the notion of performativity within non-representational theory and its temporary, affective and relational aspects. Drawing further on the performativity approach, street art and urban studies, the paper illustrates and argues that the aesthetic experience of street art does not distinguish between past and present or tangible and intangible; instead, the experience is relational, socio-spatial, temporary and affective. Finally, the research offers a performative methodology for practising relations between street art and heritage.
Whose Wall is it Anyway?
Authors: Augusto Rodrigues Anna
Published: January 2025

In this working paper, I investigate the tensions and questions that arise when street artists use private walls in communities to create their work. I will also discuss how street art complicates, at times, traditional understandings of private and public spaces in neighbourhoods. Written in the style of academic journalism, this working paper is an attempt to work through questions that surface from trying to understand the impact street art, when positioned as public pedagogy, may have on those who live and create in a community.
In the Pursuit of Permanence, Is There Only Persistence?
Authors: Sabourin Rachelle
Published: January 2025

Art as it occurs in the streets is an “other” history. Inherently anti-institutional, it has never fit well within the academy or the museum; basically free, it has consistently had a problematic relationship with the art market; iconoclastic, it is often hard for many to read; and stemming from the countercultural or underground tendencies of youth, it is by and large all too easy for those who “know better” to dismiss it without regard to its content or its intent.
Carlo McCormick, “Art in The Streets”
Representation and Reconstruction of Memories and Visual Subculture
Authors: Ronconi Mattia
Published: January 2025

Graffiti Writing, a visual movement engaged in the Hip Hop subculture, spread globally over the past decades as creative manifestation and public statement for its urban artists, and with controversy about the public domain value of this artistic visual language. Despite the large amount of material documenting it, such as films, documentaries, magazines and books, it remains a marginal subculture, little known by large audiences, in its less-known characteristics. The following communication presents a work-in-progress practice-based research, whose objective is to investigate and connect the contribution of animation to the documentation and communication of this subculture of graffiti Writing, deciphering its interpretation for uninformed audiences about it. This is accomplished by a documentary fieldwork, with testimonies and memories emerged in interviews to artists and activists from the graffiti Writing movement that are active in different approaches, surfaces and styles. This fieldwork is conducted as a mediation interface, focused in this stage of the research in the province of Ferrara, in Northern Italy. The documentary work is developed with representation strategies and narrative reconstruction for the disclosure of this graphic subculture in a specific geographical context. This is accomplished with the development of an animated documentary short film. With it, a documentary strategy for the representation and reconstruction of graffiti Writing memories is devised. This option allows the exploration of new concepts with the encounter of two distinct visual arts and mediatic approaches, namely urban art and animation, simultaneously allowing the definition of an authorial language appropriate to the project and its theme.
Editorial
Authors: Neves Pedro Soares
Published: January 2025

We place here in discussion the maturity of the academic and pedagogical field that graffiti, urban and street art, urban creativity constitute. It’s in fact identified a consistency of knowledge and structure of thought in the several disciplinary areas. As we are convinced that this trend will continue in multiple forms including experimental ones bridging theory and practice, here’s the result of the invite for participation in this reflection. Here is also combined the conference outcomes. There were two main results to achieve during the dialogues of the 2020 online conference. One was to observe the maturity of the academic and pedagogical field that graffiti, urban and street art, well, urban creativity in general have. On the 2020 conference was in fact proven that the consistency of knowledge and structure of thought in the several disciplinary areas regarding the urban creativity topics, are giving way to multiple approaches to classes integrated in master courses, informing the teaching of art historians, the work of designers, and research of cognitive scientists and educators. It was evident that this trend will continue in multiple forms including experimental ones bridging theory and practice, sometimes inverting the role of researchers and authors, but always enlarging audiences, practitioners and studious. The second main result was to observe how the relation evolved between UX and Urban Creativity topics, and the result was fantastic. This observations originated one article that will be published on the UXUC Journal. Urban Creativity User Experience Online Conference ​ 9, 10 and 11 July 2020, 31 presenters 99, participants per day average (full capacity). Closing panel with Henry Chalfant, Jim Prigoff, Susan Farell and John Fekner. With contributions from Australia, France, Italy, Greece, Belgium, Austria, USA, Netherlands, Sweden, Norway, England, Spain, Japan, China, Russia and Portugal.
How much control do cities want to have over their public spaces: a look into mural regulation
Authors: Mendelson Shwartz Eynat , Mualam Nir
Published: January 2025

In recent decades, murals have become a common phenomenon in urban landscapes, weaving artistic and cultural expressions into the city. They have become a major avenue for public expression, reflecting and influencing the social, political, cultural, and aesthetic values of the city. Some murals are created as acts of resistance while others are promoted by local governments as means of promoting urban development and social reconstruction. Because of their artistic character, location, and public exposure, murals incorporate tensions that present challenges to policymakers, owners, and those involved in their creation. For instance, murals are both a public and private phenomenon, situated in the public domain but located on specific properties and created by specific individuals.
Through the years, the importance of the visualization and design of urban environments has grown.  Local governments are seen in many places around the world as responsible for the city's public spaces, taking on the role of regulators, mediators, and facilitators. Furthermore, they have the difficult task of balancing public and private rights and interests, such as maintaining public order and protecting individual rights and freedoms.
But do cities want to be able to control all of their public spaces? The answer to this question is not simple and contains many considerations. Their ability to control public spaces is a double-edged sword. On the one hand, as the level of control increases, local governments are granted stronger tools to shape their murals to better suit the city’s vision, but on the other hand, this ability may collide with the freedoms of property owners and artists, weakening the city's creative forces and emasculating informal activities.
In this paper we focus on the regulation of murals. We will look at the cities of Portland, which recently re-establish its mural policy and Tel Aviv, known for its many street art and graffiti. We will examine their approaches towards murals and who they view their role in governing public spaces, and address the amount of control they choose to have over the city's murals. By doing so, we will highlight the dilemmas local governments face when promoting mural policy and how mural policies affect the ability of property owners and initiators to promote murals. We believe this information will also aid artists and activists to better understand the framework in which they are working in and the decision-making process of municipalities.
Methodological Proposals and Critical Responses for the Study of Graffiti and Street Art
Authors: Sarmento Clara
Published: January 2025

This article describes a on-going research project that blurs the frontiers between dominant and marginal cultures, their social practices, visual symbologies, and aesthetic manifestations, in the unstable space of the city, by discovering, collecting and preserving graffiti and street art works in middle range cities of Northern Portugal. Using the conceptual tools of intercultural studies, StreetArtCEI awakens tourist and inhabitants alike to the symbolic power of self- and hetero-marginalized aesthetical stances, organized by routes that reflect the social-cultural geography of the city. The methodology of the project includes the collection and study of both illegal art works in marginal sites; and of art works ratified and commissioned by private and public institutions, in tourist spots and high-end streets. The article analyses critically the feedback obtained from local authorities, the media and the community, and proposes several topics for further consideration.
StreetartCEI thrives inside of a paradox built by itself, as a public institution led project that, at same time, collects, preserves and legitimizes cultural products which damage public and private property. We highlight the media’s interest for the economic potential of the project, as well as for the aesthetic appeal of the writers’ techniques, readily transformed into recognized canonical authors. Concerning the reception by local powers, we emphasise their swift investment in the creation of tailor-made local routes of graffiti and street art, that is, in artworks whose deletion those authorities are sponsoring at the same time. This apparent paradox by local institutions reproduces the common need for domestication of irreverence and commodification of the illegal, a paradox that all intervenient actors are aware of. StreetArtCEI’s intercultural action takes place in a borderzone between the legal and the illegal, where researchers play the role of mediating agents, creating new discursive fields in permanent intersection.
ThaSala Street Art
Authors: Vorachart Varunyu , Hosap Witthaya , Preeyawongsakul Patibut
Published: January 2025

Thailand's street art circle is now gaining popularity. As a tourism country, Thailand has a policy to promote tourism in a number of ways. Therefore, street art has been used to promote tourism a variety of locations. In the midst of the COVID-19 crisis, this article reveals a story of a street art initiative in an overlooked district in southern Thailand to establish a new tourist attraction. The article covers the story since the beginning of the idea, specifies concepts and processes behind the showcase, interviews various stakeholders for insights and provides additional thoughts on street art creation. It also summarizes the lessons learned from the project that has been done through interviews with stakeholders from different perspectives to use as a guideline for further street art project development.