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Darbo tikslas - ištirti, kokiais būdais konstruojama “sava erdvė” Lietuvos ekogyvenvietėse (atvejo analizė). Tikslo keliami probleminiai klausimai: Kaip vyksta ekogyvenvietėje gyvenančių žmonių „savos erdvės“ konstravimas? Kokie veiksniai lemia naujos erdvės konstravimą? Kokios reikšmės sukuriamos konstruojant „savą erdvę“? Tyrimo objektas - „savos erdvės“ konstravimo ypatumai tyrinėjamoje ekogyvenvietėje. Baigiamojo darbo teorinis pagrindas paremtas antropologijos teorijos aspektu. Baigiamojo darbo metodologinį pagrindą sudaro antropologinio tyrimo metodai: neformalūs pokalbiai, pusiau struktūruoti interviu, dalyvaujantis stebėjimas ir stebėjimas, dienoraščio pildymas. Pagal oficialius Lietuvos ekologinių gyvenviečių tinklaraščio duomenis, šiuo metu Lietuvoje yra apie penkiolika ekogyvenviečių. Tokias vietas gyvenimui žmonės renkasi labai atidžiai, nes tokios vietos virsta erdve, kurią patys gyventojai gali užpildyti įvairiausiomis kultūrinėmis reikšmėmis – sukurti ją sau, sukonstruoti “savą erdvę”. „Savoje erdvėje“ ekogyvenvietės gyventojai siekia sukurti utopišką gyvenimo modelį pagal savo įsivaizduojamas taisykles ir patirtis. Priežastys, kurios skatina rinktis tokį gyvenimo būdą yra įtakojamos daugybės veiksnių. Nors stengiamasi atitolti nuo civilizacijos ir visuomenės, tačiau konstruojant “savą erdvę” savotiškai atkartojamas tas pats socialinis modelis. Antroje darbo dalyje, apibrėžiant „savos erdvės“ sąvoką, aptariami du svarbūs aspektai: pirmiausiai tai, kad... [toliau žr. visą tekstą] / Purpose of the project: to research what are methods of construction of own space in the Lithuanian ecovillages (case study). The issues which have been raised referring to the purpose: What is the process of construction of own space of the people residing in ecovillages? What factors causes contruction of new space? What values are developed during construction of own space? Subject of the research: peculiarities of construction of own space in the ecovillages under research. Theoretical ground of the final project is an aspect of anthropology theory. The methodological basis of the final project consists of the anthropological research methods: participant observation, unstructured interviews, informal conversations, fieldnotes. Data from the official website of the Lithuanian ecological settlements reveal that Lithuania currently has approximately fifteen ecovillages. Such places are selected by people very carefully because the places become the spaces to be filled with different cultural values by the residents, i.e. the residents develop and form their own space. Residents of the settlement strive to develop in their own space the utopian residence model in compliance with the imagined rules and experiences. Reasons to choose such lifestyle are influenced by many factors. Though the people strive to make distance from civilization and society, but construction of own space oddly repeat the same social model. Two important aspects are described in the second part... [to full text]

Architecture and urban design are often powerful expressions of political desires to support and legitimise specific regimes. In many postcolonial cities, architecture and urban design are set out to construct national identity and affirm a political power that departs from the former colonial rule. Architecture and urban design may be used by successive postcolonial regimes to compete with each other to legitimise authority and symbolise power. While such concepts of national identity are established through a constellation of urban forms, national identity is always contested. Places may be used and interpreted in ways that differ from what is intended. Attempts to control the meaning of architecture and built form may conflict with the ways in which spatial practices undermine intended meanings.

Architecture and urban design are often powerful expressions of political desires to support and legitimise specific regimes. In many postcolonial cities, architecture and urban design are set out to construct national identity and affirm a political power that departs from the former colonial rule. Architecture and urban design may be used by successive postcolonial regimes to compete with each other to legitimise authority and symbolise power. While such concepts of national identity are established through a constellation of urban forms, national identity is always contested. Places may be used and interpreted in ways that differ from what is intended. Attempts to control the meaning of architecture and built form may conflict with the ways in which spatial practices undermine intended meanings.

We study the behaviour of logarithmically convex combinations of operators given by Tf = |S1f| 1 θ |S2f|1− 1 θ , where S1, S2 are some (usually quasi-linear) operators acting on spaces of measurable functions and θ ∈ (1, ∞) is a parameter. We develop two, quite different in nature, interpolation theories, each of which enables us to obtain a rather com- prehensive information about the behavior of such operators on function spaces. The first one is completely general and is based on abstract interpolation and Calderón spaces. We illustrate the theoretical results by a wide variety of examples of pairs of spaces X, Y such that T: X → Y is bounded, these in particular include the so-called Calderón-Lozanovskiı̌ construction. The second theory departs from pointwise estimates by Calderón operators and is particularly tailored for obtaining boundedness results between Orlicz spaces given weak-type estimates that arise in applications. A common feature of both theories is an approach, apparently new, involving interpolation of four spaces. The input data in each case consists of two reasonable separate endpoint estimates for the operators S1 and S2. 1