[Commlist] CFP special issue “Image Cultures, World Heritage, and Identities”

The theme of the upcoming edition of the Art Style |Art and Culture 
International Magazine is "Image Cultures, World Heritage, and Identities"

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In 1972, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural 
Organization (UNESCO) in the General Conference approved the Convention 
concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage, 
identifying and protecting cultural and natural sites considered 
outstanding universal value throughout the world. Today, the Convention 
is UNESCO’s most widely disseminated and visible international 
instrument, encouraging countries’ commitments to protect and enhance 
their properties inscribed on the so-called World Heritage List. 
Moreover, beyond maintaining the conservation of cultural and natural 
heritage sites, UNESCO seeks to enhance building capabilities and 
improve communication. Cities and places on the World Heritage List 
assume responsibility for protecting World Heritage for present and 
future generations. To this end, the principles of sustainable 
development are necessarily part of the conservation process, relying 
mainly on communication tools and strategies in their forms to raise 
awareness and knowledge of World Heritage objectives. Each World 
Heritage property communicates the values of each culture and its 
identity. The benefits brought by the recognition as a World Heritage 
extend from social, educational, cultural, and political advances to the 
valuation of the assets in the areas declared World Heritages. The 
attraction of contributions from private investors, the increase in 
tourism, the generation of employment and income, and a more significant 
international projection are among those advantages. Besides these 
notions mentioned above that are necessary for the urban organization 
concerning visual aspects, the focus is on their inhabitants’ perception 
of urban environments and how they orient themselves and behave in the 
face of everyday experience.


To this end, focusing on a city’s contemporary goals, one must primarily 
consider the interactions in urban centers through digital technology. 
However, urban interventions through digital technology need to have a 
social meaning in their applications in visual settings, conditioning 
the aesthetic aspects as new concepts and, mainly, the functionality to 
serve everyone through a technicization of the organizational and 
implementation processes. In this sense, the image configuration has its 
practical, empirical significance in the daily life of society, 
specifically in the visual project, due to its importance in solutions 
for communicative and signaling systems in large cities. We know that 
the visual project is essential to social representation today for 
communication with focused objectives, interrelations, and expected 
results. To synthesize, the understanding of the condition of the 
cultural worldliness is indispensable to any reflection on the destiny 
of world cultures in the face of globalization and the flow of 
industrialized cultural goods, with attention to the development of new 
forms and functions as the specificity of innovation in the 
configuration of the contemporary image in large metropolises. In these 
conditions, images produced as part of the urban culture and rhythm—art, 
photographs, films, videos, advertising, design, architecture, etc—are 
part of the complex system of the image cultures, world heritage, and 
identities. Finally, this issue of Art Style, Art & Culture 
International Magazine expects original proposals that may address the 
urban society, cosmopolitan visual layout involving the aestheticization 
of urban structures, their narratives, histories, identities, and, in 
short, their cultural values.


You just need to follow the magazine’s author guidelines for information:


https://artstyle.international/author-guidelines/ 
<https://artstyle.international/author-guidelines/> and submit your 
extended essay or scholarly article for evaluation 
to editorial@artstyle.international.


The deadline for submissions is November 30, 2023. We will get back to 
you with acceptance or nonacceptance feedback after the reviewers have 
evaluated your contribution. If your submission is accepted, we will 
inform you about the publication schedule.

Editors:


Christiane Wagner

Dimitra Laurence Larochelle


Note: No payment from authors will be required.
If you have any questions about the journal, please contact the journal
at editorial@artstyle.international


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