The role of the Program is to support research and development activities in the field of national and cultural identity in accordance with the priorities of the Interdepartmental Concept of Applied Research and Development of National and Cultural Identity by 2015 and thus contributing to making public funds invested in applied research and development in the field of national and cultural identity bring concrete economic or other social benefits from their realization. Through applied research and development, the program is intended to contribute to preserving and developing national integrity and national specifics in the context of European and world culture in the 21st century.
Projects
The project aim is to define the role of sacred monuments in the religious process of the 17th and 18th centuries in the eastern Ore Mountains. The aim will be achieved by documentation, construction and art-historical analysis of churches and chapels with emphasis on their significant features, determining mutual ties and relationships. Simultaneously with the study of architecture, attention will be focused on the artistic decoration of buildings, especially on sculptural production, but also on other artistic items from the Baroque period. Other small Baroque sacred monuments will be documented, studied and interpreted.
Archival and historical research will take place together with documentation: the task will be to map the process of religious transformation of the region and detailed elucidation of the historical and architectural development of the monuments. The data obtained will be compared and linked to data from the direct study of buildings and artistic items in order to achieve the main project aim. The area of interest is the eastern Ore Mountains. With regard to the impossibility of unclear definition of the area by fixed borders, we define this area as the mountain and submontane parts of two current vicariates – Ústecký and Teplický. The state border and Nakléřovský pass can pro tem delimit the area, on the opposite side the course of railway lines 139 and 135. One of the aims is also to verify and optimize research methods and their combination, which could later be applied to the central and western areas of the Ore Mountains.
The project also aims to make knowledge available of the general public, both lay and professional. The project results will thus seek a suitable intersection between a critical scientific approach and an attractive and comprehensible form of presenting them. A significant practical benefit of the project will be to increase the tourist attractiveness of the eastern Ore Mountains and strengthen the potential of the UNESCO monument Erzgebirge/Krušnohoří Mining Region
The aim of the project is to study and subsequently contribute to the mapping of cultural identity and natural aspects of viticulture and winemaking in the Czech Republic in the form of applied results in order to create a methodological proposal for a wine appellation system that would be realistically usable in practice. This methodological proposal for an appellation classification will be based on cultural and historical data from the study sites in conjunction with the natural aspects of the area. The data obtained will be described in detail on the basis of an objective and comprehensive evaluation and research of archival sources. By comparing them with each other, it will then be possible to obtain comprehensive information and knowledge about specific sites.
Supporting data for these objectives will be the compilation of several interactive maps that will display the results and on which the methodological proposal will be based. The creation of model sites in Bohemia and Moravia is a prerequisite. The cultural and historical development of the sites over time will be described with regard to viticulture and winemaking, and the natural conditions and the varieties grown will be characterised in detail. From these maps, a unique Methodology will be implemented, which will, on the basis of the cultural, historical and natural attributes obtained, fundamentally influence the view of the classification system of wine classification in the Czech Republic. This is a topic that is topical, in demand and unique and will be supported by authorities such as the Union of Winegrowers of the Czech Republic. If the project is successful, the results will be at an international level.
The main goal of the project is to preserve knowledge about vanished medieval city of Most, predecessor of contemporary statutory city Most and spread it among younger generations. The unique transformation of the city of Most and breaking of its continuity merits detailed research and publication of its result. This goal will be accomplished by a set of interconnected products, chief among them a detailed historically accurate virtual 3D model of “Old Most” and its online presentation in the form of "street view", commented fly-by animations and a virtual reality. Virtual reality and street view will be built from photorealistic textures obtained from old photos. Important component of the virtual model will be structured data about individual buildings, streets, squares and city districts. It won't be a “lifeless model irrelevant future generations” but a “living model” providing unique insight into the daily life in the vanished city of Most.
Information database will be filled via web tools in cooperation with contemporary witnesses and young generation - school children and students. This cooperation, informally called “Talks about Old Most”, will strengthen youngest generation's knowledge about the city of their ancestors and it will help to collect and preserve vanishing collective memory and identity of the locality. Data will be spatially structured in a 3D model and appended with relevant historical research results in cooperation with historians. The cooperation of generations will connect proficiency in internet tools with firsthand knowledge of real life in a vanished city.
Secondary results will be a web application for old maps of Most locality and digital print sources for paper models and 3D printing of buildings, streets and city districts.
Central Uplands Garden Cultural heritage documentation and presentation of selected locations of eastern Central Boheiman Uplands The main objective of the project is mapping, documentation and follow-up professional interpretation of the phenomenon of historical cultural landscape and cultural heritage on the Ústí and Liberec region border a region which due to human migration in the 20th century lost a significant part of its historical consciousness and identity. Regarding the intended depth of the interdisciplinary approached research and high demands for detailed documentation of widely defined territory, the intention of the research team is to implement three locally defined probes. These probes will focus on three particular sites which are historically significantly exposed and their landscape background. Specifically Zahořany (dist. Litoměřice), Konojedy (dist. Litoměřice) and Zahrádky (dist. Česká Lípa), each of them situated in a different type of landscape. Selected locations are connected by a number of factors. From the historical point of view it is the fact that these sites represented in the past manorialism centers and their preserved heritage fund originate mainly from the Baroque and the 19th century. To the current factors belongs a problematic approach to local cultural heritage in the past decades, nowadays efforts are being made to rescue and revitalize these locations at least partially. Documentation of The Monument Fund, including aristocratic residences, sacred buildings, small monuments, technical monuments and vernacular architecture will be implemented through effective documentation methods based on the certified methodologies. The issue of historical cultural landscape and models of its development will be accented as a whole. Parallelly lead historical research will be based on a heuristic and analysis of archival sources and existing literature and will be continuously synchronized and compared with the results obtained during the documentation procedure.
The main focus of this project is to perform a basic documentation of the historical buildings for hops processing. These buildings are part of architectual assets bound to the specific natural conditions occuring only in some regions. These conditions constitute an important part of the urbanism of towns and cultural countriside. There has not been given any scientific attention to the development, function, constructions or the technological equipment used on these buildings. In addition, these buildings (except several) are not historically protected. With respect to size, these buildings are of a great financial burden to their owners and have lately been subject to a large scale of demolition. Out of more than 5400 of these buildings listed in the beginning of the 20th century in Zatec hops region itself only hundreds have been preserved. Hence, the documentation is the last possibility of recording these buildings for the future. As part of the basic documentation of the buildings (undoubtful identification, photo-documentation, the documentation of the specific contruction solutions, technological equipment and technological state of proving the hops processing) the targeting and sample collection for dendro-chronical dating of selected buildings will be performed. The archive research will be part of the study as well. Based on this evidence a special map and IISPP/GIS NPÚ based database will be created. A highly easy-to-use system will be created using sophisticated technology (phones with cameras and GPS modules, tablet PCs, remote network access to the external scanned document storage and remotely accessible GIS and MIS map databases). This system will enable operational field documentation and based on this experience a methodology will be created that describes the use of this widlely available technology in basic field architectural documentation.
Main objective of the project is to contribute to preservation of cultural heritage in the frontier region of the Northwestern Bohemia which with respect to its historical burden and its current state belongs to one of the most problematic areas in the Czech republic. The project will be carried out through following partial objectives: 1. For selected endangered monuments make detailed geodetic and photogrammetric documentation, stereophotogrammetry, creation of 3D models, digital nondestructive diagnosis of constructions and materials, thermoluminescent camera measurements, X-ray analysis. 2. Create methodology for documentation and digitalization of particular types of endangered monuments. 3. Make database of endangered immovable cultural heritagewith respect to technical state of particular monuments, updating of data concerning technical state of particular monuments. 4. Creation of the appropriate data package of the endangered objects on behalf of the monumental care in the technical and methodical structure of the current system IISPP/GIS/NPÚ. The visualization enables the special map of the selected types of the endangered monuments, including its typology. 5. Create special map of endangered monuments including typology of particular groups: ecclesiastical architecture, folk architecture, town houses, smaller monuments. Maps will be an open application for further data update. 6. Create reconstructional map of the landscape, development of the landscape, interpretation and creation of reconstructional maps, spatio-temporal development of the landscape structure (land use/land cover), spatio-temporal changes of settlements areas. 7. Implementation of a pilot exhibition project called „Milešov – changes of landscape in Middle Ages and in Modern Times“ which would present documentation and digitalization of immovable cultural heritage on example of the uniquely preserved Baroque landscape and monuments in the area of the village Milešov.
The project aims to apply long term experience and knowledge obtained by PF UJEP in the area of social, cultural and idea transfers in the border region of north-western and northern Bohemia. The output is to be in a form accessible to wide public whichstill seeks its place in many places of the region. Consciousness of regional history is to be promoted and developed thus strengthening the ties of inhabitants to their region. The output is to be given the form of web portal which will demonstrate themigration processes on selected key factors. Dialogue of various opinions will be supported by the interdisciplinary character of the method and the content. A virtual archive and virtual study space are going to be established to document, collect and study objects and documents the region´s memory. Peer-reviewed collective monographs are to be published together with English and German mutations. Shorter articles will be posted to peer-reviewed journals. Digital versions of sources documenting the region will be made accessible in PDF format on the portal. The culmination of the project will be an exhibition, catalog and program for schools in the region, leaning on a methodology for teachers.
The aim of the project is systematic identification, elaboration, preservation and presentation of art works, architecture and crafts from the gothic period in Bohemian-Saxon Artistic Region of Ore Mountains. Methodics of identification and documentationof medieval monuments of all art sorts will be elaborated. A qualified selection of the most threatened monuments will be preserved thanks to restorers´ intervention. The complete documentation and scholarly elaboration with art history methods will becomplemented by focused historical and archive research. The benefit of such interdisciplinary approach lies in a complex testimony based on varied sources. Reconstruction of cultural context of gothic art in an accessible entirety will enable its meritsto be opened up to the broad public (in a form of exhibition with scholarly catalogue). It will lead to a more efficient assertion of cultural heritage as a mean of identification of citizens with the region and also to an improvement of the image of the region. Conditions will be created for an active participation of students in the research; metodics of publication of research outcomes will be implemented in the university courses. začleněna do výukových programů na FF UK a FF UJEP.
The project aims to research and document the sites of memory on the communist regime in the Czech Republic and to describe the historical-cultural aspects affecting the contemporary national memory in terms of the sociál reflection of the life under thecommunist regime. Project outcomes aim to increase the accessibility of the results of the interdisciplinary research into the national and cultural identity and to contribute to its preservation for the next generations. The research and documentationwill be ušed to develop databases and collections as reference materiál for scientific and science-popularization outcomes of the projects (database of places with related archive materials, photo-documentation, collection of interviews aiming to gain personál testimonies relating to the documented event, sites etc). After completion of the project, the database will be made accessible for other researchers. The research, documentation and presentation of the results will be subject to methodological research and verification (articles in scientific magazines on methodological procedures, certified methodology). The results will be published in the form of a book {picture documentation book, commented edition ofkey interviews) and in the form of a specialized map providing the factual, typological and reflexive aspects of the topič under research. The key outcome destined for the laic public will be an exhibition and its mobiles versions for regional presentations (in cooperation with cultural institutions). The exhibitions will feature lectures differentiated for various age groups. The finál science-popularization outcomes of the project putting the places reminding of the communist regime into the broader context of contemporary history will include a multimedia educational application and an illustrated dictionary of Czech history 1948-1989 for all age groups of broader professional and laic public.
