Elena Shlienkova, Zarema Kalimatova, Samara State University of Architecture and Civil Engineering, Russia/ “Local” in the Space of Reconstruction of Meanings Ingushetia as a Phenomenon of the North Caucasus Identity/ Aversa, Capri/ 12-14 June 2014

1. Elena SHLIENKOVA
Zarema KALIMATOVA
Samara State University of Architecture and Civil Engineering, Russia
“LOCAL” IN THE SPACE OF RECONSTRUCTION OF MEANINGS Ingushetia as a Phenomenon of the North Caucasus Identity

2. AVERSA/ CAPRI
12,13.14 June 2014
LOCAL
IN THE SPACE
OF RECONSTRUCTION
OF MEANINGS
Ingushetia as a Phenomenon of THE NORTH CAUCASUS IDENTITY
Elena SHLIENKOVA, Department of Innovation Design,
Samara State University of Architecture and Civil Engineering,
RUSSIA
12,13,14

3. Phenomenon of
THE NORTH CAUCASIAN IDENTITY
by the example of
the Republic of Ingushetia

4. who managed to “retain” their identity and make it the object of interest not only for authentic bearers of the cultural code but an important factor for
regional, economic, innovative development

5. the endless cocktail of cultures, traditions, “blood” and languages
managed to “retain” own identity
Authors by posters:
Zarema Kalimatova, Ingushetia/ Russia
Shohreh Golazad, Iran
Ad by StudioKargah, Iran
Stefan Sagmeister, Austria/ USA

6. FOR YOUR ATTENTION
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Introduction Local Identity in Transcultural Space

7. THE NATURE OF DEMOGRAPHICAL AND ETHNIC VIBRATIONS IS COMPLICATED AND MIXED. It is possible to make an attempt to solve this growing welter of contradictions and further conflicts on the basis of humanitarian and cultural discourse and establishment of primarily:
•internal dialogue through reconstruction of deep and temporal codes;
•formation of the principles of soft esthetics as the space for intercultural communication in contrast to aggression;
•detection of differences through positive competition;
•actualization of cultural codes of identity, verbal and nonverbal, intercontextuality, religiousness and secularity.

8. THANKS
FOR YOUR ATTENTION
Main reference of the territory
THE PLACE FROM WHERE
THE HORIZON IS VISIBLE
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9. The North Caucasus Area
INGUSHETIA
Autonomy of
the Republic of Ingushetia
dates back to July 4, 1992

10. R U S S I A
R U S S I A
3600 km2
144 km 72 km
442 255 people
on January 1, 2013
71 nationalities
live in the republic,
the Ingushes make up over 80%

11. Photo: Dmitry Belyakov, Elders

12. Photo: Aleksey Myakishev, The Ingushes

13. THANKS FOR YOUR ATTENTION
Syncreticity of cultural and historic multilayerdness and invariance
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14. the end of the eighteenth century
(the beginning of colonization
of the South of Russia and
the Caucasus, active military, administrative and resettlement actions)
systematic and detailed study of history and cultural heritage of the Caucasus
Archive photo: Fatima Kudusova, Family and Family Life of the Ingush
A married couple in national costumes

15. “a distant geographic province of Ancient Greece”
“the source of paradigmatic cultural and technological innovations”
for Southern and Eastern Europe, Western Asia and the Volga River region
three thousand years B.C. the Caucasus
at the end of the Paleolithic Era – the beginning of the Neolithic Era (500 thousand years ago)
the sixth century B.C.
the first mention of the man presence

16. TURKIC- MONGOLIAN
ANCIENT
GREEK
INDO-
IRANIAN
HITTITE-
HURRIAN
figurative & narrative parallels
NART EPOS the appearance of original historic and cultural encyclopedia
the Avesta
the Rigveda
the Kalevala
Russian epics

17. THANKS
FOR YOUR ATTENTION
Ethnicity as a Key Sociocode
of CAUCASIAN CIVILIZATION
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18. Clannish towers

19. Christian church, Tkhaba-Erdy
Stone carvings. The bas-relief of the wall
Assinsky ravine

20. Christian church, Tkhaba-Erdy. Stone carvings

21. Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring, 2003
Shadows of Forgotton Ancestors, 1964
Sergei Paradjanov (Georgia), The Color of Pomegranates, 1968
Ki-duk Kim (South Korea), Hwal, 2005

22. THANKS FOR YOUR ATTENTION
LOCAL in the Space of Reconstruction of Meanings
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23. Conclusion
The research can be expanded and serve as a serious basis for:
1.examination of opposition global/ international and local/ national in a project culture; 2. study of the role of national project schools (architecture, design, art) in the system of global communications;
3.exploring special features of cultural interventions at the level of semiotic and semantic codes, formation of style;
4.analysis and actualization of new formations, possible project scenarios, visual and plastic games and intrigues, ciphers and decipherments by the example of the specific highland culture.

24. THANKS
FOR YOUR ATTENTION
The agreement is aimed:
to organize a number of meetings with representatives communities
to detect Ingushetia’s value receptors as a representative
of the North Caucasus Identity
to prepare and hold discussions on the topic LOCAL IDENTITY
to form a partner network
to make an event ethnic map
to create
the National Project Center
of the Republic of Ingushetia
to launch the Nomadic Ethnofestival KHINANA devoted to national strategies of small nations
In order to coordinate the work on the territory of the Republic and gain official support, a cooperation agreement was signed between the University and the Ingushetia Government.

25. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION
Elena SHLIENKOVA,
Zarema KALIMATOVA
Department of Innovation Design,
Samara State University of
Architecture and Civil Engineering,
RUSSIA