Visualising modernity by University of Groningen https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual Share your associations with modernity or unmodern en-us 2016-09-13 12:19:35 UTC 2025-10-31 17:29:47 UTC hello@padlet.com flying routes all over the world https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/129270336 2016-10-08 08:52:51 UTC https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/129270336 The image shows the famous Liver Building with the ultra modern Museum of Liverpool next to it. The glass window represents the global outlook of the city. https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/129295672 2016-10-08 18:42:50 UTC https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/129295672 Modernity is a constant paradigmashift. wilde_blank https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/129300556 2016-10-08 20:56:55 UTC https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/129300556 Messner mountain museum in the Italian Alps https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/129321034 Anto Cado ]]> 2016-10-09 09:57:06 UTC https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/129321034 https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/129352805 Hull

]]> 2016-10-09 19:01:31 UTC https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/129352805 Such were the computers that I first came across as a student ; to today's youth something from a bygone era and pre-modern. But since then technology has shrunk and with it the concepts of time and space as we communicate instantly and unconstrained by distance through ubiquitous minuscule items that we carry with us at all times.  jeremyatvaleofleven https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/129362064 2016-10-09 21:03:18 UTC https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/129362064 Gardening in a rooftop  tere_iniesta https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/129404350 A sign of modernity for me is adapting new spaces to our needs. In that case, also taking into account sustainability and ecology. ]]> 2016-10-10 04:33:22 UTC https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/129404350 https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/129404764 Caroline Christian
Oops! That's my notion of Modernity - Henri Matisse male nude 1900.

]]> 2016-10-10 04:39:22 UTC https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/129404764 https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/129404848 Matisse 1900
Male nude]]> 2016-10-10 04:41:11 UTC https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/129404848 City of Arts and Sciences in Valencia (Spain) arroyomartinana https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/129433307 A modern and impressionant construction which includes an Hemisferic, Museum of Arts, Museum of Science, Oceanographic, Opera, etc...]]> 2016-10-10 08:31:38 UTC https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/129433307 Groninger Museum https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/129454105 The architecture of this museum is very unique and is in my opinion very modern.
-Katja V.]]> 2016-10-10 10:05:09 UTC https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/129454105 Mondriaan mennooerlemans https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/129528334  For me Modernisme is the search for the unknown as Mondriaan did when he made his journey for figurative landscapes to ultimately Victory Boogy Woogy. Here an example his view on the seaside of the ocean.]]> 2016-10-10 14:33:07 UTC https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/129528334 https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/129550754 Wm Love
The Empire State Building in New York City symbolized Modernity]]> 2016-10-10 15:39:01 UTC https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/129550754 Art,for me,by its very nature,has always been a reflector and even driver of modernity in my view.Art draws me in.Thinking of the modern world and my place within it. https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/129584663 2016-10-10 17:33:28 UTC https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/129584663 INNOVATION is a pillar for MODERNITY. This office in the middle of a forest  combines green energies and a balanced work environment. Modernity and creativity:the key to get wise and effective political attitudes towards sustainability. mmintroini https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/129599833 2016-10-10 18:20:51 UTC https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/129599833 two birds with one.. photo giorgio_scavino https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/129640532 urban car sharing and open 24h supermarkets represent a new trend, isnt'it? A form of modernity... at least in Italy]]> 2016-10-10 21:12:23 UTC https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/129640532 Acropolis Museum https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/129759362 Latest architecture in balance with context and at the service of the interpretation and understanding of the collection conserved in]]> 2016-10-11 11:59:17 UTC https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/129759362 Acropolis Museum https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/129759795 Latest architecture in balance with context and at the service of the interpretation and understanding of the collection conserved inside.
http://www.theacropolismuseum.gr/en]]> 2016-10-11 12:01:19 UTC https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/129759795 Millennium Square Leeds https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/129791760 The image shows Mandela Gardens in the foreground, opened by Nelson Mandela on his visit to Leeds in 2001.   Further back is Millennium Square, opened in the year 2000 which now offers a venue for Christmas markets, food and drink markets, free wifi and a big screen for showing a wide variety of sporting events and is used for a great deal of culture.  It is overlooked at the top by the Civic Hall, where the Leeds local government chamber is located that was opened in 1933, with golden owls on top of the building to symbolise Leeds.  To the right is also Leeds City Museum, that offers a wide selection of galleries including one looking at the history of Leeds from prehistoric times up to the present day alongside natural history and world cultures galleries.  To the left is also part of the Leeds General Infirmary - a hospital established in the Victorian period that is now a renowned centre of modern medicine and procedures.]]> 2016-10-11 13:26:30 UTC https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/129791760 Vancouver Skyline margaretstott22 https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/129796722 Is it just lazy thinking on my part to pick a cityscape to illustrate modernity. More than that, I found Vancouver to be rapidly developing and with an attitude and spirit amongst Canadians that was welcoming, open and friendly. Canada has agreed to take many more Syrian refugees than the US and yet we only encountered a positive outlook from everyone we met. Modernity must mean more than infrastructure, it surely requires an outward looking sentiment from people. ]]> 2016-10-11 13:36:23 UTC https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/129796722 A modern classroom suhaimijoe https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/129811000 high tech + high touch]]> 2016-10-11 14:05:55 UTC https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/129811000 A modern technology for community health care. https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/129938741 Telemedicine
www.google.com.gh/search?q=modern+technology+for+community+health+care]]> 2016-10-11 18:39:58 UTC https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/129938741 Times Square example https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/129941204 Times Square, with all its screens full of advertisements and tourists walking around, that's modernity. A globalized world and high tech around us]]> 2016-10-11 18:46:40 UTC https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/129941204 Am I modern? lianefaccio https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/129949145 I still write diaries using pen and papers, and that's the way I take notes while studying. Am I modern?]]> 2016-10-11 19:09:26 UTC https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/129949145 Bloomsday - A Celebration of Modernity britta_jung https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/130078173 Bloomsday is an annual commemoration and celebration of the life of Irish writer James Joyce during which the events of his novel Ulysses (which is set on 16 June 1904) are relived. It is observed on 16 June in Dublin and elsewhere.

Ulysses is considered to be one of the most important works of modernist literature. Bloomsday involves a range of cultural activities including Ulysses readings and dramatisations, pub crawls and other events. Some dress in Edwardian costume and retrace Bloom's route around Dublin. Devotees have even been known to hold marathon readings of the entire novel, some lasting up to 36 hours.]]> 2016-10-12 10:52:15 UTC https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/130078173 The only thing that matters! https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/130113097 Thw world fight over land and see as an endless cycle to gain resources however the one bit that everyone agrees with (most of the time) is the international effort of the ISS and its utter importance to the survive of our kind

photo from- https://www.earthkam.org/future_of_the_iss]]> 2016-10-12 13:20:37 UTC https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/130113097 EN PAVILION elena_tagliani https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/130117339 looking into the future and build a common heritage
The Esprit Nouveau Pavilion by Le Corbusier which can be found in Bologna, Italy
 ]]> 2016-10-12 13:31:42 UTC https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/130117339 Balla https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/130127968 For me, this painting by Giacomo Balla epitomises modernity, its fluidity, transience, change.  Nothing is what it seems, and nothing lasts for long, so that we can really understand what it is. An example of Futurism.]]> 2016-10-12 13:57:34 UTC https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/130127968 https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/130138392 Doinitza Barsan
i took this photo at the "Art Safari" exhibition in Bucharest / 2016 / 3d edition / art works from all over the country - new and old]]> 2016-10-12 14:21:52 UTC https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/130138392 https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/130151399 2016-10-12 14:53:44 UTC https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/130151399 New reading room State Library of Berlin a_pilli https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/130165790 Over three years ago, the "Foundation of Prussian Culture Objects" (Stiftung Preussischer Kulturbesitz) opened the 'modern' reading room. It was build on the same place of the old reading room from the 19th century, which was destroyed in the II. World War. 
Instead of reconstruct the old reading room it was decided to build a new 'modern' one. 
What makes this object in my view, is its functional and more geometrical design. 
Only the books and the entrance through the old building reminds the reader/user that this reading room belongs to a library builded in the 19th century.

Source: https://www.boersenblatt.net/artikel-bibliotheken.600828.html
Copyright:© Sören Stache / picture-alliance
]]> 2016-10-12 15:25:57 UTC https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/130165790 peterwilkinson97 https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/130234868 2016-10-12 18:15:59 UTC https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/130234868 https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/130268123 Two strangers walking in Baltimore, and asked what was their of Modernity?  Response, are you talking art, music, or politics?  I said, whatever topic you want to talk about is fine with me.  The man in the grey hoodie said, the great powers are now coming to define the international system, and that’s why our standard procedures are producing counterproductive outcomes. And that, is why the wheels are coming off U.S. foreign policy. It’s not George W. Bush’s fault or Barack Obama’s fault; it’s not anyone in particular’s fault. They both made mistakes, to be sure, in some ways in opposite directions. But their mistakes only illustrate the collapse of the system parameters they both implicitly assumed.]]> 2016-10-12 19:59:46 UTC https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/130268123 https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/130268127 2016-10-12 19:59:47 UTC https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/130268127 Bridge over Savannah River corri2 https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/130277403 Modern engineering

]]> 2016-10-12 20:43:30 UTC https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/130277403 Exploring history in modern times e_smithbodie https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/130366542 To encourage people, children, to be interested in history, when we're all so focused on the future and what's going to happen for us, it's important to have different ways to reach out and inspire. Like these large dinosaur models in Crystal Palace Park, london]]> 2016-10-13 09:18:25 UTC https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/130366542 Modernity haizea_lopez_g https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/130420715 This is the Students Union of Nottingham Tren University where I am currently studying.

]]> 2016-10-13 13:15:47 UTC https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/130420715 Tate Britain, Turner Prize AndrewGrover https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/130691366 Some of the insightful comments left by visitors to the Turner Prize exhibition 2016, at Tate Britain]]> 2016-10-14 10:54:51 UTC https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/130691366 Vienna University of Economics and Business Library megancjohn https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/130699705 Modern architecture ]]> 2016-10-14 11:53:12 UTC https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/130699705 Street Art https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/130752175 2016-10-14 14:21:18 UTC https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/130752175 Modernity in a traditional landscape bruce_nowell https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/130842036 The new(ish) visitor centre in the Peak District. A modern interpretation of traditional materials, re-inventing how the landscape is seen and enjoyed for the future.]]> 2016-10-14 18:09:28 UTC https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/130842036 Arnhem Central Station JannemiekeGeessink https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/130875694 Almost organic building, breaking with traditional architecture.
]]> 2016-10-14 20:21:41 UTC https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/130875694 New African American Museum in Washington DC katebaker99 https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/130887010 2016-10-14 23:06:35 UTC https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/130887010 katebaker99 https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/130887019 2016-10-14 23:06:53 UTC https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/130887019 Messaging Crags_B https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/130911345 Modernity may be many things but I also associate it with the rise in access to information and opinion - from mass printing through to online social networking. This also gives rise to "questioning authority"  , as a developing process]]> 2016-10-15 12:28:55 UTC https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/130911345 Villa Alemana's Town Hall under construction  gerard_oliger https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/130929522 Maybe is a postmodern building because of the columns. 

]]> 2016-10-15 17:58:55 UTC https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/130929522 Bharat https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/130939046 Time square in New York.]]> 2016-10-15 22:00:40 UTC https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/130939046 Science Park, HK rainbow_chack https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/130951676 2016-10-16 07:12:33 UTC https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/130951676 h_h_wedman https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/130959369 2016-10-16 10:16:44 UTC https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/130959369 Postmodernist building (Groninger Museum) h_h_wedman https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/130959520 2016-10-16 10:19:22 UTC https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/130959520 osuzannnah7 https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/130976416 Modernity  Example. California Rally is a way of addressing Cultural and Religious differences in our country. In the USA we are open about our differences and feel that education and inclusion are the key to understanding.  If we live in separate boxes, never creating shared experience we will never trust and understand each other.]]> 2016-10-16 15:42:06 UTC https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/130976416 Falling Water https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/130977875 Frank Lloyd Wright's 'master piece' epitomises the ambition of modern architecture]]> 2016-10-16 16:02:41 UTC https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/130977875 The Beginning of the Modern Era kitinmiranda https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/131031272 I have always thought of the modern era as stemming from the Industrial Revolution, and the appearance of the steam engine, and later on, the telegraph system. For me, modernity is when people innovate and technology improves, and when people become more connected to each other.

]]> 2016-10-17 03:54:15 UTC https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/131031272 I think Modern is my art, the way I put my ideas on the carnvas. anita_durici https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/131723115 2016-10-19 09:31:43 UTC https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/131723115 Modern church architecture anleko https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/131816477 Kamppi Chapel of Silence, Helsinki]]> 2016-10-19 15:16:42 UTC https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/131816477 Modernity-Laptop https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/132012243 A constructive device to make typing and sending messages eas]]> 2016-10-20 10:08:23 UTC https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/132012243 Tradition versus Modernity ejazali23478 https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/132081113 First picture below:
Traditional water mills were serving purpose for local communities to grind wheat produced from subsistence agriculture farming have become obsolete now. These water mills in Gilgit-Baltistan region of Pakistan are still found. Interestingly, new generation does not know the names of the tools associated with these water mills.

Second picture below:
It is one of the modern flour mills which replaced traditional water mills and serve purpose to produce flour on large scale with proper mix of nutrients. ]]> 2016-10-20 14:19:25 UTC https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/132081113 https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/132526275 this is the federal constitution court of germany. for me our judicial system is one very important aspect of modernity. the court stands next to the castle in karlsruhe. the castle was built in 1715, so not long before the french revolution, the assumed starting point of modernity. i like to see this very different buildings next to each other, they also represent two very different times of modernity.]]> 2016-10-23 08:26:31 UTC https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/132526275 Appropriating Public Space marineta_93 https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/132538535 This photo was taken in Lausanne (Switzerland). I believe that modernity is also constructed through the citizens'  appropriation of Public Spaces.

]]> 2016-10-23 13:07:46 UTC https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/132538535 Kornhaus, Dessau wilko_verweij https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/132555240 Bauhaus architecture in Dessau.]]> 2016-10-23 17:46:19 UTC https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/132555240 hannahwain01 https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/133374156 in the middle of Greece surrounded by ancient sites 

]]> 2016-10-26 15:53:36 UTC https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/133374156 Modern world versus ancient world! https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/133993486 By E.Smart

]]> 2016-10-28 19:16:06 UTC https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/133993486 Abaporu https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/134015840 That is a painting called "Abaporu", made by Tarsila do Amaral. It is an important symbol of Brazilian Modernism. It was the starting point for the creation of an authentic Brazilian art.
Talita de Almeida]]> 2016-10-29 00:42:19 UTC https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/134015840 Seat of the European Parliament angela_muniz_varela https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/134088298 The Louise Weiss building is a modern building that represents part of a modern concept, the EU. ]]> 2016-10-30 15:43:14 UTC https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/134088298 annemary44 https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/134162682 Blvd. Haussman- Changing in time.

]]> 2016-10-31 09:55:28 UTC https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/134162682 https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/134292185 The Waldschlösschen bridge in Dresden is a good symbol for the conflict between modernity and tradition. The bridge was built after Dresdner people voted for it in a referendum in order to ameliorate the traffic situation in the city. Dresden lost due to this "modern building" in the middle of the historical city center the status of UNESCO Wolrd Heritage.]]> 2016-10-31 16:56:55 UTC https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/134292185 Vilnius University Library - MKIC in Vilnius, Lithuania dy_laura https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/134630801 Photo was taken from: http://www.madeinvilnius.com/en/news/in-february-vilnius-will-open-the-largest-and-most-modern-library-in-lithuania/i/]]> 2016-11-01 21:09:59 UTC https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/134630801 Candido Portinari was one of the greatest artists of Brazilian Modernity. His paintings  has some expressionists traits. lucy_luucy https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/135561454 2016-11-05 18:20:12 UTC https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/135561454 https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/137224681 Modern Sculpture-an example of changing ideas about art]]> 2016-11-13 20:43:11 UTC https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/137224681 Desert Towers https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/140050077 Dubai, evolving from wind towers of yore to soaring glass and steel skyscrapers such as the Burj Khalifa, marking the emirate's transition from a creekside fishing village to a modern cosmopolitan city ]]> 2016-11-27 20:59:02 UTC https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/140050077 Modernity in Buenos Aires vanecotro https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/140454597 I think this is a modern scene, which is a natural area with the University behind and art decoration in front of it. It's a modern idea of saying "the space is ours".]]> 2016-11-29 11:35:07 UTC https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/140454597 Modernity weronika_zanko15 https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/142146944 For me this image represents modernity as it's a historically rich place but also very modern.]]> 2016-12-06 20:09:11 UTC https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/142146944 Modern world https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/142883623 My definition of modernity is the possibility of living/studying/working abroad, the change of barriers and the endless connection to the outside world.]]> 2016-12-09 18:47:28 UTC https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/142883623 https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/145852293 Museum of Liverpool]]> 2017-01-08 13:10:45 UTC https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/145852293 Currywurst frr1053 https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/146703597 This is a serving of Currywurst, a modern German fast food. (Sorry if it's not the most photogenic -- it is fast food, after all.) This dish evidences the fluidity of our constructions of culture and our movement away from rigid traditionalism -- utilising American ketchup and Indian curry alongside German pork sausage, this dish attests to modernity in German cuisine.

]]> 2017-01-12 07:30:19 UTC https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/146703597 Demographic transition is modernity itself ... campanelli62 https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/171600495 2017-05-13 07:44:43 UTC https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/171600495 The Paper Cathedral, Christchurch, N.Z. https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/171629530 The original stone cathedral was destroyed in the 2011 earthquake. A temporary cathedral was constructed until such time as the town council decides what to do about the original cathedral.]]> 2017-05-13 17:29:13 UTC https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/171629530 Modernity in Youth splashing https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/171636312 I work in technology, and my children have grown up watching me work on computers. My daughter, who is eight, taught herself to program on the commandline, because the user interface wasn't moving fast enough for her and she "wanted to work with the computer directly." I think of computers as new, and user interfaces as a lovely move forward, but digital natives are moving so much faster, that they are questioning what we built. If "finding America" made the people of those times reconsider Classical philosophy, what then when we are considering bigger leaps in only a generation?]]> 2017-05-13 19:52:32 UTC https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/171636312 Beversleigh Flats Rotherham https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/171693024 I was looking for something local which fitted into the criteria that defines modernity in architecture by RIBA. So these flats in my town were an ideal example du to their cylindrical shapes, flat roofs, choice of materials,  an absence of ornament or mouldings and finally often using white/cream in their palette. ]]> 2017-05-14 17:51:59 UTC https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/171693024 Modernity https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/171751178 This is the modernity I do not like. As a society, we are slowly losing the ability to communicate with each other face to face. ]]> 2017-05-15 06:04:07 UTC https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/171751178 Modern view of Saigon River https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/171794220 The picture is taken in my neighbourhood,  Bạch Đằng Quay, District 1 of Hochiminh City. It shows the Saigon River with high buildings on both sides. Modernity makes my city almost  resemble any other cities in the world, doesn’t it?]]> 2017-05-15 10:47:36 UTC https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/171794220 Barbican Centre, London https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/171798756 In the late 60s my father used to sometimes take us for walks around the City of London square mile on Sunday afternoons. Often we would end up around the then new Barbican Centre. The "Brutalist" design was often condemned in style as being "Modern". Now nearly 50 years later it is being promoted as being worth conserving. So that what is "Modern" is relative to when you are.]]> 2017-05-15 11:24:31 UTC https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/171798756 9lascelles https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/171825321 I couldn't resist adding this photo of the rebuilt  Wembley Stadium in London, taken in May 2016, when I visited to support my team.

]]> 2017-05-15 13:15:11 UTC https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/171825321 9lascelles https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/171826518 Here is a photo of a visit to London to watch football. where I stopped by the Thames Barrier. An engineering project to stop excessive tidal surges threateing London. ]]> 2017-05-15 13:19:39 UTC https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/171826518 https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/171853292 2017-05-15 14:43:30 UTC https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/171853292 https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/171853350 2017-05-15 14:43:41 UTC https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/171853350 https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/171853402 2017-05-15 14:43:53 UTC https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/171853402 https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/171853472 2017-05-15 14:44:09 UTC https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/171853472 https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/171853522 2017-05-15 14:44:22 UTC https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/171853522 https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/171853597 2017-05-15 14:44:38 UTC https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/171853597 https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/171853746 2017-05-15 14:44:52 UTC https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/171853746 https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/171889787 The world in a single line]]> 2017-05-15 16:39:23 UTC https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/171889787 Emerging Life. https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/171941021 These chicks are nesting in a traditional 19th century Church.The new emerges supported by historic pillars.]]> 2017-05-15 19:55:31 UTC https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/171941021 mary_hatch8 https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/171943770 Questioning authority as modernity: I see this Brexit protest march in London, 25 March 2017, as questioning the authority of the British Government, and perhaps challenging those who regard membership of the EU as a break with British tradition of self-determination.  (Photo from Wikimedia Commons)

]]> 2017-05-15 20:12:02 UTC https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/171943770 https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/171955570 A Permaculture project created by a young nurse and his companion, a mechanic of automobiles, both out of the system, in their characteristics of sustainability, creativity and dynamism updated technologically and culturally constitute one of many emerging forms of modernity in Portugal

]]> 2017-05-15 21:33:12 UTC https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/171955570 Unfinished Modern matteo_vespa https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/171972370 This is Betile: named after the sacred stones of prehistoric times, this is Zaha Hadid's Museum of Nuragic (Sardinian prehistory) period in Cagliari. Or better - this would have been. Because it has never been built. This image is not a photo, it's a computer project. I think this is a perfect example on how pre-, actual and post-modern are intertwined: a never finished project about prehistory that was regarded by the inhabitants as a symbol of modernity and future for their city, which, though never built, feels somehow real (you thought it was photo, didn't you?) and has somehow its presence in the minds of the inhabitants. The holographic that becomes real: this is (post)modern.]]> 2017-05-16 00:05:54 UTC https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/171972370 Toledo underground station in Naples https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/172039755 Modernity is around us in everything we do or watch or listen to. It is the break with the regular classical forms of the past. ]]> 2017-05-16 09:53:21 UTC https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/172039755 Vienna Main Railway Station https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/172113731 2017-05-16 15:02:56 UTC https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/172113731 Technology https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/172180317 This is the main thing I associate with modernity and this was the first thing I thought of a a recent technological development. I also think of the globalised world as modern - Things that would never have been available to us even a few decades ago are now easy to acquire.]]> 2017-05-16 19:02:40 UTC https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/172180317 Something un-modern https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/172198843 This is the opposite of modern for me: a small village church that served a community of less than 100 people who could expect to spend their complete lives in this community, and would probably marry someone from within the same group]]> 2017-05-16 20:47:29 UTC https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/172198843 Library pictures https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/172211840 View from Library of Birmingham. A modern city and library, both with their potentials and problems. The city is hit by cutbacks and severely reduced library opening hours and staff numbers. Yet the Library is still a centre for learning, not least for those with fewer means. No-one has to pay to enter sit and read, study or rest here.
Jon ]]> 2017-05-16 22:51:32 UTC https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/172211840 Valletta https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/172283848 The capital city of Valletta, which is also my hometown. The city older is old, it has plenty of buildings which are being refurbished and although the facade cannot be changed its interiors are being modernised.]]> 2017-05-17 09:37:01 UTC https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/172283848 renialopez https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/172480264 The inventions that have allowed us to fly and to buil cities in the middle of the desert. Not sure ll clever.]]> 2017-05-18 03:28:54 UTC https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/172480264 Tim Sankey https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/172508423 Non-modern agriculture

]]> 2017-05-18 07:52:48 UTC https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/172508423 Passing fads https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/172773527 Implementing an inefficient expensive and ugly technology to not solve the modern problem of climate change, blighting the countryside for future generations

]]> 2017-05-19 11:06:13 UTC https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/172773527 Pablo Picasso https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/172779477 In 1907 Picasso paints "The ladies of Avignon".
With this work Picasso breaks with the traditional canons of painting and initiates a new way of understanding art: cubism.
It renounces the traditional perspective, the actual colors, it eliminates the depth, the forms are destroyed, it is relinquished to see the figures from a single point of view.
It is a clear example of modernity in art.
]]> 2017-05-19 11:51:49 UTC https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/172779477 Fast food fast fashion https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/173102743 A trait of modernity seen across the world. Modern ingenuity is not always good for civilization or planet]]> 2017-05-22 10:09:36 UTC https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/173102743 Robert Ryman https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/173527937 I work at an art museum, and the ryman gallery displays some of the most inflammatory artwork in the museum. It questions the need (or previously untouchable construction) for art to have visual interest besides texture, presence, or dimension in order to be considered art. The traditional view, that art should be representational, was already deconstructed/broken in the abstract, cubist, and surrealist artwork of the modern era. Ryman's paintings continue a long modernist tradition of questioning the authority of long-established views.
]]> 2017-05-24 02:12:03 UTC https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/173527937 Sergio Hernández Quintero. https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/174072333 Vienna, Austria, with its Skyline is a clear example between modernity and old heritage protection...Vienna is so nice, a wonderful place,]]> 2017-05-27 08:31:01 UTC https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/174072333 Sergio Hernández Quintero in Vienna, Austria. https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/174073064 Visiting Hundertwasser Hause-Krawina, Vienna. By Friedensreich Hundertwasser. This is very clear example of modernity in a city as Vienna.]]> 2017-05-27 08:47:02 UTC https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/174073064 The new money https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/174247597 The stock market is an example of modernity. It is non a traditional way of making money!!! ]]> 2017-05-29 12:53:41 UTC https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/174247597 Modernity is a notion related to the artificial man-made world. There is no modernity in nature. https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/174701156

]]> 2017-05-31 20:25:12 UTC https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/174701156 Modernity is the capital of Europe's most important and known monument the 'Manneken pis natiscc4 https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/175351640 This monument has more than 900 suits, all of them symbolize cultures, events, traditions and disagreement with political issues. Freedom of expression.

]]> 2017-06-06 09:34:53 UTC https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/175351640 To close the gap between the push button order & the human act... Michael Newman https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/175952576 Jacob Bronowski explores the importance of constuction in science and what happens when we confuse our constructions with reality!]]> 2017-06-10 14:32:09 UTC https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/175952576 Library of Birmingham https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/178982026 Something I associate with modernity is the new Library of Birmingham.  It is completely different from buildings I am used to, inside as well as outside.  However, it still has reference books and novels like traditional libraries, and comfortable chairs for people to sit and read.  It is a really new kind of building but also a community place.
Anne Mills  


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]]> 2017-10-05 08:38:54 UTC https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/194196728 Auditorio Adán Martín, Santa Cruz de Tenerife cubansow https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/224720006 This auditorio, on Avenida de la Constitición in Santa Cruz, was designed by architect Santiago Calatrava Valls and completed in 2003. It is an excellent venue for a wide range of events and a popular landmark of the city. ]]> 2018-01-25 16:04:45 UTC https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/224720006 The Recycling Symbol https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/225561283 Modernity in Europe today is that we are the generation that have first realised the natural resources of the world are finite and some could runout in our lifetime. This symbol represents attempts to rectify this problem by recycling products and materials. - Ian Fraser ]]> 2018-01-29 11:14:29 UTC https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/225561283 Pont de Can Vernet https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/225567344 This is a 14-century aqueduct that I walk over every morning. When it was renovated a few years ago, it got a modern walkway. On the right, there is rusty iron handrail, and on the left the handrail is made of shiny chrome. It's a nice contrast of old and new.]]> 2018-01-29 11:40:20 UTC https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/225567344 DUSTBINS IN LUGANO, SWITZERLAD https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/225612042 Modern dustbins in an old town..
I agree with Elisabeth Bird; Santiago Calatrava is a really modern Vau! -architect. The science park in Valencia, the railway station in Liege...]]> 2018-01-29 13:51:03 UTC https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/225612042 China has overtaken Europe richarddramsey https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/225771341
This demonstrates that the process of change to culture has accelerated. China would have been seen as ancient at the time of the European industrial revolution. It has now become more modern in many ways!


]]> 2018-01-29 18:08:51 UTC https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/225771341 Banksy https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/225838230 Banksy is believed to be a native Bristolian, my home town. His images of alternative graffiti began to appear in the ‘90s and his workings all had a common theme; to challenge our perception of authority. A clear example of “local” modernity.]]> 2018-01-29 20:01:21 UTC https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/225838230 Rapid World Consumption https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/225869889 One of the staples of modernity is the evergrowing ability to consume natural resources at a faster rate than these can regenerate themselves.]]> 2018-01-29 21:27:51 UTC https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/225869889 London ancient and modern. https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/225875103 St Helen's Church, Bishopsgate, founded in 1210, with 15th century arches, badly damaged by IRA bombs in the early 1990s, now restored. Behind stands/looms/  soars 'the Gherkin', opened in 2004, built by Norman Foster. A contrast to be deplored or admired?]]> 2018-01-29 21:46:43 UTC https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/225875103 richarddramsey https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/226168053 2018-01-30 16:20:07 UTC https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/226168053 City of London Freemens School https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/226485051 This is main house. It’s the oldest building at the school which has been there since the school moved from London to Ashtead in 1926.]]> 2018-01-31 10:29:06 UTC https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/226485051 Spinaker Tower Portsmouth England https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/227084624 A modern design that can be seen for miles around.]]> 2018-02-01 15:19:19 UTC https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/227084624 Money at all times https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/227875307 2018-02-04 17:17:25 UTC https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/227875307 Mass access to culture https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/227876568 2018-02-04 17:26:05 UTC https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/227876568 https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/227921483 Recognizable modern designs aren’t common where I live but phones abound. ]]> 2018-02-04 22:43:26 UTC https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/227921483 Bellydance-- a Middle Eastern dance form which has evolved during the modern period. There are regional variations such as Egyptian vs Turkish. There are also modern fusion styles such as American Tribal Style. Raqs Sharki, Oryantal Dans, danse du ventre, Bauchtanz. The photo shows Leyla Jouvana and Roland Jouvana who teach and perform from their base in Germany. https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/229344288 Anneliese]]> 2018-02-07 21:35:29 UTC https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/229344288 Recycling https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/230303018 In Switherland people have no problem with garbage.]]> 2018-02-10 20:13:01 UTC https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/230303018 Recycling aleks_lavrova https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/230303140 People in Switherland have no problems with garbage.]]> 2018-02-10 20:15:01 UTC https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/230303140 Sincretismo mori1 https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/235355073 This sculpture ]]> 2018-02-26 14:16:05 UTC https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/235355073 Unmodernity mmrozova https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/237270564 2018-03-02 03:41:38 UTC https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/237270564 European commission building .This is an example modern architecture housing a modern institution The European Union. quaint_macavity https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/254082295 2018-04-21 21:03:43 UTC https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/254082295 Being able to cross the globe in less than a day mona_antonia https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/274295751 I associate the invention of planes and the (relatively) newfound accessibility of travel with modernity. Being able to go to the other side of the world and experience an entirely different kind of lifestyle, for example, other than what you're used to -- that, to me, signifies progress, as you (literally) move away from your own traditions. ]]> 2018-08-21 13:31:53 UTC https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/274295751 The rite of summer clarasae https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/274849830 This picture had been taken inside Stonehenge (UK) during the summer solstice. Sometimes modernity (phones and young people ) is easier to find in contraposition to its opposite!]]> 2018-08-23 13:33:50 UTC https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/274849830 Having access to everything tafurcata https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/274896215 The first thing that comes to my mind with the topic of modernity is the use of internet and cell phones, we can communicate with people all around the world in a second but it is still hard to have a real connection with people sitting next to us]]> 2018-08-23 15:24:33 UTC https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/274896215 Bibliothque nationale de France https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/278022127 This is a picure I took last winter in Paris. I think it symbolises modernity well, as it is a biiling with quite a modern achitecture, built in the 1980s, containing documents from a long time ago . all of this is set in a neighbourhood which was heavily rebuilt recently]]> 2018-09-05 15:10:35 UTC https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/278022127 new V & A Museum at Dundee https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/292559365 someones idea of modern design, unless the construction and materials are included in the analysis it might not be modern?]]> 2018-10-14 17:02:03 UTC https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/292559365 MAAT https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/292747032 2018-10-15 11:36:37 UTC https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/292747032 https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/292914544 The vertical wood, Milan. ]]> 2018-10-15 16:18:33 UTC https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/292914544 The British Museum https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/293537685 Something old and something new]]> 2018-10-16 18:30:53 UTC https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/293537685 The Guggenheim https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/293538660 The outside is better than the inside in my view]]> 2018-10-16 18:32:18 UTC https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/293538660 The Transport Sistem sergio_rodas_1996 https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/293611443 The way that we travel nowadays is one of the best examples of modernity. The complexity of the transport sistems in the world is something extraordinary.]]> 2018-10-16 21:23:45 UTC https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/293611443 New ways of transportation amy_goodson1 https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/293649129 This type of wagon was a very modern invention at one point in time. Settlers in the US used these types of wagons to move their belongings and families across the country to the West in search of a better life.]]> 2018-10-17 00:52:36 UTC https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/293649129 New Ways of Expressing Oneself https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/293806217 New books with new ways of expressing oneself, searching for new meanings and new stories]]> 2018-10-17 12:47:50 UTC https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/293806217 Modernity is everywhere around us! martina_pisova4 https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/294298999 In my head, the term "modernity" is inevitably connected with ART. We express our feelings through it – and through feelings we perceive our world. That is why I love modern art – because it shows the contemporary world as it is seen by someone who wanted to find something... more. 

During my travels, I always have my copy of Ulysses by James Joyce in my handbag. It is already rumpled and well-worn, its pages sprinkled by seawater as well as dusty because of desert sand, but I don't mind. Every chapter reminds me the some moment when I was reading it on the beach in Thessaloniki or in the train in Antwerpen. And while the plot of the book takes place within a single day, I tantalize my reading of it through months, even years. The style of writing of this book was Joyce's way to express modernity, the style of reading it is mine. 

Another example is the photography attached. The day when I took it was one of the best days in my life – it was my 25th birthday. I had just left S. M. A. K. (the museum of contemporary art in Gent, Belgium) and then I was  taking a walk through a park nearby, when I found this inscription on the wall. I was looking at it the same way as at artworks in museum just a few minutes before. It felt the same. 

Modern art is everywhere around us. Sometimes, we create it even unconsciously because since modernity is the hardly seizable term, we express our feelings about it even through our everyday activities – we just don't have time to think about it anymore. ]]> 2018-10-18 12:33:44 UTC https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/294298999 This is the top of the Museum of Applied Arts in Hungary, which was temporarily removed for the time of reconstruction works. This part of the secessionist building shows that secession was a very modern style in its own time. - DoraH https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/294316603 2018-10-18 13:06:44 UTC https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/294316603 Excer https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/295191129 This picture was from a public lecture regarding the Reformation and it's impact not only on politics and religion but also emotional expression. For me, this is clearly not modern Europe as we not only have a cruel and inhumane punishment, burning alive, but we also have a child being present as well, something we would never consider doing today. Lastly, the reason these people are being burnt alive, holding different religions views, is seen as a gross violation of human rights and freedoms. URL: http://melbourneartnetwork.com.au/2011/12/12/public-lecture-by-lyndal-roper-and-symposium-emotions-and-historical-change-in-pre-modern-europe/]]> 2018-10-21 15:31:11 UTC https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/295191129 Renovation of the Gutenberg Museum https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/295230398 I upload this computer visualisation of the so called Bibel Tower which was an idea to modernise the Gutenberg Museum in my home town Mainz, Germany. Once the city council came up with this idea to renew the aged Gutenberg Museum, heavy discussions in the population arose. The plan was so controversial since it would have changed the outlook of the museum tremendously next to the fact that the tower would have had a high cost. Eventually the city council decided to conduct its first-ever referendum about the plan. The referendum failed and the Gutenberg Museum stays the way it is. In my opinion it is kind of ironic that Johannes Gutenberg with the invention of the press opened up Modernity but the modernisation of a museum dedicated to his invention was rejected by the population of his home town.]]> 2018-10-21 20:38:05 UTC https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/295230398 modern architecture https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/314732879 This is the facade of the new university in Leipzig. The building is built in modern glass-concrete style. It was planned in 2007 and completed in 2017. The remains of the old university church were integrated in the building. This church had been blown up by the leadership of the GDR in 1968. This modern architecture of the university would thus like to preserve the destruction and at the same time integrate it into a new beginning]]> 2018-12-14 16:57:55 UTC https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/314732879 Encounter of Cultures keniamarjory https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/316182778 In my view, the brightest side of modernity is the encounter of different cultures. In my city, in Brazil, we are able to have contact with so many cultures! One example is the Japanese Fair that happens annually. ]]> 2018-12-20 15:12:28 UTC https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/316182778 philosophers_anon https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/397900383 Turkeys voting for Christmas?
Satire and political criticism are now commonplace. The iconography in cartoons, such as this, are now everyday events. We spoke about the responses that they can evoke with tragedies such as Charlie Hebdo.
This criticises and satirises both the modern use of Politically Correct speech, and raises a big issue of indigenous people, and displacement
For me, it also raises the issue of animal rights, obliquely.]]> 2019-10-15 13:23:02 UTC https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/397900383 Arria https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/399980662 This sculpture sits on a site overlooking the main route North from my town and takes the form of a female figure, with two large swooping arcs from the upraised palms of her hands to the hem of her dress. The idea of the arcs comes from past culture with use of the Gaelic name for the town, “comar nan allt”, translating as “the meeting of the waters”....and creates a notable and modern feature seen by thousands of passing drivers daily.]]> 2019-10-20 14:35:09 UTC https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/399980662 building post-modernity’s imaginary of Hŭxley olivercmallorca1 https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/401582924 Grey building, architecture of liminal cells (filmic theory), it’s Bristol urban literary imaginary construction, a symbolic presence of fiction narratives to post-modernity in Aldous Hŭxley “Brave New World”, chapter 1 (...) a incubator gray building on the novel of social science fiction. Hŭxley who lived and wrote in the City of Bristol and Oxford in 1931/32 among other places, and his contribution to modernity and later to post-modernity.]]> 2019-10-23 16:55:00 UTC https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/401582924 camila_rique https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/404235388 I'm not sure that everyone can understand this as modernity, but for a while now I think that the possibility to fly in those big planes is a modern idea and reality. Being able to travel around and learn new things in each trip is my basic idea of what is modern: to learn and teach but always with your roots in mind. ]]> 2019-10-30 01:50:23 UTC https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/404235388 modern architecture https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/404420869 I took this photograph a few weeks ago in Den Haag - I love how the skyline shows the modern architecture but that it also has an older more historic statue in the foreground :)]]> 2019-10-30 13:23:20 UTC https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/404420869 Nusa Al Busaidi https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/407597391 Kempinski Hotel in Muscat it shows mimics a matrix of modern structures in its columns, glass roof and curtain walls with the carvings roof. It also stands as a modern interpretation of traditional structures which been used around the gulf country years ago. 


]]> 2019-11-06 17:26:53 UTC https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/407597391 Huf House https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/410439463 These kit houses from Huf Haus (a German company) are popular in the affluent area where I live near S. London. They display many classic characteristics of modern architecture, especially in the bringing of the outside surroundings in, with the huge windows. They are opposite to the vernacular architecture in England in many ways - materials are modern, they are created in a factory and erected very quickly and efficiently, they are modern in their precision and heat-retention.

]]> 2019-11-13 09:01:44 UTC https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/410439463 Dubai https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/413303949 I live in what has to be the most modernist city in the world. Modern thinking has created a city of 3 million in the desert - the city logo pays homage to its arab culture by includes the city name in its 2 official languages (Pink is arabic only, Pink and blue is English)]]> 2019-11-19 12:44:23 UTC https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/413303949 Visualising modernity https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/415637225 Like many of the previous posts I have chosen an architectural structure to define modernity. It is one of the most obvious ways in which challenging an authority can be seen. Going against the norms and creating something different despite what traditional architecture was/is. 

The picture is of the Dublin Convention Centre and despite what you think of it, it is certainly different. ]]> 2019-11-23 11:25:29 UTC https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/415637225 01general_grievous https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/418152001 This architectural structure shows how far we as a society have come in terms of high tech designs and ambitious ideas of how a building should be constructed. In the past this would never have come about but thanks to new technological innovations it can. ]]> 2019-12-01 15:46:31 UTC https://padlet.com/tomspits/ModernityVisual/wish/418152001