Университет и город: геокультурная миссия. Экспертное интервью

Urbis et Orbis. Микроистория и семиотика города. 2024. Т. 4. № 2. С. 201–216.

Zamyatin D., Аванесов С. С.

The expert interview is devoted to discussing the problems of correla-
tion of territory and space in personal cultural experience, and to deter-
mining the place and role of the university in preserving and translating
the cultural heritage of the city and the region. A geographical location
is characterized as an objective constant, while space is formed by hu-
man cultural activity and therefore is always dynamic and prospective.
At the same time, landscape and culture influence each other; the con-
text of such mutual influence gives way to discussing the existence of
different geocultures. The traditions of geocultures are able to shift to-
gether with their carriers, while cultures are open to external influences
and internal transformations. These trends characterize Russia as a
large cultural space. Local identity is based on the completeness of a
personal sense of being in a certain geoculture, in the cultural space of
a certain city. The university can transmit in time specific local identity,
which is expressed, among other things, in the spatial organization of
the urban landscape. To preserve the urban cultural code that underlies
the geocultural originality of the territory should become the mission of
university today.

Keywords: университет, space, пространство, город, university, ландшафт, city, геокультура, geoculture, landscape