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📚 DAFES Awards: Visual Research

This nomination lies at the intersection of art history and cultural studies. It’s about visually and conceptually exploring a phenomenon or trend in classical or contemporary culture—through art, design, architecture, cinema, or theater.

🔍 Let’s look at a great example:
“Tiny Houses: A Diversity of Forms for Future Living” by Aleksandra Shushina.

This research dives deep into the global tiny house movement—from traditional igloos and yurts to futuristic capsule homes.

Structured around design, function, ecology, and aesthetics, the project reveals how compact housing reshapes how we live, consume, and relate to space. With stunning visuals, it reflects on architecture’s future and cultural values through form.

💬 Want to take part?
Apply to DAFES Awards – Visual Research and show how culture can be seen, studied, and reimagined visually.

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📷 DAFES AWARDS 2025: Heritage & Innovation

Deadline: May 11

Enter the international creative photography competition “Heritage and Innovation: A Dialogue Between Analog and Digital”, hosted by FOTOLAB and Photographer.ru on the DAFES Awards platform.

It’s a space where film meets algorithm, grain meets clarity — and photographers explore what visual art means today.

🏆 Categories:
– Analog Photography
– Digital Photography

🌍 Free to enter, open worldwide (21+).
🖼️ Finalists will be exhibited in Moscow.
📅 Submit your project by May 11.

Film or pixels? Doesn’t matter — only your vision does.

→ Apply now via this link

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👗 Corsets: More Than Just Tight Laces

The corset isn’t just a fashion relic — it’s a timeline stitched in fabric.

- Long before Victorian silhouettes, Minoan women (1600 BCE) wore fitted bodices that exposed the bust — for ritual power, not modesty.
- the 18th century, corsets (or “stays”) weren’t only for elites — working women wore soft, flexible versions for back support. Think: early posture correctors.
- During the 1900s, corsets became so rigid that doctors used X-rays to reveal displaced ribs and organs. Newspapers published the images — a viral moment of its time.

But not all feminists rejected them: some suffragettes chose corsets as symbols of self-discipline and style.

Later, Vivienne Westwood reimagined corsets as punk armor — subversive, not submissive.
Now they’re viral again — from TikTok trends to couture — reshaped with comfort and choice.

🧵 Fashion changes. The body stays political.

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