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HAS MAGAZINE
Spaces and places
two dimensions of Being
Editorial
Zoltán Somhegyi and the MDA-HAS team
This fifth issue of HAS Magazine explores the complex relationship between spaces and places. While space often appears as a neutral term, place carries emotional, cultural, or personal significance. These concepts shape our identities, actions, and the way we relate to our surroundings—be it local, internal, or global. The arts and humanities offer powerful tools to question, interpret, and connect these notions across disciplines. With a record number of submissions from around the world, this issue reflects diverse perspectives and reinforces HAS Magazine as a vibrant platform for transdisciplinary dialogue.
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Engagement and Contemplation
two elements inherent of CARE
The concept of care is crucial to address the challenges that our societies face at a local and global level, such as climate change, environmental degradation, ageing populations, gender equality, education, and poverty, etc. Care forces us to consider our interdependent relationships, to look inwards and outwards simultaneously.
This issue again investigates two seemingly opposing concepts. However, just as in the previous topics (Nr. 1: “Big Data and Singularities,” Nr. 2: “Between Anxiety and Hope,” and Nr. 3: “Truth and Belief”), the two carefully-chosen concepts do not simply oppose each other—rather, they complement each other.
Given the fragility of their meaning and the changing and shifting values attributed to them, we have again located these two concepts in the centre of the investigation—not as things from which one needs to choose, but as a frame that contains the possible forms of action.
Engagement cannot efficiently work without contemplation. And they do not simply work in chronological order. Contemplation does not necessarily or always have to precede action, but continuously accompanies engagement.
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The theoretical analyses, case studies, project reports, and artworks in this 4th issue of HAS Magazine were selected to shed further light on this “collaboration” between engagement and contemplation, to mutually influence and enlarge their potentialities, in relation to the notion of care.
Zoltán Somhegyi, editor-in-Chief of HAS Magazine
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TRUTH AND BELIEF
HAS is an interdisciplinary magazine that tackles the most critical topics in contemporary society from the perspective of the humanities, social sciences and the arts.
HAS shares ideas, proposals and knowledge to provide insights, to deepen our knowledge of the world, of others and of ourselves, and to encourage action and participation.
The aim of HAS is to contribute to the development of cross-cultural and multidisciplinary collaborations – essential to understanding complex social challenges and to tackle the questions they raise.
Creating a magazine beyond the classical boundaries of the humanities by opening its pages to reflections on complex, urgent and global issues
-ecological, health, political, social, economic, gender related and more
-HAS offers a platform for positive change in society on a local and global level.
The reader will find contributions that represent a wide range of research fields and artistic practices, including analytical texts, documentary projects, and creative propositions. HAS Magazine aims to propose innovative responses, opening paths to improve our present and future.
The third issue of HAS Magazine, Truth and Belief, offers different approaches to these two concepts through a selection of theoretical analyses and examinations of case studies, as well as artworks and projects.
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BIG DATA AND SINGULARITIES :
Creativity as a Basis for Re-thinking the Human Condition
The first issue of HAS magazine is to discover on line from june 16th at .In order to be accessible to the broadest possible readership, HAS is published in three languages – English, French, Chinese – and is freely available on the new digital platform Humanities, Arts and Society: humanitiesartsandsociety.org .
HAS is an interdisciplinary magazine that tackles the most critical topics in contemporary society from the perspective of the humanities, social sciences and the arts.
HAS shares ideas, proposals and knowledge to provide insights, to deepen our knowledge of the world, of others and of ourselves, and to encourage action and participation.
The aim of HAS is to contribute to the development of cross-cultural and multidisciplinary collaborations – essential to understanding complex social challenges and to tackle the questions they raise.
Creating a magazine beyond the classical boundaries of the humanities by opening its pages to reflections on complex, urgent and global issues – ecological, health, political, social, economic, gender related and more – HAS offers a platform for positive change in society on a local and global level.
The reader will find contributions that represent a wide range of research fields and artistic practices, including analytical texts, documentary projects, and creative propositions. HAS Magazine aims to propose innovative responses, opening paths to improve our present and future.
The second issue of HAS, Between Anxiety and Hope, addresses these two intrinsic experiences of the human condition, through the prism of literature, music, philosophy, history, psychology, technology, cinema…
22 contributions from authors and artists from 11 disciplines are presented in the journal.
The first issue of HAS will present 35 contributionsfrom artists, scientists, artisans, philosophers, writers and more in different artistic, scientific or literary formats.
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BIG DATA AND SINGULARITIES :
Creativity as a Basis for Re-thinking the Human Condition