Volume 1, No. 1Visual Culture, Design, Education, and Heritage

This article examines three artworks I conceptually frame as The ineffable art series by an emerging Iranian female artist Mina Heidari. This exhibition was initially showcased as a three-part drawing series at the 2025 World in Balance festival in Hamburg. The three artworks titled: Condemnation, Decay, and Denial/Refusal, are a meditation on feminine agency, embodied violence and the dialectics of silence and visibility. Heidari’s work draws from her multidisciplinary background in art, science and activism as well as her censored Iranian context. Employing a philosophy of silence and opacity, where the unspoken becomes a site of agency and resistance, her art transforms personal and political repression into a universal feminist poetics of liberation. Through the recurring motif of a metonymic eye, she traces contours of an unavowable body, from violent exposure to a sacred disavowal, challenging viewers to engage not through sight but through embodied presence. Blending ethical witnessing with posthuman and queer feminist lenses, my analysis underscores how Heidari’s drawings reconfigure the female body as a living archive of trauma and resilience. Ultimately, this article argues that Heidari’s art suspends narrative closure to enact ‘radical stillness’, an unspoken poetics that reconfigures embodied silence as a potent language of resistance and ethical witnessing. Using the female body’s fragmented vitality to defy patriarchal and colonial silencing, Heideri invites viewers to dwell in the unspoken— to honor the scars that persist, the fragments that haunt, and the opacity that protects, in response to acute and chronic trauma.

Qanat has many valued tourist attractions and adventure, cultural, natural, and environmental attractions can be considered one of the world's main tourist destinations. Qanat as a new tourism attraction can help develop the tourism sector in Iran. Also, the determination to recognize and introduce the tourism potentials of the qanat is more than beneficial it is an essential task of science and culture and is mainly related to Iranian culture. In other words, tourism and its revenues can give rise to more motivation for sustaining qanats. Iran, in terms of historical, cultural, and natural diversity, has many valuable potential, and regional planning, and comprehensive principles can be considered one of the main destinations of tourism heritage. The study indicates that Qanat is one of the most relevant man-made attractions in Iran which is contributing to the development of Persian heritage. It gives interesting routes for tourists who are interested in cultural tourism experiences. This study aims to identify Bayazeh Qanat online visitors who are attracted by website design. For this purpose, we designed the site www.marefatnia.zgig.ir which is used by Google Map API.

The interplay between various sciences, particularly artistic disciplines, is a profound and intricate relationship. Throughout the history of architectural education, many renowned architects have demonstrated remarkable abilities in artistic fields beyond their primary expertise. The correlation between art and architecture has been researched and acknowledged in certain architectural schools, with scholars identifying it as a key factor in enhancing students' creative output. However, the significance of this topic has been largely overlooked in many educational settings, especially in newer institutions, despite the potential of space and architecture to foster social interaction among students. This paper underscores the importance of this relationship and its impact on promoting educational creativity among designers. To achieve this objective, we examine the lives and works of the selected prominent architects and theorists, emphasizing their connections with various art forms and artists from other disciplines. We then analyze how these interactions have influenced their architectural achievements. Additionally, as case studies, we explore more the impact of this relationship on the lives and works of renowned architects, including Le Corbusier, Houshang Seyhoun, and Kamran Diba. This study is primarily based on a review of relevant library resources.

In the rapidly evolving global economy, the role of designers has shifted beyond aesthetics and functionality to encompass social, economic, and ethical dimensions. This article explores the multifaceted responsibilities of contemporary designers, analyzing their impact on corporate structures, sustainability, and cultural shifts. Drawing insights from Klaudia Grzesik’s dissertation on "Spiritual Capitalism and the Vision of a Designer in the Corporate System," Academy of Art in Szczecin 2024, written under the supervision of M. Klein, this paper delves into the tensions between creativity and economic constraints, as well as the transformative potential of design in addressing modern societal challenges.