Scientists from Anthropictures studio help to make life in towns better












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            * Scientists from Anthropictures studio help to make life in towns better
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            Their aim is to make life in public spaces better, help town councils find the best way to

            their communities and also to increase public awareness of social anthropology. They call 
            the Anthropictures studio [ URL "http://www.anthropictures.cz/"] . The members of this stu
            social anthropologists from universities all over the Czech Republic. One of them is Marké

            postgraduate student at the CU Faculty of Humanities. [ URL "http://fhs.cuni.cz/FHSENG-1.h
            The Anthropictures studio started its work in the field of applied research at the beginni
            when its services were utilised by the Prague 14 local authority with the intention of map

            community activities and groups active in the borough. The studio team looked into where t
            came into contact, what their needs were and what must be done to aid their continued func

            positively influence life in Prague 14.
            “The key partners for us are the local authorities, as it is they who can actively contrib
            improvement and functioning of the public space in the Czech Republic. It is important tha

            not shut themselves away in their offices and only write complex essays that no-one reads 
            to go the other way and speak publicly about the current problems of society and what soci
            is,” explained Markéta Slavková.

            The fact that the main goal of the Anthropictures studio is not profit, but primarily to p
            to society, is also shown by its ethical code, which emphasises meticulousness and precisi
            out research work.

            While Anthropictures is the first studio of its type in the Czech Republic, this kind of t
            abroad. Activities like this are typical in, for example, the United States of America, wh
            they are organised on a much more commercial basis. However, the public is generally aware

            that the work carried out by these teams is important, and their services are also utilise
            army.
            Apart from its research activities, the Anthropictures studio also endeavours to spread aw

            the significance of social anthropology. To this end the studio team prepared a series of 
            entitled AnthroPop [ URL "http://www.anthropictures.cz/anthropop/"] . Individual sessions 
            every other Tuesday in Letenské sady in Prague and are aimed and the general public. At th

            anthropologists and students will talk about everything that affects the lives of people i
            towns.
            “In the Czech there is generally little awareness of what social anthropology is. People m

            study bones. When I tell them that I don’t, and that I’m more interested in living people,
            I’m some kind of Indiana Jones character. This is another reason why it is important to di
            in public as much as possible,” added Ms. Slavková.

            Apart from their work for the Anthropictures studio, members are also engaged in their own
            research. Markéta Slavková focuses on the war in the former Yugoslavia, primarily in Bosni
            Herzegovina. In her research, she endeavours to capture contemporary life in Srebrenica, a

            experience of the horrors of war, which in this case tipped over into genocide.
            “I was initially rather intimidated by the topic, knowing that it would be problematic to 
            would speak openly about their experiences. My dissertation will probably be entitled Vaře

            za časů války a míru (‘Cooking and Dining at Times of War and Peace’) and will address cha
            in the production, preparation and consumption of food. The topic of food is a fruitful me
            out interesting facts about people’s lives in society without asking them directly about t

            of the war. Srebrenica was massively affected by the war, mainly in the makeup of its popu
            before the war, most of the population was Bosniak, nowadays it’s seventy percent Serb, al
            should be reflected in my study,” noted Slavková, who leaves in the summer for an eight-mo

            Srebrenica, from where she will continue long-distance collaboration with the Anthropictur
            The Anthropictures studio was founded last year by Pavel Borecký and Lukáš Hanus from the 
            Brno. They were later joined by Markéta Slavková and Pavla Burgos Tejrovská from Charles U
            social and urban anthropological field research. They have adopted ‘better data for a bett
                                                                                                      
            The Anthropictures studio this year won the Czech section of the Social Impact Award inter