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Richness, quality, diversity and availability of different forms of cultural activities as well as mediation of cultural contents is of vital importance for children, because their age is optimal for adopting cultural values contained in various activities. Thus, the offer of cultural institutions designed for children is important for building attitudes towards culture, cultural production and cultural consumption in their adult life. Following the research of the Center for Study in Cultural Development – “Cultural offer for the children of Belgrade” from 1983 – we initiated a project called “Cultural heritage and cultural participation”. This project started in 2014 and it has two goals. The first goal is to form a database of cultural institution projects aimed towards children that would be available to researchers of culture. The other also important goal is to contribute to innovations in creating programs that cultural institutions would offer in order to foster active cultural participation. Digitalization of documentation about the Studio for creative upbringing (Školigrica) allowed us to treat this project as a folklore legacy that in its core implies understanding of folklore as artistic communication in small groups that leaves significant trace among people of different generations.

From Roger Fenton’s 15-second exposure to Instagram. The first war photographer took pictures of soldiers chatting at ease around trenches but avoided photographing death scenes. He wanted to show a less gruesome side of war. The famous Valley of the Shadow of Death, a photograph Fenton took during the Crimean War, represents more than an objective documentarist approach. There is no explicit death on this photograph, but it is in a way a portrait of death without the dead. Today, with Instagam app, we can upload death scenes to the web instantaneously, at the moment of exposure. The photographs of death we took in passing along the local road will immediately be uploaded to our FB profiles, Twitter, Foursquare, Tumblr, Flickr and Posterous. Hybrid forms of photo apps and social networks have made death scenes even less of a taboo by making them commonplace – a trend which had already started with the advent of digital photography. The first major change was introduction of a rolled photographic film by Kodak (“You press the button, we do the rest”). The phenomena which shed more light on the process of de-tabooing death and creating a phenomenon of popular culture include WEEGEE and other art photographers who build on their tradition.

Research, restoration and maintenance of immovable cultural heritage requires funding. Before proposing a new way of funding that is in accordance with society possibilities and market principles, all the problems, field situations and needs should be professionally assessed. Monument annuity represents a way of including the immovable cultural heritage into economic domain. If based on professional principles, this would not represent an attack, a denial or profanation of heritage but could be the first step in regulation of the monumental potential of a territory. Monumental annuity provides sustainable monument management, defines maximum number of monument users, restricts monument exploitation, encourages proper attitude towards the monument, stimulates income, balances expenses, provides incentive for further exploration, provides funds needed for research and maintenance etc. During research, we used the theoretical and practical experiences of countries that have introduced payment of monument annuity.

This paper analyses the phenomenon of collective intelligence, which is intriguing and increasingly important, and it presents research that provides interesting insights about its existence and presence. The central part of this paper analyzes various trends and theories which are associated with the collective intelligence in order to show it in a larger context. Furthermore, the paper provides an overview of examples of collective intelligence in humans and provides parallels with various management techniques and practices that testify that the knowledge of this phenomena and advantages of its use in a variety of human activities have been known for a long time. In conclusion, the importance of collective intelligence is emphasized for the development and evolution of the human society, constituting possible directions for further development of this field and raising questions about further potential directions. This paper was produced using the method of content analysis of domestic and foreign literature, the classification method, the description method, the comparative method, the method of analysis and synthesis and the historical method.