Creativity, Tourism and Community
Travel and tourism can be forces for good: opening minds, building understanding, creating jobs, supporting social development and motivating authorities to invest in conservation. However, tourism’s negative effects - environmental, economic, social, political, cultural - are also undeniable and long before the outbreak of Covid-19 have been driving industry reflection on the ethos and practices of tourism. Climate crisis, pandemic risk, legacies of colonialism and damage caused by over-tourism cannot be ignored. For a growing number of providers, “business as usual” is no longer an option.
In this second of five online events, we will ask how creative initiatives can support positive engagement between travellers and host-communities. Join the Urgent Situation team (see below) plus Elizabeth Monoian and Robert Ferry, founders of Land Art Generator, Astrid Fadnes, communications agent at curators’ and producers’ collective Pikene på Broen and artist Syowia Kyambi to examine present-day intersections between art and culture, local communities and the tourist industry and explore what their future relationships might look like.
The event will include a short presentation by each panellist followed by a discussion moderated by Vere Van Gool, curator, writer and former Associate Director and Curator at New Museum’s IdeasCity program in New York, and audience Q&A.
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An Urgent Situation: Rethinking Tourism through Architecture, Arts and Community is developed together with Don Lawrence Architect, Rebel Architecture Lab, artist Tanja Thorjussen and Samong Haven. For more information about the project please click here.
The project is supported by