Centre for Tourism - University of Gothenburg

23/11/2023

Welcome to a hybrid seminar on The role of tourism in multicultural societies.

Eva Maria Jernsand, Emma Björner, Sayaka Osanami Törngren and Helena Kraff, will present their project on Tourism in multicultural societies (TiMS) at a "Migration seminar", organized by MiM (Malmö Institute for Studies of Migration, Diversity and Welfare) at Malmö university. The seminar is also part of the Centre for tourism seminar series at University of Gothenburg.

Time and date: Thursday 30 November, 14:15 - 16:00. The seminar is held in English. You can participate on site at Malmö University or online.

More information, and link for online participation can be found here: https://mau.se/en/calendar/migration-seminar-tourism-in-multicultural-societies-/?fbclid=IwAR0DeHmLW73HPL42OQCU-SPRkQVEILVmBjrZBqX4DflVAALs2M02B1QwY90

Inclusion has become a notion that is used across several disciplines, discourses and practices. Tourism research concerning place branding, tourism planning, community-based tourism, and sustainable tourism have also started to address inclusion as a response to the criticism of tourism’s impact ...

14/06/2023

The paper 'Tourism memories a collaborative reflection on inclusion and exclusion' is now published as open access. It explores how people’s differentiated privileged and marginalized positions in society create instances of inclusion and exclusion in tourism. It is also the result of an auto-ethnographic approach and joint reflective sessions by eight researchers in the TiMS (Tourism in Multicultural Societies) research team.

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02508281.2023.2207153

15/09/2022

Don´t miss our upcoming hybrid seminar in the series on design, tourism and place development (organized by Centre for tourism and Business & Design Lab at University of Gothenburg) this time with the theme of place making, and how we can connect to places through social networks and more than human actors.

Date: Wednesday October 5
Time: 12:00-13:00 (CEST)
Physical location: University of Gothenburg – Academy of Design and Art, Kristinelundsgatan 6
Online location: zoom (link to be sent after registration)
More info and registration: https://forms.office.com/r/Qk99BRBAxV

About the seminar; The connection between individuals and their surrounding social and ecological environment is crucial for establishing sound relationships to the places in which you live and visit. In this seminar we will explore the connection between people and places. Sara Licata, intern in the research project TiMS will present her research on Visiting Friends and Relatives (VFR) tourism in relation to migrant host's personal networks' influence on place participation dynamics. Christoph Matt, eco-social designer, will take us to a Design Camp in Austria and highlight the importance of people establishing sound relationships with more than human actors.

Image: Christoph Matt at Studio Matt

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20/04/2022

Don´t miss our upcoming hybrid-seminar in the seminar series on design, tourism and place development. The theme this time is Art and critical place making, with presentations by professor Tyrone Martinssson from the Faculty of fine, applied and performing arts, and Davor Abazovic from Art Inside Out.

Register here: https://forms.office.com/r/kMVK08dzfS

In this seminar we get the opportunity to explore the relationship that art, design and culture have to a place, its history, present time and future. We will also explore how artistic expression and, in some cases, critical perspectives are used by artists, designers, researchers and public actors to create discussion and engagement around a specific place.

Date: Wednesday May 4
Time: 12:15-13:15 (CEST)
Physical location: HDK-Valand, room- Bio-Valand, Storgatan 43, Gothenburg (register for this option also as there is a limit for how many people Bio-Valand takes)
Online location: zoom (link sent after registration)
Organized by: Business & Design Lab and Centre for tourism

Image by Tyrone Martinsson

29/11/2021

REMINDER: ABSTRACTS DUE November 30th, 2021

The Festspace team (http://festspace.net) is delighted to invite you to its Festivals, Public Space and Inclusion in the Post-Pandemic city conference in Dublin, on March 10th, 2022.

The Call for Papers can be found here: http://festspace.net/festspace_event/call-for-papers-festivals-public-space-and-inclusion-in-the-post-pandemic-city/

In brief, the Call seeks papers that critically consider what the relationship between festivals, public space and inclusion will look like post-COVID. Will it be back to business as usual, and a resurgence of the tensions that had come to characterise public discourses about festivals in cities? Will we see an intensification of pressures on public spaces? If so, how will cities plan for and manage such competing claims? Will there be an emergence of new types of event spaces? And will festivals staged in public space still create opportunities for sociability, for creating casual encounters that build familiarity with ‘others’?

Both conceptual and empirical papers are invited on topics related to:
Staging festivals in public space after the pandemic
Planning/designing city space for festivals post-COVID
Festival/event governance
Challenging cultural boundaries in festival settings
Changing social habits and festival consumption
Neighbourhood space and community festivals
Claiming/reclaiming space through festivals
Festivals, events and digital public space
Festivals, hybridization and hybrid public space

We plan for this conference to take place physically on Technological University Dublin’s city campus. Should this not be possible because of public health advice, the event will be moved online.

Abstracts (300 words) of papers should be sent by November 30th, 2021 to [email protected].
Notification of paper acceptance will be sent by December 15th, 2021.
Further details about the conference will be made available on http://festspace.net

Festivals, Events and Inclusive Public Space

25/11/2021

CALL FOR PAPERS
FESTIVALS, PUBLIC SPACE AND INCLUSION IN THE POST-PANDEMIC CITY, Dublin, March 10th, 2022.
The CfP can be found here: http://festspace.net/.../call-for-papers-festivals.../
Abstracts (300 words) of papers should be sent by November 30th, 2021 to [email protected].
Notification of paper acceptance will be sent by December 15th, 2021.

Festivals, Events and Inclusive Public Space

04/11/2021

SAVE THE DATE!
Date: Thursday 2nd December 2021
Time: 10.00 - 12.00 (CET)
Place: University of Gothenburg and online

Welcome to a hybrid seminar organized by the Centre for Tourism (https://www.gu.se/en/tourism ), School of Business, Economics and Law, University of Gothenburg and the European Hera project FESTSPACE (http://festspace.net).

Public space festivals, events and social sustainability: Post-pandemic insights from five European cities

During the COVID19 pandemic public space festivals and events have been cancelled, postponed, or managed differently. This unprecedented situation requires and opens up for new governance approaches able to address the post-COVID19 recovery, where health and safety as well as social engagement, cultural inclusion and digitalization are of pivotal importance. How do we ensure the social sustainability of public space festival and events in the post-pandemic city? The seminar addresses these issues, and involves both researchers and practitioners in the festivals and events sector offering European perspectives on the topic.

Welcome to a hybrid research – practitioner seminar focusing on what the relationship between festivals, public space and inclusion will look like post-COVID. The research project FESTSPACE (http://festspace.net), based in Barcelona, Dublin, Glasgow, Gothenburg and London has, since 2019 been studying festivals staged in European public spaces, exploring how festivals change space and querying the role they play in making public space more inclusive.

Register here https://forms.gle/BVk6pS3rMqaUgYXo9

2 December 2021 - 10-12 - School of Business, Economics and Law, University of Gothenburg

28/10/2021

CALL FOR PAPERS
FESTIVALS, PUBLIC SPACE AND INCLUSION IN THE POST-PANDEMIC CITY, Dublin, March 10th, 2022
Since 2019, the team of Festspace researchers http://festspace.net/ based in Barcelona, Dublin, Glasgow, Gothenburg and London has been studying festivals staged in European public spaces, exploring how festivals change space and querying the role they play in making public space more inclusive. To debate what the future holds, the Festspace team is delighted to invite you to its Festivals, Public Space and Inclusion in the Post-Pandemic city conference in Dublin, on March 10th, 2022.

The CfP can be found here: http://festspace.net/festspace_event/call-for-papers-festivals-public-space-and-inclusion-in-the-post-pandemic-city/

In brief, the Call seeks papers that critically consider what the relationship between festivals, public space and inclusion will look like post-COVID. Will it be back to business as usual, and a resurgence of the tensions that had come to characterise public discourses about festivals in cities? Will we see an intensification of pressures on public spaces? If so, how will cities plan for and manage such competing claims? Will there be an emergence of new types of event spaces? And will festivals staged in public space still create opportunities for sociability, for creating casual encounters that build familiarity with ‘others’?

Both conceptual and empirical papers are invited on topics related to:
Staging festivals in public space after the pandemic
Planning/designing city space for festivals post-COVID
Festival/event governance
Challenging cultural boundaries in festival settings
Changing social habits and festival consumption
Neighbourhood space and community festivals
Claiming/reclaiming space through festivals
Festivals, events and digital public space
Festivals, hybridization and hybrid public space

We plan for this conference to take place physically on Technological University Dublin’s city campus. Should this not be possible because of public health advice, the event will be moved online.

Abstracts (300 words) of papers should be sent by November 30th, 2021 to [email protected].
Notification of paper acceptance will be sent by December 15th, 2021.
Further details about the conference will be made available on http://festspace.net

Festivals, Events and Inclusive Public Space

04/10/2021

Lunch webinar: Art + Economy
Date: Wednesday 6 October
Time: 12:00-13:00 (CEST)
If you want to attend the webinar send an email to: [email protected]

In this webinar Anders Lindgren and his team will present Mötesplats Steneby and why art and culture are fantastic opportunities for the development of Dalsland (Sweden).
Mötesplats Steneby has a project in the making on the topic “art and economy” where artists and economists are invited to work together in a common process to explore this intersection.

Resources:

https://motesplatssteneby.se/
https://motesplatssteneby.se/ekonomi-konst-du/
https://motesplatssteneby.se/soker-ekonomi-konst-du/
https://motesplatssteneby.se/de-fem-konstnarerna-ar-nu-utvalda/

De fem konstnärerna är nu utvalda! Vi är mycket glada att nu presentera de konstnärer som fått en plats i projektet Ekonomin, Samhället och Konsten! Projektet kommer att ske genom en process där ekonomer och konstnärer samarbetar för att belysa temat ur ett antal olika aspekter. Samarbetet ...

07/09/2021

Don't forget to register to Thursday's lunch webinar on "Forest as destinations"!
Date: Thursday, September 9
Time: 12:00-13:00 (CEST)
Location: Online (zoom - link to be sent after registration)
Contact: [email protected]
In the webinar we will hear about two projects in which the Swedish forest is utilised as a meeting place, recreational space and as accommodation. Monika Andersson will first present the organisation Skog & Spis and their glamping concept – Skogshotellet (Forest hotel). This is followed by Alice Hultdin and Johan Andersson who will present their activating project Lyfta Skog (Lifting Forest). More information and registration via the link: https://forms.office.com/r/jsre4sxNCM. The series is organised by the Centre for Tourism and Business & Design Lab, at the University of Gothenburg.

03/09/2021

Here is a new video from one of CFT partners, Turistrådet Västsverige (West Sweden Tourism Board), about their sustainable tourism initiative Hållbarhetsklivet (in Swedish):

Hållbarhetsklivet är Västsveriges samlade initiativ för en hållbar besöksnäring. Här agerar offentliga och privata aktörer för att ställa om till ett hållbar...