Re-Thinking Tourism
for a Planet in Crisis
All over the world experts, residents, and cities have been advocating alternatives to the devastating impacts of overtourism on local territories, societies, economies and global climate.
The ‘Re-Thinking Tourism for a Planet in Crisis’ symposium opens up a cross-disciplinary discourse on the possible futures of responsible tourism.
As COVID-19 pandemic radically hits global tourism and the immediate environmental benefits become evident it is our unique opportunity to demand immediate response and fundamental redefinition of tourism worldwide.
Lectures
watch here or on youtube
Re-Thinking Tourism
for a Planet in Crisis
Jakob Travnik
University Assistant, Ph.D candidate on nanotourism at Institute of Architecture and Design, Architectural Typology and Design, TU Vienna, Austria
PANEL 1
Welcome To My Home:
Urban-Rural Relations
John Thackara
Writer, advisor and bioregional designer,
based in France
One Way Ticket to
Infinity and Back
Phineas Harper
Director of Open City, London, UK and Chief curator of 2019 Oslo Architecture Triennale
Implementing Nanotourism
by On-Site Education
Aljosa Dekleva
Programme Head of AA nanotourism Visiting School, London, UK and co-founder of Dekleva Gregoric architects, Ljubljana, Slovenia
MADE IN – alternative
production systems
Oaza
Creative collective, pursuing projects in visual communications, design research, curatorial design concepts, product and service design, based in Zagreb, Croatia
PANEL 2
Cheap Holidays in Other People's Misery
Timothy Morton
Philosopher and writer, Professor and Rita Shea Guffey Chair in English, Rice Univeristy, Texas, USA
No Culture
without Hospitality
Maria Finders
Artistic director of Luma Days and Artistic co-director of Atelier Luma, Arles, France
The Moral Economy
of Tourism
Dean MacCannell
Writer, Professor Emeritus of the Department of Environmental Design and Landscape Architecture at UC Davis, California, USA
Towards New Realities
Tina Gregoric
Professor and Department Chair at Institute of Architecture and Design, TU Vienna, Austria and co-founder of Dekleva Gregoric architects, Ljubljana, Slovenia
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