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A new interdisciplinary workshop titled “INTERACTIONS 2024: Tourism – New Dynamics“ will be held on the premises of the Arts Academy of the University of Split from November 5 to November 8.
Participation in the workshop is free, but travel, accommodation, and food are the participants’ responsibility. The maximum number of participants is limited to 24, and the application deadline is September 29. The workshop is organized in cooperation with the Erasmus+ European project Speculative Urban Futures (SUrF).
Below you can read more about the program, its topic, and how to register.
This four-day program will host lectures, discussions, and workshops for graduate and post-graduate students, researchers, and young practitioners engaged in creative practices in various fields such as design, architecture, art, digital technologies, psychology, social and natural sciences, and all others from any field that feel they could contribute to this topic.
INTERACTIONS 2024 will be held at the Department of Visual Communication Design of the Academy of Arts, University of Split. English is the working language of the workshop. The results of the program will be published on the website of the Erasmus+ European project Speculative Urban Futures (SUrF).
Participation in the workshop is free. Travel, accommodation, and food are the responsibility of the participants. The maximum number of participants is limited to 24, and the application deadline is September 29.
You can register here.
Today, it is difficult to find a place with a cultural or natural heritage in the Mediterranean that is not under great pressure from the unstoppable tourism that is changing the way of life in this part of the world.
Most of the fetishized tourist destinations in the Mediterranean irreversibly depend on only one service sector – tourism.
In the 21st century, the results of tourism are widely visible and critically discussed, from the relocation of the local population from the historic city cores, along with their gentrification and Disneyfication, the increase in the cost of living of the local population, to the extreme pressure on the local infrastructure, turning the local population into second-class citizens.
In the post-Covid world, we witness daily examples of the outcome of excessive tourism, from mass protests in Palma de Mallorca, entry tickets to Venice, to this summer’s closure of the Acropolis in Athens due to long queues combined with extreme heat.
In addition to “tourist disasters”, climate changes are also inevitable, which will be especially pronounced in the European part of the Mediterranean, with rising air and sea temperatures, which will bring extreme changes to the sea and coast, irreversibly changing one of the most desirable climatic and natural parts of Europe.
Possible specific topics that the workshop will deal with in the context of the local near future:
The hosts are Ivica Mitrović and Oleg Šuran (Arts Academy of the University of Split). The workshop will be divided into two groups, one will be led by the Split team, and the other by a group from the TU Delft Faculty of Architecture (Andrej Radman, Heidi Sohn, and Stavros Kousoulas).
The guests of the discursive program (lectures and discussions) are Lidija Petrić (Faculty of Economics, University of Split) and Mario Vrbančić (Department of English, University of Zadar).
INTERACTIONS is an informal educational platform at the Department of Visual Communication Design of the Academy of Arts in Split, connected with the master’s program, aiming to go beyond the scope of design definitions and rethink what design is today.
The INTERACTIONS activities started in 2001 (during the summer school at the Interaction Design Institute Ivrea) with the first event in 2004 – the International Summer School of Interactive Design “Convivio – Communities in Transition“.
The platform was part of various European projects, collaborations, and events such as the UrbanIxD project (2013-2014), the SpeculativeEdu project (2018-2021), and the discursive program of the Croatian Pavilion at the 18th International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia (2023).
It hosted many workshop leaders and lecturers: James Auger, Tuur Van Balen, Nelly Ben Hayoun, Nicolas Nova, Liam Young, Noam Toran, Tobias Revell, Anab Jain, Demitrios Kargotis and Dash Macdonald (Dashndem), Michael Smyth, Steffen P . Walz, Chris Hand, Victor Vina, Erik Sandelin and Magnus Torstensson (Unsworn industries), Gordan Savičić, Martin Avila, Liam Healy, Dionysia Mylonaki, Gennaro Asscione, and many others.
Speculative Urban Futures (SUrF) is an educational project that explores the role and purpose of design in the 21st century – understood as an ecology of knowledge, imagining/imagination, and creation that is deeply involved in the complex world dynamics that shape contemporary urban realities.
Project partners are Center de Recherche en Design (CRD), ENS/ENSCI (Paris); TU Delft, Faculty of Architecture; ELISAVA (Barcelona); Estonian Association of Architects (EAA) (Tallinn); and the Arts Academy of the University of Split.
Visuals and text: INTERACTIONS
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