@AA nanotourism; Werft Laubegast, Dresden, Germany
LOCATION
Dresden, Sachsen
Germany
COURSE DESCRIPTION
Tourism faced radical challenges through the last global pandemic. Tourism, pre-pandemic, was one of the fastest growing global industries despite its many questionable impacts. The new realities give us an opportunity to rethink how we visit places and experience our home environments in meaningful and profound ways.
For its 9th edition, the AA nanotourism Visiting School will take place in Dresden, Germany, focusing on specificities of Dresden's old village centres that have been overgrown by the city over the past century and have thus lost their own identities and past recreational value to their new suburban role.
By critically investigating their current potential we will aim to develop 1:1 scale conceptual, locally-specific interventions in the form of events, built installations or strategies. Through a collaboration with key local stakeholders, the regional tourism agency and Kunstgewerbemuseum Dresden we will imagine and implement future collaborative prototypes of responsible tourism for the region. The program will run in parallel to the Design Campus Lab at Kunstgewerbemuseum Dresden - an innovation laboratory and incubator promoting research, multidisciplinary studies, knowledge exchange and the advancement of complex ideas and networks.
AA nanotourism Visiting School is an architectural educational programme focusing on nanotourism - a creative critique of the current environmental, social and economic downsides of conventional tourism. Through critical thinking and close collaboration with local stakeholders, we focus on developing nanotourism case studies to reveal hidden aspects of the particular context addressing the place, its users, and locally available materials.
nanotourism is a creative critique to the current environmental, social and economic downsides of conventional tourism, defined as a site-specific, participatory, locally oriented, bottom-up alternative. It operates as a social tool to stimulate mutual interaction between provider and user by co-creation or exchange of knowledge.
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