Forum Future Tourism

The Forum Future Tourism aims to rethink and challenge established practices, routines and rules for success in tourism in the face of major (global) transitions. In workshops, lectures and roundtables Social Design Studio discussed, at the invitation of Austrian National Tourist Office (Österreich Werbung), with artists and activists in the tourism realm the cultural significance of tourism in a region.

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In a growing – and in times of crisis highly loaded – field of tension between tourism and everyday life, the understanding of the desired qualities of experience diverge, culminating in noticeable irreconcilability. Tourist centres – as social and cultural structures – emerge through constant negotiation of their qualities and characteristics, history, present, and future by travellers and locals alike. At the same time, tourist destinations are subject to strong pressure to be efficient and yet cannot isolate themselves from the mentioned negotiations.

In the course of the Forum Future Tourism Social Design Studio took these challenges as a starting point to initiate a process of questioning and rethinking the roles and ultimately the responsibilities of guests, hosts and all those (in)directly affected by tourism, the (lacking) intersections between tourism, art and culture and everyday life, and the forms of participation for different generations and lifestyles. In the discussions the specificities of tourist centres and regions such as Bad Gastein, Flachau or Neusiedler See served as model cases of local challenges, theoretical viewpoints and personal experiences.

Organized by

Social Design Studio

Contributions by

Theo Deutinger, Philipp Furtenbach, Lukas Vejnik

with

Austrian National Tourist Office (Österreich Werbung)

Time

Summer Semester 2021