A sense of rurality: Events, placemaking and community participation in a small Welsh town

Aquilino, Lucia; Harris, John; Wise, Nicholas

doi:10.1016/j.jrurstud.2021.02.013

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“…This co-creation of event spaces using collaboration of the community through shared activities is important to place-building (Aquilino et al, 2021). Although the disruption of the pandemic impacted communities and their ability to engage in place-building activities, it is important to consider the temporal dimension.…”

Section: Community Events As Place-buildersmentioning

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Investigating the recovery of community events in Scotland, post-COVID-19

Davies,

Robbins,

Baxter

et al. 2023

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PurposeCommunity events are significant for building community identity and cohesion. During 2020–2021, events largely halted due to coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) and many communities lacked the capacity to recover their events quickly, in comparison to larger more well-resourced events. The study aims to understand and learn from the experiences of Scottish community event practitioners' during the disruption and recovery period for their events.Design/methodology/approachA targeted qualitative questionnaire elicited open-ended responses from people involved in the management and operation of community events in Scotland. Focus groups were also conducted with relevant practitioners to further elicit data.FindingsFour key themes emerged as follows: (1) COVID-19 fractured stakeholder networks and impacted the ability of community events to operate. Practices adapted to incorporate virtual events. (2) Events were considered as important for place-building and wider collective community benefits. This was brought more into focus for practitioners as a result of the pandemic. (3) Local authorities were variable in the level and support they gave community events. (4) Some positive changes were enforced through COVID-19, such as collaboration between small event collectives that can build resilience for community events in the future.Originality/valueThe research provides an analysis of community events, which are often small-scale, diverse, local, unique to destinations and under-researched compared to large events. It particularly builds understanding of their resilience to sectoral disruption, through the lens of recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic, an extraordinary disruptive event. This paper provides practical strategies for community actors and local authorities to improve event delivery and leverage community events as place-builders.

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Section: Community Events As Place-buildersmentioning

confidence: 99%

Investigating the recovery of community events in Scotland, post-COVID-19

Davies,

Robbins,

Baxter

et al. 2023

IJEFM

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“…In the aboriginal language, "Gaga", aboriginal ecological strategies advocate nature and human symbiosis that can contribute to our well-being in Taiwan [16]. The local environment can be used to increase interaction and understanding between locals and visitors [17], in the process Thus, due to the important changes in both consumers and manufacturers, increasing emphasis is being given to the emotional design stage of high-touch, aesthetics, and culture. Far from being limited to product design, this shift from high-tech to high-touch is also having a major impact on service innovation.…”

Section: Local Revitalization In the Aboriginal Communitiesmentioning

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“…In the aboriginal language, "Gaga", aboriginal ecological strategies advocate nature and human symbiosis that can contribute to our well-being in Taiwan [16]. The local environment can be used to increase interaction and understanding between locals and visitors [17], in the process of which local residents gain an enhanced sense of local identity. Moreover, local revitalization is multifaceted by nature and can include such elements as craft design, space arrangement, and service industry activities [18].…”

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“…Furthermore, Lin et al [11,15] also proposed a model for cultural product design. Thus, the natural environment and local culture are the key elements of cultural products in the local service industry, wherein visitors engage in activities of local cultural rituals, in the process of which they gain a personal experience of the local culture [17]. Therefore, based on the previous studies [11,15,27], the cultural and creative industries are divided into a cultural phase consisting of nature and culture, and a production phase consisting of the creation of distinctive products relating to daily life, as shown in Figure 3.…”

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Sustainable Development in Local Culture Industries: A Case Study of Taiwan Aboriginal Communities

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Taiwan’s indigenous communities have an abundance of unique cultures. Their service industries with local and foreign cultures have opened up distinct opportunities for sustainable development. Despite the enormous potential of aboriginal communities, particular attention should be given to ecology and sustainability. The traditional emphasis on craftsmanship and design is shifting to a new focus on the service industries and experimental design, which is not limited to the design of tangible products. Design concepts are now being applied to service industries that span several fields and are also being used to come up with systematic solutions for real-life problems. However, in the service industry, design experience must be used when introducing design concepts. The problem is how to shift from “High-tech” to “High-touch”, for the aborigines are used to designing products at the usability level. This research proposes a model of experience design for use in aboriginal culture revitalization. Three different cases show how to apply the framework from experience design to local revitalization. Results show that the model can integrate the principles of sustainability into service industries and that it needs to be verified in future studies.

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“…This study offers some critical directions that build on and relate to prior research focusing on the World Alternative Games, an event that takes place in Britain's smallest town, Llanwrtyd Wells. The event is known for its wacky approach and was developed to promote rural tourism in this remote part of Wales (see Aquilino et al, 2020Aquilino et al, , 2021. While Chapter 9 addressed a sense of community, placemaking, and rural destination marketing, this chapter is concerned with social development and how events contribute to new community identities which are embraced and contested.…”

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