FESTSPACE

The FESTSPACE project focuses on how festivals and events enable or restrict access to, and use of, public spaces, including the extent to which they might effectively host interactions and exchanges between people from different cultural, ethnic, socio-economic and socio-demographic backgrounds. We are interested in how the design and operation of urban festivals and events might help to dismantle existing divisions. However, we acknowledge that festivals and events have the potential to symbolically, financially and physically exclude marginal populations from conventional public spaces, hence making spaces less public or less diverse... FESTSPACE focuses on Western European cities that are dealing with significant demographic changes caused by in-migration. The project examines the festivals and events staged in three archetypal public spaces - streets, squares, parks - whilst acknowledging the potential implications for indoor public spaces (particularly museums and libraries). To..

Primary location: Paisley United Kingdom