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WHO ARE WE ?. CENTRE FOR REGIONAL AND TOURISM RESEARCH Development in peripheral areas Research Consultancy work Education Economic analysis and modelling Tourism and Experience economy Peripheral areas/ Islands. PROJECT BACKGROUND. A FEW WORDS ABOUT BORNHOLM. Population 42.000 +
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WHO ARE WE ? CENTRE FOR REGIONAL AND TOURISM RESEARCH Development in peripheral areas • Research • Consultancy work • Education Economic analysis and modelling Tourism and Experience economy Peripheral areas/ Islands
A FEW WORDS ABOUT BORNHOLM • Population 42.000 + • Declining population • Aging population • Tourists annually: approx. 750.000 • Tradition for arts and crafts • New tradition for quality regional foods • Bornholm’s different brands • Residents´: Snow storms and grey hair • Traditional tourists’: beach recreation & sunshine (commercialized) • Emerging: urban cool & creative energy • (non-commercialized)
THERE’S SOMETHING HAPPENING HERE ON ONE HAND: • Demographicchallenge: youtharemovingaway ON THE OTHER HAND: • A growingnumber of activitieson Bornholm arranged by, and attended by youth, who have grown up on and moved from Bornholm. THIS IS OUR POINT OF DEPARTURE
PROJECT QUESTIONS • Which activities do youth who have moved away from Bornholm participate in on the island? • Can we conceptualise these activities as a creative resource for Bornholm? How? • To what extent and why is Bornholm chosen specifically as the place to be? • What are the motives for the youths’ choice of Bornholm as the locality of their activities?
’PROJECT PARTNERS’ Participants:Arts and Crafts Association Bornholm - ACABRegional Municipality of Bornholm - BRK: new residents’ guide, Culturalcoordinator, DemographicconsultantCRT: Ph. D. student, researcher and project managerWorkshop and creativeprocessconsultant Mapping developerProject partner from East IcelandProject Partner from Vesterålen Wildcards:Student from Central Saint Martins College of Arts & Design, LondonStudent from Roskilde University/ youth-coordinator at BRK Film director and initiator of the event Wonderfestiwall Ph. D. Fellow, boardmember of the association ‘Baglandet’
OPEN-ENDED Discourse Visualization
EFFECTS New perspectives & new discourses • From a traditional peripheral understanding focused on loss of population to a new peripheral concept envisioning ex-locals’ activities as cultural and social resources. These resources support regional re-branding and local development. Long-term effects • We truly wish this project to be a development project, which is open-ended and in constant movement.