CREATOUR and the Centre for Social Studies (CES), University of Coimbra invite you to participate in an exciting new summer school, ‘Uncovering Cultural DNA of Place, and Activating for Local Development.’ The 5-day intensive advanced training course offers a unique opportunity to enhance your knowledge and to gain skills on cultural mapping techniques and culture-based development strategies. This is a unique opportunity to learn from internationally acclaimed scholars and practitioners, including Lia Ghilardi who has led OECD workshops and is a specialist consultant in the field of culture and local development planning. The immersive course will include daily tours, learning seminars, and hands-on workshops where participants will actively engage in creating a solution for a place-related real-life local development issue. Daily tours will be to a variety of significant tangible heritage sites around the larger area, including a city and castle tour, museums, roman ruins, a speleological interpretation centre, and a river beach. Based in central Portugal, in the magical town of Penela, which features a castle and a network of caves, you will be introduced to one of the lesser known gems of Portugal.

This CES Summer School is associated with the CREATOUR project on "Creative Tourism Destination Development in Small Cities and Rural Areas," an incubator/demonstration and multidisciplinary research initiative supporting collaborative research processes. The three-year project (2016-2019) aims to connect the cultural/creative and tourism sectors through the development of an integrated research and application approach to catalyzing creative tourism in small cities and rural areas throughout Portugal.

The Summer School is intended for: professionals from private and public sectors (e.g., municipalities); graduate students/researchers in the social sciences, tourism, economics or cultural management-related areas; and practitioners and planners working with culture and/or tourism strategies for local development. Participants should have a good knowledge of English (the summer school will be held in English) and an interest in one or more of the following areas: cultural development, urban regeneration, tourism management, or local development.

Thematic area(s) of the course: cultural mapping techniques, culture-based development strategies, local development, cultural management, tourism management

Programme outline

Teaching team:
Lia Ghilardi (Founder and director of Noema)
Kathleen Scherf  (Professor of Communication at Thompson Rivers University in British Columbia, Canada)
Nancy Duxbury (Senior Researcher at the Centre for Social Studies, University of Coimbra / Principal Investigator of CREATOUR)
 

Interested? Apply here

To apply, please fill in the simple Application Form by March 30, 2019.  NEW DATE! 4^th June, 2019
All applicants will be notified of selection process results by April 8, 2019.  NEW DATE! 7^th June

Maximum number of registrations: 30
Minimum number of registrations: 20
 

Key dates

Deadline for submission of applications: 30 March 2019 NEW DATE! 4^th June, 2019
Notification of acceptance: 8 April 2019  NEW DATE! 7^th June
Earlybird registration deadline: 27 May 2019  NEW DATE! 12^th June, 2019
Final registration deadline: 21 June 2019
Summer School dates: 8-12 July 2019

For any questions, please contact us at: creatour@ces.uc.pt
 

Lia Ghilardi is the founder and director of Noema, a UK-based organization working to deliver place DNA mapping and strategic cultural planning projects. She is internationally recognized as a leader in this field and for more than twenty years has worked with civic leaders, cultural organizations, and communities to provide creative and integrated solutions to the challenges of place making. An urban sociologist by formation, she is a member of the Academy of Urbanism, a network of thinkers, professionals, and decision-makers passionate about better cities for all. She is Fellow of the RSA, an organization that supports the development of a principled, prosperous, and equitable society. She lectures regularly across Europe, and at City University, London, she taught cultural planning for more than 10 years as part of the MA in Culture, Policy and Management. More info is on her website. A selection of her publications is also available from Academia.edu.

Kathleen Scherf is Professor of Communication at Thompson Rivers University in British Columbia, Canada. She holds an MA and a PhD from the University of British Columbia, and a BA from the University of Toronto. She has spent ten years progressing through the academic ranks at each of the University of New Brunswick, the University of Calgary, and Thompson Rivers University. Her current research interests are creative tourism, with special attention to resident-visitor relations, as well as cultural mapping, using digital deep maps as place-making tools in an attempt to convey intangible aspects of culture not usually found on a 2D map. She frequently employs deep mapping as a pedagogical tool. For an example, please follow the link.

Nancy Duxbury is a Senior Researcher and Co-coordinator of the Cities, Cultures and Architecture Research Group at the Centre for Social Studies, University of Coimbra. She is Principal Investigator of CREATOUR: Developing Creative Tourism Destinations in. Small Cities and Rural Areas, and a member of the European Expert Network on Culture. Her research has examined culture in local sustainable development; culture-based development models in smaller communities; cultural indicators; and cultural mapping, which bridges academic inquiry, community practice, and artistic approaches to understand and articulate place. Selected books: Cultural Mapping as Cultural Inquiry (Routledge 2015), Artistic Approaches to Cultural Mapping: Activating Imaginaries and Means of Knowing (Routledge, 2018), and A Research Agenda for Creative Tourism (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2019).

Accommodation

We have organized special rates in Duecitânia Design Hotel, a beautiful 4* hotel with spa and swimming pool, which can be booked through us when you register for the earlybird rate (after this date, you will have to book via the hotel directly and we cannot guarantee prices). Since there is a very limited supply of accommodation in Penela and limited public transport to the larger urban centres, we advise you to take advantage of this offer.

Fees

Earlybird registration fee WITH ROOM (sharing)*: €465 (Students); €505 (Non-Students)

Earlybird registration fee WITH ROOM (single)*: €600 (Students); €640 (Non-Students)

Earlybird registration fee - NO HOTEL INCLUDED**: €300 (Students); €340 (Non-Students)

Late registration fee - NO HOTEL INCLUDED**: €360 (Students); €360 (Non-Students)

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Earlybird registration deadline: 27 May 2019 NEW DATE! 12^th June, 2019

Final registration deadline: 21 June 2019

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Summer School cancellation policy
If you should have to cancel your registration, notification in writing should be sent to creatour@ces.uc.pt.  Please make sure you state the name of the summer school in the subject line of your email.
• A refund of 50% of the full amount paid will be given for cancellations received until 27th May, 2019
• A refund of 25% of the full amount paid will be given for cancellations received between 27th May and 21st June, 2019
• No refund will be issued for cancellations received after 22nd June, 2019 nor failure to attend. 

Force majeure
The Centre for Social Studies shall not be liable to refund of fees or for any other penalty should the event be cancelled due to war, fire, strike lock-out, industrial action, tempest, accident, civil disturbance or any other cause whatsoever beyond their control
 

* Includes 6 nights of accommodation (check-in 07/07/2019, check out 13/07/2019) in a shared (same-sex) or single room at 4* hotel Duecitânia Design Hotel in Penela, group transportation between Coimbra and Penela on July 7 and July 13, the course instruction and materials, guided visits, a creative tourism activity, 5 lunches (Monday-Friday), two coffee breaks per day, a farewell dinner, and a certificate of attendance.

** Includes group transportation between Coimbra and Penela on July 7 and July 13, the course instruction and materials, guided visits, a creative tourism activity, 5 lunches (Monday-Friday), two coffee breaks per day, a farewell dinner, and a certificate of attendance.