Gastronomy as a social catalyst in the creative place-making process

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https://doi.org/10.3986/AGS.9409

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creative place-making, food, events, art, community building, quality of place, urban geography

Abstract

This paper examines the integration of gastronomy in the creative place-making process. The study is based on the interviews with the organizers of five gastronomy events: a cooking workshop, a gastronomy festival, a series of gastronomy events at museums, a gastronomy theatre performance and an intimate dinner event. The contextual analysis shows that gastronomy events can contribute to five important features defining quality of place: diversity, liveliness, innovativeness, creativity and openness/tolerance. The final phase of our study brings comparison with findings in art-based place-making studies and discusses on diversity, integration in development policies and replicability potential of analyzed gastronomy events.

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28-07-2021

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Razpotnik Visković, N. (2021). Gastronomy as a social catalyst in the creative place-making process. Acta Geographica Slovenica, 61(1), 185–199. https://doi.org/10.3986/AGS.9409

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Special issue: Gastronomy, territory and tourism